News Category: Australia
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Successful legal challenge raises questions about hundreds of floodplain harvesting licences issued by former Coalition governmentGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe New South Wales water regulator has cast doubt over its a…
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Bhagat Lal, 68, has a son studying in Brisbane. Other relatives are missing, while their house was found washed up on the river.The first thing is the noise – chopper blades cutting through the air as helicopters come and go from the main army respon…
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Nepali and Chinese authorities confirmed an updated death toll of at least 810 on Sunday. Follow the day’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralian personnel has not been able to get access to the Nepal flood zon…
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Father of former boxer and NRL star Anthony Mundine succumbed to a heart attack on SundayWarning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this article contains images and names of Indigenous Australians who have diedIndigenous …
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Kim Birrell and Aleksandar Vukic have been forced off the court due to rain, with their first-round US Open matches hanging in the balance.
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Permission was denied for an international seminar in Delhi because it was due to feature speakers linked to the Awami League. The Delhi Police refused to grant clearance, telling the organisers that the event could not be permitted because of “certa…
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Corporate regulator finds insurers settling most claims with cash rather than by managing repairs or rebuilding, warning of ‘unfair outcomes’ for homeownersGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastHome insurers are overwhelmingly pa…
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The Blues look well stocked for years to come after Jagga Smith and Harry Dean were standouts in their AFL wildcard final win over the DemonsSign up for our free weekly AFL newsletterMelbourne ran on to the MCG to a pyrotechnics show, lashings of Bon…
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When Jackson Pollock painted Blue Poles, his masterpiece of American abstract expressionism, little did he know it would become one of Australia’s most fascinating political controversies. The piece ensnared everyone from Gough Whitlam to the Shah of…
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It may sound strange: satirical novels set in Stalin’s Soviet empire, by an Australian journalist, about Trump’s America. But Knox’s darkly hilarious books have arrived when global politics so often feel like a farceSign up for a weekly email featuri…