October 28, 2026 — 7:00pm When Premier Chris Minns stood up over the weekend and announced the government would reverse ferret on a planned overhaul of train timetables, he sounded like someone who had listened. The planned changes to the T4, T8 and South Coast lines…
October 28, 2026 — 6:40pm Greens Leader David Shoebridge has been embarrassed by the attendance of the Russian Ambassador at his inaugural National Press Club address in which he doubled down on calls to deny Ukraine military aid – a policy critics say is pro-Kremlin.
October 28, 2026 — 6:34pm We are guessing it is not every day that Ben Carroll is seen putting in an order at McDonald’s, but he might be a visitor to the “golden arches” a little more regularly than we first had suspected. “They…
October 28, 2026 — 4:27pm Greens leader David Shoebridge has delivered a thinly veiled rebuke to his under-pressure senator Jordon Steele-John, stating that publishing confidential letters on social media in the midst of an ongoing inquiry is “obviously not the way to resolve an…
October 28, 2026 — 2:19pm A council whose mayor resigned on Wednesday morning has held a bizarre press conference, with the chief executive saying she did not know the mayor had officially stepped down, and the acting mayor had not read her allegations of…
October 27, 2026 — 9:13am Independent WA senator Fatima Payman has stunned a parliamentary committee hearing by asking if Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was waiting for a Helen Haines-style attack on her before finally granting the senator additional staff. Payman refused to withdraw the…
October 28, 2026 — 1:25pm Independent senator Fatima Payman has apologised to Helen Haines for her “clumsy wording” on Monday when she suggested the prime minister would only heed her calls for additional staff after a hypothetical attack against her. Amid a worsening feud…
The peak lobbying body for the mining industry in Queensland is pushing for proposed new laws about who can object to projects to be made more restrictive. Under the floated legislation, “activists” living more than 125 kilometres from proposed mining projects…
October 27, 2026 — 7:00pm For years, one of Donald Trump’s greatest political assets has been his blatant disregard for red lines. Time and again, the US president has shown there is no blow too low, no smear too egregious, no moral code that…
October 28, 2026 — 11:45am The last time any poll showed Donald Trump’s approval rating higher than his disapproval was in the final week of October 2025. Since then, the property mogul and reality TV star who personally transformed American politics has increasingly become a…
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