Good Food - What’s for Dinner
Just for subscribers: daily dinner inspiration from Australia’s best food writers.
The Morning Edition podcast
Start your day with expert insight into the stories that drive the nation.
Considering post-grad study?
Find the right course to advance your career with Campus, your essential higher education guide
The dark past of Bondi Junction killer, and the bright lives he took
Sydney grappled with shock and grief on Sunday, as details emerged of Joel Cauchi’s killing spree and his victims – most of them women.
Updated
Police
Restaurant worker recalls serving Bondi Junction killer hours before rampage
Joel Cauchi sat down by the window in Saigon Noodle House and ordered a red chicken curry. He had no money, so he returned two hours later to pay – and then embarked on his stabbing attack.
‘Truly horrific’: Family laments troubled son who became mass murderer
Joel Cauchi’s family also offered their support for the NSW Police officer who shot dead their son after he took the lives of six innocent people on Saturday afternoon.
Analysis
Defamation
‘Thespian flair’: Unlikely video star at heart of Lehrmann defamation case
Federal Court Justice Michael Lee has won legions of fans following the Bruce Lehrmann trial with his wit and humanity.
Opinion
Bondi Junction attack
Not since the Lindt siege has Sydney known grief like this
The violent loss of life in Bondi Junction has delivered a psychological shock for Sydney, sparking horrible memories of another dark day in the city.
Deborah Snow
Senior writer
Visual Story
Crime
How the terrifying Bondi attack unfolded, floor by floor
Joel Cauchi entered Westfield Bondi Junction with a large knife. Within 25 terrifying minutes, he had rampaged from floor to floor, killing six people.
Man charged with murder after woman found dead in Broadwater
A man has been charged with murder after a 38-year-old woman was found dead in Busselton, south-west of Perth, on Thursday evening.
Jordan applied for rental homes he once would have cringed at. It didn’t go to plan
As Brisbane rents reach record highs, home hunters are queueing out the door even for tiny properties with obvious problems.
On a WA farm, a 105kg Occy started the greatest comeback story in Australian sport
It’s been 25 years since Mark Occhilupo rose from depression, drugs and a daily diet of Coco Pops, chicken and chips and Days of Our Lives to conquer the world.
★★★★
Review
James Taylor mesmerises and amuses his Kings Park audience
The famously subdued singer surprised and delighted the Kings Park crowd with full-blooded renditions of his cherished songs and lots of jokes.
Bluey tackles the housing crisis in highly anticipated, 28-minute long episode
What did we learn about the future of one of Australia’s most beloved TV families? Could a Bluey film be on the horizon?
A drunk Australian ran ‘amok’ in Bali. Locals locked him in a mini-mart
After allegedly attacking a local, the Australian had to be kept safe from an angry mob at about 3.30am near the Potato Head Beach Club in North Kuta.
Analysis
Defamation
‘Books will be written’: Judgment day in Lehrmann defamation case
Justice Michael Lee will deliver his decision on Monday in Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation case against Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson.
Analysis
Violence
Why are men randomly punching women in New York?
When Lisa Pires saw women saying they were randomly punched in New York in the lead-up to her holiday there, it sounded too absurd to be true. Then it happened to her.
Ginia Bellafante
BONDI JUNCTION ATTACK
Opinion
This was a safe space for all women. Now it’s been shattered
Kerri Sackville
Columnist and author
‘Truly horrific’: Family laments troubled son who became Bondi mass murderer
Joel Cauchi’s family also offered their support for the NSW Police officer who shot dead their son after he took the lives of six innocent people on Saturday afternoon.
Updated
Restaurant worker recalls serving Bondi Junction killer hours before rampage
Joel Cauchi sat down by the window in Saigon Noodle House and ordered a red chicken curry. He had no money, so he returned two hours later to pay – and then embarked on his stabbing attack.
Western Australia
Perth woman recounts scenes inside Westfield Bondi Junction as attack unfolded
Perth woman Amelia Zappacosta was inside Westfield Bondi Junction when the man’s attack unfolded across multiple levels.
Perth Uber drivers start five-day strike on Friday with airport blockade
Friday night could be chaotic for many as about 4000 ride-share drivers plan to stay home with another 500 of them intending to blockade Perth’s airport.
