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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 […]

The ASX200 has bookended a week of recovery with a 1 per cent gain and a clean green sweep across all 11 sectors on Friday. The benchmark closed 1.3 per cent up, tacking on 105 points to finish 7971.1, spurred on by one of Wall Street’s best sessions for the year. On the local market, […]

Australian hospitals are facing a shortage of critical IV fluids till at least the end of the year, as the nation’s health ministers scramble to overcome the problem. Health ministers, including federal minister Mark Butler, met in Sydney on Friday to discuss the shortage of intravenous fluid. “Ministers noted the global supply limitations of IV […]

A conservative preacher says he has been hauled before the Queensland Human Rights Commission after refusing to perform the Welcome to Country at a conference. Dave Pellowe, an outspoken right-wing commentator and Christian minister, said the complaint was made by an attendee of one of his “Church and State” conferences in Queensland earlier this year […]

A female teacher facing charges over allegations she sexually abused a teenage student has been charged with several more offences. Tayla Brailey, 30, was initially arrested at a school in Sydney on August 7 following reports a 17-year-old boy had been sexually touched by a female teacher. On Friday, NSW Police arrested Ms Brailey at […]

A sovereign citizen has uploaded footage of a strange interaction with Queensland Police who stopped him for driving an unregistered vehicle. The man – who states that his name is Grant Warren Hudson in the footage – tells police during the roadside stop his car is registered under “international law”, not Queensland law. After winding […]

Reserve Bank Governor Michele Bullock has signalled there will be no rates relief for the foreseeable future, as the central bank struggles to rein in persistent inflation. A week after she announced the RBA’s decision to hold the cash rate at 4.35 per cent, Ms Bullock told a parliamentary committee on Friday it would be […]

Australia and New Zealand are facing “the most complex and challenging strategic circumstances since World War II”, prime minsiters Anthony Albanese and Christopher Luxon have warned. The two leaders emerged from one-on-one talks at Parliament House on Friday pledging to step up trans-Tasman defence, with Mr Albanese telling a joint press conference the Australian and […]

NSW’s peak health authority has issued a major warning to Aussies after a potentially deadly disease was declared a global health outbreak. World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus recently declared an upsurge of mpox cases all over the world to be a public health emergency, after a major outbreak of the disease in […]