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This blog is now closedLidia Thorpe now claims she misspoke on hairs/heirs pronunciation during swearing in oathGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe Rail, Tram and Bus Union of NSW (RTBU) conducted a five-minute work stoppage early this morning, which is leading to delays across the network.Sydney Trains says this has led to minor delays and “larger than normal gaps...

Government agencies and departmental officials spend full day scrutinising Peter Dutton’s controversial plan to build seven nuclear power plantsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA senior government nuclear safety official says the sites of coal-fired power plants “might not be adequate” to house the opposition’s proposed taxpayer-funded nuclear reactors.Government agencies and departmental...

The Australian founder has seen his reputation and fortune hammered by claims including sex in exchange for investment and houses bought for loversGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastRichard White, the embattled founder, chief executive and major shareholder of Australian tech giant WiseTech, has stood down from the company “with immediate effect” after weeks of damaging revelations about his personal...

Downing Street says PM’s hopes of meeting Democratic nominee as well as Donald Trump have fadedKeir Starmer’s hopes of meeting Kamala Harris before the US presidential election have faded, Downing Street has said.The prime minister said last month he aimed to meet both presidential candidates before American voters go to the polls on 5 November. Continue reading...

The child’s mother and another woman, aged 22 and 37, were also arrested as part of joint investigation by police in Australia and ManilaFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA 33-year-old Sydney man has been charged with child sexual abuse offences against a boy living in the Philippines and is facing 10...

Just designating key areas will not meet 30x30 target on nature loss, study says, pointing to oil drilling in parksBiodiversity is declining more quickly within key protected areas than outside them, according to research that scientists say is a “wake-up call” to global leaders discussing how to stop nature loss at the UN’s Cop16 talks in Colombia.Protecting 30% of land and water for nature...

Official hails discovery ‘of great significance’ on Port Island, with remains of as yet unknown species set to go on display in a shopping district on FridayHong Kong officials say they have discovered dinosaur fossils in the city for the first time, on a remote and uninhabited island.The fossils were part of a large dinosaur from the Cretaceous period, about 145m to 66m years...

‘Dehumanising rhetoric’ blamed as almost half of respondents say they recently suffered discriminationMuslims across Europe are grappling with a “worrying surge” of racism that is being fuelled in part by “dehumanising anti-Muslim rhetoric”, the EU’s leading rights agency has said, as it published a survey in which nearly half of the Muslim respondents said they had recently experienced discrimination.Published on Thursday by the EU...

More than 30,000 workers at the troubled aviation company represented by the union began striking in mid-SeptemberBoeing workers have rejected the latest offer to end the more than a month-long strike that has crippled the already struggling manufacturing giant.In a blow to Boeing and the Biden administration, which has fought for a resolution to the dispute, 64% of the 33,000 members of the International...

WHO says ‘escalating violence’ in northern Gaza has led to postponement of vaccines to more than 100,000 childrenFollow all our Middle East coverage hereIsraeli strikes across Gaza killed 42 people on Wednesday as the military intensified a siege on northern parts of the Palestinian territory, forcing the World Health Organization to pause the latest phase of its polio vaccination campaign, medics and officials said.Israeli...

The push to vote early has amounted to an unprecedented wave, with more than 24.5m having voted early so farThe US election is under way across the country, and so far more than 24.5m people have voted early, according to the University of Florida’s election lab.In numerous states, the push to vote before election day, whether by mail or in-person, has amounted to an...

Ex-president makes characteristically rambling speech after report comes out of his alleged sexual misconductDonald Trump escalated his personal insults against Kamala Harris at a Wednesday evening rally in Georgia as he faces growing scrutiny over reports of his praise of Hitler and alleged sexual misconduct.“This woman is crazy,” the former president said at an event in the Atlanta suburb of Duluth, hosted by Turning...

