Australia

Australia is within striking distance of signing a free trade agreement with the European Union, a deal that would send a clear message to other trading nations - but there is a sticking point.

The Tasmanian Parliament voted 18-17 to dismiss the state’s Liberal Government, a decision that threatens the creation of a 19th team in the Australian Football League, the Devils.

AARON PATRICK: The Liberal Party knows it has a women problem. Joking about special protections for men does not help.

A tourist boat carrying 89 people, including 77 foreigners, has capsized off Nusa Lembongan in Bali after being hit by a big wave.

EDITORIAL: Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ answer to the latest lacklustre economic growth figures was ‘any growth is a decent outcome’. But what is the government’s strategy to arrest the slump? 

Accused mushroom killer Erin Patterson has revealed the moment her ex-husband demanded she explain ‘how you poisoned my parents’ during bombshell evidence at her triple murder trial.

Stark prognosis given at strategic conference

On the weekend, the Defence Minister warned of China’s rapid nuclear expansion and the need to not be complacent. So why are our civic defence plans a complete mystery?

JACKSON HEWETT: What will it take to get Australia out of the post-COVID mire and off the drug of Government spending?

SARAH STINSON: I thought I understood anti-Semitism. I thought it lived in the past.  But in Israel, I felt its weight — not as theory, but inheritance. 

AARON PATRICK: By driving the cost of cigarettes up to $75 a packet, the Government has created a thriving black market sucking up limited police resources.

‘Put it to rest’: Brittany Higgins has returned to the workforce, taking on a major role at a PR agency as she steps away from the narrative that once defined her.

Australia’s defence chief has pledged to give ‘frank’ advice to the Government on spending as it comes under increasing pressure to hike the defence budget to deal with growing strategic threats.

A new development has the 19th AFL club facing the real possibility of a fatal blow before it has even formed.