Hanson didn't back down — she said it louder, then refused to apologise for the trip
Hanson used a London conference and a primetime interview to repeat her migration and transgender comments, and insists no taxpayer money funded her European trip.
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A son, a staged crash, and a mother moved into the driver's seat — an inquest asks what the system missed
An Adelaide inquest is examining whether Ethan Grosvenor deliberately crashed and moved his dead mother into the driver's seat, and whether the system failed both.
Torres sinks 10-man Argentina and sends Messi out in tears
Ferran Torres struck in the 106th minute to beat 10-man Argentina 1-0 and deny Messi a farewell title in his last World Cup match.
Allan wants to unmask the trolls — South Park already showed how that ends
Victoria's government will draft Australia-first laws forcing tech giants to reveal anonymous trolls' identities and let parents sue over psychiatric harm to their kids.
The Tate brothers spent years untouchable — now the manosphere's kings are in a Miami cell
US federal agents have arrested Andrew and Tristan Tate in Miami on a UK extradition request, with prosecutors adding rape and child-abuse image charges.
The government agrees Islamophobia is close to being normalised but won't check whether its own laws are part of the reason
The government accepted 35 of 54 recommendations from its own Islamophobia envoy, but not the independent review of counterterrorism laws he has pushed from the start.
The cost of six lives in Laos: a food charge and a maximum of four years
The distillery owner faces a minimum of three months, nearly two years after six tourists died in Vang Vieng, including two teenagers from Melbourne.
Trump demands Canada pay for smoke as its forests burn
More than 900 fires are burning across Canada, and the president says the cost of the smoke will be added to Canadian tariffs.
Alex Jones, chemtrails, and the man Hanson won't sack
The One Nation senator's Alex Jones appearance and antisemitic mural post have resurfaced, but the record goes back to a sovereign citizen letter in 2011.
Pauline Hanson wants to run the country. She spent her holiday with a convicted criminal and a billionaire.
The One Nation leader spent her European summer with a billionaire donor and a man Australia has refused a visa, while claiming to speak for battlers.
Smoking is down, vaping is down, and Australia is consuming more nicotine than ever
Nicotine pouches enter the national drug survey for the first time, used by 8.4 per cent of 18 to 24-year-olds, while overall nicotine consumption climbs.
Nobody wrote the post you just liked
More than 40 per cent of LinkedIn's long-form posts are written by AI, and the platform's own pledge to crack down on it flagged as AI-generated.
national
The eviction notice says the protests are the reason. That's the whole trick.
The breach notice that closed Divine Playhouse cites the protests against it as grounds, and warns more protests are almost certain to come.
national
The state that leads on opioids has no rule against turning up high
Amphetamine-type stimulants now make up 60 per cent of positive workplace drug tests, and Victoria has told WorkSafe it won't write an enforceable rule about it.
Melbourne
How an irate ratepayer single-handedly shut down his local council.
David Penman used a loophole to stand down five of Hepburn Shire's seven councillors, and every council in Victoria is now watching.
national
Two boys stabbed in two days. The minister's answer is a law that stops at the school gate.
Queensland's wanding powers have never been shown to reduce violence, and the review that would have tested them was scrapped when the law went permanent.
world
Trump spent a day charging the world to use the sea. He changed his mind within 24 hours.
His own secretary of state had warned a fee like this would spread through the world like a contagion.
national
Albanese says training AI on Australian art without permission is theft. He didn't announce a law against it.
The Prime Minister promised to legislate data centre rules his government already published in March, while copyright reform got one line and no timeline.
world
The US just used a drone boat for the first time. Everyone else got there years ago.
Unmanned speedboats packed with explosives hit an Iranian naval base this week, and America is the last major power to the party.
national
What to expect from Albo’s national AI speech today
The Prime Minister is expected to announce a new Office of AI inside his own department today, as Labor stays deadlocked over whether to trade copyright for data centres.
Melbourne
Victoria's teachers walk out next Thursday as a 28 per cent offer fails to end the fight
Public school staff will strike statewide after knocking back a pay deal the government calls the best in the country, over workloads it says amount to 12 unpaid hours a week.
world
Trump sent federal agents to reporters’ doors. Australia should be paying attention.
The subpoenas against New York Times journalists are a warning about what leaders do to the press when embarrassed — and Australia has fewer protections than the United States.
national
An “ISIS bride” allegedly taught her toddler to mimic a killer. Australia still has no plan for people like her.
Rayann El Houli is fighting for bail over videos that allegedly show her coaching her children to act like IS fighters. Her case is what a decade without a policy looks like.
Melbourne
Police say they’ve caught the 20-year-old running a tobacco empire from his bedroom. The empire remains.
The arrest of an alleged syndicate figure is Melbourne’s most consequential yet. The federal settings that built the black market he allegedly served are untouched.