Monthly Archives: January 2025

  Albanese says national security committee met this morning over explosive-laden caravan Anthony Albanese would not be drawn on when he was first made aware of the Dural caravan discovery. Speaking with media in Melbourne, the prime minister said: I get briefed regularly by the national security agencies. We don’t talk about operational matters obviously, for […]

The federal government has hosed down suggestions from within its own ranks that Medicare should be expanded to include dental, as new data shows almost two-thirds of Australians delayed treatment in the last 12 months, largely due to the cost. Some Labor backbenchers have been agitating on the subject recently on the back of a […]

Over the last few months, unflattering stickers of President Biden have been popping up at gas stations across America. They’ve been spotted in places like Georgia, Ohio, Idaho, and along I-95 between Washington, D.C., and Florida. The stickers typically show Biden pointing at the price of gas, saying “I did that!” We saw one last […]

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has intervened to scupper a deal with the Greens over environmental reform that Labor promised at the last election, addressing business concerns but circumventing his Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek. This masthead has been told the prime minister did not want a Labor-Greens environment deal that could be weaponised by the federal […]

No campaigner Nyunggai Warren Mundine has been accused of “encouraging violence” against his political opponents, after publicly saying he would “like to see” former boxer Anthony Mundine fight Yes advocate Thomas Mayo. But Fair Australia, which Warren Mundine represents, has played down the “light-hearted” comment and insisted he is “campaigning to keep the country united”. […]

Here’s what we know so far about the caravan of explosives found in Dural: Police say a caravan was parked in a hazardous position on a Dural road from 7 December to the 19 January. Police say they were contacted on 19 January after an amount of explosives and some indication that those explosives might […]

As the Australian federal election approaches, political polls are coming thick and fast. This page will be regularly updated so you can track who is polling up, how the independents are faring and how the parties stand with different demographics. The Coalition is leading in the polls as of 29 January 2025 Showing the estimated two-party preferred vote (◆) […]

Thousands of newly created jobs in national security, Aukus, government services and veterans affairs could be at risk from Peter Dutton’s new Elon Musk-style crusade for “government efficiency” and reducing the public service, the Labor government claims. Dutton and senior members of his shadow cabinet have called for many or all of the new public […]

My father has a photograph of Albert Ransenberg taken in the yard of the railway station in Wiesbaden, Germany, in 1942. It was secretly taken by a local policeman. The photograph shows Jews from Wiesbaden being deported to the “east”. Albert Ransenberg died in Theresienstadt, a ghetto and transit camp. His wife, Ida, was murdered […]