42+ min ago   (934+ words) September 13, 2026 — 6:00pm Voters’ faith in Labor to manage the economy has crashed, with 74 per cent concerned about the federal debt and 48 per cent demanding the government slash spending. After a week in which former prime minister Kevin Rudd warned that Australia…...

12+ min ago   (210+ words) I’m no supporter of Andrew Hastie, but his standing up to Gina Rinehart and her sidekick Pauline Hanson is a big tick in his favour. Pauline Hanson visited the Bondi memorial for those murdered in the December shooting atrocity. Many…...

5+ hour, 12+ min ago   (783+ words) September 13, 2026 — 1:30pm During five years’ trading in Melbourne’s west, Phil Gaby’s business has had just as many homes. Nan’s Bakehouse began at the markets, then moved to Footscray Plaza before expanding into the business next door. A coffee van followed, then…...

7+ hour, 55+ min ago   (458+ words) September 13, 2026 — 10:46am School students will be limited to as little as 15 minutes of screen time per day in NSW classrooms as the Minns government seeks to arrest the alarming drop in Australia’s global reading and writing standards. The new policy, announced…...

1+ hour, 33+ min ago   (325+ words) September 13, 2026 — 5:08pm Australia’s first female High Court judge, Mary Gaudron, has died aged 83. After receiving a scholarship to the University of Sydney, she left it with the university medal in hand. Asked to comment on the award going to a female…...

1+ hour, 22+ min ago   (904+ words) Updated September 13, 2026 — 5:19pm,first published 10:03am Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has condemned Pauline Hanson’s personal attack on his late mother after the minor party leader criticised her in a podcast this year for living in public housing for decades. Hanson also drew…...

13+ hour, 42+ min ago   (1208+ words) September 13, 2026 — 5:00am Bill Kelty, a mastermind of reforms that set up Australia’s modern economy, says Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers are fuelling One Nation and “insulting” voters by welcoming lower house prices as they preside over a fall in real wages…...

2+ hour, 12+ min ago   (634+ words) September 13, 2026 — 4:30pm London: Cryptocurrency billionaire Christopher Harborne says he has donated £36 million ($67.9 million) to Britain’s anti-immigration Reform UK, matching an already record contribution to Nigel Farage’s party a day earlier as it prepares for the next election. The donation gives the…...

13+ hour, 42+ min ago   (1132+ words) September 13, 2026 — 5:00am Last week we saw the enticing, vote-buying idea of being able to raid our super contributions, raised again. Previously a Coalition thought bubble, One Nation’s Pauline Hanson has been spruiking it this time. Because gee it’s a sugar hit....

7+ hour, 42+ min ago   (448+ words) September 13, 2026 — 10:59am US President Donald Trump said he would like to see Ireland “unified”, a remark that puts him at odds with UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham, who recently said the issue was off the table. “I’d love to see it…...