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June 4, 2026 — 5:00amSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAThe stakes for disgraced celebrity surgeon Munjed Al Muderis heading into his appeal next week of the loss of his marathon defamation case against Nine, owner of this masthead, were already high. And that’s before considering the costs associated with the matter.About six weeks ago, the stakes rose further. In a judgment published on April 23, Justice Wendy Abraham ordered Al Muderis to pay Nine’s costs for the defamation suit, assessed on an indemnity basis from the start of the…
OpinionNiki SavvaAward-winning political commentator and authorJune 4, 2026 — 5:00amJune 4, 2026 — 5:00amSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAWe have been here before, in uncertain times with deeply familiar people in familiar places. Tony Abbott running the Liberal Party, Pauline Hanson dominating politics, Anthony Albanese looking like he could be reduced to a minority or even lose the next election.As the great philosopher sportsman Yogi Berra said, it’s deja vu all over again. Except this time, life is much more precarious for the major parties – particularly the Coalition…
SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAOne of Australia’s largest fuel companies is preparing to triple the size of its discount chain of unstaffed service stations following a surge in demand this year as motorists look for relief from record-high petrol and diesel prices.Ampol, which runs hundreds of service stations across the country and the Lytton oil refinery in Brisbane, gained regulatory clearance on Wednesday for its $1.1 billion acquisition of British retailer EG Group’s 470 Australian petrol stations.The U-GO self-serve model of petrol stations has become popular with motorists…
SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAPauline Hanson’s One Nation now has more women supporters than men, according to an analysis of a year’s worth of polling by the Resolve Political Monitor, while the number of young people, well-off and people living in the inner city who support the party has surged in the last year.Analysis of a year of data from the Resolve poll, conducted for this masthead, shows One Nation has significantly expanded its reach and appeal across all demographics, ages, income and education levels.One Nation Leader Senator…
SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAScientists have released the largest and most detailed maps ever made of the universe’s magnetic fields, using data from Australia’s strongest radio telescope to visualise the hidden force that may help govern the structure of the entire cosmos.The project casts crucial light on a final bastion of cosmic mystery: how these giant magnetic structures influence the formation of galaxies, the birth of stars, the roaring of radioactive “space weather” and the lifespan of our home galaxy.A new map, called SPICE-RACS, shows magnetic fields throughout…
SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAFive people, including four 17-year-old boys, have been charged with the alleged murder and kidnapping of a relative of a bikie club president.Police allege the group broke into Patrick Longordo’s South Morang house on May 15 about 3am, and dragged him out of his home and into a waiting car.The group then allegedly murdered Longordo and dumped his body in a park in Tarneit, an hour’s drive away, at about 4.30am.Police have charged six people over the death of Patrick Longordo, including five for…
SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAASnowy Hydro is pushing back on critics of its controversial energy project with new modelling showing the huge pumped hydro project will be needed in coming decades to keep a lid on power prices as renewables flood the electricity grid and coal plants close.Chief executive of Snowy Hydro, Dennis Barnes, has conceded that cost blowouts above the current $12 billion price tag are inevitable, and hinted that ongoing delays may mean the project may not reach its 2028 completion deadline.Snowy Hydro is pushing back…
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SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAABerkeley: Ruben Zadkovich saw it coming. In September 2024, before Lucas Herrington had played a senior game at club level, the then-Brisbane Roar coach made an extraordinary declaration, unprompted: that this frizzy-haired 16-year-old beanpole standing behind him, a player who most fans had never heard of, was actually “the best defender in Australian football right now”.“For me, he has the highest ceiling of anyone,” Zadkovich said.Of anyone?The reaction was mixed to negative. Most people rolled their eyes, thinking Zadkovich – a young coach keen…