Millions of households could save more than $300 on their yearly energy bills on average just by swapping to better deals on the market, the consumer watchdog has found. Falling electricity prices over the 12 months to August saw nearly […]
A 21-year-old man has died while swimming in a river on Canberra’s southern edge, bringing the number of drowning deaths around Australia in December alone to more than 30. The man was swimming in the Murrumbidgee River at Pine Island
A shopping surge on Christmas and Boxing Day could help determine the timing of interest rate relief as the Reserve Bank of Australia watches for a recovery in weak economic activity. Consumers are predicted to splash $3.7bn in the last
News Corp and Telstra will sell Foxtel in a US$2.2bn (A$3.4bn) deal, the comanies announced on Monday. DAZN, a global sports streaming service, has agreed to buy a majority stake in the Australian pay television business, including the Kayo and
A vehicle has been set on fire and 10 cars have been vandalised with anti-Israel graffiti in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, sparking outrage and condemnation from politicians including the prime minister. New South Wales police said they had discovered the graffiti
Donald Trump has nominated Robert F Kennedy Jr to lead the Health and Human Services department, and chosen government posts for members of his own legal team in the latest raft of appointments given to his most loyal backers despite
Donald Trump’s cabinet picks have sparked alarm among national security officials and divided Republicans just as they secured a majority in the House of Representatives, giving the party full control of Congress. The president-elect nominated congressman Matt Gaetz to serve
Donald Trump has announced seven new appointments for his incoming administration, recruiting Mike Huckabee as the US ambassador to Israel and Steven Witkoff as Middle East envoy. Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas, has a track record of hardline, occasionally
President-elect Donald Trump has demanded the incoming Republican leader in the Senate streamline the temporary approval of his cabinet appointees, as his team begins assembling the incoming White House team. Three Republicans are vying to replace incumbent majority leader Mitch
The Democratic party has begun to pick through Kamala Harris’s loss to Donald Trump in the presidential election, with the post-pandemic headwinds, a failure to distance herself from Joe Biden and overestimating abortion access instead of the economy as an
