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September 12, 2025

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ANU chancellor Julie Bishop speaks to the media

Heat builds on Bishop over top role at prestigious uni

Former senior Liberal MP Julie Bishop has no intention to stand down as leader of one of the country's most prestigious universities after its controversial vice-chancellor quit.

By AAP Newswire

Illustration of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese

Gas call takes shine off Australia's Pacific blitz

Heavy rain and wild winds push homes to breaking point

Homes have hit saturation point as wild weather and heavy downpours engulf millions of residences...

By AAP Newswire

A tornado

A tornado

Heavy rain and wild winds push homes to breaking point

Abdul El Houli (centre) eaves the Melbourne Magistrates Court

Accused tobacco syndicate ringleader faces court

Accused tobacco syndicate ringleader faces court

An alleged "ringleader" of a criminal tobacco syndicate has briefly faced court, accused of masterminding...

By AAP Newswire

Abdul El Houli (centre) eaves the Melbourne Magistrates Court

Genevieve Bell in 2023

University vice-chancellor steps down amid PR crisis

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price

Senator pays the price for Indian migration comments

A ferry operator takes a break on his boat in Vanuatu

Australia squeezed on climate by Vanuatu minister

Pacific island leaders, including Anthony Albanese

Pacific's top issues on agenda at leaders-only retreat

A street in Kathmandu's popular tourist suburb Thamel (fiile image)

Nepalese Australians in grief amid political crisis

Freeman

Olive branch extended to fugitive's suspected helpers

Tributes at the scene of a fatal stabbing in Cobblebank, Melbourne

Slain boy's dad pleads for greater community protection

Australia has criticised Israel for a strike against Hamas in Qatar.

Australia wants peace after Israel's 'criminal assault'

Mourners during a vigil at a local basketball centre

Slain boy's dad pleads for greater community protection

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A bottom feeding shark is tangled in a shark net

Turtles, dolphins, rays die as shark nets miss target

Electric car safety check could spark second-hand sales

The second-hand electric car market may be slow off the mark in Australia but services...

By AAP Newswire

battery charging

Huge legal bill for Higgins as settlement plan revealed

Brittany Higgins has been ordered to pay the bulk of her former boss's legal costs...

By AAP Newswire

Linda Reynolds and Brittany Higgins (file images)

Marine heatwave disaster warnings ignored for two years

Authorities are "flying blind" in their response to South Australia's algal bloom and the federal...

By AAP Newswire

A dead fish at Seacliff Beach

'Terrified for my life': Aussies in Gaza aid boat scare

An Australian volunteer on board a boat carrying aid to Gaza says he feared for...

By AAP Newswire

Flotilla

Elder fails to defend trespass using sovereignty claim

A Wiradjuri elder who tried to claim back land owned by a regional university has...

By AAP Newswire

Paul Wayne Towney outside the Orange Local Court

'Misinformation, lies': Australian-first treaty warning

Critics and detractors of an Australian-first statewide treaty agreement are being told they have nothing...

By AAP Newswire

Victorian treaty with Indigenous people

'Extraordinary': $2.85m payout after state care abuse

A man repeatedly sexually abused as a child in state care has won a landmark...

By AAP Newswire

Dion Barber and lawyer Hugo Seymour

PM confident of Vanuatu pact despite treaty delay

Australia's ties with Vanuatu will go to "the next level", despite the two countries failing...

By AAP Newswire

Leaders meet in Vanuatu