2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (988+ words) September 11, 2026 — 5:00am NSW Premier Chris Minns is scrambling to avoid a 2027 state election fought over law and order as frustration grows within Labor ranks at escalating gangland violence on Sydney’s streets. Concerns about the electoral impacts have been compounded by inconsistent…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (909+ words) September 10, 2026 — 6:00am Native Australian bushland continues to be cleared at massive scale for cattle grazing, threatening the Great Barrier Reef and climate targets, despite federal efforts to rein in the practice and major supermarkets committing to stripping beef raised on cleared…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (302+ words) September 10, 2026 — 12:40pm The Greens will not side with the Nationals to kill off a scheme that will allow state governments to earn carbon credits for protecting public forests, defying intense lobbying from former leaders Bob Brown and Christine Milne. The NSW…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (1222+ words) September 10, 2026 — 11:45am In many ways, it’s the Rudd government’s first carbon emissions trading scheme all over again – the famous clash between pragmatism and ideological purity when the Greens voted down climate policy for not going far enough. And it’s all coming…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (921+ words) September 10, 2026 — 6:00am Native Australian bushland continues to be cleared at massive scale for cattle grazing, threatening the Great Barrier Reef and climate targets, despite federal efforts to rein in the practice and major supermarkets committing to stripping beef from cleared land…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (30+ words) SMH.com.au Anthony Albanese says the government is focussed on tackling criminals to stop Australia's tobacco wars. September 9, 2026 — 8:24am...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (280+ words) September 8, 2026 — 6:00pm Six years ago, the Commonwealth collected $16.3 billion in tobacco excise. That figure will have collapsed to $4.1 billion this year, Treasury estimates, and by the end of the decade it’ll be just $2 billion. Meanwhile, investigations of wastewater by the Australian…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (777+ words) September 8, 2026 — 5:00am The cost of building an underground metro station in Parramatta has surged to $880 million, an increase of nearly 50 per cent on what the government agency overseeing the mega-project had forecast in leaked documents a year ago. Four towers of…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (1012+ words) September 8, 2026 — 5:00am This story contains language that some readers may find offensive and describes explicit sexual acts. Kyle Sandilands has reduced one of his co-presenters to tears during a live broadcast, aired a segment that used a racial slur to refer…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (43+ words) SMH.com.au The Coalition has unveiled its plan to slash the tobacco excise by 80 per cent, bringing the cost of a legal pack of cigarettes down to just $8. September 3, 2026 — 9:59am...