9+ hour, 45+ min ago   (1076+ words) Here is what’s making news today. Liberal backbencher Andrew Wallace has attempted to table a stack of papers which he said contained more than 10,000 signatures from Australians opposing Labor’s plan to cut back the private health rebate for over-65s. He…...

1+ hour, 55+ min ago   (494+ words) September 14, 2026 — 3:06pm Northern Territory senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has delivered a blistering rebuke of Pauline Hanson, accusing the One Nation leader of “wilful ignorance” after she described Indigenous Australians as “the most primitive race on earth”. Price, a prominent Indigenous voice…...

4+ hour, 50+ min ago   (447+ words) September 14, 2026 — 12:12pm The Queensland transport minister says neither a credit rating cut nor a potential slashing of overseas migration will get in the way of his government delivering the infrastructure it has promised. The state will spend $55.9 billion on transport projects…...

5+ hour, 6+ min ago   (739+ words) September 14, 2026 — 11:55am Peter Barry was about to start an exciting new chapter in his life. He was preparing to sell his house in Colac, in Victoria’s south-west, and take a job driving heavy machinery and trucks in the West Australian mining…...

8+ hour, 32+ min ago   (1207+ words) September 14, 2026 — 8:30am Australia is exposed to a deepening military alliance between Russia, China and North Korea as the three partners work together in the war on Ukraine, prompting experts to warn of the risks to security in Asia. Former CIA director…...

8+ hour, 37+ min ago   (43+ words) A new poll released today shows that voter faith in the Labor government to manage the economy has crashed September 14, 2026 — 8:24am...

12+ hour, 1+ min ago   (1094+ words) September 14, 2026 — 5:01am Washington DC: A few months ago in Honolulu, the Trump administration’s point man for AUKUS – who rarely speaks publicly – gave a broad-brush appraisal of why Donald Trump strongly supports the agreement. AUKUS, which marks its five-year anniversary this week,…...

12+ hour, 2+ min ago   (307+ words) September 14, 2026 — 5:00am Last week, we received two demonstrations of such cycles and their simplifications (not all of it online). The other example came in Andrew Hastie’s decision to attack Pauline Hanson over her party’s cartoon suggesting he was a “traitor”. Hastie,…...

12+ hour, 8+ min ago   (649+ words) September 14, 2026 — 4:54am Anthony Albanese spent three decades building up trust with voters. He lost it in a single day, spending his political capital to shake up the tax system. And now the receipts have arrived. Voters are in no mood to…...