national
The seven-day rule that could pull the plug on live music
Payday super’s seven-day clock lands hardest on the volunteers who run festivals and gigs, chasing fund details from casual workers who don’t have them.
The Glass News Staff
Melbourne
Kmart’s K Home is now open, and it’s more fast furniture than IKEA killer
Kmart has opened its first standalone homewares store in Box Hill South, and the hype is louder than the 3,800-square-metre reality.
national
Oil roars to a five-year high as Trump taxes the Strait of Hormuz
A 9.5 per cent oil spike is set to squeeze fuel prices and rattle markets after Donald Trump declared a toll on the strait the US had called Iran illegal for threatening.
technology
Australia is the world’s biggest Claude user, and even the ABC is now writing with it
We use the AI more per person than any country on earth, mostly to do our homework, and now the national broadcaster is turning radio bulletins into articles with it.
world
The Iran ceasefire has collapsed, and the world’s oil is caught in the middle
A third round of American strikes and a contested closure of the Strait of Hormuz have reignited a conflict that runs all the way to the petrol bowser in Australia.
Melbourne
Five arrested over carjacking spree across Melbourne’s north
Teenagers as young as 15 are in custody after a run of alleged carjackings hit six suburbs in ten days.
national
YouTuber charged after filming inside Dezi Freeman’s hideout
A Yea man walked into a police station and turned himself in — then told his followers he’d probably just cop a fine.
national
Victoria’s public transport payments finally make sense
Tap and go reaches every regional train station this year — 16 years after a myki rollout so botched it became shorthand for public transport failure.
sport
Cable that broke Norway's heart: England ride spider cam controversy into World Cup semis
Jude Bellingham's stoppage-time equaliser should never have stood — the ball struck an overhead camera cable seconds earlier — and his extra-time winner sent a furious Norway home.
national
Telstra to face Senate inquiry over nationwide outage as $30 million fine looms
Hundreds of Triple Zero calls failed and regional trains stopped dead during the nationwide blackout that also stalled bank payments across the country.
politics
Albanese to give major AI speech as his own base pushes for tougher rules
Labor’s own membership is driving the loudest push to regulate AI as the prime minister prepares a major speech on the technology.
technology
Meta kills its Instagram AI tool after three days, admitting it “missed the mark”
The opt-out tool let anyone turn a stranger’s public Instagram photos into AI images and SAG-AFTRA told members to protect their likeness