The Front

Shocking failings in the care of Indigenous children will be explored at a national roundtable of ministers and First Nations leaders in Perth next week. Plus, Reserve Bank boss Michele Bullock warns of further rate rises and international travellers held up by a smart-gate glitch.  Read more:  National roundtable to be held on Indigenous child safety crisis RBA warns of rate hikes, infl...

How do you find your way back to happiness after watching your friends die? For veteran Fox News correspondent Benjamin Hall, who sustained life-threatening injuries in a Russian strike while reporting from Ukraine, his wife and daughters lit the way. Today, Benjamin Hall shares his remarkable story – and why there’s only one thing he’d change. Read more about this story at ...

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke unveiled the government’s plan to reduce net overseas migration to 75,000 people per year in a speech at the National Press Club on Thursday. Plus, the US interest rates are raised for the first time in three years and Route 666 roars towards its 100th anniversary. Read more:  Students and backpackers targeted in Labor’s migration plan US Fed chair...

The Bondi Beach massacre revealed flaws in Australia’s paediatric trauma preparedness, with surgeons and nurses revealing in The Australian their deeply moving struggle to save the life of a 10-year-old girl.  Now the NSW Government is creating a new paediatric trauma unit to prepare for the next major crisis. In today’s episode, how a state has coped in the aftermath of Bondi&rsq...

Ed Sheeran’s United States tour has caused an almighty political and cultural ruckus after the rapper Macklemore announced his support for Palestine at a concert on September 5. Today - how superstar singer Pink, a powerful football team owner and a lineup of artists have clashed over accusations of antisemitism and censorship.  This afternoon headlines episode of The Front is hosted by...

The Albanese Government is actively considering changing copyright law so that artificial intelligence companies can train their models here, by ingesting all of human knowledge. The idea is to make us all more productive, and supercharge our economy with a data centre building boom. But to get there, Anthony Albanese would have to break his promise to musicians, artists and writers to protect the...

Pauline Hanson says doesn’t want to upset anyone and regrets comments where she called Aboriginal people ‘primitive’. Plus, Apple introduces age verification on its devices in Australia. Read more:  Hanson sorry for ‘most primitive’ slur Apple now requires Australians to prove their age for 18+ apps and content See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Launch an attack, then watch while your opponent looks like the bad guy: Pauline Hanson and One Nation get the headlines while the major parties flail for the right response. Today, Dennis Shanahan on how the ‘politics of resentment’ are playing out.  Read more about this story at  theaustralian.com.au and see the video by subscribing to our YouTube channel . Barnaby Joyce&rs...

The Fair Work Ombudsman recovered almost half a billion dollars in unpaid wages and entitlements for more than 180,000 workers in the 2025-26 financial year. Plus, Victoria’s ‘pothole crisis’ claims the life of a motorcycle club president, and Jordan Petaia returns to the Wallabies. Read more:  Big employers behind almost half of $453 million in recovered unpaid wages Victor...

Journalist Hedley Thomas joins us with a special insight into where his blockbuster podcast investigation The Poisoned Wife is heading. After the 1986 murder of Rosslyn McQueen, the Homicide Squad rolls into tiny Lockwood, Victoria to question husband Ray, who is infatuated with a teenage girl - and the police interview changes everything.  He suspects a neighbour of poisoning his wife Ros. M...

Production house A24 released a trailer this week for You Can See Everything that broke the internet. A24 is known for horror, while host Nathan Fielder is famous for comedy. Together, they promise an intimate look into Elizabeth Holmes’ final 36 days of freedom, in a documentary bound to be more than the sum of its parts. Read more about this story at  theaustralian.com.au and see the...

Former PWC and Carlton bigwig Luke Sayers has apologised to his estranged wife Cate Sayers for falsely accusing her of posting a nude image of him on his own social media account. Also in today’s afternoon headlines, Donald Trump’s ‘go to hell’ gag at the Republican convention and the jet lag theory surrounding an American football clash at the MCG.  Read more:  S...

A whistleblower, a secret document and a self-inflicted scandal that’s cost hundreds of jobs and shattered reputations. Today, how KPMG blew itself up, with the journo who’s been breaking all the scoops, our own Tansy Harcourt.   Read more about this story at  theaustralian.com.au and see the video by subscribing to our YouTube channel . Ex-KPMG chief collects $4m payout amid...

