More gas supply is needed along the east coast, the prime minister says, while hosing down concerns about shortages. The comments came after the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) issued a warning about gas supply levels in eastern states in coming months. “Recent gas supply and demand trends for the southern jurisdictions indicate there is the potential for gas supply …

The Coalition has furiously attacked Labor for a flurry of memes lampooning Peter Dutton’s grand nuclear vision for Australia. But the Coalition is no stranger to using online memes in similar attempts at humour in political attacks. After the nuclear plan was revealed on Thursday, state and federal Labor members flooded the internet with comparisons of it with The Simpsons and even …

Opposition leader Peter Dutton has gone off-script with a personal attack on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and set the stage for a nuclear showdown in the lead-up to the next election. Dutton spruiked his uncosted nuclear plan during an address to the party faithful on Saturday and took a personal swipe at Albanese, veering from pre-written speech notes distributed to …

Harriet Spring remembers the first phone call, in November. The man with the “posh British accent” on the other end introduced himself as “from ING” and asked if she was interested in good rates on fixed-term deposits. “Nothing crazy, nothing too out of the ordinary,” Mrs Spring said. “So, I didn’t think, ‘that sounds too good to be true’.” In …

A NSW police constable fired their gun at a car after the driver of the vehicle allegedly sped towards officers in Sydney’s inner west. The incident, which is under investigation, took place in an underground car park of a unit block in St Peters on Sunday morning. Three officers were called to the apartment complex about 1:15am, following reports of …

he father of the 16-year-old boy who allegedly stabbed an Assyrian Bishop at at Western Sydney church on Monday night was “shocked” and had not noted signs of extremism in his son, a community leader says. Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel was allegedly lunged at by the 16-year-old boy during a mass service at Assyrian Orthodox Church, Christ The Good Shepherd …

China’s Foreign Ministry has delivered a sharp rebuke of the Australian Government’s increased defence spend. It comes after Defence Minister Richard Marles on Wednesday revealed the government would boost defence spending by $50 billion over the next decade. Mr Marles has confirmed less than six per cent of the new funds will be spent in the next four years. The …

The Westfield shopping centre in Bondi Junction that was the site of a deadly stabbing spree on Saturday will re-open today for a “day of reflection”. There will be no retail trade after the centre’s doors open at 11am today, but the public will be welcome to enter. “We have been very considered in our plans to reopen the centre in a …

A religious leader has been stabbed and up to three others injured in an attack at a church in Sydney’s west. The attack happened at Christ The Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley tonight while a bishop was giving a service that was being livestreamed online. Multiple police and ambulance crews have raced to the scene. The injured include four men, believed to be aged …

Six people are dead and at eight others are injured, including a baby, after a mass stabbing at a busy shopping centre in Sydney’s eastern suburbs. Police believe there was only one attacker, who was shot dead by officers at Westfield Bondi Junction after an emergency call at about 3.40pm on Saturday. The identity of the victims and attacker are yet to …