Dutton’s first campaign event at Brisbane brewery also gatecrashed by heckler Josh Butler Peter Dutton’s first official campaign event of the election is at the XXXX brewery in the heart of Brisbane – and already it’s been interrupted by an environmental protester brandishing a “no new coal or nuclear” sign with the Rising Tide logo…
Columbia University’s interim president, Katrina Armstrong, is stepping aside and the co-chair of its board of trustees, Claire Shipman, has been named acting president, the university said in a statement on Friday. Armstrong is returning to lead the university’s Irving Medical Center, Columbia University said, adding: “Board of trustees co-chair Claire Shipman has been appointed…
Veteran pilot Glenn Collins has been identified as the pilot who is fighting for life after crashing during an aerobatics display at the Avalon Airshow in front of tens of thousands of spectators. As Australia’s biggest airshow reopened on Saturday, Paul Bennet Airshow confirmed Collins, who performed on their team, was the pilot involved in…
The alternative prime minister boldly declared the 2025 federal election was a “sliding doors moment” for the nation. Peter Dutton’s budget reply speech on Thursday evening was filled with facts and figures to paint Labor as hopeless at managing Australia’s best interests. But how well do Dutton’s claims stack up? ‘The worst collapse in living…
FILE PHOTO: Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Acting Director Russell Vought testifies before House Budget Committee on 2020 Budget on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., March 12, 2019. Yuri Gripas | Reuters A federal judge on Friday ordered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau‘s leadership, appointed by President Donald Trump, to halt its campaign to…
Charlie Javice, who is charged with defrauding JPMorgan Chase & Co into buying her now-shuttered college financial aid startup Frank for $175 million in 2021, arrives at United States Court in Manhattan in New York City, June 6, 2023. Mike Segar | Reuters Charlie Javice, founder of a startup purchased by JPMorgan Chase in 2021,…
A US oil tanker that was hit by a container ship in the North Sea is to be towed to the north-east of England after more than 200,000 barrels of jet fuel are removed over the weekend, a maritime company has said. The Solong collided with the anchored tanker Stena Immaculate about 12 miles off…
The US’s top media regulator on Friday said it was opening an investigation into the diversity practices of Walt Disney and its ABC unit, saying they may violate equal employment opportunity regulations. Brendan Carr, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chair, wrote to the Disney CEO, Robert Iger, in a letter dated on Thursday that the…
The federal government reported on Friday that there have been 483 confirmed cases of measles across 20 US jurisdictions so far this year, with the largest outbreak in Texas, and 70 people across the nation needing to be hospitalized. That compares with 285 cases of measles in the US for the whole of 2024. The…
The main gate at The Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California, on Sept. 25, 2023. Mario Anzuoni | Reuters The Federal Communications Commission has alerted the Walt Disney Company and its ABC unit that it will begin an investigation into the diversity, equity and inclusion efforts at the media giant. The FCC, the agency that regulates…
