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The US cutting rates for the second time in two meetings will have global market implications, but might not have the impact mortgage holders are after. The Federal Reserve cut its key interest rate Thursday 25 basis points to a new range of 4.5 to 4.75 per cent. Rate cuts by the US Federal Reserve […]

Australia’s former US ambassador Joe Hockey has backed Kevin Rudd to continue his posting as Australia’s current ambassador despite backlash stemming from Mr Rudd’s past critique of US President-elect Donald Trump. Speaking on Sunrise, the former Liberal treasurer said he believed Mr Rudd was “inherently a good man” and had performed well in the role […]

Australia is in the grips of the largest whooping cough epidemic since the introduction of vaccines against the potentially fatal lung disease, with more than 41,000 cases recorded since the start of the year. Research by the Immunisation Foundation of Australia found the number of whooping cough cases this year had already smashed the previous […]

A Melbourne neo-Nazi who became the first Victorian convicted under new laws banning the public display of Nazi salutes has learnt his fate. Jacob Hersant, 25, returned before the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Friday morning as magistrate Brett Sonnet sentenced him to one month imprisonment. Seated next to his mother, Hersant appeared calm with his […]

Australia is in the grips of the largest whopping cough epidemic since the introduction of vaccines against the potentially fatal lung disease, with more than 41,000 cases recorded since the start of the year. Research by the Immunisation Foundation of Australia found the number of whopping cough cases this year had already smashed the previous […]

Australian fitness influencer Laura Henshaw has opened up about the New York City Marathon nightmare that almost landed her in hospital due to a very simple mistake. Ms Henshaw, who runs the health and wellness business Kic alongside Steph Claire Smith, was one of 50,000 people signed up to run roughly 42km through five boroughs […]

Millions of Australians are bracing for a hot and stormy weekend, with heatwave warnings in place across Queensland, NSW and the rugged Top End. Swathes of outback Queensland, from the Gulf Country to northern NSW, are being warned by the Bureau of Meteorology to expect severe heatwave conditions across the weekend. Areas of the state’s […]

An Australian yoga instructor has recalled his horror after a masked man broke into his Bali resort home while he slept in a terrifying home invasion that left him seriously injured. Joe, 39, was asleep with his girlfriend at their resort home in the coastal village of Canggu when he was woken by a masked […]