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Linda McMahon, pictured with husband Vince McMahon has been selected by President-elect Donald Trump as US Secretary of Education.

US Politics

Max Corstorphan

Trump picks WWE personality as education secretary

President-elect Donald Trump has selected one of the biggest names in the WWE universe to become Secretary of the Department of Education.

‘We’re ready’: Rudd breaks silence after Trump election win

Kevin Rudd has broken his silence after President-elect Donald Trump won the US election, declaring Australia is ‘ready’ to deal with another four years of a Trump administration.

President-elect Donald Trump joins SpaceX founder Elon Musk for the latest Starship launch.

Technology

Max Corstorphan

Trump and Musk hug as SpaceX launch hits trouble

President-elect Donald Trump has joined SpaceX founder Elon Musk for the latest test launch of his Starship rocket, watching on as the vessel spectacularly launched into space before trouble broke out.

22 hours ago

Politics

Minister for Communications Michelle Rowland.

Dan Jervis-Bardy

Tech giants face huge fines for breaking social media ban

Social media companies would face fines of up $50 million for failing to stop children under-16s accessing their platforms

11 hours ago

Labor has been accused of botching the onshore asylum process.

exclusive

Australia

Nicola Smith

Labor accused of losing grip on asylum process

The Coalition has accused Labor of mishandling high numbers of onshore asylum claims in a further sign it intends to put immigration front and centre of its election campaign.

13 hours ago

updated

Australia

Dan Jervis-Bardy and Katina Curtis

Budget surplus days over as iron ore, jobs bite

Tumbling iron ore prices and a softening labour market has hit Federal coffers, leaving Treasurer Jim Chalmers with a ‘sliver’ of the revenue windfalls that have propped up his Budget bottom line.

Australia

NSW

Matt Shrivell

Desperate search for woman after house fire

Emergency services are searching for a missing woman after a fire tore through a property.

Just now

Victoria

Callum Godde

Massive nightclub blaze disrupts morning traffic

A massive fire has engulfed a nightclub, sparking a police investigation and disrupting morning commuters.

37 mins ago

Reserve Bank Governor Michele Bullock and Treasurer Jim Chalmers.

Business

Matt Mckenzie

Election cash splash would slow rate cuts

A fresh survey of economists has revealed most are still tipping an interest rate cut by March — but one investment bank has warned a big spending election would delay relief for many months.

11 hours ago

Business

Furniture retailer Nick Scali will incur an unknown amount of extra costs due to delays.

Business

Cheyanne Enciso

Nick Scali warns first-half targets at risk after delays

Nick Scali has warned the collapse of one of its freight forwarders has led to a significant number of containers delayed at ports, causing delivery headaches and threatening profits for the furniture store.

19 hours ago

Rio released a progress update two years after an initial bombshell report unveiled bullying and sexism were systemic at the company.

Mining

Simone Grogan

Is male worker backlash thwarting Rio’s change for women?

Rio’s efforts to fix culture issues in the past two years have left some men feeling “undervalued or overlooked” against their women peers, and of the belief that there is reverse discrimination at play.

20 hours ago

Business

The Economist

Is fashion giant Shein cut from Chinese cloth?

With headquarters in Singapore, employees in China, and shares due to be listed in London, the matter of nationality has become a vexed question

Opinion

"We are staying the course," Rio Australia chief Kellie Parker says of the company's culture change. (Alan Porritt/AAP PHOTOS)

Editorial

Rio Tinto must stay course against toxic culture backlash

EDITORIAL: Creating cultural change is really bloody hard. Rio Tinto is finding out just how much of a relentless, bruising slog it can be.

12 hours ago

Jim Chalmers is running out of road, writes Jackson Hewett.

analysis

Jackson Hewett

Jim Chalmers is running out of road. And help isn’t coming

JACKSON HEWETT: As much as Treasurer Jim Chalmers tried to put a positive spin on things in his ministerial statement on the economy, the trend doesn’t look good.

15 hours ago

Why Trump’s Joe Rogan interview may have won the election

ISABELLE MULLEN: Americans are sick to death of politicians, and Donald Trump was the only presidential candidate who didn’t sound like one.

15 hours ago

The New York Times

**EMBARGO: No electronic distribution, Web posting or street sales before TUESDAY 12:01 A.M. ET, NOV. 19, 2024. No exceptions for any reasons. EMBARGO set by source.** FILE — Ukrainians remove a Russian soldier’s body from a building at the Sudzha border post in Russia, on the border with Ukraine, Sept. 12, 2024. Concrete information about Russian casualties is sparse, but some journalists and researchers have found innovative ways to count them, and British and Ukrainian military officials, as well as BBC researchers, claim that Russia suffered its highest rate of dead and injured soldiers in the month of October as it pressed farther into Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region. (David Guttenfelder/The New York Times)

World

The New York Times

Russia suffered colossal losses in Ukraine. Is it depleted?

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Russia’s military made its largest territorial gains in more than two years in October, as it pressed farther into Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region — but at a heavy cost.

20 Nov 2024

DAVID FRENCH: If Trump’s Cabinet picks help him usher in the chaos that is the water in which he swims, then the question won’t be whether voters rebuke MAGA, but how much damage it does before it fails again.

US Politics

The New York Times

How Donald Trump is already starting to fail

DAVID FRENCH: If Trump’s Cabinet picks help him usher in the chaos that is the water in which he swims, then the question won’t be whether voters rebuke MAGA, but how much damage it does before it fails again.

19 Nov 2024

Roxie, a baby red panda that died at Edinburgh Zoo, Scotland.

