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‘He’s lied to me’: Turnbull joins Macron in rebuking PM on subs deal
Malcolm Turnbull said Scott Morrison had lied to him when they worked together in government, but had committed a graver mistake by being dishonest on an international level.
Analysis
Defence
Officials fear leaking Macron’s texts crossed a line
The co-ordinated leak to three newspapers wouldn’t just make already toxic relations with the French worse, but it risked further alienating the Biden administration.
Analysis
Glasgow summit
Fighting fires at home, Xi Jinping makes a two-way bet on climate
The Chinese President told his colleagues in Rome and Glasgow that he was “delivering concrete actions”, while trying to put out a fire in his own backyard.
Climate summit struggles to agree as Australia promises technology help
Australia has made its pitch to the world for technology, not taxes to deal with climate change, putting it at odds with other nations’ plans.
Exclusive
Coronavirus pandemic
WestConnex sale to pay debt, not fund $5b recovery fund
Only $800 million from the privatisation will to go to the state’s signature COVID recovery fund, with the $4.2 billion shortfall to come from other sources of revenue.
Analysis
RBA
Modern-day Robin Hoods at the RBA plan to fire more monetary policy arrows
The decision to end one of its stimulus measures is a good sign, although it may not feel that way for someone sitting on a mortgage bigger than Flemington racecourse.
Jobseekers get $11.4m career service to supercharge pandemic recovery
The state will launch the new online service Careers NSW to provide access to more than 40 industry experts in growth industries.
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Coronavirus pandemic
Teen girls drive mental health hospital visits post-lockdown
Adolescent girls from socio-economically advantaged backgrounds drove the biggest rise in mental health admissions and visits reported by Sydney’s two children’s hospitals in five years.
Aged care residents left to fend for themselves during outbreaks: report
Families of elderly residents who died in last year’s St Basil’s outbreak blasted the federal government for releasing the report on Melbourne Cup Day.
Cleo Smith abduction probably ‘opportunistic’, taskforce boss says
Police are trying to understand how she could have been taken from the family’s tent with no one realising until the morning.
The best of the best deliver a Verry Elleegant Melbourne Cup success
Verry Elleegant showed she is the best of her generation with a dominant Melbourne Cup victory.
Former FIFA officials charged over secret $2.9 million payout
Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini were indicted over unlawfully arranging a payment of 2 million Swiss francs.
Opinion
Income tax
Working-from-home tax deduction extended
The deduction has been in place since March 2020 and the majority of the workforce was still in lockdown in June and July 2021. The ATO announcement of the extension should have been made in June.
Mark Molesworth
Why Eddie Woo doesn’t mourn the demise of Dollarmites
NSW Education Minister Sarah Mitchell announced the end of school banking programs effective from the start of 2022.
GLASGOW CLIMATE SUMMIT
'We are not drowning, we are fighting'
Samoan climate activist Brianna Fruean has given an impassioned speech to world leaders at the Glasgow climate summit.
Analysis
Carbon offsetting: does it actually work?
Our plan to hit net zero by 2050 claims up to 20 per cent of reductions will come from carbon offsets. But should they only be used as a last resort?
Sydney
Cycleway, 30-metre high sculpture and parks for new airport motorway
A shared cycling and walking path branching off into surrounding parks will be a key feature of a 16-kilometre motorway connecting the future Western Sydney airport to the rest of the city.
State hires sleuths to investigate anti-vaccination teachers
Restrictions are being eased in schools from next week, with volunteers allowed back in and music ensembles permitted for instruments played with masks.
NSW delays easing of restrictions for unvaccinated residents
The changes will mean restrictions set to ease for all residents on December 1 will instead ease only for people who have received both doses of a COVID-19 vaccine.
Cracked trams take inner west light rail out of action for at least a month
Transport Minister Rob Stokes will direct safety investigators to look into the cracking that has grounded the entire fleet.
Troy Grant’s father ‘drinking red wine, dozing in chair’ before hit-and-run, court told
A sleep expert has told the District Court it is unlikely Kenneth Grant was sleepwalking when his car fatally ran over a man in 2019.
MELBOURNE CUP
Sydney racing crowds revel at Randwick on Melbourne Cup day
As winner Verry Elleegant crossed the finish line, the crowd cheered before breaking into a mass rendition of Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline”.
Cup-winning owner apologises for breaching COVID protocols
Verry Elleegant stamped herself as a champion of the turf, but one of her exuberant owners turned to the hurdles as he leapt into the mounting yard.
Politics
Budget to improve by $45 billion but huge deficits to continue: Deloitte
Deloitte Access expects stronger commodity prices and the high take-up of vaccinations to save the budget $45 billion.
Business
Australia’s next mining boom could be ‘green’ as race to net zero intensifies
Investors are betting the push away from fossil fuels to clean energy will drive a boom in demand for Australia’s supplies of copper, nickel, lithium and cobalt.
World
Dozens killed and wounded as blasts, gunfire hit Kabul hospital
At least 25 people were killed and more than 50 wounded when gunmen attacked Afghanistan’s biggest military hospital after two heavy explosions at the site, officials said.
Opinion
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Property bydomain
'Beginning of the end': How rate rises could kill the property boom
A strong economic recovery may mean earlier than expected rate hikes, which will see home loan repayments increase by hundreds of dollars a month.
What Sydney unit prices can buy you in other cities
Buying a unit in Sydney is now more expensive than purchasing a house in most other capital cities. So what can you buy elsewhere?
Lifestyle
‘I felt like something was missing’: Emily Ratajkowski is a work in progress
The supermodel’s first book, titled My Body, is a collection of essays that “were written to try to figure out what I believed,” she says.
Culture
Idris Elba stars in new western that rinses the whitewash out
This cowboy romp finally brings black men and women to the foreground.
Sport
In 160 years, no horse had won from gate 18. Then McDonald showed up
The best jockey in the country came up with a Melbourne Cup ride for the ages from a barrier that had long been cursed. How did he do it?
‘I didn’t want to run her’: Waller’s startling admission over Verry Elleegant’s Cup triumph
While other Sydney-based trainers and even Ireland’s Joseph O’Brien made last-minute dashes to Melbourne, the champion conditioner watched his first Cup victory from home.
Analysis
Melbourne Cup
Melbourne Cup finishing order: Assessing each runner and what the jockeys said
The finishing order is in for the 161st running of the Melbourne Cup at Flemington. It’s the race that stops a nation and this year was no different. Future Score was scratched on Tuesday morning.
The best of the best deliver a Verry Elleegant Melbourne Cup success
Verry Elleegant showed she is best of her generation with dominant Melbourne Cup victory.
Updated
Melbourne Cup
‘She is a champion’: Verry Elleegant stamps pedigree with Melbourne Cup win
Verry Elleegant has won the 2021 Melbourne Cup, the mare’s first and a maiden Cup win for trainer Chris Waller and jockey James McDonald.
‘New lease of life’: Munster prepares to exit rehab
Melbourne star is in a ‘really good headspace’ as he recovers from alcohol issues, according to Storm chairman Matt Tripp.
AIS to provide mental health support as part of FA investigations
Mental health experts from the Australian Institute of Sport will be on hand to assist those impacted by the complaints process into Football Australia.
Have Your Say
Trio get ‘Big C’ tag after win befitting Light Fingers, Higgins and Bart
Surely, those that want to bag the Melbourne Cup and treatment to horses couldn’t find fault with Tuesday’s chapter.
