Donald Trump’s triumphant return to the Oval Office will be a clear message for Australia’s major parties and certainly influence their plans to win votes at the next election. As the United States map flashed red and the blue wall fell in this week’s elections, the realisation began to dawn on Canberra that economic issues were at the heart of …

Australia’s Middle Eastern trading partners say a 50-year working relationship has been “thrown out the door” by the decision to end live sheep exports by sea. Decades of exports to markets like Kuwait are set to end in 2028, after the Albanese government confirmed earlier this year the trade would cease. It came as somewhat of a surprise to Kuwaiti officials, …

Commonwealth leaders have agreed “the time has come” for a conversation about making amends for slavery, as well as backing a major Oceans Declaration and calling for “urgent, ambitious and collective” action on climate change. Discussions over slavery reparations have brewed on the sidelines of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Samoa, with some Caribbean and African countries …

The LNP is projected to form government in Queensland, wresting power from Labor for the first time in almost a decade. David Crisafulli will become the 41st premier of the state after defeating the Steven Miles-led Labor Party. ABC election analyst Antony Green said the LNP would likely form a majority government. “It’s certainly not the landslide everyone thought a …

Peter Dutton has plenty to smile about. It’s not that long ago that reports of his premature death as opposition leader were being greatly exaggerated. But with an election now just months away, the Queensland cop turned career politician has suddenly found himself leading a party that has surpassed a psychological milestone. The latest Newspoll shows his party ahead of …

Australians looking online for love are often left heartbroken — and nationally more than $40 million out of pocket — police are warning as part of Scams Awareness Week. Cold-hearted criminals are targeting lonely people through romance scams, with South Australia Police sharing the real-life story of Karen* from Adelaide who lost $50,000 to a fraudster. Karen started a relationship, via an …

Just three seconds of audio could be enough for someone to get access to your savings, a major bank has warned. “Millions” of people could fall victim to scams using artificial intelligence to clone their voices, a UK bank has warned. Starling Bank, an online-only lender, said fraudsters are capable of using AI to replicate a person’s voice from just …

Australia is warning it could stop repatriation flights out of Lebanon due to the low take-up of seats as worries flare over an all-out war. The global community, including Australia, has warned Israel not to aggressively attack Lebanon as it has Gaz a with calls to de-escalate the conflict and reach a ceasefire. Senior minister Jason Clare is striking a …

The research from the Queensland University of Technology said Australia needed to pivot the housing debate away from increasing supply in the short term and focus on better utilising existing homes. It has also called for governments and policymakers to consider incentivising older home owners, who more likely have a spare bedroom, to increase the current stock by renting out their spare bedrooms. …

A ministerial power to set international student limits down to the course level at universities and TAFEs should be scrapped from the government’s proposed legislation, a Labor-led Senate committee has recommended. Labor says it plans to bring temporary migration numbers back to pre-pandemic levels and crack down on dodgy education providers by limiting the number of international students able to …