Marine scientist awarded 2027 Australian of the Year for NSW

European Commission will hold talks with the US, France, Germany, Britain, Nato, and the World Bank in Madrid Spain’s socialist prime minister, Pedro Sánchez – who has been Donald Trump’s most vociferous European critic – is celebrating last night’s results in the US, hailing them as proof of a progressive fightback and of the “crumbling” of what he called the “ultra wave”. “It happened in Brazil. It just happened in the US. And it will happen soon in Spain.” Continue reading...

US voters, their Australian partners and British spectators crowd around pub TVs to watch the historic election results roll in On the second floor of a Sydney pub, the mood shifts from nervous, browser-refreshing anxiety to champagne-popping within a matter of hours. More than 100 US expats and election enthusiasts pack into the function space at the Keg and Brew in the inner-east suburb of Surry Hills to watch the midterm results roll in. Continue reading...

The increase in interest rates by the RBA leads readers to call for a different way of tackling inflation.

When Hobart resident Emma Thornley put a load of whites in her washing machine on Tuesday morning, she was not expecting it to come out covered in dark-orange stains.