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How a government has gone 'all in' on a remote island mine with shares and loans
A struggling tungsten mine couldn't pay back a $10 million loan as it sat on the brink of administration. So a state government became a shareholder — and issued a new loan.
Published on: May 25, 2025 | Source:
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Savers is a thrift store – and we’re in a cost-of-living crisis. So why is the US chain dividing Australian shoppers?
There are questions around the retailer’s relationships to nonprofit partners – but those eschewing fast fashion say it’s still more sustainableGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThrifting was made for times like these.A prolonged period of high living costs and consumer pushback against the excesses of fast fashion has led to soaring interest in buying secondhand clothes and pre-owned...
Published on: May 25, 2025 | Source:Labor’s super tweak affects only the wealthiest Australians. To argue against it is misguided | Patrick Commins
A ferocious campaign is trying to discredit the policy, which addresses a real problem. No wonder reform is so hard in this countryAustralia news live: latest politics updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastIf you’re wondering why reform in this country is so hard, look no further than the criticism of Labor’s plan to trim tax breaks for people with more than $3m in superannuation.An...
Published on: May 25, 2025 | Source:Quoll and possum species brought back from local extinction in the Ikara-Flinders ranges – video
Ten years after the reintroduction of western quolls and brushtail possums into the Ikara-Flinders Ranges national park, rangers say populations of the once-locally extinct mammals are flourishing. In a joint effort between Foundation for Australia’s Most Endangered Species and the South Australian government, the animals live in 'safer havens' in the park where predator numbers have been reduced Continue reading...
Published on: May 25, 2025 | Source:You can't buy a puppy at a pet store in WA anymore, and this is why
New animal welfare laws come into effect in WA on Monday that require pet stores to source dogs only from rescue centres, but none have applied to do so.
Published on: May 25, 2025 | Source:Littleproud 'relaxed' as Nationals leadership questions roil beneath him
Nationals leader David Littleproud says he doesn't care if he loses his job over his role in ending the Coalition, saying he stood up for his party and his colleagues.
Published on: May 25, 2025 | Source:The floods and droughts in Australia are fingerprints of a warming planet | Kimberley Reid
It is undoubtedly clear that continuing to burn or export fossil fuels will increase climate change and the risk of extreme weatherGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAs New South Wales once again faces heavy rainfall and flooding, the Victorian towns of Euroa and Violet Town will enter stage 2 water restrictions next Wednesday. How is the climate crisis affecting these contrasting extremes?The...
Published on: May 25, 2025 | Source:Whooping cough rates soar in WA's north amid low 'on-time' vaccinations
As whooping cough cases rise in Western Australia's Kimberley region, parents are being urged to vaccinate their children.
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:With weeks to live, Steve hopes the NT legalises VAD in time for others
Thirty years ago, the Northern Territory became Australia's first jurisdiction to legislate voluntary assisted dying. Today it is the only one where the practice has not been legalised, and the landscape around VAD looks drastically different.
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:Elders show how traditions can lead to environmental restoration
Thousands of years of First Nations knowledge has been documented to help a community, and those beyond, look after the native environment.
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:Tributes flow for the Australian who saved millions of brains
Endocrinologist Creswell Eastman, who discovered the link between iodine deficiency and a range of health issues, has died aged 85.
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:Melbourne City 'gutted' after losing Asian Champions League decider
Melbourne City records a drama-filled defeat to Wuhan Jiangda on penalties to fall short in the Women's Asian Champions League final.
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:This banksia bonsai is just as cute as you'd expect
Australian flora was once deemed too difficult to cultivate as bonsai but those misconceptions are fading with every native bud.
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:Australian Groves reaches Giro podium in stage 14
Despite a crash involving several riders, Kaden Groves finishes second to Dane Kasper Asgreen in the latest stage of the Giro d'Italia.
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:Program that brought down paediatric wait times may not continue
A pilot program in Tasmania to put GPs in specialist positions resulted in the slashing of wait times for paediatric programs, but its future is under a cloud after some contracts were stopped early.
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:Walking 400km in the footsteps of historic Indigenous leaders
The Yoorrook Justice Commission's deputy chair embarks on a 25-day, 400-kilometre Walk For Truth to Melbourne to hand a report to Victoria's Parliament House.
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:Aussie teenager wins first WTA tournament ahead of French Open debut
Australian tennis receives a major boost on the eve of the French Open, with teenager Maya Joint claiming her first WTA Tour title in Morocco.
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:Supermarkets face disruptions as NSW flood recovery begins
Power is returning and some roads are reopening, but food supplies remain tight in parts of flood-hit NSW.
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:Emotions run high as new transport era begins on remote island
Qantas has touched down for the final time on Lord Howe Island. The airline's history on the remote isle dates back to the post-World War II flying boat service from Sydney.
