Nation
The Nation
OVERNIGHT RAIDS
Police eliminate Alameddine crime network
Sixteen people have been charged after a series of raids which NSW police claim has effectively dismantled the high-profile Alameddine crime group.
Deportation law hits road block, Labor minus a plan B
The PM has suffered a major political setback after embattled ministers Clare O’Neil and Andrew Giles failed to rush emergency removal powers for non-citizens through parliament.
Melbourne Lord Mayor calls it quits after six years
Sally Capp will not seek re-election later this year after two terms in office, just a day after Derryn Hinch pulled the pin on his mayoral campaign.
GOOD FRIDAY APPEAL
‘Wacky’ surgery puts Noa back on her feet
When a surgeon told Noa Ognall he wanted to try ‘something wacky’, he wasn’t kidding.
INDIGENOUS EDUCATION
AIEF celebrates 15 years of real outcomes
The Australian Indigenous Education Foundation has allowed First Nations children to ‘set high expectations’ of themselves for 15 years, driving up year 12 completion and university rates across the country.
Hundreds turn up for Newington old boys’ vote
High-profile people have turned up to a meeting of Sydney private school old boys, as the warring over Newington school’s governance and its move to coeducation continues.
Inquirer
INQUIRER
The bloody reality of fighting an embedded enemy
Just like the fierce nine-month battle to remove Islamic State terrorists from Mosul, there was no way for Israel to remove Hamas from power without mounting a full-scale ground invasion.
Inquirer
A picture worth a thousand conspiracy theories, but now we know the truth
Princess Kate has shared with the world that she is battling cancer. We should take a moment to reflect on why we’ve been so ready to believe the wild and bizarre over sensible, real-life explanations.
Inquirer
Green-left lawfare forcing people of faith to margins
We are seeing the opening of a new religious culture war.
Politics
LIVE
POLITICS NOWSolar splurge ‘just start’ of Made-in-Australia
Anthony Albanese hailed his $1bn push to make solar panels in the Hunter as 'just the beginning' of more Made-in-Australia projects to be revealed before the budget.
MINING PAINS
Mineral exports reveal energy shift
Nickel and lithium export earnings are on track to be slashed by almost half amid plunging global prices, over-supply fuelled by China and rapid EV sales slowdown in the US and Europe.
IMMIGRATION
Nearly half of released detainees unmonitored
Nearly half of the dangerous non-citizens released into the community are not wearing electronic ankle bracelets, with the government facing claims of a ‘cover-up’.
RENEWABLES
PM flags ‘a future that’s made in Australia’
Anthony Albanese will launch a six-week Made-in-Australia pre-budget campaign in the NSW Hunter region, where he will unveil a $1bn solar panel manufacturing investment.
More Nation
Politics
Nearly half of released detainees unmonitored
Nearly half of the dangerous non-citizens released into the community are not wearing electronic ankle bracelets, with the government facing claims of a ‘cover-up’.
Nation
IBAC drops case against key Operation Sandon witnesses
‘You won’t be prosecuted’: bombshell twist in IBAC’s Operation Sandon investigation clears Geoff Ablett and others.
Nation
Ex-Spotlight producer threatens Lehrmann with defamation suit
Bruce Lehrmann has been hit with a defamation threat after denying he was involved in a drunken night with a former Seven producer which involved two Thai massages.
Nation
‘I apologise’: ADF chief’s admission of failure
Australian Defence Force chief General Angus Campbell has apologised ‘unreservedly’ for the suicide crisis coursing through the military.
Nation
Less Christians but more religious groups, ABS finds
There are more religious groups in Australia despite a decline in Christianity and an increase in secularism, the latest ABS data into the nation’s religious affiliation reveals.
Politics
Mineral exports reveal energy shift
Nickel and lithium export earnings are on track to be slashed by almost half amid plunging global prices, over-supply fuelled by China and rapid EV sales slowdown in the US and Europe.
Politics
Bosses want wage rise to be below inflation
Unions accuse employers of supporting real wage cuts for low-paid workers.
Politics
PM flags ‘a future that’s made in Australia’
Anthony Albanese will launch a six-week Made-in-Australia pre-budget campaign in the NSW Hunter region, where he will unveil a $1bn solar panel manufacturing investment.
Indigenous
Alice anarchy sparks night-time lockdown
The besieged Northern Territory Labor government has implemented a curfew in Alice Springs for anyone under 18 as the PM faces pressure to return after startling footage of a rioting mob emerges.
Indigenous
Only slow and steady will solve decades of failure
If what we saw this week in Alice Springs was no more than a horrific fight between people from the settlement of Utopia and another family, that is the best possible scenario.
Indigenous
British ‘opposed frontier killings’
Henry Reynolds has told the Yoorook Justice Commission the British government in the 1830s and 40s was dominated by humanists who were concerned about the fate of Indigenous people.
Companies
Coles to hoard cash amid Armaguard risk
Coles will hoard cash over the Easter break in case Armaguard collapses with a rescue deal for the money provider in danger of faltering amid ongoing crisis talks.
Defence
China war would deliver hammer blow to economy
Any kind of China conflict would devastate the economy with two-thirds of Australia’s exports and 40 per cent of its imports at risk of coming to a halt, warns a new report.
Politics
Green project approvals plummet
The rate of approvals for energy projects has plummeted in the past 12 months, a major report warns, casting doubt on the nation’s ability to meet Anthony Albanese’s 43 per cent emissions reductions target.
Nation
Australia’s trade tactics criticised after WTO loss to China
Trade experts say the Albanese government should never have dropped its wine and barley cases against China in the WTO, saying ‘what’s good for the goose is good for the gander’.
Politics
Albanese politically outplayed over detention debacle
Labor made a gross error of judgement in believing the opposition would be a willing participant in its attempts to paper over the cracks in national security.
Defence
‘Unachievable’: dire AUKUS warning as Brits’ subs program sinks
Australia’s $4.6bn funding pledge for Britain’s nuclear submarine industry comes despite a fresh warning by a UK parliamentary committee that its naval reactor program looks ‘unachievable’.
Politics
Catholic school heads warn of ‘covert lives’
The Catholic Church ‘discriminates against women’ and some Catholic school teachers are living ‘covert lives’, high school principals have told a legal inquiry.
Politics
NVES policy must be reviewed frequently
Peak bodies in the trades and farming sectors are bracing for price rises in the vehicles that are essential to their industries, urging the government to commit to frequent reviews of the NVES.
Politics
Labor’s green streak behind delay of bill: opposition
A bill that environmental groups had feared would make it easier for oil and gas projects to proceed will now not go before the senate until after Easter.
Indigenous
‘Time is now to push on with Makarrata’
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, June Oscar, has urged the government to push ahead urgently with a Makarrata Commission.
Technology
Digitial accomplice: Gang dupes 30,000 Aussies with help from Meta
A single international fraud syndicate has fleeced more than 30,000 Australians out of hundreds of millions of dollars with the help of mass advertising campaigns on Facebook and other online platforms.
Nation
Tyrrell foster parents learn their fate
William Tyrrell’s foster parents now have criminal records after intimidating a child who is not William.
Politics
Labor’s ‘betrayal’ warning on religious freedom
Faith leaders have urged Anthony Albanese not to ‘betray’ them by negotiating with the Greens to pass contentious discrimination reforms removing protections for religious schools.
Canberra Bureau chief
Greg Brown is the Canberra Bureau chief. He previously spent five years covering federal politics for The Australian where he built a reputation as a newsbreaker consistently setting the national agenda.