Bali’s Bigin Beach ‘ruined’ after demolition begins, destroying businesses along the iconic stretch of ocean

One of Bali’s most iconic surf destinations will never be the same again, as Indonesian authorities have begun demolishing more than 40 businesses along the famous beach. The destruction began on Monday... Read more »

Nelli lives with chronic pain. It took her 20 years to find the right help

Nelli Stevenson has been living with chronic pain since she was a teenager — but it has taken her many years, and a serious medical emergency, to find the help she needed.Stevenson,... Read more »

Police are ‘one phone call away’ from finding those responsible for Melbourne house fire which killed ‘innocent’ woman

Investigators say they are “one phone call away” from finding those responsible for a house fire that killed an innocent Melbourne woman earlier this year. Katie Tangey, 27, was housesitting for her... Read more »

How Sydney brought the I Know What You Did Last Summer franchise back from the dead

Normal text sizeLarger text sizeVery large text size ″This place is creepy as f—,” a character in the new instalment of slasher franchise I Know What You Did Last Summer nervously utters... Read more »

Xi Jinping has more than Donald Trump on his mind

The problem in EVs, solar panels, batteries and other industries that supply them – and it’s not a problem confined to those sectors – is that China’s economic model has prioritised investment,... Read more »

Temu doubles Australian advertising spend in response to US tariffs

Online shopping platforms based overseas are spending millions of extra dollars on advertising in Australia as they seek to expand their presence outside the US, following the introduction of President Donald Trump’s... Read more »

Scottie Scheffler’s search for meaning carries him to Tiger Woods’s stratosphere after Open triumph

Spare a thought for the rest of them — the literally thousands of professional golfers whose lifelong dedication to the most torturous of sports has cost them unquantifiable time, money and extracts... Read more »

Tasman’s rural resilience tested by back-to-back storms

Judith Rowe discovers an upended deer fence covered in flood debris. Photo: Cosmo Kentish-Barnes I didn’t mean to get caught up in another perilous storm, when I set out for the Tasman... Read more »

Interstate investors swarm NT homes, shutting out local buyers and raising rent prices

Interstate investors are targeting properties across the Northern Territory and buying them up hours before they hit the market, as Darwin’s rental market firms as the tightest in the country. Local doctor... Read more »

‘Is my child safe?’: Jason Clare faces a quagmire in childcare crisis — fixing a sector without controlling all the levers | Josh Butler

More than 1300 worried parents nationwide joined a webinar on safety in early education this week from families advocacy network The Parenthood, tuning in after weeks of sickening reports of alleged abuse... Read more »