When a business is described as a manufacturer, it usually evokes images of sparks flying, and plumes of steam and heavy machinery. But while Altona North’s UA Manufacturing has that word in its title...

Former One Nation candidates reveal they’re walking away from the party after witnessing its operations behind closed doors.

Israeli settlers have intensified efforts to seize natural springs and heritage sites in the occupied West Bank.

In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam

With community concerns about datacentres becoming impossible to ignore, the state Labor government has changed course

The Daily Mail turned a Christian company’s dubious claims about Turkey’s Durupınar Formation into a wildly misleading story

On Episode 81 of Bogan Intelligentsia, journalist, author and Australia Institute chief political analyst Amy Remeikis joins the program to discuss Screw Nice, the politics of civility, and how manner...

Electricity distributor Jemena has been replacing 7-metre wooden power poles with 15-metre industrial poles rated to carry up to 66,000 volts, but there's been one consistent complaint among the residents where this is happening.

Exclusive: Many applicants left feeling ‘used, lied to, misled and gaslit’, complaint letter seen by Guardian Australia says

Call to face Senate inquiry follows security breach of Australia's Medicare portal by rogue OpenAI bot in June.

Email to members says money lent to a party-linked company to establish a micro distillery

Labor, Coalition agree OpenAI's Medicare breach proves the need for Australia to secure "a seat at the AI table" by rolling out data centres nationally.

Monica Majoli, Millie Wilson and Susan Silton gain visibility in LA after decades of queer women’s artistic erasure

Expert evidence was tabled in the defence of two protestors charged for an offence at the US spy base

Western Australia's education minister announces smart glasses will be banned from all state schools.

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Parliamentary committee welcomes fact most of 472 missing have been found but ‘extremely concerned’ for rest Forty children who went missing from hotels housing asylum seekers in the UK have still not been found, according to a parliamentary report. Ministers are facing calls from MPs and peers to explain what they are doing to locate the group, two of whom are believed to still be under 18. The figure emerged in a report on Thursday by the joint committee on human rights on how the social care system is failing young adults. Continue reading...

As funerals get underway for babies killed in a Pakistan hospital blaze on Wednesday, a witness says exits at the facility were "closed".

Quota to fall by a third to Coalition-era levels in move that the Greens say makes Australia ‘meaner and weaker’

* AFL sanctions Cats for failing to lodge variation to player’s contract * Findings clear a path for waivers to be implemented in future The AFL has punished Geelong for their high-profile “mistakes” in managing head injury risks with a vulnerable player, but has not found anything wrong with clubs seeking to mitigate their legal exposure by negotiating with players – even those with a history of concussion symptoms. The league fined the Cats $100,000 on Thursday for failing to inform it of a change to Jake Kolodjashnij’s contract, previously described as a “waiver” by AFL Commission chair and former Cats president Craig Drummond. Continue reading...

The Albanese government's plans to slash more than 6,000 places from its annual refugee intake have sparked anger and confusion within Labor, and prompted accusations it would amount to an "extraordin...

A One Nation candidate who makes Pauline Hanson's cartoons claims he used to be a criminal lawyer. Finding out that wasn't true was a surprisingly difficult process.

Parton was famously not-political. It’s how she managed to be so political. She refused to become bogged down in terms or fights over identity politics, while she quietly got on with the work of makin...