Australia

YOUR MONEY: There’s a double-edged sword coming for part-pensioners. Centrelink payments will rise next week, but so will deeming rates. That could wipe out the latest rise, and a chunk of their pension, too.

WATCH: Dramatic scenes have unfolded on the Gold Coast as protesters surrounded a bus carrying Iran’s women’s football team after their Asian Cup exit.

Australia won't involve its troops in the war on Iran, but it could provide other aid for Middle East allies hit with missile and drone strikes.

Efforts to assist Australians to return from the Middle East conflict are being stepped up by the federal government, with buses to cities with open airspace.

Penny Wong is refusing to say whether Australian personnel were on board a US submarine which sank an Iranian warship overnight, insisting the Government does not discuss deployments.

Anthony Albanese has called for Iran to ‘cease’ attacks as DFAT crisis response teams head to the Middle East to provide on-the-ground consular assistance to Australians stuck there.

LATIKA M BOURKE: The US’s shock and awe tactics have given way to qualifying statements on the longevity of war on Iran.

China is the biggest monthly source for new Australian cars for the first time ever and dominates the EV market. Japan had been the uninterrupted No.1 since 1998. Here’s why intelligence experts are worried.

Questioning the repatriation of the children of radical jihadists to Australia doesn’t make me a monster, it makes me a realist.

Aviation experts have issued a warning for Aussies with plans to travel to Europe any time in the next five months.

The country-based party needs to fundamentally change how it recruits parliamentary candidates to get more ‘high-calibre women’ elected, a secret document recommends.

US President Donald Trump says the strikes that killed Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamanei and his family brought forward a new wave of leaders who have also been eliminated.

The Liberals still haven’t learned from repeated warnings about a women problem and were hampered by a leader ‘unattractive to women’ during the disastrous 2025 election loss, an internal review has found.

 Defence Minister Richard Marles has confirmed that an airfield used by Australian troops in the Middle East was hit by drone attacks over the weekend.