A nationwide crackdown on high-powered e-bikes will soon be introduced to try to limit injuries and deaths on the vehicles. The federal government on Thursday announced it has called on the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to develop a national safety standard on electric-powered vehicles. The standard will limit the speed and power of e-micromobility devices — e-bikes, e-scooters and e-skateboards — which are sold or …

The Opposition has called on the PM to apologise for the remarks made during an already-controversial podcast appearance. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is under fire after his comments about melons given to him by Japan’s prime minister have been branded “insulting” by Tokyo’s former ambassador. The controversy stems from a podcast interview last month where Albanese discussed the gift of crown melons, which are …

Successfully stopping Gianni Infantino’s FIFA plan to sell World Cup profits to private investors was the first half of a high-stakes game in global soccer politics. The second half kicked off overnight with what seemed a clear aim of ending Infantino’s decade-long presidency. “No option should be off the table,” said European soccer body UEFA, whose president Aleksander Čeferin has led …

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke has postponed a speech at the National Press Club, where he was expected to unveil far-reaching changes to Australia’s migration settings in a bid to quell public anger and growing support for One Nation. Mr Burke was due to appear on Thursday but withdrew on Tuesday afternoon. A government source did not offer a reason …

Australia’s housing downturn is spreading across the country, with previously resilient property markets that had recently set record-high prices now experiencing a decline in values. The latest figures from property data firm Cotality show national property prices in July fell 0.7 per cent, making it the largest single monthly decline in value since December 2022. The data shows the downturn …

One Nation has confirmed that it will not only include student visas in its annual 130,000 cap, but that it also wants to deport 100,000 students legally in Australia. This would kill Australia’s fourth largest export industry and lead to many thousands of Australians losing their jobs and many universities potentially going bankrupt. Despite this there are Liberal MPs pressing for a …

Australia’s second-largest telco is facing legal action over a major network failure that caused a widespread triple-zero outage. The Australian Communications and Media Authority alleges Optus breached two legal obligations more than 1000 times during the outage on September 18, 2025. Access to emergency call services was essential to protect the public, the regulator’s chair, Nerida O’Loughlin, said. “Australians rightly …

A paper trail of undeclared political donations and WhatsApp texts to boost a Christian faction in the Liberal Party are being exposed. Damning revelations were laid bare in the first week of hearings at the NSW Independent Commission against Corruption, showing what some viewed as a confluence of personal greed and political ambition. Operation Rosny is investigating potentially illicit political …

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. …

Gianni Infantino’s $US20 billion ($28.7 billion) proposal to sell stakes in FIFA’s events and competitions arm to corporate investors has drawn condemnation from football’s international organising confederations. On Tuesday the FIFA president announced a bid to form a commercial subsidiary called FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE) that would grant private buyers control over competitions including the World Cup and Club World …