A Taiwan court has sentenced four soldiers, including three who worked in the president’s security team, to jail for up to seven years on charges of spying for China. The men were convicted of violating the national security law by passing “internal military information that should be kept confidential to Chinese intelligence agents for several…
Just after 6am on Tuesday morning, a curious young ginger cat boarded a train at St Albans station in Melbourne’s western suburbs and journeyed to Flinders Street station in the city centre. In CCTV footage you can see the carriage doors open on platform one before the unexpected passenger casually tails morning commuters to catch…
A New South Wales taxi driver has been fined $12,000 and banned from operating after charging fixed fares in excess of state regulations and kicking out his passengers and their luggage if they refused. Nurman Syarif was convicted in Sydney’s Downing Centre local court last week of several offences relating to his interactions with passengers.…
NSW is expected to ban future privatisation of public acute hospitals, with the state government announcing “Joe’s law” on Thursday, named for the two-year-old who died at the Northern Beaches hospital. Joe Massa suffered a cardiac arrest and died in September after waiting three hours in the emergency department operated by private hospital provider Healthscope…
Donald Trump has said he would be willing to reduce tariffs on China to get a deal done with TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance to sell the social media app used by 170 million Americans. He acknowledged the role China would play in any agreement. “With respect to TikTok, and China is going to have…
After more than 170 years at a Scottish university, the remains of a young Aboriginal man killed on his traditional land have returned home. The skull of the unknown man was taken from Tasmania in the 1830s and had been held by the University of Aberdeen since the early 1850s. It is understood he was…
Shoppers are shelling out for smaller eggs this Easter as shrinkflation takes a bite out of the favourite seasonal treat. The price of eggs made by big names including Cadbury, Mars and Terry’s have risen by as much as 50% in some cases while some have also shrunk in size, according to research by consumer…
The department of home affairs secretary, Stephanie Foster, has admitted to using disappearing messages on Signal, but says she complies with record-keeping obligations, as officials face scrutiny of their use of encrypted messaging apps in the wake of the Trump administration group chat scandal. The editor of the Atlantic, Jeff Goldberg, published a story this…
The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, is expected to call the federal election on Friday for a polling day in early May, according to Labor sources. Speculation had been rife in Canberra that Albanese could visit the governor general on either Friday or Sunday to capitalise on momentum from Tuesday’s federal budget and draw attention away…
Rachel Reeves had said that her government was all about growth. But as she stood up to give her spring statement it was clear that green shoots could not yet be seen. The UK’s growth forecast for this year had been halved, leaving the chancellor with a problem. It was a new world of global…
