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Youth homelessness rates remain stubbornly high in Central Australia and advocates are renewing calls for a transitional housing model for young people to be established to tackle the issue. The NT has the highest rates of homelessness in Australia, with 2021 Australian Bureau of Statistics census data revealing children and young people, aged under 24,…

Mining magnate Gina Rinehart has suggested Queensland should offer some of its islands to trillionaire Elon Musk. Mrs Rinehart was speaking at the National Bush Summit in Townsville today, a News Corp event also sponsored by her company, Hancock Prospecting.  During her speech at the event, which attracted high-profile public figures including One Nation leader…

GWS coach Adam Kingsley says he is unfazed by speculation about Toby Greene’s future at the Giants. Giants captain Greene is off-contract at the end of the season and eligible for unrestricted free agency. Geelong has emerged as a possible suitor for the 32-year-old Victorian, who has played all 274 matches in his career at…

Net overseas migration remained above 300,000 last year, fuelling opposition claims Labor has locked in an unsustainable new normal despite the number of arrivals continuing to fall. The figures, released on Thursday, showed 301,000 people landed in Australia in 2025, almost unchanged from the previous year’s net migration intake of 306,000. It is the lowest…

A 68-year-old pensioner living in his car while waiting for social housing says he has “lost faith in the whole system”, as WA government reforms aimed at making the process fairer leave him wondering when help will come. On Tuesday, Housing Minister John Carey announced the first overhaul of the state’s housing waitlist in 70…

Collingwood coach Craig McRae says Bobby Hill is “a long way away” from returning to the AFL. The 2023 Norm Smith medallist was back at Collingwood training on Thursday morning after returning from a trip to Western Australia for personal reasons. The forward has played three VFL matches this year and his most recent AFL…

Welcome back to your weekly federal politics update, where Courtney Gould gets you up to speed on the happenings from Parliament House. Four years ago, Australians decided they didn’t want a bulldozer for a prime minister. But now if Gina Rinehart has her way, a big orange one will be ploughing her way through the…

The leader of the Tasmanian Greens has denied she compared the premier to Joseph Stalin, an infamous murderous dictator, despite being caught on parliamentary record saying “it reminded me a little bit of what Joseph Stalin used to do”. Rosalie Woodruff was trying to argue that Premier Jeremy Rockliff was “erasing history” when she made…

Australian War Memorial director Matt Anderson has said it is “standard practice” for Victoria Cross recipients to be invited to major commemorative events. Mr Anderson was asked today about an invitation issued to Ben Roberts-Smith, who is being prosecuted over alleged war crimes, for the upcoming opening of a new gallery space at the Canberra…

A mega deal to sell water back to the Commonwealth has been announced on a government tender website, reigniting debate over the future of buybacks in the Murray-Darling Basin. The deal involves a company associated with an Australian superannuation fund selling almost 86 gigalitres of water to the federal government for environmental use. The Commonwealth…