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Businesses have been warned the community is ‘fed up’ with dodgy tax practices including using cash as means of tax avoidance, and they’re being dobbed in in huge numbers. The shadow economy – people and businesses that have legal and illegal economic activity that is not reported or taxed – is estimated to be costing […]

Australia is facing one of the hottest summers on record, particularly when it comes to overnight temperatures. According to the Bureau of Meteorology’s long-range forecast model, most of the country will be in for unusually warm days and nights this season. Sky News Weather meteorologist Rob Sharpe explained the likely “hotter than usual summer” is […]

Republicans are hatching a big tongue-in-cheek plan to protest the upcoming royal visit. King Charles and Queen Camilla will touch down in Australia on October 18 in what will be Charles’ 17th visit to the country and the first since his coronation. Millions tuned in to the watch the King’s coronation, while thousands more flocked […]

The Voice referendum is being remembered as both a “waste of time” and a “painful day” as Australia marks one year since voters said no. On October 14 last year, more than 60 per cent of Australians voted against the Voice, which would have given Indigenous Australians a permanent body to advise parliament on issues […]

The Coalition is leading Labor on a two-party preferred basis for the first time since the 2022 general election, according to a fresh poll. A Newspoll conducted for The Australian released this week revealed the Coalition was ahead 51-49, after months of being neck-and-neck with the Albanese government. The shifts in support come down to […]

Tributes have been paid to a Seddon man who died following an assault in Melbourne’s CBD. Andrew Truman, 44, was walking through Elizabeth St on Wednesday evening when he was set upon by another man near McDonald’s. Hit on the head, Mr Truman sustained serious head injuries and was rushed in a critical condition to […]

Peter Dutton has hit the lead in the two-party preferred race according to Newspoll for the first time since the 2022 election. An exclusive Newspoll conducted for The Australian shows the Coalition ahead of Labor 51-49, in a surprise result that will rattle marginal seat MPs. Prime Minister Anthony ­Albanese’s approval rating has also fallen […]

EXCLUSIVE William Tyrrell was reported missing more than once, with his biological grandmother admitting she was the “mastermind” of his first disappearance – and that the state government failed its responsibility to protect him. Natalie Collins, whose three-year-old grandson was last seen alive on 12 September 2014, said she arranged for him to be taken […]

AFL star Brayden Maynard may be a Premiership winner, but it has not spared him from trolls on social media. The Collingwood defender said the most common reason for hateful messages, however irrational, is if he’s been part of someone’s multi bet and been the reason they’ve lost. “They might hit me up on Instagram […]

The Albanese government will inject a further $95m to stop the spread of a highly infectious bird flu from crossing Australia’s borders, with more than 280 million birds killed and to other animals infected overseas. Australia is currently the only continent which hasn’t reported cases of the high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) strain H5N1, with […]