Politics

Laws that prevented punters from getting a drink after 3.30am have been scrapped, in what advocates say should breathe more life into a $110 billion sector.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has welcomed the passing of the ‘strongest hate laws that have ever been in place in Australia’, following Labor’s gun legislation passing the upper and lower houses. 

LATIKA M BOURKE: The President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen has singled out Australia as a priority country for a new trade deal.

French President Emmanuel Macron has hit out at ‘bullies’ as he called for US tariffs on European countries to be abolished.

A High Court challenge is brewing against freshly passed laws which clamp down on people who spew hate against those of other faiths.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Despite increasing pressures from ICE, residents of Minnesota refuse to give in.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: As chair, Donald Trump would have considerable influence over the proposed board - but it’s still unclear how much financial control we can expect him to have.

A psychiatrist and the wife of former Sydney lord mayor Nicholas Shehadie, Dame Marie served as NSW governor from 2001 to 2014.

Labor teams up with The Greens to pass gun control measures before clinching support for a watered-down suite of hate speech laws with the Liberals, despite internal Coalition tensions.

Australia is expressing hope of a ‘negotiated settlement’ between the US and Denmark, with the Assistant Defence Minister revealing a Netflix drama has helped him understand Trump’s threats against Greenland.

AARON PATRICK: Origin Energy’s decision to extend the life of the biggest coal power plant demonstrates the success of the mineral bringing electricity to millions.

Britain's ministers are consulting on implementing an Australian-style social media ban for under-16s in the UK.

Japanese voters will head to the polls within weeks after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, just three months in, called a snap election in a bid to increase her wafer-thin majority.

‘NATO should do something for the United States,’ US President Donald Trump wrote to Norway's prime minister in messages released under freedom of information.