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Revolutionary app offers vital prostate cancer info
A new online web app put out by the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia aims to help those living, recovering and at risk of prostate cancer.
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- Sophia McCaughan
The plan to build the next Who Gives a Crap
Businesses helping deliver social good in the community will get extra help finding critical capital investment, the federal government says.
- Tom McIlroy
Israeli officers fired over ‘bungled’ strike that killed aid workers
The Albanese government is unsatisfied with information provided by Israel after a probe into the drone strike that killed Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom.
- Updated
- Andrew Tillett
D’Ambrosio gas claim debunked after outburst against Labor’s King
In another Victorian clash over gas with the Albanese government, Lily D’Ambrosio accused Madeleine King of behaving like “a Coalition minister”.
- Jacob Greber and Gus McCubbing
Higgins memoir on ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ parties at Parliament House
Pages from Brittany Higgins’ unpublished memoir, which have been tendered in a defamation trial, reveal more grubby behaviour at the top of politics.
- Hannah Wootton and Tom McIlroy
Sydney drivers warned to avoid roads as dangerous storm hits
Residents of Sydney and surrounding areas are being urged to stay indoors as damaging winds and heavy rain sweep through, causing life-threatening flash flooding.
- Updated
- Jack Gramenz and Luke Costin
Opinion & Analysis
Australia must uphold international law, starting with Israel
We have been too quick to make excuses for Israel, and too slow to push the first principle of adherence to the law.
Columnist
Find me the very model of a modern governor-general
Vice-regal types do not grow on trees. It takes a very special kind of headhunter to find one.
Satirist
Dutton’s slippery populist slope
The opposition leader should be challenging Labor’s bad ideas, not adding one of his own.
Editorial
At Yarralumla it’s not about the person. It’s about the institution
For 99.9 per cent of the time the governor-general is irrelevant to the lives of most Australians. But when they do matter, they matter very much.
Senior correspondent
Yesterday
David Rowe cartoons for April 2024
David Rowe is a multiple Walkley award-winning cartoonist. He draws a daily political cartoon and one for the Chanticleer column. You can see all of his political cartoons for April 2024 here.
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- David Rowe
- Opinion
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Australia must uphold international law, starting with Israel
We have been too quick to make excuses for Israel, and too slow to push the first principle of adherence to the law.
- Laura Tingle
- Exclusive
- Environmental protection
Internal Labor group chides Plibersek on nature-positive ‘vacuum’
A Labor green group says reforms to environmental laws are an Albanese “election commitment” on an issue Labor members have campaigned for nearly a decade.
- Jacob Greber and Tom Rabe
New governor-general Sam Mostyn and the battle for relevance
She will want to avoid the fate of Michael Jeffery - known as ‘Mr 2 per cent’ after a particularly brutal survey found just 2 per cent of the population knew who he was.
- Hannah Wootton and Sally Patten
The corporate cost of the Yes campaign
In some circles, there is now a perception that corporate alignment with a cause can alienate more voters than it persuades.
- Samantha Hutchinson
Lehrmann reimbursed for ‘pre-production expenses’: Auerbach
Taylor Auerbach says Seven reimbursed former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann $750 for five hours of “pre-production expenses”. Here’s how the day unfolded.
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- Lois Maskiell
Keep borders open in next pandemic: Woolies
The supermarket giant has told an inquiry inconsistent rules on freight movement and vaccine mandates slowed down essential supplies during COVID-19.
- Tom McIlroy
Biggest donor to Yes campaign has no regrets
The Paul Ramsay Foundation donated $7 million to the failed Voice referendum. The amount of cash “felt appropriate then” and still does now, says its chairman.
- Samantha Hutchinson
- Opinion
- Satire
Find me the very model of a modern governor-general
Vice-regal types do not grow on trees. It takes a very special kind of headhunter to find one.
- Rowan Dean
This Month
Queensland, NT to make up Victoria’s gas shortfall this winter
The outlook for July, August and September comes after the Australian Energy Market Operator last month warned of a deterioration in Victoria’s medium-term gas supply.
- Ronald Mizen
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Dutton’s slippery populist slope
The opposition leader should be challenging Labor’s bad ideas, not adding one of his own.
- The AFR View
WA warns Albanese’s ‘nature positive’ will extend far beyond mining
Western Australian Premier Roger Cook says a wide range of industries in his state have raised major concerns with him over the planned reforms.
- Tom Rabe
Outcome of China-US great power rivalry uncertain, says Marles
The defence minister also said Labor had inherited a situation where Defence had no money for more than a quarter of what it planned to buy or deliver.
- Andrew Tillett
Albanese looks to states for power price help
The prime minister looks set to call on state and territory governments to help deliver further household energy cost relief in the May 14 federal budget.
- Tom McIlroy
- Opinion
- Political leadership
At Yarralumla it’s not about the person. It’s about the institution
For 99.9 per cent of the time the governor-general is irrelevant to the lives of most Australians. But when they do matter, they matter very much.
- Jacob Greber
Auerbach details nights out and ‘pay rise’ offer
The Seven Network has denied it offered former producer Taylor Auerbach a promotion and a pay rise after he spent thousands on a drunken night out with former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann.
- Updated
- Lois Maskiell
- Opinion
- Political leadership
A governor-general from the Chairman’s Lounge
The PM is truer than he knows when he says Sam Mostyn represents modern Australia. It’s a nation of talkers, not doers.
- John Roskam
Big business break-up powers ‘would be useful’: ACCC chief
Gina Cass-Gottlieb says she would welcome new powers to break up big business, but her priority is strengthening merger laws and new powers to tackle unfair practices.
- Patrick Durkin
ATO ramps up warnings on $50b in tax debts
Increasing numbers of Australian small businesses operators are falling behind on tax and superannuation obligations, Tax Commissioner Rob Heferen warned.
- Tom McIlroy and Patrick Durkin
PM queries Israel’s ‘insufficient’ explanation for aid worker deaths
Amid global outrage, Anthony Albanese has also questioned the Netanyahu government’s insistence that it is protecting innocent lives as it wages war in Gaza.
- Andrew Tillett
