Australian taxpayers picked up a hefty tab for Hollywood blockbuster Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, fronted by A-listers Chris Hemsworth and Anna Taylor-Joy, and produced by one of the world’s biggest studios. Precisely how much public money went towards the latest instalment in the Mad Max franchise is unclear, becauseContinue Reading
South Australians born after 2009 could be banned from smoking and purchasing tobacco-related products under a bold law proposed by an independent politician. Modelled after similar laws in the UK, the proposed Bill would immediately raise the legal age for buying tobacco and smoking-related products, like nicotine pouches, from 18Continue Reading
The country’s health ministers have declared they will not “stand by and let our kids get hooked on nicotine” in a united plea to the federal parliament to urgently pass vaping laws. In a shared communique on Friday, the nine ministers have called on the federal parliament to pass theContinue Reading
Former foreign minister Julie Bishop has been appointed by the UN Secretary-General as his special envoy for Myanmar, amid violence escalating in the country since a violent military coup three years ago. Ms Bishop, who has held a raft of cabinet positions over her decorated political career until her retirementContinue Reading
A crippling disease that affects almost one million Australian women is going under the spotlight with the launch of a new parliamentary inquiry. Endometriosis, a disease that can devastate fertility and cause severe pain, is a progressive or chronic condition and sufferer Deanna Flynn Wallis, 28, said it had takenContinue Reading
Anthony Albanese has praised the partnership between Australia and the Philippines, saying the countries were united by a vision of a “peaceful, secure, stable and prosperous Indo-Pacific”. Philippines President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr addressed both houses of parliament on Thursday, declaring the Philippines would “not allow any attempt by anyContinue Reading
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was absent from a London court on Tuesday as it heard his final appeal against potential extradition to the United States to face trial for publishing secret military and diplomatic files. Opening the two-day hearing in Mr Assange’s absence, with the man himself not present dueContinue Reading
Calls are growing for action after four women were allegedly murdered in domestic violence events in one state over the course of just seven days. In Adelaide, hundreds gathered at a rally outside Parliament House on November 24 demanding a state-based probe into domestic violence. It follows the murder ofContinue Reading
Anger has exploded in one state over the scale of male violence striking at women after a spate of shocking alleged domestic violence murders in the space of just one week. Emma Pollard, gathering with hundreds of people on the steps of South Australian parliament on Friday to demand aContinue Reading
The crushing defeat of the Indigenous Voice to Parliament referendum could risk further uncertainty for the future of state and territory-based Voices to parliament. Indigenous advisory bodies are not new in Australia with some states and territories having already established, or are working towards the implementation of, Indigenous-led bodies informingContinue Reading