Australia

In handing down its second rate reduction of 2025, the Central Bank noted the challenges ahead in a statement that used the word ‘uncertainty’ 122 times.

JACKSON HEWETT: Apart from a widely predicted 0.25 per cent cut, the Reserve Bank also delivered something of a coded warning to the Treasurer. 

It’s a cut! A second dose of mortgage relief is on the way for Aussie borrowers after the Reserve Bank lowered interest rates 0.25 percentage points.

A teenager who used a paint-filled fire extinguisher to vandalise ex-opposition leader Peter Dutton's office has appeared in court surrounded by supporters.

Australia has joined 22 other countries in demanding Israel fully resume humanitarian aid deliveries into Gaza, and accused Israel of politicising the delivery of essentials to Palestinian civilians.

The new US ambassador to Britain says AUKUS, the trilateral security pact between Australia, Britain and the US, is ‘vital to the world’.

LATIKA M BOURKE: In an exclusive interview, Australia’s man in the Vatican, former LNP MP Keith Pitt said the PM’s attendance in Rome was vital.

The call from Kylie Moore-Gilbert, who was detained by Iran for three years, came after the Australian teacher was jailed for fighting alongside Ukraine.

JACKSON HEWETT: The RBA is set to take interest rates below 4 per cent for the first time in two years tomorrow. But that may be where the good news ends.

The Liberal and National parties are grappling with their net-zero and nuclear energy as they thrash out a coalition agreement.

‘I spoke to him about my mother’: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has given a given a candid account of his conversation with Pope Leo XIV in Rome.

Europe wants a major strategic partnership with Australia but the PM is playing down the prospect of a giant defence trade deal.