Australia

The Reserve Bank governor will not say if she expects interest rates to rise or fall, a position that will cause uncertainty across the economy.

AARON PATRICK: While sailors and soldiers discussed how to defend Australia, pro-Palestinian protesters initiated a near-riot in the name of peace.

Defence Industry Minister says protesters need to understand the ADF are ‘making Australians safer’ after violence erupts outside Sydney military fair.

The RBA has lefts rates on hold and is now expecting inflation to soar to 3.7 per cent next year . The consumer price index is tipped to remain above target for a year.

CAMERON MILNER: Farage is riding the popular moment. It’s an easy playbook for Joyce to follow. The current state of the self-absorbed Liberals and an arrogant Labor look incredibly vulnerable.

Westpac’s CEO says average-income Australians are locked out of the housing market with the bank seeing enquiries for first-home buyers double in a matter of weeks.

Opposition leader Sussan Ley says the Nationals are ‘entitled’ to make their own decision on abandoning net zero and expressed confidence they can work together.

Former prime minister Tony Abbott has announced the death of his mother Fay at the age of 92, sharing a touching tribute to the family matriarch.

Forced into exile after an election she was widely regarded to have won, Svitlana Tsikhanouskaya has a message for Australians ahead of her visit Down Under next week.

Anthony Albanese has declined to back Donald Trump‘s declaration that tariffs are good for alliances, hours after dining with the US President in South Korea who again heaped praise on the Australian leader.

Wednesday’s surprise inflation data hurt share investors and sent property stocks lower as evidence of more food price rises threatens to sting retailers like Woolworths.

The Federal Government could be called in to prop up Australia’s biggest aluminium manufacturer.

AARON PATRICK: An unusual alliance of the Liberal and Greens parties is pushing for a quicker resolution to investigations that have cost $17 million per veteran and secured no convictions.

Some conservatives in Canberra are concerned legislation ensuring people grieving after a stillbirth are able to take pre-arranged paid parental leave could encourage people to have late-term abortions.

A former families minister in the NSW parliament will be sentenced for sexually abusing a man and a teenager more than a decade after his crimes.