YOU WONT BELIEVE: 3 | Mind Blowing Facts

Riders rally over potholes as land tax cut locked in

Land taxes will be slashed regardless of who wins Victoria's election in a pledge that could save 250,000 people sizeable sums.

AAP · Oct 4

'Tight ship': public told to expect scant budget help

Households are unlikely to receive significant cost-of-living help in the coming months as the government tries to curb high inflation and rising debt costs.

AAP · Oct 4

Government drags heels in fight over 'death traps'

A state government has been accused of dragging its heels on a popular yabby trap banned elsewhere for catching more than yabbies.

AAP · Oct 3

Tragedy and loss helped forge Steph Hodgins-May into a steely climate campaigner. Now she’s taking on Anthony Albanese

Greens party elders describe her obvious talent and determination to change things for the better, while political rivals’ verdicts vary wildly

The Guardian - AU · Oct 2

Would-be missionary Baird pursued his tasks with zeal

Bruce Baird spent two decades in state and federal parliaments, preceded Scott Morrison as the federal member for Cook and fathered a NSW premier.

AAP · Oct 2

Big bank dumps scandal-hit audit firm after 57 years

ANZ is looking for a new audit firm to replace KPMG, which has been under fire for months after a whistleblowing scandal.

AAP · Oct 2

'My community deserves better': MPs lash decision to extend transport contract with private operator

Hunter state Labor MPs Tim Crakanthorp and Sonia Hornery criticise extension of Keolis contract.

Newcastle Herald · Oct 2

Labor targets ‘visa hopping’ international students in crackdown on ‘permanently temporary’ migration

Migration agents and lawyers ‘selling false hope’ to people seeking to stay in Australia also in ministers’ sights as they seek to reduce overseas arrivals

The Guardian - AU · Oct 2

News Corp’s housing special proves a bit too close to home as cadets enlisted as case studies

Six unhappy young Australians fronting Commonwealth Bank-sponsored series are News Corp’s own employees. Plus: Peter Manning remembered

The Guardian - AU · Oct 2

Lame-duck effort brewing to protect NIH grantmaking

​Senate appropriators from both parties are workshopping language that could be added to a spending bill to prevent the White House from exerting political influence on medical research grants. The provision would go into the Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill that lawmakers hope to pass before stopgap funding expires Dec. 11. The senators, led by Appropriations Chair…

Roll Call · Oct 1