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:'Eight-week window' sends buyers into overdrive in the housing market
Another rate cut is likely to mean more competition and higher prices for housing. But home buyers are feeling the pressure for other reasons too.
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:‘Two years to build and two days to lose’: Elisha thought her Taree cafe was safe – until it was under water
Flood waters are receding and the weather is improving in NSW – but now residents are facing a mammoth recoveryAustralia news live: latest politics updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastElisha Humphreys spent Saturday cleaning up the cafe that she began operating on the Manning River in 2023 – two years after floods swept through the town of Taree. “We were told that the 2021 flood was a...
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:Policemen buried in unmarked graves for over a century finally honoured
In the early 20thcentury several NSW Police officers who died while stationed in the far corners of the state were interred in unmarked graves. Retired officers are ensuring they are given the commemoration they deserve.
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:Piastri qualifies third in Monaco after 'messy build-up'
F1 championship leader Oscar Piastri says qualifying third for the Monaco Grand Prix grid is a "decent effort" after a messy weekend of scraping walls with his McLaren.
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:How an 'ocean COVID' is harming marine businesses
The scale of South Australia's toxic algal bloom has previously been likened to the size of Kangaroo Island, and on the island itself tourism operators and fishers — both commercial and recreational — are among those who could be heavily impacted.
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:Sid was born with half a heart — ECMO gave his family a chance to make memories
The machine takes over the work of the heart and the lungs, siphoning blood and removes carbon dioxide and oxygenates it before sending it back to the body, giving the patient's heart and lungs time to rest.
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:One of Australia's oldest Afghan restaurants set to close after 44 years
After 44 years, it's a bittersweet end for the tight-knit family behind the Melbourne institution Afghan Gallery — and the community it has warmly embraced.
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:Australian researchers lead world-first project on female athlete health
About 6 per cent of sports science and sports medicine research is female-specific — the Australian Institute of Sport is determined to change that to help athletes around the world perform at their peak.
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:Why more artists are ‘pulling a Swiftie’
When pop star Taylor Swift announced in 2019 that she was re-recording her previous works, musician Pete Murray was shown a way forward to reclaim his legacy.
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:Reliable energy or ‘carbon bomb’? What’s at stake in the battle over Australia’s North West Shelf
Pollution damage to the ‘oldest outdoor art gallery on Earth’ is among the concerns as Woodside seeks to extend the life of a huge liquified natural gas projectGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastGet Guardian Australia environment editor Adam Morton’s Clear Air column as an email The new environment minister, Murray Watt, says he plans to decide on whether Australia’s biggest-emitting gas...
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:Living in a tiny house is preventing me and my toddler from becoming homeless | Kelley Swain
Australia needs to modernise and humanise its thinking around the concept of propertyGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastIn my dream, I’m building something out of stones. They are uneven and craggy, the kind I’d admire at the base or walls of a very old building. Other women are simultaneously working. We aren’t quite doing it together, but we are building something, these friends and I,...
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:Alan Davies: ‘I get called Jonathan Creek all the time – nowadays people think I’m James May’
The British comedian and actor on encouraging hecklers, why Will Ferrell deserves an Oscar and his love for Kylie MinogueIn your first memoir, My Favourite People and Me, you picked Kylie Minogue as one of your favourite people – but added that you stopped loving her when I Should Be So Lucky came out. To make this a question: how dare you?Ah, Kylie. She’s completely adored everywhere she goes, and I adore her as well....
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:Here come the culture wars: can Queensland’s LNP resist wading into the ideological mire?
David Crisafulli’s small-target election campaign has created problems for how the LNP governs that are already beginning to show throughGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastOnly four years ago, some Queensland Liberal National party figures were contemplating the breakup of a political party that couldn’t work out what it stood for.“What is our raison d’etre?” the former party president, Cynthia...
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:Australia has a proud history of standing up against human catastrophe. Gaza should be no exception | Ed Husic
We can and should be doing more to help the 2 million Palestinians struggling to surviveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastLast Monday the UK, Canada and France deliberately issued the strongest joint statement to date about what they said was the “intolerable” level of human suffering in Gaza.It is a further sign that many of our good friends in the international community remain aghast at the...
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:Disney once again serves up a sanitised and unnecessary live-action remake
The new Lilo & Stitch's formula is simple: remove everything that could possibly offend anyone, replace the personalised hand-drawn animation with CGI, add in a little slapstick and a Bruno Mars song, and you've got yourself a hit.
Published on: May 24, 2025 | Source:NSW has its first 'urban renewable energy zone'. So, how does it work?
The NSW government has launched a new approach to renewable energy in the Illawarra, pitching the region as the state's first "urban renewable energy zone".
Published on: May 23, 2025 | Source: