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Jesse Baird’s housemate did not know surfboard bags contained bodies when she took photo, court hears
Housemate tells court she saw the bags oozing red liquid she assumed was furniture rustJesse Baird’s housemate didn’t know she was looking at bags with Baird and his partner’s dead bodies, when she took a photo of oozing surfboard covers the night of their alleged murders, a court has heard.Beau Lamarre-Condon, 31, has been accused of fatally shooting Baird and Luke Davies with his police service weapon in Baird’s Paddington home on 19 February 2024. He has pleaded not guilty to two counts of mu
RBA denies staff a pay rise that keeps up with inflation just hours after interest rate rise
Michele Bullock concedes Australian workers are suffering wage cuts in real terms but latest EBA offer remains behind rise in cost of livingFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Reserve Bank rejected its own staff’s requests for a real pay rise and backpay on lost wages just hours after it hiked interest rates on Tuesday.While the RBA has repeatedly warned that inflation-matched wage growth risks pushing up consumer p
Australia at risk from major global financial shock, Reserve Bank warns
Warning comes as central bank estimates fewer than one in 100 borrowers owe more on their home than its worthFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Reserve Bank says households are well placed to weather the twin storm of rising interest rates and plunging property prices, but warned that Australia would not be immune to a sudden collapse of the global AI investment boom.The central bank’s latest financial stability re
Parts of Victoria could see three months’ worth of rain as storms forecast for Australia’s south-east
BoM expects 30 to 50mm of rain to fall in Melbourne over coming days, with showers and storms also likely for Canberra and Sydney on SaturdayFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastWidespread rain and thunderstorms are forecast to drench south-eastern Australia from Thursday, with the heaviest falls expected across Victoria.A trough moving east across South Australia was expected to combine with a low pressure system moving
The green light for the largest coalmine in NSW history is shocking proof that our governance systems are betraying Australians | Georgina Woods
There is no greater treachery than this failure to face up to the climate crisis. How can we now fend off despair?The Independent Planning Commission’s published reasons for approving the largest coalmine in New South Wales history in the context of mounting death, disaster and despair brought on by global heating reads like a hostage statement.In its decision, the commission accepts that the extension of the Hunter Valley Operations’ mine for a further 19 years – resulting 809m tonnes of greenh
Guardian Essential report: what do Australians really think about immigration? – podcast
Immigration is the hot-button issue lighting up this month’s polling. Elsewhere, the Coalition have hit their equal-lowest ever primary vote, despite mounting scrutiny on Labor’s handing of the economy and inflation, and other dramas dogging the government.Guardian Australia political reporter Josh Butler speaks with Essential Media chair Peter Lewis about how many votes can be won in the bruising and often incendiary brawl over migration policy. Continue reading...
Microsoft’s datacentres and Optus owner among firms paying zero tax on billion-dollar Australian revenues
ATO database names big companies – including Microsoft subsidiary and Netflix – that pay little corporate tax but notes there could be legitimate reasonsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastMicrosoft’s datacentre business and the Optus parent Singtel are among a string of major corporations generating billions of dollars in revenue in Australia while paying zero income tax.Well-known multinationals including Netflix also
Australia news live: PM says Shoebridge’s ‘replace Labor’ goal ‘somewhat concerning’; Anika Wells named in Time’s ‘influential rising stars’
Follow the day’s news live.Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastQueensland’s state government has missed a deadline to sign up to the federal government’s Thriving Kids program before its rollout begins today.Under the program, state governments will provide supports to children up to 8 years old with mild to moderate autism or developmental delays. They will be made ineligible for federal aid through the NDIS in 2028.This scheme is helping Australians, particularly young A
As my husband’s carer, I sometimes need a break – finding respite care in Australia shouldn’t be this difficult | Robyn Ayres
Arranging a short stay for my husband in an aged care facility shouldn’t take dozens of calls, emails and an interstate operation involving friendsI am a carer. My husband has advanced Alzheimer’s disease and lives at home with me. I love him and am committed to caring for him as long as I can. But advanced dementia care is relentless: no weekends, no clocking off and little chance to stop and breathe.Sometimes I need a break. Recently, I needed five days. Continue reading...
