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As Christmas approached in 2022, Brett Redman must have struggled to feel particularly merry. He had barely been in the boss of New South Wales transmission company Transgrid for a year and problems were mounting. Chief among them was the company’s flagship Project EnergyConnect, a 900-kilometre high-voltage powerline linking Wagga Wagga to Robertstown in South…
Joshua Goodfellow has been searching for two months for his first home, which he will use as an investment property. But a trio of interest rate hikes, Labor’s tax reforms and global economic and geopolitical uncertainty has forced the 18-year-old to press pause on house hunting. And the reason is simple: to wait for the…
Do you know your flags? We’ll work through questions in four stages: four easy questions for one point each, three medium questions for two points each, two hard questions for three points each, and one VERY TRICKY question for four points. But beware, if you get an answer wrong, you’ll lose the corresponding number of…
Lebanon has emerged as a stumbling block for Donald Trump’s deal with Iran to end the Middle East war, as Israeli politicians criticise the agreement and mixed messages come from the nations involved. Many of the terms of the agreement, which was signed electronically at the weekend, remain unknown. The agreement is not an all-inclusive…
Spain takes on World Cup new boys Cabo Verde at Atlanta Stadium, with Lamine Yamal on the bench. Later, Belgium meets Egypt in another huge cross-confederation clash, before Saudi Arabia takes on Uruguay and Iran meets New Zealand. Check out the full World Cup schedule here in Australian times ABC Sport podcast: A chaotic World…
A “sharp increase” in the use of drone warfare in conflict-torn Sudan — where more than 1,000 civilians were killed in such strikes in the first five months of this year — has been condemned by the United Nations human rights chief. Drone warfare has become an increasingly prominent feature of Sudan’s conflict since it…
One winter night, Marg Quon wondered why her son had not come looking for his bedtime hot chocolate. “He would always make a cup … before he went to sleep and he would spill it all the way from the kitchen down to his bedroom,” Ms Quon recalled. But when Kris Quon’s mother checked on…
Two men have been convicted of a plot, orchestrated by a mysterious Russian-speaking figure, to set fire to property linked to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. A jury found Ukrainian national Roman Lavrynovych, 22, and Stanislav Carpiuc, a 27-year-old Romanian citizen, guilty of a conspiracy to damage property by fire at a hearing at the…
Australian Federal Police have begun inquiries into allegations that Israeli defence personnel sexually assaulted Australian activists who were detained after joining a humanitarian flotilla attempting to reach Gaza last month. A group of Australian activists met with Foreign Minister Penny Wong at Parliament House on Monday, in an “emotionally charged meeting” where the activists said…
Four people have been killed while the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra monastery, a symbol of Ukrainian spiritual and cultural history, caught fire, in the heaviest Russian air attack on the Ukrainian capital in two weeks, authorities say. The fresh strikes came after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he had spoken to US President Donald Trump and…