Mariel Garza says she is ‘standing up’ after billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong quashes support for Kamala HarrisPatrick Soon-Shiong, the billionaire owner of the Los Angeles Times, refused to allow the newspaper’s editorial board to endorse Kamala Harris for president, the former editor of the paper’s opinion section told a media news outlet on Wednesday.Mariel Garza, a veteran California journalist who has worked for the Times’...

Co-owner of Nomad held sign mirroring Israeli flag but with swastika in place of Star of David and the words ‘Stop Nazi Israel’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe prominent Sydney restaurateur Alan Yazbek has pleaded guilty to displaying a Nazi swastika at a pro-Palestine rally.Yazbek appeared at Downing Centre local court...

Second gentleman campaigns in Florida, attacking Donald Trump and Project 2025, despite state being reliably redIn terms of presidential elections at least, Florida has fallen a long way since its heady days as the ultimate swing state. Seven cycles on from the 537-vote cliffhanger in 2000 that was finally resolved when the US supreme court placed George Bush in the White House, Florida is...

US says for first time that North Korea has sent at least 3,000 soldiers to Russia and are training at military basesThe US has said for the first time that it has seen evidence that North Korea has sent 3,000 troops to Russia for possible deployment in Ukraine, a move that could mark a significant escalation in Russia’s war against its neighbour.US defence secretary...

Disgruntled members of Liberal party give Canadian leader deadline of 28 October to step down before likely electoral drubbingDisgruntled members of Canada’s Liberal party have given Justin Trudeau an ultimatum: decide early next week if you want to stay on as leader, or face the prospects of a caucus revolt.The prime minister met with Liberal lawmakers in a closed-door caucus meeting on Wednesday where...

Yoav Gallant says his country still intends to strike back in response to 1 October missile attack by TehranPlanned airstrikes on Iran will make the world understand Israel’s military might, the Israeli defence minister, Yoav Gallant, has said.The Middle East has been braced for more than three weeks for a threatened Israeli response to Iran’s 1 October missile attack, which was in turn a...

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan condemns ‘heinous’ attack after explosion and reports of gunfire at Tusaş HQ near AnkaraTurkey’s interior minister has blamed a “terrorist attack” for an explosion and assault at the headquarters of the national aerospace company, Tusaş, outside Ankara that has killed five people and wounded 22 others.The large blast happened outside the building at 4pm on Wednesday, and there were reports that...

Woman who was raped by her husband and allegedly abused by 50 other men says she is driven by ‘determination to change society’Who are the men accused in Pelicot case?Gisèle Pelicot, the French woman who has become a feminist hero for insisting that the rape trial of her ex-husband and 50 other men should be held in public, has told a court in southern...

US firm Wolfspeed and German car parts supplier ZF postpone plans over doubts about viabilityA project to build a €3bn factory making microchips for electric vehicles once hailed as part of a “return of the industrial revolution” in Germany has been put on hold, as the crisis in the country’s hi-tech manufacturing industry deepens.The US company Wolfspeed and the German car parts supplier ZF...

Russian president’s goal to de-dollarize world economy alarms members that do not want bloc to turn against westVladimir Putin has opened the expanded Brics summit by issuing a call for an alternative international payments system that could prevent the US using the dollar as a political weapon.But the summit communique indicated that little progress had been made on an alternative payment system. Continue reading...

Dominican friar hailed as ‘prophet of the poor’ for belief that the church had political duty to end povertyGustavo Gutiérrez, the influential Peruvian priest known as “the father of liberation theology” and hailed as a “prophet of the poor”, has died in Lima at the age of 96.Gutiérrez, a theologian and Dominican friar, was a celebrated – and sometimes controversial – proponent of the...

Israel tells citizens in Arugam Bay area to hide Jewish identity and not gather in large groupsMiddle East crisis –latest updatesIsrael’s national security council has warned Israelis to immediately leave popular tourist areas in southern Sri Lanka after threats of a possible terrorist attack.According to the council, Sri Lankan authorities had informed it of “a terrorist threat focused on tourist areas and beaches” around...