Nour Haydar, a political reporter in the ABC’s Parliament House bureau, has resigned over concerns relating to the national broadcaster’s coverage of the conflict between Israel and Hamas, as well as its treatment of culturally diverse staff. Haydar, who joined the ABC as a cadet in 2017, covered NSW state politics before moving to Canberra as a federal politics reporter …

Letter to attorney general and state prosecutor demands action to stop ‘explicit calls to commit atrocious crimes’ A group of prominent Israelis has accused the country’s judicial authorities of ignoring “extensive and blatant” incitement to genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza by influential public figures. In a letter to the attorney general and state prosecutors, they demand action to stop …

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has brushed off Coalition attacks about a meeting with ex-Qantas boss Alan Joyce, labelling the comments as an “absurdity” and a “conspiracy theory”. Albanese has come under fire from the opposition after a freedom of information request showed he had a half-hour meeting with Joyce at Parliament House in November 2022. The government was criticised in …

The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear Donald Trump’s appeal of a judicial decision barring the former US president from Colorado’s Republican primary ballot, taking up a politically explosive case with major implications for the 2024 presidential election. At issue is the Colorado Supreme Court’s December 19 ruling disqualifying Trump from the state’s Republican primary ballot based on language in the …

Bruce Lehrmann’s lawyers say their client should receive “substantial damages” even if the judge in his defamation trial finds he was dishonest on “occasions”. Lehrmann’s legal team filed a 136-page written submission with the Federal Court of Australia, which was made public on Friday. They accepted that Justice Michael Lee could make adverse findings about the former Liberal staffer’s honesty. …

An 11-year-old girl has died following a horror crash in the Blue Mountains two weeks ago. She is the third person to die after five vehicles crashed on the Great Western Highway at Wallerawang, 15 kilometres north of Lithgow, in December 29. Two people died initially, while more than a dozen others – including at least five children – were injured. …

Australian police officers will be deployed to train and support their Papua New Guinea counterparts as part of a new security deal inked between the two nations. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese hosted PNG leader James Marape in Canberra on Thursday where the deal was signed. The legally binding agreement will help benefit nations and add to regional security, Marape told …

At Australia’s annual Christmas lunch the biggest slice of pie will again go to Coles and Woolworths, and while a new inquiry looks set to examine their profit margins, New Zealand offers a lesson in just how difficult it is to disrupt a duopoly. The companies that own Australia’s major supermarkets posted billion-dollar profits this year, prompting calls for a Christmas …

Henry Kissinger, who died on November 29, 2023, at age 100, was a key figure in American foreign policy for more than 50 years. I am a scholar of American foreign policy who has written on Kissinger’s service from 1969 to 1977 as national security adviser and secretary of state under the Nixon and Ford administrations. I have seen how his foreign policy views and …

Billionaire Elon Musk has let fly with an expletive-laden spray at advertisers that have fled his social media platform X over antisemitic content. He told them to “Go f— yourself” in a fiery interview on Wednesday. His profanity-laced remarks followed a moment of contrition in a New York Times DealBook Summit interview, as he first said “I’m sorry” for a tweet that …