As One Nation continues to surge in the polls, voters in Farrer are waiting to see if their newly elected MP has the party power to deliver on his promises. The 2026 Farrer by-election sounded a warning for the country’s major parties after One Nation’s David Farley wrenched the seat from the Coalition’s historic grasp….

The detection of Australia’s first H5 bird flu cases means the deadly virus has now spread to every continent on the planet. This form of avian influenza is a high-pathogenicity strain first discovered more than 20 years ago. Since then, it has decimated wildlife and poultry farms worldwide. There have been calls for calm as…

An unfortunate side effect of the incompetent and erratic negotiating tactics of the Trump administration — not to mention the regular apparent gaming of financial markets — is that some of the underlying stories in the global economy can get overlooked. People are kept perpetually on their toes about whether a deal with Iran has,…

Folk and country music legend John Williamson is about to leave Australian winter behind for the palm-lined beaches of Fiji when we meet at his office in the heart of Sydney’s CBD.  After touring for more than five decades, the 80-year-old singer of Old Man Emu and True Blue is ready to wrap up his…

The myth of an inland sea lured 19th century European explorers into the heart of Australia. But where they found only desert, this year it is awash, with water levels at Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre now the best some locals have ever seen. In parts of central Australia, it has been one of the wettest years…

Doctors have warned of an “enormous” risk of overdose after testing of a popular unapproved weight loss peptide revealed the product had double the strength of what was listed on its label. A boom in the use of unapproved peptides has been driven by social media influencers promoting their supposed health and beauty benefits, despite…

As a rare one-two punch of earthquakes hit Venezuela this week, residents in the capital city of Caracas watched in horror as buildings shook and were sent “pancaking” before their eyes. An initial 7.2-magnitude quake struck near the town of San Felipe on Wednesday just after 6pm, local time, and was followed a mere 39…