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A mining giant boss has apologised after an independent review into the company’s workplace culture found unacceptable behaviour still persisted at the company, with staff reporting incidents of sexual assault, bullying and racism. Rio Tinto released a progress review into its Everyday Respect report which was conducted by Australian Sex Discrimination Commissioner Elizabeth Broderick in […]

Nationals senator Matt Canavan says he won’t pull his controversial ‘babies born alive’ Bill, and has lashed the Greens for attempting to “censor and silence debate”. Next Tuesday, the Greens will move for the Bill to force medical professionals to save ‘babies born alive’ as a result of abortions, to be discharged and removed from […]

For the first time in Australia’s history, total wages and salaries paid to employees passed $100bn in a single month. The historic figure was reached as total wages and salaries paid to employees rose 3.9 per cent or $3.9bn between August and September 2024, as Aussies worked more, received bonuses and backpay. In total, Aussies […]

A woman who fed her sadistic husband drug-laced biscuits will walk free from prison in less than three years after her sentence was slashed. Rebecca Payne, 45, was jailed for 16 years in June last year after she was convicted of the murder of Noel Payne, 68, in the rural Victorian town of Walpeup. At […]

A legal firm claims it is considering a lawsuit that alleges cruise giant P&O incentivised guests to gamble regardless of their capacity to repay their debts and plied them with free alcohol following the death of a man who jumped overboard off Sydney Heads. Carter Capner Law director Peter Carter said the firm was investigating […]

Bodycam footage has captured the moment police arrested and charged a young man armed with a large hunting knife at a busy CBD bus stop. Brandon Jet Lee Baker, 18, was represented by the duty lawyer at Brisbane Arrests Court on Wednesday following his dramatic arrest by police a day earlier. Mr Baker, from Tarragindi […]

Xi Jinping has urged Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to oppose protectionism and promote “stability and certainty in the region”, as China grapples with the prospect of a Trump presidency. The Chinese president emphasised the recent “turnaround” in relations, following the end of a bitter, years-long trade dispute that saw more than $20 billion of Australian […]

An interest rate cut appears unlikely before May due to the timing of substantive inflation numbers. The Australian Bureau of Statistics will release quarterly consumer price index numbers on January 29 and then April 30. The Reserve Bank is signalling that only unexpected jobs data would make the board pull the trigger on a rate […]

Jim Chalmers has warned Australia’s revenue forecasts “will be much smaller” due to tanking commodity prices, warning any upgrade will be “a sliver” of what has been reported in Labor’s previous four budgets. The Treasurer’s second Ministerial statement on the economy greatly differed from the response from Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor, which said Australia’s ”were […]