Australian officials began talking with their US counterparts about changing the AUKUS pact around a year and a half ago, a Senate estimates hearing has heard. Discussions began early last year, culminating in an announcement last weekend that Australia would buy three second-hand Virginia-class submarines in the 2030’s, rather than two second-hand and one new….
Growing up in New Jersey before the internet and multiplexes branched into art-house films, Anora filmmaker Sean Baker got his first taste of cinema like any American kid living in the suburbs. “It was Spielberg and Lucas — mainstream Hollywood fair,” Baker tells ABC Arts. Mainlining magazines like Premier, Famous Monsters and Fangoria in his…
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A Queensland childcare worker has been jailed for four years after pleading guilty to more than 80 counts of assault involving three young children. Warning: This story contains descriptions of child abuse Edwina Amy Ling, 48, pleaded guilty to 80 counts of common assault and two counts of assault occasioning bodily harm in Cairns District…
Ukraine has struck an oil export terminal in St Petersburg hours before Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annual economic forum got underway. The attack on St Petersburg, Mr Putin’s home city, and the location of his own ‘Davos’ — a showcase economic forum designed to attract foreign investment — comes as both sides dial up strikes…
Australia could be hit with a new 12.5 per cent US tariff after the Trump administration accused dozens of countries of failing to crack down on goods made with forced labour. The proposed tariff was announced by the US Trade Representative (USTR) on Wednesday, as part of an investigation into what Washington says are unfair…
The former head of an Indonesian government agency, responsible for the rollout of President Prabowo Subianto’s enormous free school meals program has been arrested by the Attorney General’s office, following an investigation into alleged corruption. The arrest of Dadan Hindayana comes a day after he was sacked as head of the National Nutrition Agency, or…
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has brushed off suggestions that Donald Trump was regularly dozing off during cabinet meetings, as questions persist over the health of the oldest US president ever inaugurated. Testifying during a congressional hearing, Mr Rubio was shown several video clips where Mr Trump, 79, is seen with his eyes apparently closed…
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has brushed off suggestions that Donald Trump was regularly dozing off during cabinet meetings, as questions persist over the health of the oldest US president ever inaugurated. Testifying during a congressional hearing, Mr Rubio was shown several video clips where Mr Trump, 79, is seen with his eyes apparently closed…