Warner Bros Discovery board rejects rival $163bn bid from Paramount

Warner Bros Discovery’s board has rejected Paramount Skydance’s $US108.4 billion ($A163.7 bn) hostile bid, saying it failed to provide adequate financing assurances. In a letter to shareholders, disclosed in a regulatory filing,... Read more »

Short-term spending rises despite overall budget improvement as Treasury upgrades inflation forecast

The federal government has added to short-term spending but decreased it overall, while Treasury has upgraded its inflation forecast for the next two years, the mid-year budget update reveals. In Canberra on... Read more »

Bondi terror attack updates: Albanese says ‘we grieve for the light and laughter so many have lost’ as thousands gather outside Sydney cathedral | Australia news

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature What we learned, Wednesday 17 December That’s where we’ll leave you this evening. Here’s a snapshot of the... Read more »

How Australia handled AI in 2025

Welcome back to Neural Notes, a weekly column where I look at how AI is affecting Australia. In this edition: how Australia’s AI story in 2025 was defined less by product drops... Read more »

Summer pool party essentials | PerthNow

Nothing beats gathering your friends and family for a splash-filled, sun-soaked pool party during summer. And it becomes all the more important to have the right essentials to set the mood and... Read more »

Year 12 high achievers in Canberra share ATAR wins for 2026 | The Canberra Times

Some of Canberra’s high achieving students in 2026, clockwise, Anastasia Perkovic, Ishita Gupta, Michael Thow and Alex Kwiatkowski. Pictures by Keegan Carroll and supplied Students from across Canberra have received ATAR results... Read more »

I have never earned more money, but I’ve never felt more broke

Cost-of-living spikes are pushing our living standards down. Watch Insight episode Tough Time$ on SBS On Demand.There have been many nights in recent years when I’d pull into our driveway at 11pm... Read more »

Sydney rabbi’s defiant message after 15 innocent people were gunned down in Bondi

Australia’s Jewish community is in collective mourning. The Bondi Beach mass shooting, which left 15 innocent people dead, is their worst fear realised after years of antisemitic attacks across the country. People... Read more »

John Howard blasts Anthony Albanese, Penny Wong over antisemitism in Australia; calls Australia gun law changes a ‘diversion’

“I am not here to point fingers,” Maimon said. “I am here to embrace, I am here to hug the community, the Australian citizens that care about life here in Australia, and... Read more »

Nick Reiner’s struggles with drugs left his parents ‘desperate’

He recalled that Michele Reiner had said a few years ago of her son’s struggles: “We’ve tried everything. We don’t know what else to do.” Loading When Nick Reiner was first sent... Read more »