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Follow the day’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastJim Chalmers was also asked earlier if the government would support a national royal commission into violence against women and children. He said the government had chosen to increase resourcing for child and family violence and domestic violence, adding to the ABC:We’re trying to deal with the sources of all of this violence, whether it be more security in the housing system, whether it be the monetised misogyn

NSW Swifts player pleaded guilty to kicking a security guard in JuneAustralia travel to Auckland to face Silver Ferns in OctoberDiamond’s netballer Sarah Klau has kept her spot in Australia’s Constellation Cup squad after pleading guilty to assault earlier this month.Klau was included in the Diamonds’ 14-player squad named on Tuesday, less than a week after Netball Australia (NA) imposed sanctions on the goalkeeper for breaching its code of conduct. Continue reading...

Third baseman was standing near on-deck circle32-year-old hopes to return for postseasonChicago Cubs third baseman Alex Bregman suffered facial fractures when he was hit in the head by a foul ball on Sunday, according to ESPN.Bregman was standing in the on-deck circle preparing for his at-bat when his teammate Michael Busch checked his swing and fouled off a pitch from the Cincinnati Reds’ Luis Mey. The ball struck Bregman in the face, and he immediately jogged toward the Cubs’ dugout with his h

Rooftop solar alone generates more than half of all power used, as clear sunny days and low demand drive record-breaking surgeFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastSunshine and wind met 80.4% of demand on Australia’s main power grid on Saturday, setting a new high bar for renewable electricity.Solar panels on rooftops provided more than half of the power used in the national electricity market, the grid that supplies the

Police don’t know if shooting was accidental as Labor attacks opposition vow to scrap gun buyback announced after Bondi massacreFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe shooting of an 11-year-old boy in Sydney’s north-west was a “tragic reminder” of the danger of guns, the New South Wales premier, Chris Minns, has said while the opposition defends “backflipping” on a gun buyback.The child was transported to Westmead Chil

Australians can’t afford to be complacent – Pauline Hanson also thinks it’s OK to shut out reporters she doesn’t likeNo politician loves journalists. The relationship between media and governments has always been fractious, combative, resentful and at times downright hostile. But that is how it is meant to be. Governments wield power; media monitor and report on it.That dynamic is critical to any functioning democracy. Formal checks and balances will only go so far in exposing abuses of power, s

Lamarre-Condon has pleaded not guilty to fatally shooting Jesse Baird, 26, and his partner, 29-year-old Luke Davies, with police service weapon in 2024Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA former police officer claims he killed two men in self-defence and began cleaning up the crime scene because he “panicked”, a Sydney court has heard.Beau Lamarre-Condon, 31, has been accused of fatally shooting 26-year-old Jesse Baird

Kaja Kallas says sanctions vital as bloc scrambles to reach deal on extension; UN sounds warning for civilians on both sides of war as winter approaches. What we know on day 1,672The EU’s top diplomat has urged member countries to maintain sanctions targeting Russia, as Moscow’s forces continued their attacks on Ukraine, killing at least five people. “Sanctions are a core pillar of our response to Russia’s war”, Kaja Kallas told reporters in New York after a meeting of EU foreign affairs ministe

White House promoted its own ‘Trump TV’ feed online after ABC, CBS, Fox News and NBC decline to participateThe major US television news outlets agreed to suspend their video coverage of Donald Trump after the administration banned journalists from several outlets from entering the White House grounds.The collective decision came after the barred outlets – CNN, MS Now and Politico – sued the administration on Monday, saying the president’s actions were a violation of their first amendment rights.

