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More than one in five children under the age of 18 who sought help from homelessness services were turned away due to providers being pushed to the limit, in staggering figures revealed by a report from Australia’s peak body. Figures revealed in the 2024 Child Homelessness Snapshot from Homelessness Australia found that out of the […]

Four Bondi men have been separately stung with multiple drug charges following a two-day in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. NSW Police from the Eastern Suburbs Proactive Crime Team, Region Enforcement Squad South and High Visibility Policing Unit conducted the operations on Friday and Saturday, with authorities targeting domestic violence and drug supply offences. The sting led […]

Economists and experts have tipped the Reserve Bank will hold the cash rate on Tuesday, however borrowers have been advised to prepare for the potential of future hikes, with the board unlikely to rule out future hikes. Forecasting from the Commonwealth Bank’s economist Head of Australian Economics Gareth Aird tipped the rate would be unchanged […]

Economists and experts have tipped the Reserve Bank will hold the cash rate on Tuesday, however borrowers have been advised to prepare for the potential of future hikes, with the board unlikely to rule out future hikes. Forecasting from the Commonwealth Bank’s economist Head of Australian Economics Gareth Aird tipped the rate would be unchanged […]

Anthony Albanese’s commitment to a Makarrata commission to oversee treaty and truth-telling following the failure of the Voice referendum is being questioned, saying his government’s commitment hadn’t changed. On election night in 2022, Mr Albanese vowed to implement the three pillars of the Uluru from the Heart statement – Voice, Treaty and Truth. But after […]

When former Fox News host Tucker Carlson addressed the Australian Freedom Conference in Melbourne in early July, he grabbed one of the live wires of Australian politics and society with both hands – the impact of high levels of migration on housing prices. Carlson pointed to migration as the “one reason” housing prices were high […]

A second person has died amid Victoria’s largest outbreak of legionnaires’ disease in more than two decades. A man in his 60s reportedly became unwell with the harmful disease on July 27 before dying in hospital on Thursday. Victorian chief health officer Clare Looker had previously confirmed a 90-year-old woman contracted the disease and died […]

Tony Burke has defended the Albanese government’s handling of national security, accusing the Opposition of “making things up”. Mr Burke was handed responsibility for Australia’s national security and immigration when he emerged from last week’s ministerial reshuffle as home affairs minister. Reacting to Opposition criticisms of his record as immigration minister under the Rudd government […]

WARNING: Distressing content. A former principal has pledged to continue his support of victim-survivors in his latest venture after he was allegedly sacked following a dispute with the Anglican Church. The alleged dispute, which the church has denied, was over compensation payments to victims of historic sexual abuse at St Paul’s school in Brisbane. Parents […]

Australia will continue to push Israel on the death of Australian aid worker Lalzawmi ‘Zomi’ Frankcom in an Israeli Defence Force air strike, senior minister Tony Burke says. The newly appointed immigration minister said the Binskin review found Israel had failed to meet “obligations under international law” to protect civilians and aid workers. Mr Burke […]