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For years Australia has remained the last continent to avoid the deadly H5 strain of avian influenza. Now a suspected positive case has hit our shores. Here’s what we know so far. What do we know about this suspected case? The suspected bird flu case was located in Western Australia’s Cape Le Grand beach on…
When the LNP was formed in Queensland back in the late 2000s through an amalgamation of the Nationals and Liberals, one of the state’s local billionaires was willing to assist ahead of the looming state election. LNP leader Lawrence Springborg was offered the billionaire’s jet for use during the campaign against the Labor government,…
Pauline Hanson has called for Australia to reject multiculturalism and “live under the one cultural umbrella”. “We are a multiracial society, but we must be monocultural,” the One Nation party leader said at her National Press Club address on Wednesday. Since then, observers have asked what this means and how it would work in practice…
Ash Jurberg still can’t believe he’s in Seattle with his 19-year-old sons. A week ago, the travel writer from Melbourne received a message on LinkedIn promising him tickets and flights to the United States for the Socceroos game against the US. Stay across the latest news, analysis and features from the 2026 FIFA World Cup…
Coreflow is a little-known company, but its job ads promise eye-watering salaries. Warning: This story includes a description of sexual violence and references to child abuse material. The tech startup, based in Sydney, offers up to $450,000 a year for someone to join its “growth” team and help get its AI product to “hundreds of…
As more detail has emerged about the “understanding” signed by Iran and the United States this week, the more analysts have been shocked by just how high a strategic and financial price Donald Trump was prepared to pay to get the Strait of Hormuz reopened. That is, just how diabolically bad a “deal” this really…
Adiba Ganji knew that her life wouldn’t be the same if she stayed in Afghanistan. “It was a Friday afternoon. We heard that the Taliban are coming,” she told the ABC. On August 15, 2021, the Taliban captured Kabul as the last remaining United States troops withdrew from America’s longest war. Two years earlier, the…
For the first nine months of their young lives, baby twins Artie and Jack Porter lived in a world without sound. But no longer. In what is believed to be an Australian-first, the boys had cochlear implant surgery on both ears on the same day. The eight-hour surgical feat had one main purpose — for…
A few weeks ago, my mum asked me to help get rid of the “beer fridge” in her garage. This old, yellowing piece of equipment was the first fridge my parents bought when they moved in 1998. Almost 30 years later, it seemed to still be going strong. But this trusty fridge had an environmentally…
When Iran and the United States inked a deal on the war this week, one unlikely figure on the Iranian side emerged from the shadows of the negotiations and into the open. Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, a former commander of Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) who now serves as parliamentary speaker, has been an…