Historic relationships formed over hundreds of years between First Nations peoples and their Pacific neighbours offer Australia a “strategic national advantage”, Foreign Minister Penny Wong has told Garma Festival. “Centuries before Europeans arrived, First Nations people connected Australia with the world,” Ms Wong told those gathered in north-east Arnhem Land for the second day of the nation’s largest Indigenous gathering. …

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has lost an appeal against a court ruling which found she racially discriminated against Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi by telling her to “piss off back to Pakistan”. Senator Hanson had appealed the judgement handed down in November 2024, which found she breached section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act and ordered she delete the offending …

Mining magnate Gina Rinehart flew One Nation leader Pauline Hanson around Europe and paid for her tickets to a luxury fashion show while she was there. Hanson’s flights from London to Sicily via Rome, and back again, were all funded by Rinehart, the senator’s parliamentary register of interests revealed after being updated on Tuesday. However, Hanson reported paying for accommodation, …

New Victorian Premier Ben Carroll has declared he will lead his government in a “new direction”, while distancing himself from his predecessors Jacinta Allan and Daniel Andrews. In his first comments after being elected state Labor leader, Carroll also announced a royal commission into the construction sector, which has been marred by corruption allegations, and the strengthening of Victoria’s anti-corruption …

A Chinese national has been arrested after he allegedly attempted to bribe a public official with a bag of tea containing $20,000 in cash. The man was apprehended on July 24 as he attempted to board a flight at Sydney International Airport and was extradited back to Queensland on Saturday. The 39-year-old Chinese national allegedly attempted to bribe a Commonwealth …

The corruption watchdog has heard that fugitive developer Jean Nassif allegedly sought to use former NSW premier Dominic Perrottet’s brothers to influence government decisions. The NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) is investigating alleged breaches of state electoral funding laws and possible corrupt conduct. The eight-week public inquiry, Operation Rosny, will examine allegations of unlawful political donations, including whether banned …

The first seven years of Free Sobolewski’s life were contained within the walls of a one-room besser-block home in rural New South Wales. A makeshift curtain, strung across part of the room, was all that separated the bunk bed she shared with her sister from the rest of the home. The bathroom, set in a completely different concrete building, did …

The ATO data, which was released today, is based on the tax returns from the 2023-24 financial year. The top 10 occupations have remained the same over the years, but incomes have gone up for most professions and some jobs have switched places in the list. Here is the full list of roles and how much their incomes have changed since …

World Cup FOMO is among the worst types of the affliction. It becomes unbearable as you continue waking in the middle of the night, seeing ridiculous scenes being beamed from North America, as your compatriots who have made the trip look giddy from the joy. And for many Norwegian and English fans, when the next stop on the journey is …

The COVID-19 pandemic challenged Australians in ways they had not been tested before: with curfews, mask mandates, border closures, restrictions on movement and the shutdown of normality. Those severe measures might have helped keep Australians alive, but they also exacted a substantial toll in many other ways. The shock is that data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) suggests …