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Thousands of child sexual abuse survivors risk missing out on compensation and acknowledgement via the National Redress Scheme (NRS) if it cannot process a backlog of applications before its slated closure in 2028. Victim-survivors, experts and politicians are calling for an urgent extension to the application deadline and the scheme itself to ensure survivors are…
A Labor MP has declared the federal government’s gambling advertising restrictions are only a first step, arguing there is “much more” to be done to protect Australians from harm. The Greens, Coalition and independent are also putting pressure on the government to strengthen elements of its proposed reforms, which are due to be introduced to…
When opinion polls shift, previous assumptions can too. Like whether One Nation’s rise is unstoppable. Or whether frustrated voters flocking to the party care about Pauline Hanson’s actual policy positions. The Newspoll and Redbridge surveys this week suggest there is a ceiling for One Nation. A limit, perhaps, to the number of Australians who share…
There’s a housing crisis in Australia. For many people buying a home is unaffordable, while renting is so expensive that it’s leaving some people with dwindling savings. So when James Bryan lost his job, rather than joining the throngs of homeless in NSW, he turned to living on his boat the Lindy Lou at Brisbane…
Six Australian filmmakers are travelling the world in search of a story, each tasked with making a weekly short film for ABC iview’s Race Around The World. This is contestant Kate McGuinness’s experience from her week four travels in Vanuatu. I was a bit nervous to meet Chief Moly. I was told that “this guy…
Welcome to Cheat Sheet, where we give you all the intel you need about iconic franchises! In honour of its fifth instalment heading to cinemas, this month we’re looking at the beloved and long-running prank series Jackass. Perhaps the greatest feat of prank franchise Jackass is that the crew of skateboarders and dropouts parlayed gross-out…
In 1800, aboard the HMS Reliance, navigator Matthew Flinders penned a letter to his good friend, naval surgeon and explorer George Bass. It starts innocuously enough — “My dear friend, I now begin to suspect that you are gone on to England” — and there is a lot of dry talk of charting. But later…
(FA X) Three changes for England from the side that defeated Panama 2-0 in their final group game. Noni Madueke comes into the side on the right wing, with Bukayo Saka, who is still finding his way back to full fitness, dropping out. It’s Djed Spence coming in for Jarell Quansah – who has joined…
Canada will take part in next year’s edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, organisers have announced. Canada is the first new country to join Eurovision, the world’s biggest live televised music event, since Australia in 2015. Key takeaways from Eurovision 2026 Slept through Eurovision this year? Here’s what you missed from Europe’s favourite song contest,…
New economic analysis could put to bed the inter-generational argument about house prices and mortgage pressure, which plays out constantly at family gatherings and in internet comment sections. The double-digit rates on home loans in Australia in the late 1980s and early 90s are often held aloft as the ultimate experience of extreme financial pain….