The federal government has been slammed for knocking back advice to trial an Australian porn passport in an open letter signed by more than three dozen child and women’s safety experts. An open letter to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Communications Minister Michelle Rowland is due to be sent onContinue Reading
The Australian share market soared on Friday as strong leads from Wall St and Europe, alongside better-than-expected data from China, pushed traders’ confidence about the global economic outlook higher. The S & P/ASX 200 climbed 92.5 points, or 1.3 per cent, to close at 7,279 points, while the broader AllContinue Reading
Peter Dutton has sided with leading No campaigner Jacinta Nampijinpa Price as a split emerges in the opposition camp over treaties with First Nations people. The Opposition Leader emphatically ruled out entering into treaty negotiations should the Voice be defeated and he winss power at the next election. “I wantContinue Reading
Consumers used to have to wait until after Christmas for the sales, but we’re likely to see more items on sale in the lead up to Christmas this year, a new report has found. Cost of living pressures are expected to result in “consumers taking a more measured approach toContinue Reading
You often hear about the amount of sugar or fat found in food, but far less frequently do we talk about how much salt can be found in popular supermarket and fast foods that we frequently grab on a weekly basis. Consuming too much salt has a number of implicationsContinue Reading
As Australians gear up to have their say on an Indigenous Voice to parliament in a matter of weeks, one country has been reaping the rewards of a similar style model for decades. 14,000 km away, in Norway, the Sámi Parliament has provided the Indigenous Sámi people a Voice forContinue Reading
Anthony Albanese’s signature housing policy is now legislated after finally clinching support from the crossbench. After dancing between the two chambers of parliament, the Housing Australia Future Fund Bill finally passed on Thursday. The HAFF would invest $10bn with the Future Fund and will spend a minimum $500m a yearContinue Reading
A house for sale in Sydney has been deemed so “dilapidated” that home buyers have been told they can only view the property in a ‘drive-by’ inspection. Described as a “blank canvas new home site”, the four-bedroom house, at 78 Alfred Street in Annandale, in Sydney’s inner west, has aContinue Reading
Australia’s most dangerous road over the past year has been found — with Victoria’s hotspot taking out the dishonourable title for the sixth year in a row. National insurer AAMI’s annual Crash Index has found Plenty Rd in Bundoora, a northern suburb of Melbourne, is once again the worst offenderContinue Reading
Sydney registered the third worst air quality in the world on Thursday morning as the city awoke to its fourth day blanketed in a thick haze from hazard reduction burns. The Harbour City was enveloped in smog on Thursday, sending air quality tumbling. According to IQAir, at one point onContinue Reading