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US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping have spoken by phone to discuss trade, Taiwan and Ukraine, according […]

Labor is facing an uphill battle as it tries to strike a deal in the Senate to pass major environmental

Housing affordability has sunk to record lows, exacerbating the divide between Australia’s haves and have nots. Since March 2020, home

Early signs on Japan’s annual wage negotiations for next year point to another round of solid pay hikes despite profit

Following the Libs ‘Net Zero’ battle, ‘Net Gain’ will be the focus this week as Murray Watt struggles to get

Former British prime minister David Cameron has revealed he had prostate cancer. His diagnosis has motivated him to speak out

Labor insists its environmental reforms, aimed at speeding up project approvals while balancing nature protections, will get over the line

There is a storm brewing to blow up the Federal Government’s Compensation Scheme of Last Resort. Michael Pascoe reports an

Red tape in Australia has gotten so thick, compliance has become a major industry in its own right. In 2024,

Universal Pictures’ two-part Wicked gamble continues to defy gravity at the box office. Just a year after part one brought

Client data for JPMorgan Chase, Citi, Morgan Stanley and other major banks might have been accessed in a hack of

Group of 20 leaders adopted a declaration addressing the climate crisis and other global challenges over US objections, prompting the

Britain has rolled out a critical minerals strategy designed to reduce dependence on foreign suppliers by 2035, with targets to

A gold pocket watch recovered from an elderly couple who drowned during the sinking of the Titanic has sold for

Christmas has come early for data nerds. In the coming week, the Australian Bureau of Statistics will unveil the first

This week on Scam of the Week, we dive into one of the wildest political reshuffles in years as the

Labor has been dangling concessions on its environmental laws in a last-ditch bid to get the stalled changes over the

The COP30 climate talks in Brazil have reached a tentative deal, sources say, after negotiators resolved a protracted stand-off over

Daily Mail owner DMGT says it has struck an Stg500 million ($A1 billion) deal to buy rival newspaper the Telegraph

Police now want to drop charges against a man they arrested last year for wearing a F*** Israel F*** Zionism

The host of the COP30 climate summit in Brazil has urged countries to unite for a deal as a showdown

US President Donald Trump has called New York City’s mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani a “100 per cent communist lunatic” and a

G20 envoys have agreed on a draft leaders’ declaration ahead of this weekend’s summit in Johannesburg without US input, four

The federal budget is nothing like a business, nor does it resemble your personal accounts. Our politicians and so many

A long-awaited free trade agreement between Australia and the EU had shown signs of serious progress, the trade minister says,

This week on The West Report, Michael digs into how The Australian has stepped up as an unofficial bodyguard for

A neo-Nazi accused of directing supporters to “rhetorically rape” a federal politician will remain behind bars, as federal police crackdown

The leaders of one of Australia’s biggest tech companies have assured shareholders it’s on the right track, despite the share

A big-money bid for an Australian medicine maker has been scuppered by Treasurer Jim Chalmers after the Foreign Investment Review

US employment growth accelerated in September, but the labour market remained sluggish and failed to keep pace with new job-seekers

Verizon is laying off more than 13,000 employees in mass job reductions that arrive as the US telecommunications giant says

A fire that forced an evacuation of the COP30 climate summit venue in the Brazilian city of Belem is under

The coalition will support Labor’s long-awaited environmental reforms if a series of amendments are accepted. Opposition Leader Sussan Ley said

State and Federal Governments are proposing to add $2.4 billion to the Whyalla Steelworks financial disaster, while the man responsible

Just weeks ago defence technology innovator DroneShield was riding an artificial intelligence boom on the local share market after releasing

The family of an Aboriginal teenager who was mistakenly pulled from a bus and arrested in the nation’s capital have