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Dozens of flights out of Sydney have been cancelled with high winds battering the east coast. Sydney Airport is using just one of its three runways due to high winds, with many of the cancelled flights bound for Melbourne, one of the world’s busiest routes. “Due to high winds Airservices Australia are operating our east-west […]

The ASX has suspended The Star Entertainment Group from trading after it failed to post its annual financial report by Friday, amid reports it is seeking new funding. The market issued the announcement on Monday morning, after the casino group requested a trading halt on Friday following the NSW independent Casino Commission (NICC) handed down […]

Anthony Albanese and Jodie Haydon have pushed back their wedding plans until later next year so that he can focus on the election. The Prime Minister on Monday confirmed the federal election, due by May next year, was making it hard to set a date any sooner. “That will … likely be the second half […]

A bird of ill omen is in the skies over Australia. Three black, bat-shaped US B-2 Spirit stealth bombers have made a surprise visit Down Under. And they’re here because of rapidly deteriorating relations with China. The United States air force stealth bombers appeared out of nowhere at Royal Australian Air Force Base Amberley in […]

The reopening of a popular beach on Sydney Harbour has been delayed again due to building “defects”, more than two years after it was closed to the public. Shark Beach at Nielsen Park was closed by the NSW Parks and Wildlife Service in early 2022 after its 100-year-old seawall was damaged in a storm six […]

Kathleen Folbigg is pushing to be compensated for the 20 years she “missed out on” behind bars over the deaths of her four children following an inquiry that cleared her name. Ms Folbigg spent two decades in prison after she was found guilty of causing the deaths of her four children. Patrick (eight months), Laura […]

A childcare worker accused of being one of Australia’s worst alleged pedophiles will enter pleas to 320 charges ranging from rape to possessing child exploitation material before a District Court judge. Ashley Paul Griffith was initially slapped with a handful of child abuse-related charges when first arrested by federal police in August 2022. But thousands […]

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has warned rate rises are “smashing the economy” but firmly rejected claims his comments represent a split with the Reserve Bank. As the government prepares voters for new data expected to show economic growth is tanking, the Treasurer has moved to clarify his comments overnight regarding the impact of rare rises on […]

The long-running blockbuster defamation case between Senator Linda Reynolds her former staffer Brittany Higgins and her husband over critical social media posts is drawing to a close. Senator Reynolds is suing Ms Higgins and her husband David Sharaz over a number of social media posts the pair made in 2022 and 2023. The posts were […]

More young Australians are less likely to develop melanoma as the country becomes more diversely populated, according to new research. A QIMR Berghofer study found nearly 30 per cent of young Australians now have a low to moderate risk of melanoma because of their ancestry and darker skin tones. Professor David Whiteman said the research […]