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‘You can’t drive on a media release’: PM backs extra $3.25 billion for blown-out North East Link

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Premier Jacinta Allan touring the North East Link site on Thursday.

Asked why his government was tipping more money into the project, instead of putting it into settling the Airport Rail dispute, Anthony Albanese said it was because the North East Link was “here, it’s real and it’s now”.

When uni students endorse terror, it’s time for political intervention

The university protests in Australia arising from the Israel-Gaza conflict have moved beyond a debate about free speech.

David Crowe
David Crowe

Chief political correspondent

Frustrated Biden chooses a dramatic way of making himself heard by Israel

The US decision to pause the delivery of bombs represents a significant turning point in its relationship with Israel. But it may not necessarily be a breaking point.

Peter Baker

Murder trial for Jetstar pilot over ‘missing campers’ case set to begin

Greg Lynn.

A jury has been selected in the Supreme Court to hear trial evidence regarding the deaths of campers Russell Hill and Carol Clay.

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Apple’s tone-deaf iPad ad triggers our darkest AI fears

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Apple has made its worst marketing faux pas since it forced everyone to listen to U2.

Dave Lee

Labor MPs break ranks to criticise government’s gas plan

Labor backbenchers have broken ranks and said no more public money should go to gas.

Lengthy ban: Gold Coast’s Wil Powell.
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AFL 2024

Homophobic and dumb: Why the punishment is right for Powell’s slur

Gold Coast player’s language shows that changing behaviour takes both time and decisive action.

Peter Ryan
Peter Ryan

Sports reporter

Sometimes coaches don’t know when to go. There was one who picked the right moment

Adam Simpson, Luke Beveridge, Ken Hinkley.

In overseas sports, head coaches often transition swiftly between roles. The AFL’s landscape with more entrenched coaches highlights the need for more open minds on changing clubs.

Kane Cornes
Kane Cornes

AFL columnist

Mulberry Group founder Nathan Toleman with Molli bar manager Kayla Saito and chef Aleksis Kalnins.

Six new venues set to get Melbourne sizzling this winter

A spot for Greek mezze from a wood-burning oven, an all-day bistro on a buzzy city strip, and two venues from one of the city’s most dynamic young chefs.

Darcy Bulman had an infectious laugh. Her partner feels sick he’ll never hear it again

Darcy Bulman died in the Hunter Valley bus crash.

Almost a year on from the horror Hunter Valley bus crash that killed Bulman and nine others, her partner has opened up.

If you’re thinking about putting your foot down in these inner-Melbourne suburbs, think again

New 30kmh speed limit signs in the City of Yarra.

Cars and trams are now limited to driving 30km/h across two suburbs, after the state government signed off on a two-year trial to drop the speed limit on almost every street in Fitzroy and Collingwood.

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CBA lowers curtain on a profit season banks would rather forget

This season was not one that banks will be crowing about – all experienced a fall in profits and the themes were remarkably similar.

Elizabeth Knight
Elizabeth Knight

Business columnist

AFR to cut print in WA after Seven’s ‘abuse of power’

The print edition of The Australian Financial Review soon will be unavailable in Perth.

The Australian Financial Review will no longer have a physical edition in Perth after Kerry Stokes’ Seven West Media doubled the cost of printing the newspaper.

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Eurostar’s version of premium economy is almost as good as business

Standard Premier offers the same seat and most of the trappings of Business Premier at a lower price.

Noa (Owen Teague), Nova (Freya Allan) and Raka (Peter Macon) confront a new world in Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes is less entertaining than a nature doco

This Aussie-made reboot of Planet of the Apes is not a movie to be taken too seriously.

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Dzada Selim and Anamaria Marinca in Housekeeping for Beginners.

This breakthrough Australian director is back with a safe house for misfits

Goran Stolevski changed his behaviour while filming in his homophobic home country. His partner almost paid the ultimate price.

In a handout image acquired Wednesday, 24 April 2024  shows  general scene pictures from the film “From Hilde with Love”  Photo: Supplied .

This tale of the Nazi resistance is both gentle and heartbreaking

From Hilde, With Love avoids Nazi film cliches while telling the story of a brave couple in 1942.

Victoria

Old Ivanhoe Grammarians Football Club vice president Sienna Whiteman says a new two-storey pavilion at Chelsworth Park would improve accessibility for different players.

