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Independent MP Helen Haines, in a pale blue jacket, speaks to reporters in a file photo from February 2026

Australian MP Helen Haines Critically Hurt as Police Probe Motive

Independent MP Helen Haines, a former midwife at Wangaratta Hospital, was struck by a car outside her electorate office on Monday, and police say she is critically injured. A man is in

October 19, 2026

by Dilnaz Shaikh

Black Daiichi Life Group lettering in Japanese and English on an illuminated sign

Challenger Bought Its Own Shares at A$9.84. Then Daiichi Bid A$11.80

Challenger spent A$4.9 million buying back its own shares on Friday. After the market closed, a Daiichi Life unit offered A$11.80 for the rest of the company, 19.8 percent above Friday's close. The bid is non-binding, and Challenger's board says

October 18, 2026

by Amanda Graham

A supermarket worker arranging goods on a shelf in Canberra as a shopper passes

Australia Sheds 39,300 Jobs 16 Days After the RBA’s Fourth Rate Rise

Australia lost 39,300 jobs in September and unemployment rose to 4.7 percent, just 16 days after

Australia Is Suing Amazon Over Prime Video Ads It Says Subscribers Never Agreed To

Australia's competition regulator filed Federal Court proceedings against Amazon on June 29, alleging it buried unfair contract terms to introduce ads to Prime Video without offering refunds to 850,000 subscribers who had

July 2, 2026

News·Technology

Australia Agriculture Minister Julie Collins at press conference on H5N1 bird flu HPAI designation

Australia Confirms First High-Pathogenicity Bird Flu as Poultry Farms Go Into Lockdown

Australia has confirmed its first ever High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza case, placing poultry farms across Western Australia under lockdown and prompting a formal WOAH notification that the H5N1 clade 2.3.4.4b strain has

July 2, 2026

Health·News

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Canberra Weighs Breaking Up the Big Four After KPMG’s Year From Hell

Australia's Treasury released a consultation paper Wednesday proposing to split the Big Four's audit and consulting arms and cap partnerships at 400, the strongest regulatory response yet to a KPMG whistleblower scandal

July 2, 2026

Business·News

Psilocybe cubensis, the psilocybin-containing mushroom species used in Australia's authorised psychedelic-assisted therapy program

Australia Just Let Psychiatrists Leave the Room During Psychedelic Therapy

Australia's drug regulator has dropped the requirement that a psychiatrist stay in the room throughout psychedelic-assisted therapy sessions. Psychiatrists call it an unjustifiable risk to patient safety; other clinicians say the old

July 2, 2026

Health·News

Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, where the health minister commented on global drug pricing pressures

Australia Loses a Lifesaving Opioid Drug as Trump’s Pricing Push Ripples Out

Indivior is pulling the opioid dependence treatment Sublocade from Australia by the end of 2026, and the country's health minister says global drug pricing is in an 'enormous state of flux' as

July 2, 2026

Health·News

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Perpetual Rejects $1.7 Billion EQT Bid, the Third Suitor Circling Its Remains This Year

Perpetual rejected a $1.7 billion takeover approach from EQT as undervalued, sending its shares up nearly 17% anyway. It is the third major ownership move on the Australian trustee this year, after

July 2, 2026

Business·News

The Wilsons River and Riverside Park in Lismore, New South Wales, the waterway at the center of the region's catastrophic 2022 floods

CSIRO Finds Dams Could Cut Lismore Flood Peaks. Critics Call It False Hope

A CSIRO modelling report finds dams and detention basins could have cut Lismore's catastrophic 2022 flood peak by up to two metres, four years after the disaster. A federal MP wants dams

July 2, 2026

Climate·News

Westpac Plans to Hire 350 Bankers to Claw Back Business Lending Ground From NAB

Westpac plans to hire 350 more business bankers over two years after its new division chief admitted the bank had ‘lost focus and conceded considerable ground’ to National Australia Bank. The hiring

July 2, 2026

Business·News

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese official portrait

Labor’s Gambling Ad Bill Reaches Parliament and Immediately Loses Both Flanks

Australia's long-delayed gambling advertising bill finally reached parliament this week, three years after the Murphy report recommended a full ban. Within a day, the Coalition and the Greens joined forces to send

July 2, 2026

Government and Politics·News

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Six Changes, One Teenager, a Clean Sheet: Australia Into the World Cup Round of 32

Tony Popovic made six changes and started an 18-year-old in a must-not-lose World Cup match. Lucas Herrington, Australia's youngest-ever World Cup starter, delivered 90 minutes of clean-sheet composure. Australia are through to

June 26, 2026

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Australian MP Helen Haines Critically Hurt as Police Probe Motive

Challenger Bought Its Own Shares at A$9.84. Then Daiichi Bid A$11.80

Australia Sheds 39,300 Jobs 16 Days After the RBA’s Fourth Rate Rise

Australia Is Suing Amazon Over Prime Video Ads It Says Subscribers Never Agreed To

Australia Confirms First High-Pathogenicity Bird Flu as Poultry Farms Go Into Lockdown

Canberra Weighs Breaking Up the Big Four After KPMG’s Year From Hell

Australia Just Let Psychiatrists Leave the Room During Psychedelic Therapy

Australia Loses a Lifesaving Opioid Drug as Trump’s Pricing Push Ripples Out

Perpetual Rejects $1.7 Billion EQT Bid, the Third Suitor Circling Its Remains This Year

CSIRO Finds Dams Could Cut Lismore Flood Peaks. Critics Call It False Hope

Westpac Plans to Hire 350 Bankers to Claw Back Business Lending Ground From NAB

Labor’s Gambling Ad Bill Reaches Parliament and Immediately Loses Both Flanks

Six Changes, One Teenager, a Clean Sheet: Australia Into the World Cup Round of 32

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Ahmadis in Bangladesh face fresh threat of persecution

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