How pink octopus DNA helped scientists predict a global catastrophe

Off the icy continent’s coast lives a pale pink octopus that hunts bristle worms and shrimp-like crustaceans across the sea floor. “They occur all the way around Antarctica, so they’re a circumpolar... Read more »

First-home buyers still in the market despite record-low housing affordability

Australia’s housing affordability remains around record lows in data that goes back to 1995, despite lower mortgage rates. A new report published by REA Group and the Commonwealth Bank analysing the current... Read more »

Nauru deportation deal could cost Australia $2.5 billion over 30 years

Australia could end up spending around $2.5 billion to resettle up to 354 former detainees on Nauru under, with government officials confirming multimillion-dollar payments would continue for three decades if the agreement... Read more »

Wine and spirit bottles to be included in container deposit scheme in NSW and SA

Wine and spirit bottles will be included in container and deposit schemes in New South Wales and South Australia by late 2027, boosting recycling efforts in both states. The expanded scheme will... Read more »

Neo-nazi Thomas Sewell will continue to commit violent offences that could lead to death, police tell court | Victoria

Neo-nazi Thomas Sewell – who allegedly led an attack on a First Nations encampment in Melbourne over the weekend – will continue to commit violent offences that could lead to death, a... Read more »

Is the media misreading migration as a major issue for voters?

There’s been a strain of equivocation regarding the “March for Australia” over the weekend. Everyone pretty much agrees that the Nazis who spoke and cheered at the Melbourne rally are bad. But... Read more »

LVLY co-founder gains investors for hair colour startup Done

Serial entrepreneur Hannah Spilva has raised a pre-seed funding round, and already attracted interest from retail partners, for her new hair colour startup Done.  Spilva has spent the past two years researching... Read more »

NZ’s highest-ever interest rates – but were people worse off?

Photo: Stuff/Kathryn George If you thought the seven percent-ish interest rates of recent years were tough, spare a thought for 1980s borrowers who paid the country’s highest interest rate on record. Reserve... Read more »

Police focus on shed of interest as manhunt for Dezi Freeman enters ninth day

Police have descended on a shed a short distance from Porepunkah as the search for fugitive Dezi Freeman enters its ninth day. On Wednesday, a police helicopter circled the national park that... Read more »

Neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell charged over alleged Camp Sovereignty attack

Neo-Nazi Thomas Sewell has been charged with affray and other offences after being arrested outside court over an alleged attack on an Indigenous sacred site.Dozens of officers arrested Sewell outside Melbourne Magistrates’... Read more »