Private school seeks 40-year lease over public sporting grounds

Opponents of the idea argue a proposed new lease deal hands virtual ownership of a public park to a private school – for generations.

University orders removal of ‘Zionist not welcome’ signs as protests escalate

Palestinian and Israeli supporters confront each other at Monash University on Wednesday.

As scuffles broke out at a pro-Palestine encampment at an Australian university, the institution confirmed it was acting after days of pressure on vice chancellors.

Students are not just an exam score, experts say. Here’s how they want to shake up the system

ATAR scores and NAPLAN testing are negatively affecting students’ wellbeing and should be updated to accurately reflect individual learning outcomes, a parliamentary inquiry has been told.

Blunt, system-wide rankings are doing more harm than good, a parliamentary inquiry has been told.

‘Great Wall of Docklands’: Council savages state, AFL plan to rebuild near Marvel Stadium

An artist’s render of the proposed development of three towers at 140-160 Harbour Esplanade.

Docklands locals say they desperately need a high school and a pool. Instead, the state government and AFL plan to use public land for three more towers.

Journalist had power to ‘utterly destroy’ surgeon, court told

Al Muderis faced cross-examination in the Federal Court.

Investigative reporter Charlotte Grieve defended the depth and fairness of her reporting in articles she wrote about orthopaedic surgeon Dr Munjed Al Muderis.

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Carlton’s Jack Martin.
AFL Briefing

Pies’ depth put to test; Cousins responds to hall snub

Collingwood’s depth will be tested this week in a clash against the resurgent Eagles.

‘I’m well aware that I’m not in great touch’: Hawkins’ form in focus ahead of games record

‘I’m well aware that I’m not in great touch’: Hawkins’ form in focus ahead of games record

The champion Cat will match his triple-premiership teammate Joel Selwood’s games record on Friday night against Port Adelaide when he plays his 355th game for the club.

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“Buy your mum some flowers and go spoil that goddess rotten.”

Mums, learn to put yourself first for once in your life

Motherhood is as easy as climbing Everest in high heels and hotpants, carrying a disco ball. Get your kids through their teens, happy and healthy, with no addictions, cult memberships or far-right tendencies and well, you’ve reached the summit.

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Banned: Wil Powell.
Updated
AFL 2024

‘Extreme regret’: Suns player banned for five matches over homophobic slur

Gold Coast’s Wil Powell has been given a five-match ban for using the same homophobic slur as previously suspended Port Adelaide player Jeremy Finlayson in last Sunday’s QClash.

Adam Simpson, Luke Beveridge, Ken Hinkley.
Opinion
AFL 2024

Why AFL needs to embrace the coaching merry-go-round

In overseas sports, head coaches often transition swiftly between roles, quitting or being fired from one franchise to resurface as the head coach at another. The AFL’s landscape with more entrenched coaches underscores the need for more open minds on changing clubs.

Kane Cornes
Kane Cornes

AFL columnist

Pies forward Jamie Elliott will have a fitness test on Friday ahead of the clash against West Coast.
AFL Briefing
AFL 2024

Pies running out of forwards with Elliott test; Bevo calm in face of Bulldogs pressure

Collingwood will have only one of their six first-choice forwards against West Coast if star Jamie Elliott doesn’t pass a fitness test, while Bulldogs coach Luke Beveridge is blocking out the noise.

Blake Acres celebrates the winning goal.
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AFL 2024

The 20-second passage of play that shook the MCG

We break down the key moments from a play Blues fans will never forget the last time their side took on the Demons at the mighty MCG.

Nathan Lyon hobbled out to bat at Lord’s despite a calf injury that would rule him out for the rest of the Ashes series.

Lyon: We’d have won the Ashes 4-0 if I’d been fit

Nathan Lyon believes Australia would have won the 2023 Ashes series 4-0 if he hadn’t broken down with injury.

Georgia Godwin will meet with a surgeon to asses her achilles injury.
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Paris 2024

‘Extremely heartbreaking’: Olympic medal hopeful suffers Achilles injury

Australia’s top gymnastics hope Georgia Godwin has suffered an Achilles injury just months out from Paris 2024.

James McDonald returns to the mounting yard on Romantic Warrior after winning the Cox Plate.

The note that could deliver a Cox Plate showdown

Moonee Valley has begun sending out the invites to some big-time internationals to come to Australia to take on Australian wonder mare Pride Of Jenni. If they accept, it could be a Cox Plate for the ages.

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