4+ day, 9+ min ago   (599+ words) The woman so pivotal in Australian literature and politics blew into my orbit in a tornado of Doris Day hair and Sophia Loren lips in the winter of 2016 Thirty-six hours before Blanche took her last breath, I negotiated the plastic…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (236+ words) As talkback titan Ray Hadley took the witness box in Alan Jones’s indecent assault and sexual touching trial, the court heard accounts of a tearful disclosure, a secret contract and decades of professional animosity. Under cross-examination, explosive text messages laid…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (12+ words) Continue reading... Ben Jennings on the rise of datacentres in Britain – cartoon...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (875+ words) The comedian’s new Friday night series will be set in a working pub, with his aunties working the bar and celebrities doing shifts as managers. Or it will be if he can only get his licence … Joe Lycett sits in…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (603+ words) Leah Stewart, 34, was bitten while swimming at Coogee beach in June. She remembers asking herself which limb she was ‘willing to lose’ as she fought back An Australian woman who lost an arm after a shark attack at a Sydney…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (384+ words) Woolworths has reported a $175m surge in net profit to $1.14bn, but the supermarket giant’s chief executive, Amanda Bardwell, said it had not done so by lifting shelf prices. The supermarket duopoly, Woolworths and Coles, has previously faced criticism for fattening profit…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (445+ words) In her first media interview since the June incident, Leah Stewart, 34, says her thoughts while being bitten were of her one-year-old daughter An Australian woman left without an arm after a shark attack at a beach in Sydney’s eastern suburbs…...

3+ week, 7+ hour ago   (115+ words) Leah Stewart lost her arm in a great white shark attack at Sydney’s Coogee beach. Follow today’s news live Good morning. Nick Visser here to get the news going. Here’s what’s on deck: Leah Stewart, the woman who was bitten…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (630+ words) New court of criminal appeal would give effect to new bail and sentencing laws, opposition leader says. Follow live Powerhouse Parramatta – a museum and gallery project 12 years and $915m in the making – has unveiled its inaugural exhibition program. The five exhibitions…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (259+ words) Coalition divided over tougher gambling laws – with MPs warning Angus Taylor against overreach Native birds in captivity to be vaccinated against H5 bird flu as Australia prepares for more mass mortalities Alan Jones’s alleged victim told brother indecent assaults weren’t ‘too…...