Channel 9 can expect a ‘please explain’ from the NRL, the Sea Eagles sideline a controversial agent and more in Australia’s best sporting gossip column. It wouldn’t be a rugby league season without a disagreement between Channel 9 and the NRL. You’ll remember the savaging their old boss Hugh Marks once gave Todd Greenberg. The … [Read more…]
The Liberal Party has lost federal and state elections, and doesn’t look like coming back soon. Why? Many Australians think the Liberals are losers, argues James Campbell. Victorian Liberal Party members have been told their party is “not electable” in a stinging self-assessment by the party’s state president. Greg Mirabella’s message to members, leaked to … [Read more…]
Anthony Albanese has said sending the Australian Federal Police to assist in controlling the Northern Territory’s crime wave is not the answer “to deal with the issues”. Speaking with 104.9 Darwin host Katie Woolf on Friday ahead of his flight to Japan for the G7 summit, the Prime Minister covered a number of topics but … [Read more…]
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese discussed crime in the Northern Territory on a radio interview in the Top End, shutting down the possibility of sending the AFP to deal with Darwin’s crime crisis. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has sought to reassure locals that the $250 million lifeline for Alice Springs is in full effect during a … [Read more…]
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will be bringing his entire Cabinet to Perth in August, making it the second meeting in the State this year. But Mr Albanese has failed to stick to his post-election promise of holding both Cabinet meetings in WA in his first 12 months as Prime Minister due to the death of … [Read more…]
Former Collingwood president Eddie McGuire has warned Tasmania the federal government could pull its funding if protests around the new stadium continue. Earlier this month, Tasmania secured a licence to host the 19th club in the AFL with the team slated to enter the competition in 2028. The league had long maintained that Tasmania’s entry into the competition … [Read more…]
The federal government has settled a $132.7 million class action over the contamination of several sites across Australia from toxic firefighting foam, which will compensate about 30,000 landowners. A Queensland firefighter, Izabella Nash, tragically lost her life after sustaining injuries while fighting a warehouse fire south of Brisbane. Ms Nash passed away overnight while hospitalised, … [Read more…]
Peter Dutton has doubled down on his warning a migration boost would worsen the nation’s housing crisis, despite a new report saying otherwise. The looming fear of high population growth is expected to put economic pressures on the housing market but “the pressures are already there”, says demographer Simon Kuestenmacher. “We were negligent in not … [Read more…]
The Albanese government’s first real budget says we’re in for bigger government, for higher taxes, and for more incentives for people to stay on welfare, writes Peta Credlin. Worse still, the massive taxpayer handouts to help people cope with skyrocketing cost of living risks making the problem worse because throwing money into the economy will … [Read more…]