Dissent inside the RBA board about rate rise
Point of Law won the Melbourne Cup by a country mile - and rates went up just as everyone expected them to. In fact the only surprise this a...
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Why do Democrats keep choosing the wrong candidates?
The midterms are on in America - and you'd expect voters to give the widely unpopular Donald Trump the kind of walloping presidents can usua...
Pauline Hanson’s lieutenant rules out a run in 2028
Pauline Hanson's lieutenant James Ashby turns down a run for parliament, as National Party leader Matt Canavan heads to the House of Represe...
BMWs and broken promises: Inside the specialist fee war
With specialist out-of-pocket costs surging by 73% since 2010, the Albanese government is pushing ahead with a mandatory website requiring m...
The smart women fantasising about dragon sex
This week's bookshop frenzy for a new romantasy title - A Court of Splintered Harmony by Sarah J Maas - prompts some big questions. Why are...
Mushroom killer likely to die in jail after freedom bid rejected
Mushroom killer Erin Patterson will likely die in jail after the Victorian Court of Appeal rejected her bid for freedom and increased her se...
Israel’s Arab kingmakers: Which PM will blink first?
Israel's gloriously messy democracy has thrown up a real doozy: parliamentary elections that have two potential prime ministers both saying...
ASIC to probe banks behind failed Firmus float
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is making "targeted inquiries" into the actions of the bankers behind the canned multib...
Inside a casino crime wave: bags of cash, Rolexes and a $250m fine
Breathtaking criminality - and a penalty that could have been much, much higher. The casino operator Star has had a huge judgment in the Fed...
Did Israel just re-elect Benjamin Netanyahu?
Huge claims and no clear winner - yet: that's the state of play in the high-stakes Israeli elections that have seen Arab Israeli parties eme...
The Australian ISIS bride accused of enslaving a 9-year-old
Among the many revolting crimes of the failed Islamist movement ISIS was the enslavement and mistreatment of women and girls. They are Yazid...
Did the ABC hire a Hamas terrorist?
Senior ABC brass have told a Senate committee they're investigating whether or not a journalist they used to help cover the Israel-Hamas con...
Albo, the shit sheet and the Helen Haines blame game
We all furiously agree public discourse is nasty and dangerous. But can politicians really change their ways - or will they just blame the m...
Taxpayers stump up for a $34 million five-star climate junket
Revealed today: the total likely cost to Australians of a climate change conference - in Fiji - to prepare for a bigger climate change confe...
France’s Pauline Hanson? How Marine Le Pen is winning
Marine Le Pen is topping France's presidential polls as her National Rally party's anti-immigration, economic nationalist, law-and-order pol...
Tom Cruise’s $350m ‘flop’ Digger is actually a masterpiece
Most critics have Digger down as a dud. But what if they're wrong? Ben Affleck says Digger's a "pretty ambitious, interesting movie made by...
Labor on the defensive over Helen Haines ‘dirt file’
Labor is on the defensive over a so-called "dirt file" compiled about independent MP Helen Haines just weeks before she was attacked outside...
He’s right, she’s left: no wonder Gen-Zs aren’t having sex
As young men increasingly drift towards conservative political worldviews, young women are becoming more progressive - and they're increasin...
Ben Roberts-Smith doubts ‘fair trial’ on war-crimes charges
Disgraced commando Ben Roberts-Smith told 2GB's Ben Fordham he doesn't know if he'll get a fair trial when he faces court on war crimes char...
The points heist: frequent flyer hacks fuel the ATO credit card war
There's a whole subculture out there of points junkies - the people for whom every purchase is a tactical opportunity. Today - the frequent...