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So,Turnbull gives a Gonski after all

David Gonski looks on as Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull speaks to the press at their joint media conference with Simon ...

Unquestionably, this is a moment. Labor had visited a withering four-year blitzkrieg on the Coalition, pounding its dumb refusal to adopt David Gonski's model for needs-based schools funding.

No role for turkeys in Sydney's second airport

FREE? Does the pardoned turkey get to live out a long life on the farm post-pardoning? Well, not really ...

The very notion of having the owner of Sydney's Kingsford Smith airport, Sydney Airport, build and operate the city's second airport at Badgerys Creek is akin to putting the turkey in charge of Thanksgiving.

The New Hamas charter explained

A masked militant from the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, a military wing of Hamas, in Gaza.

The Palestinian Islamist group that has authority over the Gaza Strip, released a new manifesto moderating its position toward Israel. What does it mean?

ASX eases as ANZ spooks investors

Balancing the bank drag were strong lifts in a number of large-cap listed property trusts.

Disappointing ANZ earnings triggered a sell-off in the big banks on Tuesday, but gains in property trusts helped limit the losses.

Markets Live: Investors dump ANZ

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An afternoon rally driven by bargain-hunting in the big banks following ANZ's poor earnings result helped almost erase early losses, as the RBA holds rates.

Woolworths blitzes Coles but Big W woes deepen

Woolworths said total group sales were up 4.4 per cent to $13.8 billion in the 13 weeks to April 2.

Woolworths has flagged higher costs for labour, fruit and vegetables and a wider loss for its troubled discount department store Big W this half, as it blitzed supermarket rival Coles with the strongest quarterly sales growth in years.

Turnbull dubs new $19b deal Gonski 2.0

Education is a major life spend, says John Velegrinis, CEO of Australian Scholarships Group.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has declared he will "bring the school funding wars to an end" in a stunning policy turnaround that will see the federal government pump an extra $19 billion into schools over the next decade.