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A rental car has crashed into the water of a Hyde Park fountain in central Sydney.

Updated June 3, 2026 — 5:29pm,first published 4:09pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAElectric vehicles have notched a new milestone, reaching nearly half of all new vehicle sales last month, revealing the potential for clean cars to defy the sceptics and help Australia to meet its climate goals.The government’s 2035 climate target was deemed unachievable by many commentators when the independent Climate Change Authority, headed by former NSW Treasurer Matt Kean, declared last year that half of all vehicles must be electric if Australia was to reach its goal.Electric vehicles…

Andrew Johns selects his Blues team for game two and concedes he is concerned about Mitchell Moses.

A convicted murderer who claims his human rights have been breached because he can’t eat Vegemite behind bars has been told not to expect special treatment.

Brought to you by BULLS N’ BEARSMurray WardJune 3, 2026 — 5:06pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAIn what Ardea Resources insists is a shrewd value-improving move, the company has pushed back the completion timeline for its definitive feasibility study (DFS) at the globally significant Goongarrie Hub nickel-cobalt project near Kalgoorlie.The comprehensive final report will now extend beyond the previously targeted 30 June milestone to incorporate a suite of key value-engineering opportunities, designed to enhance the project’s economics and long-term value.Definitive feasibility study underway at Ardea Resources massive Goongarrie Hub…

Cat Zakrzewski and Theodoric MeyerJune 3, 2026 — 3:30pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAASince the start of US President Donald Trump’s second term, a Republican-controlled Congress has confirmed almost all his controversial nominees, ceded trade authority to the White House and largely acquiesced as the president started a hugely unpopular war in Iran.But the administration’s plan to create a $US1.8 billion ($2.5 billion) fund for people claiming political persecution has proved a step too far, triggering a GOP revolt on Capitol Hill that forced the White House to back…

The discovery of folders of negatives from nearly 50 years ago creates a photographic time machine for the original snapper.SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAIt all started with pictures at an exhibition.Old pictures in an exhibition of work by women photographers, one of whom had taken candid shots of life in an inner-city share house in the 1970s. Standing in the gallery, admiring them, it suddenly hit me: hang on, I also took photos in and around a share house in the ’70s.But where were they?A woman out walking…

Blues coach Laurie Daley speaks to Nine’s Danny Weidler about the pressure on him leading into game two.

OpinionShane WrightSenior economics correspondentJune 3, 2026 — 7:00pmJune 3, 2026 — 7:00pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAAustralia is in the midst of economic revolution.No matter your thoughts on artificial intelligence, whether it will be our saviour or plunge us into some dystopian sci-fi form of hell, the impact of the technology is being felt across Australia right now.The nation is amid an AI infrastructure spending boom the likes of which we haven’t seen since the nation’s miners went on a tear in the early 2010s.The interior of a data…

Work continues to run around the clock to respond to residents caught out by South Australia’s stormy start to winter.