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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke were called “genocide supporters” by members of the Stand4Palestine group as they attended a prayer service at Lakemba mosque on Friday. Plus, Ampol puts maintenance plans on hold and Peaky Blinders comes to an end. Read more: PM says reception at Sydney mosque 'incredibly positive' Randa Abdel-Fattah slams Muslim eve...

The List: Australia’s Richest 250 has landed for another year – and some of Australia’s tech titans have taken a tumble worth billions.  Read more about this story at  theaustralian.com.au and see the video by subscribing to our YouTube channel .  See  The List: Australia’s Richest 250 Tech billionaires lose $35bn as AI threat shakes up Australia’s...

Flights are five per cent up already and there’s likely more to come. Plus, bracing for tropical cyclone Narelle - and why Donald Trump is threatening to blow up a gas field.  Read more: Qantas airfares could rise amid fortnightly price reviews Category five Cyclone Narelle bears down on Queensland for first direct hit in a century Trump vows to destroy Iran gas field if Qatar plant hit...

Kyle Sandilands says he won’t go down without a legal fight after his multimillion-dollar contract was torn up. He claims he’ll take his former employer, ARN, to court – then what?  Read more:  The midnight phone call that torpedoed King Kyle Sandilands and see the video on our YouTube channel . This episode of The Front is presented and produced by Kristen Amiet and ed...

An Australian air base in the United Arab Emirates was targeted by an Iranian projectile. Plus, White Fox founders make their Richest 250 debut and an acclaimed chef’s grim coffee prediction. Read more:  Australian air base in UAE targeted Inside the secretive empire of White Fox founders and their $429m fashion phenomenon Neil Perry’s grim $12 coffee warning amid recession fears...

Neil Perry, the restaurateur behind Sydney gems Gran Torino and Margaret, plus Qantas’ menu guru, says he’ll never stop making beautiful food for people who love to eat, in spite of the Ozempic craze. Read more: ‘Everybody will be suing’: rock star chef Neil Perry’s GLP-1 warning and see the video on our YouTube channel . This episode of The Front is presented by Clai...

The Reserve Bank raised the cash by a quarter of a percent on Tuesday, taking it to 4.1 per cent. Plus, Bowen calls petrol panic-buying ‘un-Australian’, Naveed Akram back in court, and Grace Tame is lashed by Israel’s Australian embassy.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What fate awaits the Lionesses who are returning to Iran? Iranian-Australian journalist Shokoofeh Azar is hoping for the best – that the women will be forced into a humiliating public confession - but won’t be imprisoned, tortured or executed.  Shookofeh has personal experience of how the Islamic Republic treats women. After several arrests and stints in prison in Iran, Shookofeh...

Golden - the huge girl-power anthem from KPop Demon Hunters - is officially Best Song at the 98th Academy Awards. Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another was the night's major victor, while Australian nominees Rose Byrne and Jacob Elordi went home without a statue. Plus, Donald Trump’s latest warning over the Strait of Hormuz. Relive all the action on our  Oscars live blog...

Crypto-currency titan - and occasional astronaut - Russell Wilson has an incredible story of bouncing back from a multi-million dollar fraud committed against his company CoinSpot. But when we tried to track him down for The List: Australia’s Richest 250, Wilson proved elusive - which made us even more intrigued.  Read more about this story at  theaustralian.com.au and see the vide...

If you love movies as escapist art, you might find the Monday’s Oscars ceremony a bit tedious. Today, our cheat’s guide to the movies vying for Best Picture – and a flashback to when movies used to be … fun.  Find out more about The Front podcast here . You can read about this story and more on The Australian's website or on The Australian’s app. The weekend edi...

Iran’s new supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei was reportedly gravely injured in a strike during the Middle East conflict. Plus, Qantas settles a covid legal challenge for $105m and Bluesfest bites the dust. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Two years, 500 gigabytes of audio, and more than 200 voice actors. The Australian’s podcast adaptation of Hedley Thomas’ best-selling book Sick to Death is nearing its conclusion. It’s the story of the havoc wrought on the Queensland medical system by the incompetent surgeon Jayant Patel 20 years ago – and there’s still more to come. Today, Hedley and our production t...

Tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes is shedding 10 per cent of Atlassian’s workforce. Also today in The Front’s afternoon headlines, Australia will lower stringent sulphur standards in petrol and diesel to increase fuel supply to the regions. That’s as the International Energy Agency agrees to the biggest ever release of emergency public oil stocks - but jittery markets are alre...

45-year-old economist Matt Canavan, once the apprentice to Barnaby Joyce, takes the fight for regional Australia to One Nation and his old master. Dennis Shanahan - who routinely shredded the National Party’s ‘stupid’ ex-leader David Littleproud, says it’s at last a proper fight.  Read more about this story at  theaustralian.com.au and see the video by subscribing...

Should the world release public emergency oil supplies to deal with wildly fluctuating oil prices, diesel shortages and petrol station queues? Plus - two more Iranian soccer representatives seek asylum.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Go home to war and oppression - or live in fear for your family’s life: that’s the terrible dilemma faced by Iran’s women’s soccer team. Today we go inside their incredible bid for freedom, and explore what happens next with Asia-Pacific correspondent Amanda Hodge.   Read more about this story at theaustralian.com.au and see the video by subscribing to our YouTube chan...

Why republican protesters are demanding answers from King Charles - plus, Australia’s missiles are rerouted to the Middle East, and Donald Trump’s latest declaration on Operation Epic Fury. That’s all in today’s afternoon headlines from theaustralian.com.au See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As one half of radio’s warring superstar duo lawyers up, the other says everyone’s got it all wrong. Media Diary editor Steve Jackson is here with the latest Kyle and Jackie O drama, plus an ABC reporter’s very sweary outing on social media - and is Karl Stefanovic an anti-vaxxer now?  Read more about this story at  theaustralian.com.au and see the video by subscribing...

Ayatollah Mojtaba Khameini, the hardline son of the assassinated supreme leader Ali Khamenei, is elevated in Iran thanks to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Today in The Front’s headlines edition: the immediate crises on his desk, from ballistic missiles to fury from Iran's Gulf neighbours.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Iran has reneged on a promise to stop attacking its neighbours and assaulted the Gulf states with an array of drones and missiles - that’s as the US indicates the war is nowhere near over. Today, our correspondent in the Middle East, Yoni Bashan, is here to talk about the mood in Israel as this war widens. Spoiler - it involves a lot of chocolate.  Read more about this story at theaustr...

A new generation of the Fiennes family is taking on the most-adapted role in entertainment, with Hero Fiennes Tiffin playing Young Sherlock in Amazon Prime’s new series, directed by Guy Ritchie with all the British director’s characteristic fast-moving smart-talking attitude. Today, we rate this Gen Z take on the 1870s Holmes origin story.  You can watch The Front on our YouTube c...

In a televised speech, Houthi rebels leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi said the Iran-backed proxy militia had their “fingers on the trigger, ready to respond at any moment, should developments warrant it”.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The White House compares Operation Epic Fury to the video game Call of Duty. Pete Hegseth says ‘no mercy’. Should any of that make us squeamish? And can the Iranian people possibly pull a secular democracy out of the rubble? Greg Sheridan is here.   Read more about this story at  theaustralian.com.au and see the video by subscribing to our YouTube channel . This episode...

War secretary Pete Hegseth goes on the offensive, saying Operation Epic Fury is not a fair fight - and America will show no mercy. Also in The Front’s afternoon headlines, more stranded Australians make their way home from the Gulf. Follow our Middle East live blog here Read more of our coverage on the Middle East: Carney trip long on symbolism, short on substance If at first you don’t...