We’ve had the widow’s tax and the super tax - now there’s a birth tax hidden in the federal Government’s shakeup to the way trusts work. The Australian’s revealing today the changes could make it harder for tradies and small business owners to hand over to a new generation. Read more about this story at theaustralian.com.au and see the video by subscribing to our YouT...

Three people were arrested in a raid of the Brisbane headquarters of the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees’ Union on Wednesday. Plus, Andrew Hastie’s blistering attack on Pauline Hanson and author Blanche d’Alpuget dies. Read more:  Police raid CFMEU headquarters over Brisbane 2032 Olympic corruption claims Andrew Hastie coy on leadership ambition but slams &lsqu...

Drink-driving, unpaid fines, and allegations about serious drugs: these are not the talking points One Nation wanted for its bold bid to become part of Victoria’s government. But Pauline Hanson’s handpicked state president Warren Pickering, a former soldier, is having a tough week thanks to exclusives broken by The Australian’s Jamie Walker. Read more about this story at  th...

Firmus - the tech company part-owned by Oliver Curtis, who served prison time for insider trading - has signed a  multibillion-dollar deal with OpenAI to build two data centres in Malaysia as part of a multi-year partnership. Plus, the trial of three men accused of killing Australian brothers Callum and Jake Robinson gets under way in Mexico, and an iconic Sydney mansion is rumoured to be bac...

The mysterious Mahmood Fazal - a bikie turned journalist who was hired, and then fired by the ABC, is at the centre of another drama: did the Australian Federal Police try to suppress his work as a reporter? That’s today’s story.   Read more about this story at theaustralian.com.au and see the video by subscribing to our YouTube channel . Sacked ABC journalist’s dramati...

One Nation has a new policy for Australians’ superannuation account: the opportunity for renters and homeowners  to hold onto a portion of compulsory superannuation contributions. Plus, electric vehicles are officially more popular than old-fashioned gas guzzlers. Read more:  Hanson rejects claims early super access will fuel price pressures How cheap Chinese brands made electric c...

Just eight weeks until the midterm elections and Donald Trump is switching strategy, asking his base to vote Republican as if his own name were on the ballot. But as the Iran war sends cost of living spiralling, will voters buy his claim that America is winning? Cameron Stewart joins us.  Read more about this story at theaustralian.com.au and see the video by subscribing to our YouTube channe...

Characters developed over six decades have opened the door to Jim Henson’s world for a whole new generation. Now, Henson’s culture-defining works, from the Muppets to The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth, will feature in an immense new exhibition at Queensland’s Gallery of Modern Art. Read more about this story at theaustralian.com.au and see the video by subscribing to our YouTube cha...

Australian tennis star Nick Kyrgios will enter a drug treatment program, effectively ending his three-month suspension from the sport. Plus, bird flu appears in Sydney, and Emirates new premium economy upgrades. Read more:  Nick Kyrgios enters drug treatment program as his three month ban for cocaine use comes to an end Bird flu detected in Sydney for first time Emirates unveils ‘world...

It’s Friday and many of us need a stiff drink – especially the veteran wine collectors who’ve allegedly been robbed in what appears to be an audacious heist from storage facilities around the country. It’s the high-end version of a crime epidemic that’s sweeping retail and our journo Eli Greenblat, who broke the yarn, is here. Read more about this story at theaustrali...

The nightmare engulfing professional services giant KPMG just got worse, with news the firm’s former Chief Operations Officer Eileen Hoggett is suing. Plus, JD Vance says the world may have reached its so-called “end days”, and The Australian’s Chief Film Critic Nikki Gemmell’s first-ever one-star movie review. Read more:  Former KPMG exec Eileen Hoggett sues fir...

We all know the feeling; you accidentally CC the wrong person and suddenly you’re in a world of email-induced pain. Today, how a confidential One Nation legal note found its way to The Australian and what it tells us about the party’s behind-the-scenes melodrama.  Read more about this story at theaustralian.com.au and see the video by subscribing to our YouTube channel . Whoops! P...