Today
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
Yesterday
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
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Pages from Brittany Higgins’ unpublished memoir, which have been tendered in a defamation trial, reveal more grubby behaviour at the top of politics.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
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.
- Updated
- 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
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
- 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
