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Monday marks another hike in the price of booze, as a tax rise is pushed onto businesses and consumers. Taxes on beer and spirits have effectively gone up 2 per cent on Monday. Twice a year the Australian Taxation Office looks at the consumer price index to see how much the cost of everything has […]

Anthony Albanese is under fire from Indigenous leaders over his “confusing” comments on Makarrata. Uluru Dialogue co-chairs Pat Anderson and Megan Davis, two of the Prime Minister’s closest allies on Indigenous rights, issued a scathing statement after he appeared to back track on a key election promise to establish a Makarrata commission during an interview […]

The case of an Australian mother jailed for forcing her daughter into marriage has reverberated across the UK and US, as the woman represents a landmark conviction in the Australian courts. Victorian woman Sakina Muhammad Jan, 48, has been jailed for coercing her daughter Ruqia Haidari, 21, into marriage. The mother, who will spend at […]

The Albanese government will shake up access to Sydney airport after the collapse of regional airline Rex last week was partially blamed on the hoarding of slots at the country’s biggest airport. Transport Minister Catherine King will on Monday open a competitive tender process to appoint a new manager of Sydney airport’s timeslots, which are […]

Senator Linda Reynolds is expected to take the stand on the second day of a blockbuster defamation trial against her former staffer, Brittany Higgins. Ms Higgins and her husband David Sharaz are being sued by Senator Reynolds in the WA Supreme Court after failed mediation hearings. The couple shared posts in 2022 and 2023 which […]

More than one in five children under the age of 18 who sought help from homelessness services were turned away due to providers being pushed to the limit, in staggering figures revealed by a report from Australia’s peak body. Figures revealed in the 2024 Child Homelessness Snapshot from Homelessness Australia found that out of the […]

Four Bondi men have been separately stung with multiple drug charges following a two-day in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. NSW Police from the Eastern Suburbs Proactive Crime Team, Region Enforcement Squad South and High Visibility Policing Unit conducted the operations on Friday and Saturday, with authorities targeting domestic violence and drug supply offences. The sting led […]

Economists and experts have tipped the Reserve Bank will hold the cash rate on Tuesday, however borrowers have been advised to prepare for the potential of future hikes, with the board unlikely to rule out future hikes. Forecasting from the Commonwealth Bank’s economist Head of Australian Economics Gareth Aird tipped the rate would be unchanged […]

Economists and experts have tipped the Reserve Bank will hold the cash rate on Tuesday, however borrowers have been advised to prepare for the potential of future hikes, with the board unlikely to rule out future hikes. Forecasting from the Commonwealth Bank’s economist Head of Australian Economics Gareth Aird tipped the rate would be unchanged […]

Anthony Albanese’s commitment to a Makarrata commission to oversee treaty and truth-telling following the failure of the Voice referendum is being questioned, saying his government’s commitment hadn’t changed. On election night in 2022, Mr Albanese vowed to implement the three pillars of the Uluru from the Heart statement – Voice, Treaty and Truth. But after […]