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Peter Dutton is seeking legal advice after being called “racist” during a heated House debate on visas for Palestinians fleeing Gaza, Sky News reported on Sunday. The opposition leader earlier this week moved a motion to suspend standing orders and debate Gaza visas, giving him the floor to accuse the government of dropping the ball […]

The parents of a teenage Melbourne tradie are raising the alarm about purchasing medicine online after their son’s overdose death on a synthetic opioid. Jetson Gordon, 18, died in April 2022 after an overdose of what he thought was oxycodone, but was actually laced with a dangerous, potent synthetic opioid called nitazene. Mr Gordon brought […]

A hidden “sun” tax slugging Aussies who have made the switch to solar has been slammed by energy advocates as “madness” and a “rip-off”, accusing energy companies of “wanting to charge people” making energy from sunlight. Distributors in some Australian states have moved in the sneaky tariff, known colloquially as a sun or solar tax, […]

Australia’s frontline educators stepped up this week in the wake of troubling NAPLAN results. A record number of teachers have now signed up for the free, online Prime Minister’s Spelling Bee, registering a record number of students across years 3-8. Over 63,000 and counting are currently competing in the national school round, which is open […]

There’s something wild and untameable about Australian opal mining towns. To some degree they have the gritty, lawless feel of a Sergio Leone/Clint Eastwood western, inhabited by hard-bitten mining-men who’ve chanced it all to claim their fortune from the ground, all of whom have wild tales to tell about their mysterious pasts. They are somewhat […]

A women’s rights gathering collapsed into chaos on Saturday afternoon after some counter Transgender Liberation protesters swarmed the rally and threw eggs and water balloons at speakers. The Women Will Speak rally, arguing against key assumptions underpinning the transgender movement, booked out the steps of Parliament House in Melbourne, with some 20 participants fronting up […]

The NSW Liberal Party has made a desperate move to stop a potentially disastrous outcome in upcoming council elections after a stunning bureaucratic failure led them miss a nomination deadline for candidates. State Liberal Party president Don Harwin has reportedly written to the NSW Electoral Commission requesting a one-week extension in the nomination period to […]

Divers have spoken out in horror over killing of two beloved animals — blaming fishermen for “hacking” them to pieces and sparking a debate online. The remains of the bull rays — a large species of stingray — were found by divers in Chowder Bay in Sydney’s north shore this week. Diver James Weaire posted […]

Commonwealth Bank has announced it will walk away from fossil fuel companies without genuine plans to achieve the Paris Agreement on climate change, days after it posted close to $10 billion in full-year net profit. The banking giant announced in 2023 it would require existing oil and gas clients to implement a “transition plan” by […]

Finally some relief for tenants with the latest data showing falls in rents in hundreds of suburbs across the nation, as experts say the worst could be over. The latest PropTrack rent figures for every suburb reveal a spike in investor purchases and more first homebuyers fleeing the market has freed up more rental stock […]