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Albanese government quietly pauses applications from 24 countries amid migration crackdown
August 15, 2026 — 4:49am Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA The Albanese government has quietly paused working holidaymaker visa applications from 24 countries as it seeks to wrest…
Albanese and Taylor have both missed a chance to score points
Opinion Peter HartcherPolitical and international editor August 15, 2026 — 5:00am August 15, 2026 — 5:00am Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA Anthony Albanese was foolish enough to do…
Labor-led human rights committee warns of risks to vulnerable Australians as government pushes for overhaul
Updated August 15, 2026 — 5:08pm,first published 2:05pm Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA A Labor-led committee has raised human rights concerns over the government’s sweeping National…
Lifesaving SIDHT teams are keeping NSW families afloat
August 15, 2026 — 8:00pm Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA When Rose Mitchell was 10, she felt like she became a parent. “The minute he was born, something shifted within me,” she said…
We should be proud of public schools. The private system doesn’t necessarily give you a better education or make you a better person.
Every public school teacher stands with pride when reading Farzam Zaher’s grateful respect for his public school education (“I succeeded because of public school, not despite it”, August 9). The public system itself has increasingly offered internal options…
The two species NSW is racing to protect after fifth case of deadly virus
August 15, 2026 — 8:00pm Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA The NSW government has identified little penguins and critically endangered regent honeyeaters as priority species for bird…
Popular South Yarra nightclub faces financial collapse
August 15, 2026 — 7:00pm Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA A popular South Yarra nightclub that was recently the target of two firebombings and a drive-by shooting has been placed into…
A man lied about paying this woman for sex. He is now going to jail for rape
August 15, 2026 — 3:52pm Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA A man from regional Victoria has become the state’s first person to plead guilty to multiple counts of rape under new laws…
Jintangka as nuns, bikies and locals come together to mourn Kumanjayi Little Baby
Updated August 15, 2026 — 5:09pm,first published 5:08pm Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA Warning: This story contains the name and images of an Indigenous person who has died. The…
Mastercard outage affects shoppers globally
Updated August 15, 2026 — 4:24pm,first published 3:40pm Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA A global Mastercard issue hit Australia on Saturday afternoon, with card payments being…