5 h. ago ‘Sorrento is not your town’: Writers festival fallout deepens

A pointy text or two is spicing up this deepening seaside showdown over an event at a Baillieu family mansion.

Politics

15 h. ago The two reasons why the NRL is looking into a takeover of the Super League

Why is the NRL entertaining this idea of buying into the Super League, prompting a billionaire NRL club boss to consider the purchase and rebranding of a club?

Politics

15 h. ago Billionaire James Packer sells stunning LA mansion for $93.5 million

The 12-bedroom, 18-bathroom estate with every mod con has found a buyer after more than a year on the market.

Economics

19 h. ago Trump wants to unleash more US gas. This Australian energy giant will help sell it

Australia’s biggest oil and gas producer has signed off on building a $27 billion project that will liquefy more US gas and ship it to the rest of the world.

Politics

20 h. ago Dutton says Greens, teals supporters interrupted his media call

The opposition leader says the anti-nuclear protest at his media event in Nowra was a stunt.

Politics

23 h. ago ‘I run the world’: Trump marks 100 days with stunts, boasts and propaganda

The US president also embraced Australian football player Jordan Mailata at a ceremony for the Philadelphia Eagles, who won the Super Bowl in February.

Politics

24 h. ago Canadians choose Carney to take on Trump in stunning election victory

National broadcaster CBC has called the election, but it’s not yet known whether the Liberals would form a majority government.

Politics

39 h. ago A Hollywood stunt double in high school, Izzy’s Bells triumph the tale of a lifetime

Stepping in for Blake Lively in a horror movie, designing wave pools and winning iconic surf contests: it’s all just part of the Isabella Nichols story, past, present and future.

Politics

40 h. ago WiseTech billionaire Richard White reaches settlement with third woman

This time the woman alleged the billionaire executive chairman gave her financial assistance and help with her visa in return for sex.

Events

41 h. ago Woman’s body kept on Hamilton balcony for months as $700,000 stolen

Qiong Yan, 29, was murdered at her Brisbane home, and her phone used to obtain money from her mother and sell her Porsche SUV. Her flatmate is on trial.

Politics

46 h. ago Trump’s billionaire oil industry donors aren’t getting what they wished for

Donald Trump urged the US oil industry to “drill, baby, drill,” but his tariffs sank the oil price and could reduce, not increase, US production.

Politics

53 h. ago Melbourne Club moves to block Sydney billionaire’s ‘creative wonderland’ plan

Billionaire Justin Hemmes faces fierce opposition from Melbourne’s most exclusive gentlemen’s club to a plan to transform a CBD car park into a hospitality precinct.

Politics

53 h. ago Controversy at Sorrento Writers Festival as Baillieus host their own literary salon

Controversy alert at the Sorrento Writers Festival, south of Melbourne, where a private invite-only “sunset garden talk”, hosted by Josephine and James Baillieu, was the talk of the town.

Politics

66 h. ago Australian surf stars Nichols and Robinson stun on home shores to ring the bell at Rip Curl Pro

Isabella Nichols and Jack Robinson have made it a double triumph for Australia with thrilling victories in the Rip Curl Pro finals at Bells Beach.

Politics

3 d. ago Utopia or extinction: The space visions driving Bezos and Musk

One billionaire wants to move industry off-world, returning Earth to a pristine state. The other wants humans to colonise Mars for our own survival.

Technology

4 d. ago A land of giants so stunning, it looks like it was created by CGI

From mountains and glaciers to its mythologies, Chilean Patagonia is in every way a land of giants.

Politics

4 d. ago A year ago it was a ‘national crisis’. Now it struggles to get a mention

It seems absurd that, during an election campaign where politicians are selling us their vision for the future, confronting violence against women has not been more prominent.

Events

5 d. ago The last will and relationship agreement of a Queensland rich

Keith Lloyd, the man behind Brisbane’s pink mansion and Shafston College, died in 2023. The courts were left to decide how one of his relationships should end.

Politics

5 d. ago A missing woman, an ancient mystery. Finally, a new story emerges

Andrea James was haunted by “The White Woman of Gippsland”. Her contemporary stage thriller shifts the perspective.

Events

5 d. ago Mount Martha beach box sells for $1 million after bidding war

It’s not a house, and only for storage, but that didn’t stop a local paying $350,000 more than its price guide – in cash.

Economics