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The length of ski seasons will be slashed by one-third by 2030 even if greenhouse gas emissions are cut radically, new research has found. According to the research by the Australian National University, New South Wales fields Charlotte Pass, Perisher and Thredbo, and Victoria’s Falls Creek and Mt Hotham fare better than others under the […]

Australia’s GDP growth was brought to a near-standstill in the first three months of 2024, as crunched household budgets, squeezed corporate profits and weakened terms of trade weighed on the economy. In real terms, Australia’s gross domestic product expanded by just 0.1 per cent in the March quarter, cutting annual growth to 1.1 per cent […]

A newly elected North Queensland mayor has been hit with a vote of no confidence barely two months after being voted in. On Wednesday, Townsville City councillors moved a motion of no confidence against Mayor Troy Thompson, though the beleaguered civic leader was not in the room. The no-confidence motion was carried, along with additional […]

A leading global university ranking agency has warned that plans to slash international student numbers could hurt the competitiveness of Australian tertiary educators. QS, one of the “big three” global ranking systems, released its 2025 world rankings on Wednesday, with three Australian educators retaining their top 20 places. University of Melbourne topped the local rankings […]

Sunrise host Natalie Barr has dumped two female politicians from a live interview after the two women had a “box on” over a immigration detainee’s alleged links with a gangland figure Tony Mokbel live on air. Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil and Liberal frontbencher Jane Hume were muted and sin-binned on Wednesday morning after their […]

Health insurance giant Medibank is being sued by the information watchdog after the personal information of 9.7 million Australians was stolen. The Australian Information Commissioner announced on Wednesday it had filed civil penalty proceedings over the October 2022 data breach. Sensitive information, including names, date of births, and Medicare numbers, was stolen in the cyber […]

Buy-now, pay-later services such Afterpay and Zip will be required to perform tighter credit checks on new customers and impose credit limits on certain users, under new consumer protection laws. Financial Services Minister Stephen Jones on Wednesday introduced legislation into parliament to classify buy now, pay later products (BNPL) as credit products. He told parliament […]

The length of ski seasons will be slashed by one-third by 2030 even if greenhouse gas emissions are cut radically, new research has found. According to the research by the Australian National University, New South Wales fields Charlotte Pass, Perisher and Thredbo, and Victoria’s Falls Creek and Mt Hotham fare better than others under the […]

Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock expects the March quarter national accounts figures to show growth over the first three months of 2024 will be “quite low”. Economists expect the figures will show Australia’s economy expanded by an anaemic 0.2 per cent in the first quarter of 2024, a result that would bring annual growth to […]

EXCLUSIVE It’s early in the evening of March 14 when Sydney teenager Tyler Mason films a video of himself smiling in the elevator of a luxury hotel. Shortly after, another clip is shared to social media showing the boy, who’d just turned 15, singing and dancing along to an Eminem song inside a suite on […]