Daylight savings 2026: when does daylight saving start in Australia and do clocks go forward or back? Here’s when the time will change
Early on Sunday clocks in the south-eastern states will go forward one hour. Here’s what you need to know – and how it will affect youFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastIt’s that time of year again: clocks will move forward one hour on Sunday in many parts of Australia as daylight saving time comes into effect.Here’s what you need to know. Continue reading...
Mammoth operation under way to remove 31-tonne whale carcass from Perth beach — video
A 13-metre whale that washed up on Perth’s City beach early Monday is prepared for removal after its carcass attracted huge great white sharks to the shoreline. Some of the sharks were estimated to measure up to six metres long. Contractors spent Wednesday preparing the whale for transport with earthmovers, tarpaulins and ropes. The public was asked to keep off the beach during the operation, with the carcass due to be taken to a landfill site for burialAfter a dead whale washed up at a Perth be
Morning Mail: Co-pilot stabbed on Israel-bound plane; house prices fall; and Newcastle’s 25 years of change
Want to get this in your inbox every weekday? Sign up for the Morning Mail here, and finish your day with our Politics, really newsletter. Morning everyone. A violent struggle in the cockpit, a plunge 5,000m towards the ground, and an emergency landing: witnesses have been retelling the horrific story of Flydubai flight 1073 to Tel Aviv amid Israeli claims that one pilot tried to crash the plane. We have full reports and video.At home, fear of missing out has given way to fear of rising interest
Property prices are plunging in almost every capital city across Australia – see how your suburb rates
Cotality data shows median house prices fell in September as interest rates hit borrowing capacityFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastHousing prices are falling in almost every suburb in Australia’s biggest cities, with values dropping faster in Brisbane than Sydney as the slowdown intensifies.Prices nationally have fallen 5.2% from their peak in March to where they were a year ago, Cotality data released on Thursday sh
Why working parents are set up to fail - podcast
Georgie Dent’s National Press Club address recently went viral after laying bare the compounding pressures on modern families. Between soaring costs of living, rigid workplace expectations and an eye-watering gap between school days and work hours, is the current system setting parents up to fail?Reged Ahmad speaks with CEO of advocacy group The Parenthood, Georgie Dent, to unpack why raising children has become an impossible mathematical equation and how policy reform can fix itRead more:It cos
If turbocharged petrol prices are driving up inflation, then why are Australia’s unemployed on the line? | Greg Jericho
Avoiding a rise in unemployment is important for the RBA – but apparently not a dealbreakerFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our new political email, free app or daily news podcastAnd here we are again. Hello darkness my old friend. Interest rates up again and talk of a recession if needed.The Reserve Bank’s enacting legislation gives it a dual mandate – “price stability [ie stable inflation] and the maintenance of full employment in Australia”. But in reality the RBA see
A ‘huge ego’ but effective: who is David Shoebridge, the polarising new Greens leader taking on One Nation?
The 55-year-old senator is renowned for his sharp brain but he divides opinion and could face opposition from the party’s grassrootsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our new political email, free app or daily news podcastThe new Greens leader, David Shoebridge, has said he is “up for a red-hot fight” and hit out at One Nation’s “politics of hate”, signalling a more confrontational style of delivery under his leadership.The New South Wales senator, elected as leader on Wed
Australian colleges warned ‘do not try to game’ student visas after last-minute enrolments for cancelled diploma soar
Julian Hill says educational providers are being closely watched by government after course attracted non-genuine studentsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our new political email, free app or daily news podcastPrivate colleges have issued nearly 3,000 last-minute enrolments to a diploma course that is being cancelled after allegedly being “misused” by non-genuine students, as Labor threatens to suspend providers that are manipulating new rules.Guardian Australia revealed
Inflation is rising, interest rates are going up – and Labor’s economic woes could be One Nation’s gain | Tom McIlroy
Pauline Hanson’s ability to reflect voters’ discontent is unrivalled and the government has few good optionsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our new political email, free app or daily news podcastAfter the defeat of the voice referendum during the Albanese government’s first term, things looked pretty rough for Labor.Labor slumped to some of its worst polling levels and government MPs were in a funk. The Coalition, then led by Peter Dutton, started to imagine the possibi