Australia

AARON PATRICK: The far-right advocate and political theorist attracted huge audiences with her controversial views. She will not be allowed to share them in Australia.

Australia’s birth rate has fallen to a record low and experts have revealed why millennials are so reluctant to have children.

The acting election commissioner has warned that the sea of corflutes and overwhelming number of people campaigning outside polling booths at the May election was intimidating to some voters.

A senior Reserve Bank official is predicting house price increases, as the IMF forecast inflation problems in 2026.

Publicly the government is hailing the backdown as ‘pragmatic’ and ‘practical’, but behind the scenes Labor figures are claiming another humiliating slap down of the Treasurer by his Prime Minister.

CAMERON MILNER: Albanese has said this is the first holiday he’s taken since being elected in 2022 while many Australians wonder when since then he was ever actually at work.

Three people have died after a light aircraft crashed and caught fire shortly after take-off in NSW.

Just days before Anthony Albanese is due to fly to Washington, the PM has declared President Trump ‘deserves congratulations’ but has stopped short of backing his bid to win a Nobel Peace Prize. 

Shadow immigration minister Paul Scarr has issued a public warning to his Liberal colleagues not to use the immigration debate to ‘inflame emotion’ after Andrew Hastie quit the front bench.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says President Donald Trump ‘deserves congratulations’ following the US-led Gaza peace deal.

Defence insists site boundaries for a new precinct at Henderson to support AUKUS will be determined ‘at the right time’ despite concerns about the arrival of US nuclear-powered submarines due in WA from 2027. 

A senior Treasury official has revealed her department had discussed Labor’s controversial super tax plan with Anthony Albanese’s personal staff in a sign of changes being mooted.

MARK RILEY: For a major communications company it is strange that Optus doesn’t communicate very well. 

Defence deputy secretary Hugh Jeffrey described the prospect of a major power conflict in the Indo-Pacific in the next five years as ‘less remote than it was’.

Australia has welcomed Donald Trump’s announcement that Israel and Hamas have struck the first phase of a peace deal that will lead to the release of all hostages and withdrawal of troops from Gaza.