World

The New York Times

‘Very sad’: Stress from fireworks killed baby red panda

‘It’s very sad to have lost Roxie at such a particularly young age’.

15 Nov 2024

Culture

Wenlei Ma

Cruel Intentions TV reboot changes key part of 1999 film

The 1999 teen movie Cruel Intentions was sexy and brazen but the 2024 TV reboot has changed a key aspect of what made it so illicit and thrilling.

16 hours ago

Australian stars stun on ARIA Awards red carpet.

Culture

Max Corstorphan

ARIA Music Awards: Stars stun on red carpet

SEE THE LOOKS: Stars of the music industry have started to walk the red carpet ahead of the 38th annual Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Music Awards.

18 hours ago

Triple M Sydney breakfast co-hosts (L-R) Mark Geyer and Mick Molloy.

Radio

Georgina Noack

Triple M veteran reportedly sacked as co-host moves on

There was radio silence from Triple M on Wednesday with one of the station’s stalwart talents missing from the studio.

19 hours ago

Society

Generation Z are too scared to talk on the phone.

Society

Paul Vass

Mobile-loving generation too scared to talk on the phone

Ever since Alexander Graham Bell invented the phone, generations have embraced the freedom to speak to virtually anyone in the world, until now.

20 hours ago

Technology

Max Corstorphan

Trump and Musk hug as SpaceX launch hits trouble

22 hours ago

ANITA BHAGWANDS: I once counted how often I looked at my own reflection in a single day when I’m feeling low: 57 times. Clearly, that’s not normal.

Opinion

Anita Bhagwandas

Why I check my reflection 57 times a day

ANITA BHAGWANDS: I once counted how often I looked at my own reflection in a single day when I’m feeling low: 57 times. Clearly, that’s not normal.

19 Nov 2024

Lifestyle

Queensland team Simone and Viviana celebrate their victory.

Food

My Kitchen Rules champions’ winning recipe revealed

Queensland team Simone and Viviana served up four grand-final winning courses showcasing their Italian heritage. Try out the winning recipes here.

19 hours ago

Ten tips to forgive yourself and move forward with your life

Focusing on your own faults can not only be harmful psychologically but also medically, here are 10 tools for self-forgiveness

TV host Sonia Kruger has listed her stunning renovated Mosman home for sale.

Property

Jade Lazarevic

Sonia Kruger’s stunning beachside home hits the market

The TV host’s breathtaking renovated home is expected to fetch $18.5 million.

19 Nov 2024

Sport

Video

AFL

Cameron Noakes

Draft night ends in tears with family split by last-minute call

‘That’s a brave move.’

10 hours ago

Video

India has continued its media shy policy.

Cricket

Oliver Caffrey

India's antics reach a new low

Bowling coach Morne Morkel was the first member of the Indian squad to address the media since they arrived in Australia nine days ago after one of the team’s stars ditched a scheduled press conference.

13 hours ago

Video

Alastair Clarkson, Sam Mitchell and Cyril Rioli in 2013.

AFL

Cameron Noakes

Explosive AFL scandal ends with a whimper

A settlement has been reached and the club is expected to make an announcement soon.

15 hours ago

World

Israeli authorities say Hezbollah strikes have killed 43 civilians in the country's north.

Middle East

Staff Writers

‘Bring this to a close’: US envoy heads to Israel to secure ceasefire

A US representative says talks on a ceasefire agreement to end the war between Israel and Hezbollah have made further progress.

2 hours ago

updated

Europe

Staff Writers

Ukraine uses UK-made Storm Shadow missiles against Russia

Ukraine has reportedly fired British-made Storm Shadow missiles into Russian territory hours after President Joe Biden approved the use of US-made landmines.

56 mins ago

Israeli attack on Palmyra kills 36, causes mass casualties

Syrian media reports say an Israeli attack on residential buildings in Palmyra has killed 36 people and wounded more than 50.

2 hours ago

The Best Australian Yarn

The Best Australian Yarn

Alison Wakeham

The 50 authors who made our short story contest’s longlist

Judges pore over more than 6000 entries from around Australia to deliver this year’s top 50 entries

08 Nov 2024

Short story competition attracts record 6000 entries

Authors across Australia have submitted a staggering 6020 entries to the world’s biggest short story competition, the Best Australian Yarn — up nearly 10 per cent on last year.

13 Aug 2024

Best Australian Yarn competition event at WA Museum. Simon Baronowitz, Miles Hitchcock, Basim Shamaon & Julia Lambo.

The Best Australian Yarn

Alison Wakeham

Competition celebrates the stories of migrants

Refugee Week and The Best Australian Yarn share the same ambitions - to promote a greater understanding and celebrate the lives of migrants

20 Jun 2024

I’m only 23 but I’ll never be able to have sex again

World

11 Min Read

30 Aug 2024

Depraved zoologist Adam Britton is unlikely to ever be cured, even with intensive sex offender treatment, a psychiatrist has warned.

Depraved bestiality zoologist unlikely to ever be cured

Australia

6 Min Read

30 Aug 2024

ELLEN RANSLEY: Terrorism no longer fits a clear-cut mould. Islamist fundamentalism is still a threat, but a new era of politically motivated violence is upon us, and it’s becoming increasingly hard to detect.

analysis

Business as usual won’t cut it to stop youth radicalisation

6 Min Read

09 Aug 2024

Video

Kamala Harris, the daughter of immigrants from India and Jamaica, would be the first Black woman and individual of South Asian descent to secure the nomination of a major party.

Next steps for Kamala Harris now Biden is out of the race