Republican president said he hoped the democratic socialist would be a ‘great mayor’ for New York CityDonald Trump said on Monday that he hoped Zohran Mamdani would be a “great mayor” for New York, an unusually warm assessment of the democratic socialist leader whom the president and his Republican allies have spent months holding up as a symbol of the Democratic party’s alleged embrace of “communism” ahead of the November midterms.At a news conference following their closed-door meeting at Grac

Dog collars, guitars, straw hats and self-portraits among the 285 personal belongings put on saleAn auction of the French screen legend Brigitte Bardot’s personal items fetched nearly €1m (£858,000, US$1.15m, A$1.61m) in Paris on Monday, almost 20 times the estimate, according to the auction house Millon.A total of 285 objects ranging from straw hats, sunglasses and nightgowns to tableware and furniture from Bardot’s homes in Saint-Tropez in south-eastern France and Paris generated tremendous en

Slower overall economic growth doesn’t have to be a bad thing. It is the quality of that growth that mattersFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastPoliticians are frequently accused of short-termism, so Australia’s intergenerational report (IGR) is unusual in projecting the big trends affecting the economy, and in particular the federal budget, over a 40-year horizon.The former treasurer Peter Costello introduced the conce

Lawyers say Black employees at Tesla experienced ‘rampant racism’ that was left unchecked for years at their flagship factory in CaliforniaDozens of Black employees at Tesla’s flagship plant in California said they were subject to racist slurs, unequal pay and promotions, and bullying by supervisors on a daily basis, a situation management did little to nothing to fix.Their complaints form the basis of a lawsuit brought against the Elon Musk-owned electric car company by the state of California,

Supreme court, which has twice blocked maps from being used in November, likely to have final say in legal fightA long-running legal fight over Missouri’s congressional map took another turn Monday when a federal appeals panel ruled in favor of new districts backed by Donald Trump, even though the US supreme court has blocked those districts from being used in the November election.A three-judge panel of the 8th US circuit court of appeals said Missouri should use the new Republican-drawn US Hou

Accra Reset’s report states countries in the region and global south should take greater control of their health development after USAID debacleThe United States’ withdrawal from key aid programs has put has put healthcare in Africa and the Global South “under growing strain” a new report warns.The report says the Trump administration’s cuts to programs such as US Agency for International Development (USAID), as well as the Covid-19 pandemic and rising costs of living globally have brought “new

Senator Lidia Thorpe has introduced a bill to prohibit the practice in Australian prisons that advocates say violates the human rights of both mother and childGet our new political email, free app or daily news podcast“She was pregnant with twins,” Tahlia Isaac says. “She was meant to be released in 10 days, but she went into labour early.”Isaac says officers handcuffed her fellow prisoner in the back of a van and took her away. Continue reading...

Holdout juror in Clancy’s case, Michael Desronvil, sided with the prosecutors, arguing that Clancy knew what she was doing when she killed her three young childrenLawyers for Lindsay Clancy have asked a judge to investigate the conduct of the lone juror who wanted to convict the mother from Massachusetts of murder in the deaths of her three children.In a motion filed Friday but made public Monday, Clancy’s lawyers asked the court to question the juror about his alleged use of a cellphone during

Voters rejected many establishment choices this year in favor of candidates pushing accountability for Gaza, writes Akbar Shahid AhmedThe last time she gathered with fellow Democrats for a pre-election national convention, Georgia state representative Ruwa Romman got an unspoken message from the party establishment: on their biggest stage, she said, “There’s room for an anti-choice Republican but not for Palestinians”. Democratic officials gave speaking slots to an architect of Georgia’s strict

Andy Burnham seeks stability in Middle East to bring down prices at home as first meeting with Trump loomsThe UK has agreed to provide defensive air support to Saudi Arabia to help counter Houthi fighters and restore stability in the Middle East while driving down the cost of living at home, Andy Burnham has said, ahead of his first meeting with Donald Trump.The prime minister said he had agreed to a request for air-to-air refuelling of Saudi jets to defend energy infrastructure against the Iran

Brighton have impressed in a goal-laden start to the season, in a league that remains a brutally strong attraction Get ready for the dopamine crash. And this one really is a proper autumn nosedive. The past 17 days up to and including Sunday’s cut-off gave us 30 Premier League games and 79 goals. Which, if you take Spurs out of it – and this is fair because Spurs are now post‑goal, an entertainment concept unrelated to goals or even football itself – is really quite a lot.Are your pathways stimu