This Month
Sydney Uni wins appeal over academic dismissed over Nazi slide
Tough-talking university administrators are showing signs their patience is wearing thin, but police involvement is still a last resort.
- Julie Hare and Patrick Durkin
Why office worker Courtney became a tradie after watching The Block
Courtney Gibney wanted a hands-on job that didn’t involve sitting at a desk all day. The job security of being a licensed electrician fit the bill.
- Euan Black
Why Aesop is putting algae on its shopfronts
The upcoming Melbourne Design Week reveals ideas already in use that could change our world. But getting them to scale is no simple task.
- Michael Bleby
One in, one out: Dutton plan ‘risks $48b foreign student industry’
Peter Dutton’s promise to reduce temporary migration to 160,000 people would smash the country’s fourth-largest export sector, experts say.
- Julie Hare
- Opinion
- Immigration
Peter Dutton’s housing policies look tinged by race
The Liberal Party leader’s complaints that foreigners are competing with Australians for homes tap into resentment towards outsiders.
- Aaron Patrick
SkyCity agrees to $67m penalty as licence decision looms
The case was based on allegations the company allowed high-risk patrons to gamble more than $4 billion in dirty cash through its casino.
- Zoe Samios
Dream of the 1990s comes alive at Fashion Week
Grunge, denim and sexy slip dresses were all over the runways at Australian Fashion Week.
- Lauren Sams
- Analysis
- Federal budget
Chalmers and Dutton put their economic credibility on the line
Chalmers has made a big, bold gamble on inflation, while Dutton’s rhetoric is bigger than the reality on immigration.
- John Kehoe
- Opinion
- Interest rates
RBA caught in political spin
Political considerations may explain the central bank’s unusual cheerleading of the federal budget.
- Christopher Joye
Supreme Court turns 200, with a didgeridoo salute
An Indigenous barrister and musician had lead roles in a ceremony to mark the bicentenary of the NSW Supreme Court.
- Michael Pelly
- Analysis
- Critical minerals
China-US clean energy trade war could get dirty
History suggests Beijing will reply in kind and lift tariffs on a range of American exports, which will raise the stakes once again in their long-running tit-for-tat tussle.
- Jessica Sier
‘Window of opportunity’ for graduates to score debt reprieve
An accounting quirk means some graduates can escape the brunt of indexation, but only if they act fast.
- Lucy Dean
Albanese and Dutton fight on the home front for voters
With the countdown now on to the election, both sides used budget week to stake out their territory on the hot-button housing issue. But it’s already a crowded policy space, and there are no quick fixes.
- Andrew Tillett
- Exclusive
- Luxury property
Adam Flaskas to sell luxury Brisbane ‘sky home’ before Manly move
The developer and his fiancee have put their five-bedroom penthouse on the market ahead of a southern relocation.
- Bonnie Campbell
How the west’s miners won over Canberra
The production tax credits on critical minerals processing unveiled in the federal budget were the result of months of careful negotiations that started with a meeting in Perth.
- Brad Thompson
‘Massive’ French police force arrives in riot-hit New Caledonia
Deadly violence has raged across the French Pacific territory this week over electoral reforms pushed in Paris, forcing France to impose a state of emergency.
- Kirsty Needham and Camille Raynaud
The number that sums up Biden’s biggest economic problem
While price rises have cooled from more than 9 per cent to 3.4 per cent, household budgets have not recovered since Biden took office.
- Updated
- Matthew Cranston
Tradies are the thing we need most: Developers to Dutton
Developers warned that cutting immigration would not only slow home building, but have ramifications for the entire Australian economy.
- Campbell Kwan, Larry Schlesinger and Nick Lenaghan
The red line on Gaza: PM draws it, students ignore it
Tensions have come to a head after Australia voted “yes” in a United Nations vote to support a Palestinian bid to become a full member.
- Patrick Durkin
Westpac brings back time sheets for salaried staff up to $140k
Time recording for high-earners is becoming the new norm in the finance sector as firms guard against underpayments from excessive overtime. But some white-collar workers “hate it”.
- David Marin-Guzman
