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The amount of money Australians are spending on medicinal cannabis continues to skyrocket, with new data showing this year's sales are on track to double those from 2023.

Black Friday is fast eclipsing Boxing Day as the key time for retail sales in Australia. 

The Coalition has struck a deal to pass all three of the Albanese government’s controversial migration bills which will, among other things, give the government power to deport non-citizens to third countries.

As part of the ceasefire agreement, the Lebanese army will take control of their own territory again and Hezbollah's infrastructure in southern Lebanon will not be allowed to be rebuilt. Over the next 60 days, Israel will gradually withdraw its remaining forces and civilians - on both sides - will soon be able to safely return to their communities.

In a couple of weeks, the Reserve Bank will be making its final interest rate decision for the year and while a lot of Australians - perhaps you as well - will be hoping for a cut, according to most experts, that's probably not going to happen until 2025.

A sneak peek into the lives of the football fans known as the 'Ultras'. Whose support is a form of protest against the state, the mainstream media, and the commercialisation of professional sports. 

Could your stress and anxiety be absorbed by your children?

The Albanese Government says Australia is now on track to reach its emissions reduction target for 2030. The target for the end of the decade is for emissions to be cut by 43 per cent below 2005 levels -- the latest projections put the figure at 42.6 per cent.

At least six people have died after Pakistan's security forces launched a sweeping midnight raid on supporters of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan who stormed the capital yesterday demanding his release.

Citing increased losses due to a rapid reduction in people wanting to post letters, Australia Post has requested permission from the consumer regulator, the ACCC, to increase the cost of sending a letter by 20 cents from next year. 

Planet Earth has had a little companion for the past two months - an asteroid affectionately known as the mini moon. But they're about to part company due to the tug of the sun's gravity.

US President Elect Donald Trump announced earlier today that he would be slapping a 25 per cent tariff on all products coming into the United States from Mexico and Canada as one of the first executive orders he signs on the 20th of January next year.

Australian classical music composer Harry Sdraulig captures the movement and energy of football in his piece 'Hat-trick'

From a football crowd booing at Indigenous players, to white supremacists marching in balaclavas through small country towns - racism has many faces in Australia, each as insidious as the next.

The term ‘enshittification’ just been named Macquarie Dictionary’s 2024 Word of the Year. 

After months of discussion about how to prevent social media harming children, the Government is now looking to rush through a bill to ban children under 16 using some platforms before the end of this week. 

How much is your identity worth...and would you sell it?

"Our horror and our national shame": Those were the opening words of Northern Territory Coroner today as she called for a significant funding boost to the domestic, family and sexual violence sector in the territory. Coroner Elisabeth Armitage spent more than a year investigating the deaths of four women who were among the more than 80 Aboriginal women killed in domestic violence attacks in the No...

China could fill a possible climate vacuum left by the US

The early bird gets the worm, the bird in a heavy rainstorm gets divorced.

What possesses a woman in her twenties to become a nun? And what is it like to run away and give up the monastic life? Catherine Coldstream did both.

It used to be that the only reviews you’d find of a restaurant or movie would be in the pages of a newspaper from professional critics, now everyone can leave their two cents on the digital shopfront of a business.

A total of 170 people, including children, have been arrested in Newcastle for allegedly defying directions by New South Wales Police during an anti-fossil fuel protest at the world's largest coal port.

A parliamentary inquiry found between two and twenty per cent of Australians who get the virus will develop symptoms of long COVID including brain fog and fatigue, but its exact causes remain a mystery. 

The Friday Wrap with Geraldine Doogue, host of Radio National’s Global Roaming podcast and investigative journalist and award winning author Chris Masters.