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The outgoing Australian Border Force (ABF) chief has warned the country’s borders are in “perpetual crisis”, and that challenges will persist for decades to come. ABF Commissioner Michael Outram has had a career spanning decades and continents. The decorated law enforcement veteran will retire next month, handing the reins over to Gavan Reynolds, the inaugural […]

The federal government has unveiled plans to ban dynamic ticket pricing as part of a raft of new measures it says will “stop businesses ripping off Australians”. Subscription traps, drip pricing, and deceptive online practices are among the issues the government plan aims to address, with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese saying the plan will take […]

One in five Australian women over the age of 15 experienced stalking in a large-scale survey conducted between 2021-22, with women eight times more likely to be stalked by a man than another woman. In comparison, one in 15 men have experienced stalking since the age of 15, with male victims likely to be stalked […]

A couple charged with the murder of a woman in an alleged love triangle hit-and-run face more court delays, with police needing to review hundreds of matters in the brief of evidence against them. Larissa Rita Mae-Leigh Sant and Tyler Scott William James remain in custody on remand after being charged with the murder of […]

Labor frontbencher Chris Bowen has urged Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s critics to “leave him alone” over his $4.3 million mansion splurge. News of the Prime Minister’s real estate moves has prompted questions over whether he’s planning to retire. Some MPs have even been asked if Mr Albanese should have “workshopped the optics [of the purchase] […]

Overly stringent lending rules have created some of the toughest and most “punishing” circumstances for first-home buyers. Housing Industry Association (HIA) senior economist Tim Reardon said lending policies over the past decade had “forced first-home buyers” out of the market, with banks required to “hold more collateral for every dollar they lend”. As a result, […]

Australians planning to file their own tax return this year have just two weeks left before the deadline, as the ATO warns of potential penalties. As of September 22, the Australian Taxation Office had received more than 7.9m income tax returns for individuals for the 2024 financial year. About 3.8 million of those were lodged […]

The mayor of Randwick Council has revealed fresh details about the mysterious black balls that began washing up on Sydney’s popular Coogee Beach on Tuesday, saying early indications point to an oil spill out at sea. Speaking with NewsWire on Thursday morning, Randwick Council Mayor Dylan Parker said the council was presently analysing the material […]

Australians feel inflation has been higher for longer because the cost of living crunch was such a shock to the system. Speaking in Sydney on Wednesday, Reserve Bank of Australia assistant governor Sarah Hunter said households have less accurate expectations of future inflation than the financial sector and unions. But new research from the RBA […]

Coalition foreign affairs spokesman Simon Birmingham says Israel should “heed” demands from the United States to improve the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin wrote to their Israeli counterparts over the weekend calling on Israel to allow more aid into the wartorn Palestinian territory within […]