11+ hour, 2+ min ago   (1076+ words) Here is what’s making news today. Liberal backbencher Andrew Wallace has attempted to table a stack of papers which he said contained more than 10,000 signatures from Australians opposing Labor’s plan to cut back the private health rebate for over-65s. He…...

3+ hour, 12+ min ago   (494+ words) September 14, 2026 — 3:06pm Northern Territory senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has delivered a blistering rebuke of Pauline Hanson, accusing the One Nation leader of “wilful ignorance” after she described Indigenous Australians as “the most primitive race on earth”. Price, a prominent Indigenous voice…...

4+ hour, 40+ min ago   (454+ words) September 14, 2026 — 1:39pm Child Protection Minister Jess Stojkovski has flown to Port Hedland as a scandal engulfs the state government following reports vulnerable Aboriginal children are often left alone for up to a week at a time in a Department of Communities…...

5+ hour, 25+ min ago   (366+ words) September 14, 2026 — 12:54pm One Nation was ordered to almost double its campaign spending details for the last Queensland election after the state’s electoral watchdog found the party failed to disclose more than a quarter of a million dollars. Initial records filed to…...

5+ hour, 26+ min ago   (107+ words) September 14, 2026 — 12:53pm A man has been rushed to hospital after a reported shark incident at a beach in Geraldton this morning. Fisheries reported the ‘possible incident’ occurred at 9.45am at Glenfield Beach, but provided no further details. St John Ambulance said a…...

6+ hour, 7+ min ago   (447+ words) September 14, 2026 — 12:12pm The Queensland transport minister says neither a credit rating cut nor a potential slashing of overseas migration will get in the way of his government delivering the infrastructure it has promised. The state will spend $55.9 billion on transport projects…...

6+ hour, 7+ min ago   (429+ words) September 14, 2026 — 12:12pm Follow our live coverage of the inquiry here. Former Strathfield mayor Matthew Blackmore has told a corruption inquiry that his relationship with fellow Labor councillors Sharangan Maheswaran and Karen Pensabene became strained after he sacked the council’s general manager…...

6+ hour, 25+ min ago   (43+ words) Victoria's roads crisis has escalated after a motorcyclist was killed in the state's central west after hitting a pothole. September 14, 2026 — 11:54am...

6+ hour, 24+ min ago   (739+ words) September 14, 2026 — 11:55am Peter Barry was about to start an exciting new chapter in his life. He was preparing to sell his house in Colac, in Victoria’s south-west, and take a job driving heavy machinery and trucks in the West Australian mining…...

7+ hour, 5+ min ago   (775+ words) Two complainants, known as “J” and “C”, have completed their evidence. Today, the third complainant, dubbed “M”, will start his testimony. “M” is a former athlete who has accused Jones of kissing him without his consent on the corner of…...