Former Prime Ministers Tony Abbott and John Howard are among 27 Australians who will be denied access into Russia for an “indefinite term” under new sanctions as Russia looks to punish those it believes is working against them. Russia’s Foreign Ministry released the list on Wednesday night local time, declaringContinue Reading
As the cost of living continues to bite down hard across the country, new research shows just how much of a mental toll it’s taking on Aussies. A survey of 1500 people who had reached out to the The Salvation Army for help over a 12-month period revealed that cost-of-livingContinue Reading
Peter Dutton’s vow to axe Australia’s 2030 climate emissions target has been attacked, with a senior government minister warning the Opposition Leader was a ‘real risk’. Mr Dutton said he would scrap Labor’s legislated target for 43 per cent emissions reduction by 2030 at the federal election due by MayContinue Reading
Anthony Albanese has questioned whether the isolation of Covid-19 exacerbated issues around social media and social cohesion, in a wide-ranging new podcast episode. Appearing on the Australian National University’s Democracy Sausage podcast with Mark Kenny to reflect on his first two years as Prime Minister, Mr Albanese spoke extensively aboutContinue Reading
GRAPHIC WARNING A fake TV executive who used selfies with singers Natalie Bassingthwaighte and Jack Vidgen to con people has been sentenced to two years jail after making hundreds of harassing phone calls, telling one mother he would “rape her daughter and cut her into pieces”. Gerard Cecil Vamadevan, 56,Continue Reading
An eminent group of former politicians, academics, ambassadors and doctors wants the federal government to redirect $9bn of frozen Russian assets to rebuild Ukraine. Russian oligarchs’ “dirty money” being held in Australia should also pursued, 26 signatories say in the letter. Signatories include former Prime Minister John Howard, former RussianContinue Reading
Joe Hockey has unleashed on spy boss Mike Burgess after the ASIO chief made the “extraordinary” claim that an unnamed Australian politician had “sold out” their country to a foreign adversary. The former Treasurer and US ambassador told 2GB’s Ben Fordham that Mr Burgess — the Director-General of the AustralianContinue Reading
Within about one week of the disappearance of doomed flight MH370, then Prime Minister Tony Abbott says it became clear that 238 passengers and crew had fallen victim to a murder-suicide plot. Almost 10 years ago on March 8, MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur destined for Beijing while carryingContinue Reading
Peta Credlin has unleashed on the ABC and the political docuseries Nemesis declaring the public broadcaster “failed to put the record straight” and left many of Malcolm Turnbull’s criticisms unchallenged. Nemesis tells the inside story of the Coalition’s nine years in power and the leadership battles between Tony Abbott, MalcolmContinue Reading
It wasn’t political interference that caused dozens of Howard-era cabinet papers to go missing instead of being released, but rather administrative errors and poor systems, a report has found. An independent review was launched earlier this month into why 82 documents from 2003 were not handed over to the NationalContinue Reading