Imagine a sliding door moment, and it was not Assange but you who was in court in Britain. | Continue reading
“People aged 14 when the law comes into effect will never be able to legally purchase tobacco.” | Continue reading
White House press secretary Jen Psaki says US athletes will continue to compete and will “have our full support,” but added “we will not be contributing to the fanfare of the games”. | Continue reading
The Executive Mansion was renamed the day after a controversial dinner, writes Simon Mann. | Continue reading
Offshore social media platforms with at least 250,000 Australian users would be required to set up a local company to handle defamation complaints under a plan to tackle anonymous trolls. | Continue reading
Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Sunday that under the new laws people who believe they have been defamed online will also be able to get court orders forcing social media giants to reveal who is responsible for the posts. | Continue reading
Rockpool Bar & Grill executive chef Corey Costelloe said relatively inexperienced hospitality workers were commanding six-figure wages. | Continue reading
One of Australia’s leading scientists has been referred to Queensland’s Crime and Corruption Commission by his research institute. | Continue reading
NSW Parliament will today debate voluntary assisted dying legislation, Bert Newton’s state funeral is being held in Melbourne and international climate talks in Glasgow are drawing to a close. | Continue reading
Pharmacists and doctors are likely to play a key role in convincing the vaccine-hesitant to get the jab. | Continue reading
The cutting-edge technology should help reduce delays across the public transport network. | Continue reading
An Australian privacy authority has ordered facial recognition company Clearview AI to stop scanning the faces of Australians and destroy the images and related data it has already collected. | Continue reading
As COP26 talks loom, Atlassian founder Mike Cannon-Brooks has pledged to invest and donate $1.5 billion to help keep warming to 1.5 degrees. | Continue reading
Like every good novelist, he’s a complicater. He insists that we’re all made from crooked timber, and there are no easy answers in life. | Continue reading
If the allegations were upheld it would be a blow to the University of NSW and the field of anti-ageing research. | Continue reading
His daughter wounded by a “devastating lie” on social media, the Deputy Prime Minister struck back this week. Now the tech giants are worried. | Continue reading
Victoria, NSW and Australia as a whole appear to be well on track to exceed the 80 per cent double-dose vaccination rate and push towards 90, and NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet says he is committed to avoiding any further lockdowns. | Continue reading
A new study by an Australian cyber security firm concludes the COVID-19 “virus was highly likely to be spreading virulently in Wuhan, China as early as the summer of 2019”. | Continue reading
“The Romanovs are back,” a conservative Russian news outlet announced as the old Imperial capital welcomed a royal wedding that did not impress Vladimir Putin. | Continue reading
The energy company says the Powell Creek Solar Precinct planned for the Northern Territory to supply Darwin and Singapore will be 40 per cent bigger than originally announced. | Continue reading
Australia’s Tesla Big Battery is facing legal action amid allegations it failed to deliver on promised services to the power grid. | Continue reading
The new defence pact with the US and Britain contains too many unanswered questions, writes the former prime minister. | Continue reading
Sources confirmed the US would help Australia develop a nuclear submarine capability, which could result in Australia dumping its $90 billion submarine deal with France. | Continue reading
The High Court has ruled that media outlets are legally responsible as publishers for third parties’ comments on their Facebook pages. | Continue reading
James Adcock and his partner were standing in a corner of the Potts Point markets on Saturday, each eating noodle soup, when a suited man approached them. | Continue reading
Several impounded dogs have been shot by a rural council under its interpretation of COVID-19 restrictions. | Continue reading
The latest landmark climate science report goes much further than previous ones to provide estimates of how bad things might go as the planet heats up. | Continue reading
The rapid shuttle runs by helicopters came on Sunday morning local time as wisps of smoke rose from the embassy’s roof. | Continue reading
Bettina Arndt listens to the other voices in this debate: the men. | Continue reading
Sydneysiders trying to follow health authorities’ calls to get vaccinated say they are spending hours on the online booking system. | Continue reading
Global giant Citi says the rise of buy now, pay later products is a major shift, as it prepares to move into the local market. | Continue reading
Even as China tops the medal count at the Olympics, its diplomats cry foul to the world. They seem oblivious to how obnoxious their tactics appear, but the world is not their priority audience. They’re performing for Xi Jinping. | Continue reading
The deal is the largest corporate transaction in Australian history and will see Afterpay’s founders stay on at the company. Afterpay shares are up more than 20 per cent in early trade. | Continue reading
Poundbury has attracted scathing reviews from the moment construction began but something big is happening here recently. | Continue reading
Taiwan’s hotel quarantine safety is under review following the deaths of three guests who were told to stay in their rooms. | Continue reading
Fifty years ago, a junior Australian diplomat learned about Henry Kissinger’s covert mission to Beijing. What happened next had real consequences in Canberra. | Continue reading
‘Beam me up, Scotty’ is one of the most popular lines in science fiction – but could it work in real life? | Continue reading
Not everyone is enthusiastic about working from home. Younger workers fear they are missing out on valuable learning experiences when locked out of the office. | Continue reading
“Children, put your phones away and go to sleep.” Tech company Tencent’s new feature locks out Chinese teens trying to breach the nation’s 10pm e-game curfew. | Continue reading
NSW Health said it only meant to give Pfizer jabs to a handful of Indigenous students at St Joseph’s College but accidentally inoculated 163 HSC students. | Continue reading
It won’t have the same energy. The drive and vision will be gone. And so will the innovation. But Amazon’s breathtaking growth could explode after Jeff Bezos departs. | Continue reading
Putin signs a new law forcing French producers to relabel hallowed brands as “sparkling wine”. | Continue reading
National Geographic announced this week it will recognise the body of water that encircles Antarctica and runs along Australia’s southern coast near Victoria, as the world’s fifth. | Continue reading
COVID-19 originating from a lab leak in Wuhan is a fascinating theory, but that doesn’t mean we should believe it. | Continue reading
Some want to cancel the Tokyo Olympics. But why not go one step further and, after 125 years, consign the whole modern Olympic movement to history? | Continue reading
Many were scepitcal, but now the US President wants to know whether the original coronavirus was made in a Wuhan laboratory - then accidentally leaked. | Continue reading
Locals in San Felice Circeo, a picturesque town between Rome and Naples, have been told they owe thousands of euros as a result of a medieval levy long forgotten. | Continue reading
The Fair Work Commission has lashed the ‘callous’ sacking of a driver in a ruling that puts the gig economy’s reliance on “independent contractors” at risk. | Continue reading