Over 100 millimetres of rain in under an hour during Perth storm
The Department of Fire and Emergency Services confirmed they responded to 59 calls for assistance.
FMG’s Pilbara actions ‘like kicking a dog when it’s down’, court hears
A remote Aboriginal community’s long and poisonous battle with Fortescue Metals Group over its iron ore-rich Pilbara land has reached the Federal Court.
Perth aid worker shot at during food delivery to Gaza
Tess Ingram worked for WAtoday before taking a job with the UN. She was in a vehicle waiting to deliver aid when bullets began to fly.
Politics
Labor hits back at critics, adds tax breaks to industry aid
Jim Chalmers backed the case for tax concessions in a new signal about the scale of the budget plan to help clean energy industries and local manufacturing.
Business
Analysis
Casinos
Four ways the cards could fall for Star Sydney
Star Sydney’s current and former executives are about to be hauled before Adam Bell, SC, for a second time in 18 months – and the stakes are high.
World
Why Iran attacked Israel – and what a war between the two could look like
Iran had vowed revenge since an April 1 airstrike in Syria killed two Iranian generals inside an Iranian consular building.
Opinion
Can trans women and biological women share an identity? This case may provide an answer
Parnell Palme McGuinness
Columnist and communications adviser
Does banning my child from wearing ‘merch’ make me a bad parent?
Melissa Singer
National fashion editor
Explore
Property
Analysis
Renting
What can a landlord get away with? In the court of public opinion, it’s changing
Gemma Toogood paid $875 a week in rent for a mould-riddled, rat-infested cottage. Do we still think that’s reasonable?
Updated
Renting
Never-ending run of rises pushes Perth rents to new high
Perth’s rental crisis has worsened as unit and house rents reach fresh highs off the back of a record-low vacancy rate.
Good Food
Lifestyle
Magazine
Sunday Life
The April 14 Edition
In a rare interview, Zoë Foster Blake shares her success story – how she went from magazine beauty writer, to author, to entrepreneur in a decade.
Opinion
Five Minutes with Fitz
‘It stuns even me’: Could this visionary cure blindness?
Peter FitzSimons
Columnist and author
Opinion
Health and nutrition
Making sense of health headlines shouldn’t be so difficult – or dangerous
Sarah Berry
Lifestyle Health Editor
Culture
From K-drama to K-horror: How South Korea is reinventing zombie flicks
South Korea already as a reputation for making great TV dramas and now Netflix is helping bring their horror films to the world.
Traveller
Drivedrive
From Our Partners
Sport
Bulldogs send Liberatore for tests after mid-game collapse; Reid stars as Eagles get first win of the season
Follow along for all the live action and footy news of the day.
Fast-finishing Port Adelaide pip Fremantle in thriller
Jason Horne-Francis has booted the match-winning goal as a fast-finishing Port Adelaide overran Fremantle by three points in an AFL thriller.
Exclusive
AFL 2024
Burnt out and rocked by the death of his legendary dad, Marsh takes a break
Paul Marsh is reluctantly taking a three-month sabbatical. “It wasn’t a negotiation, it was an ultimatum,” says AFLPA president Patrick Dangerfield.
Opinion
AFL 2024
A crying shame: Lion should cop a week for stupidity
The Brisbane Lions have a chance to lead by example in stamping out personal sledging. We’re waiting ...
Greg Baum
Sports columnist
Nina Kennedy won a world title with a broken back. Imagine what she can do in Paris
The 27-year-old pole vaulters had sustained a stress fracture at the end of the previous season and missed months in recovery.
Updated
Courts
AFL great Carl Ditterich charged over alleged historical indecent assault of underage girl
Australian Football Hall of Famer Carl Ditterich has been charged with a string of child sex offences for allegedly assaulting a girl who was under his care in 1985.
‘We all cried’: Australia overcome injury blow with huge Paris ramifications
Australia have overcome a heartbreaking setback on the eve of their Billie Jean King Cup tie, with the extent of a star’s injury woes revealed.
Have Your Say
Occy was a 105kg couch potato. This is the greatest comeback story in Australian sport
It’s been 25 years since Mark Occhilupo rose from depression, drugs and a daily diet of Coco Pops, chicken and chips and Days of Our Lives to conquer the world.