President Donald Trump travelled to Baltimore to make the announcement, which administration officials promised would bolster the lagging production rate of Virginia-class vessels.

Energy and climate change minister says Russia should not be rewarded for ‘illegal and immoral invasion of Ukraine’ * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Australia’s energy minister has said Russia “should not be rewarded for their illegal and immoral invasion of Ukraine” after US President Donald Trump struck a deal with Vladimir Putin to buy diesel from the country. The energy and climate change minister, Chris Bowen, said on Saturday Australia did not “need or want Russian fuel” while updating reporters on the country’s fuel reserves. Trump wrote on social media on Saturday morning Australian time that after a “highly successful discussion” with Putin, Russia had agreed to immediately supply “300,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel” to US and global markets, which would be followed by half a million tons in November rising later to three million tons, depending on “the condition of [Russia’s] diesel refineries.” Continue reading...

The most redeeming of Angus Taylor’s features is that he is unlikely ever to become prime minister. He is a management consultant all the way down, insufficiently serious about the problems in front o...

@1goodtern: Ten ways covid denialists use exactly the same playbook as climate change denialists to justify doing nothing:

A proposal to livestream the killing of Nidal Hasan by firing squad opens a window ever wider to the Trump administration’s complete moral vacuity More fool me! Here I was thinking nothing that America’s Trump administration could do or say, no matter how politically and morally bankrupt, no matter how venal or violent, was capable of shocking me any longer. Then I woke to today’s news that one of the Trump cabinet’s bigger boofheads – the uber Christian nationalist, crusader-fantasist and “secretary of war” Pete Hegseth had announced that America would have a public firing squad execution of murderer Nidal Hasan. Paul Daley is a Guardian Australia columnist Continue reading...

Australia’s welding industry has accused the Reserve Bank of making it harder for manufacturers to lift productivity, arguing higher interest rates are strangling investment in the technology and trai...

The annual Stanley Awards, Australia’s premier awards for cartoonists, has announced its long list for best climate cartoon honours. Born out of a boycott of fossil fuel sponsorship, from this year th...

Key government officials, including Treasury Secretary Stephen Kennedy, refuse to back Treasurer Frydenberg’s unsubstantiated claims that the ASIC corruption review found no wrongdoing.

Home batteries look like resetting the behaviour of households when it comes to responding to time-of-use tariffs, research by the VEPC shows.

If we fail to ensure data centres pay for new renewables and storage to cover their demand, power prices will increase for all of us – and by $20 billion a pop to fund new coal.

One Nation has just released an AI-generated video full of people who don't exist – a man of African appearance with a machete, a man of Middle Eastern…

Former ABC presenter, who died aged 70 after a cancer diagnosis, kept an infant flying fox tucked under his shirt * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast “There’s a small, furry animal, wrapped up in a handkerchief, keeping warm inside my shirt.” So begins a 1989 documentary featuring the late ABC broadcaster Richard Morecroft, one of Australia’s most celebrated news anchors. But Morecroft had another deep passion – for wildlife rescuing and advocacy. Continue reading...

Movie star Tom Cruise suffers one of the worst debuts of his career with his new movie Digger.

An independent review by the Professional Standards Command will be conducted after a man was fatally shot by NSW police near Yass on Sunday.

Candidate Mark Nicholson said former premiers Daniel Andrews and Jacinta Allan would be ‘in prison by Christmas’ if One Nation won the election

Some experts argue Virginia-class submarines government is buying second hand are good for fighting American wars, but not for defending Australia

Global campaign group 350.org urges Cop31 hosts to announce a coal phase-out date and national roadmaps to get off fossil fuels * Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here The hosts of the next major United Nation climate conference, Turkey and Australia, are facing criticism for being partners in a coal supply chain while remaining near silent on the need for a global deal to rapidly get off fossil fuels. With the Cop31 summit in the Turkish Mediterranean city of Antalya just a month away, the two countries running the fortnight-long talks have been accused by activists of a “vacuum of action” on plans for a transition away from coal, gas and oil – a key goal of many nations at the talks. Continue reading...

Why has Iceland's interest rate been set so high?

In Australia, we’re too busy looking at the next carriage on the political sushi train to realise the track itself is broken.

New trial data in melanoma and early findings in head and neck cancer are advancing individualized vaccines, while questions remain about durability, biomarkers, and delivery.

While browsing the Australian Government's contract notices portal AusTender a few days ago – regular readers of this august publication will know that this is one of my principal meditative outlets –...

In a week of threats and walkouts, Australia looked like the pariah at a UNGA in disarray.

Diesel fuel tax credits earned over 10 years nearly equate the price of a huge diesel haul truck. No wonder BHP and Rio haven't gone electric.

Media has been barred from a “public” event featuring National Party Senate leader Bridget McKenzie hosted by far-right lobby group Advance.

‘AI factories’ developer on track to launch the second-biggest IPO in Australian history, but investors warn its forecasts are ‘a little bit of a fairytale’ * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast From her balcony in Launceston, Kayla Thompson can see the buzz of construction at what will soon be one of Australia’s first AI factories. Her teenage stepchildren get an even clearer view from their classroom window. Like many of her neighbours, Thompson didn’t realise Firmus Technologies had an ambitious plan to build datacentres in Tasmania until after construction began. The Australian company was on a mission, and preparing to list on the ASX later this month after an anticipated initial public offering designed to raise $7bn from investors. Continue reading...

His participation was likely already pivotal—and he still owns oil stocks.

Connie Chan, endorsed by Nancy Pelosi to succeed her in California, says she will vote to 'end a genocide in Gaza'.

An Administrative Review Tribunal decision reveals that the government is already implementing NDIS access restrictions it promised would not take effect for more than a year.