8+ hour, 48+ min ago   (1076+ words) Here is what’s making news today. Liberal backbencher Andrew Wallace has attempted to table a stack of papers which he said contained more than 10,000 signatures from Australians opposing Labor’s plan to cut back the private health rebate for over-65s. He…...

58+ min ago   (494+ words) September 14, 2026 — 3:06pm Northern Territory senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has delivered a blistering rebuke of Pauline Hanson, accusing the One Nation leader of “wilful ignorance” after she described Indigenous Australians as “the most primitive race on earth”. Price, a prominent Indigenous voice…...

54+ min ago   (428+ words) September 14, 2026 — 3:10pm Old Xaverians’ under-19s premier men’s team will miss out on playing in Saturday’s grand final after fielding an ineligible player in the preliminary final at the weekend. The Victorian Amateur Football Association announced late on Sunday night that the…...

2+ hour, 8+ min ago   (215+ words) September 14, 2026 — 1:56pm Collingwood development coach Nathan Murphy will join his premiership teammate Scott Pendlebury at the Gold Coast Suns in 2027. The 27-year-old has accepted a development/assistant coaching role with the Suns after two years on the Magpies coaching panel. Murphy…...

1+ hour, 54+ min ago   (998+ words) September 14, 2026 — 2:10pm Brisbane’s inner-city streets came to a standstill on Monday as the Queensland Police Service farewelled its former leader, Steve Gollschewski, who died of cancer earlier this month, aged 67. Uniformed police officers lined the streets alongside citizens as funeral processions…...

2+ hour, 25+ min ago   (454+ words) September 14, 2026 — 1:39pm Child Protection Minister Jess Stojkovski has flown to Port Hedland as a scandal engulfs the state government following reports vulnerable Aboriginal children are often left alone for up to a week at a time in a Department of Communities…...

2+ hour, 59+ min ago   (845+ words) Motorists often avoid this crumbling stretch of the Western Highway where Peter Mason, 71, was enjoying a weekend motorcycle ride before he hit a pothole and died. A retired spray painter and avid motorcyclist went for a weekend ride with a…...

3+ hour, 10+ min ago   (366+ words) September 14, 2026 — 12:54pm One Nation was ordered to almost double its campaign spending details for the last Queensland election after the state’s electoral watchdog found the party failed to disclose more than a quarter of a million dollars. Initial records filed to…...

3+ hour, 53+ min ago   (447+ words) September 14, 2026 — 12:12pm The Queensland transport minister says neither a credit rating cut nor a potential slashing of overseas migration will get in the way of his government delivering the infrastructure it has promised. The state will spend $55.9 billion on transport projects…...

3+ hour, 52+ min ago   (429+ words) September 14, 2026 — 12:12pm Follow our live coverage of the inquiry here. Former Strathfield mayor Matthew Blackmore has told a corruption inquiry that his relationship with fellow Labor councillors Sharangan Maheswaran and Karen Pensabene became strained after he sacked the council’s general manager…...