The Australian government has stood firm in the face of the Israeli leader’s blistering attack on Anthony Albanese and defended cancelling the visa of a far-right member of Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition. In a social media post on Tuesday night, Mr Netanyahu launched an extraordinary missive at his Australian counterpart, describing him as a “weak politician who betrayed Israel and abandoned Australia’s …

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have both been chastised over their “war of words” by one of Australia’s central Jewish community groups, following the announcement Australia would recognise Palestine next month. In similarly worded letters to the two prime ministers, the Executive Council of Australian Jewry wrote it was deeply dismayed at the heated exchange …

For weeks, the government has been saying it’s a question of when, not if, Australia will recognise a Palestinian state. And now we know the when. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese…. “At the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly in September, Australia will recognise the state of Palestine.” Australia will join France and Canada in recognising a Palestinian state …

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been accused of having “abandoned Australia’s Jews” by his Israeli counterpart as relations deteriorate between the two nations. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took to social media to personally attack Albanese in an escalation of the diplomatic stoush. “History will remember Albanese for what he is: a weak politician who betrayed Israel and abandoned Australia’s …

Affordable housing is shaping up as a major focus for the Cook government in the lead-up to Thursday’s budget — its first review of the books since being re-elected for a third term. For the second straight day, the government is spruiking a housing focused initiative, offering low deposit loans for modular homes in an attempt to encourage more West …

The long-term health projections for the Great Barrier Reef remain mixed, with reefs between Proserpine and Cape York – a distance of about 1600 km up the Queensland coast by car – losing nearly 30 per cent of coral cover in 2024. Despite the finding, researchers have said there are positive signs of reef resilience*. The Australian Institute of Marine …

Until now, many of Western Australia’s most pristine coral reefs have avoided the worst bleaching brought by marine heatwaves. But their luck has now run out. The state’s longest lasting, largest and most intense underwater heatwave has hammered them. The unusual heat began late last year off the northwest coast, before spreading south, eventually affecting seas along more than 1,500km …

The federal government is facing renewed calls to bring back the baby bonus to address tumbling fertility rates across the country. Former Prime Minister John Howard has urged Treasurer Jim Chalmers to re-introduce the scheme in Australia, which gave new parents an initial lump sum payment of $3000 per child born, rising to $5000 over time. The baby bonus policy was …

Coral cover in some areas of the Great Barrier Reef has declined by a third, new research shows. In the southern region of the reef, coral cover dropped to 26.9 per cent, whilst it has also dropped by a quarter in the northern region, according to recent data from the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS). It marks a sharp …

Aussies from all walks of life have seen their living costs rise in the last three months, according to new data. Those on pensions or government funding saw their living costs increase by 1 per cent in the June quarter. This came off the back of rises of up to 1.6 per cent earlier in the year. The data, which was …