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June 11, 2026 — 5:00amSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAIt was hardly a surprise to learn that Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest, executive chairman of the mining giant Fortescue, was making personal overtures to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese over the billionaire’s campaign to wind back the diesel fuel rebate.What did amuse us, however, was the whiff of desperation with which Twiggy was forced to write to Albo asking to discuss the proposed reforms, in a letter sent before the May 12 federal budget.Fortescue founder Andrew Forrest was front and centre at…

SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAABrittany Higgins is returning to frontline politics, launching a campaign against Pauline Hanson’s One Nation and what she describes as a rising tide of “misogyny, extremism and anti-democratic movements” in Australia.Higgins has been appointed executive director of the Vida Fund, a progressive fundraising and advocacy group established to support independent candidates and push gender equity reforms. In her first major role since leaving politics, she said the organisation would target the growing influence of the “new right”, including female One Nation voters.From left: Incoming…

Stan ChoeJune 11, 2026 — 5:22amSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAWall Street is sharply lower in late trade with AI stocks again weighing on the market while escalating tensions in the Middle East are casting doubt on when United States and Iran can reach a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to oil tankers.The S&P 500 sank 0.9 per cent after bouncing between a modest gain and a loss of 1.3 per cent, and it’s heading toward its first back-to-back drop in three weeks. The Dow Jones was…

SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAWe brought you part one earlier in the week, and now it’s time for part two of our group-by-group guide to the 2026 World Cup.From reigning champions Argentina to this year’s favourites to lift the trophy (spoiler alert, it’s Spain and France) there are a lot of players and nations to put under the microscope. So we’ve done the hard work for you to help you wrap your head around the expanded 48-team tournament.The top two teams from each of the 12 groups, and…

SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAASome of Australia’s most prominent domestic violence experts have thrown their weight behind Virginia Giuffre’s family’s plea for a public coronial inquest, warning that the circumstances surrounding her death raise broader questions about family violence, coercive control and expose systemic failures.In a rare intervention, 16 researchers and practitioners from some of the nation’s most influential universities and domestic violence organisations have written a letter to West Australian Coroner Ros Fogliani.Virginia Giuffre with a photo of herself as a teen, when she says she was…

SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAA West Australian man whose gun was seized in a series of raids targeting sovereign citizens has lost a major legal challenge, marking the first time a court has validated the police’s justification for targeting the anti-government movement.George Carey had his firearm seized by police during the raids across Perth and the metropolitan area late last year, after WA Police became concerned with a series of high-profile incidents in the eastern states, including the murders of Victorian police committed by sovereign citizen Dezi Freeman.Dozens…

June 11, 2026 — 5:00amSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAWith two expansion clubs joining the NRL in the next two years, and talk already turning to a third following soon after, rugby league needs more players.Ninety to 100 extra players is what that translates to at the top level alone, let alone the juniors and pathways that set a club up for the long term.Where I think there’s an opportunity to find those players – and it’s only an opportunity – is in South Africa. And an even bigger,…

June 11, 2026 — 5:00amSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAATime flies when you’re not having fun. On Friday, Angus Taylor will have notched up four months as Liberal leader. How’s he going? Not so well. The highly educated Taylor appears to have believed he was making a serious point about declining trust in politicians when he said earlier this week that the Coalition was suffering a loss of support to One Nation because the Albanese government had broken promises on tax in the budget.“That’s damaging both sides of politics.…

SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAThe threat of China severing sea cables to cut Australia’s internet access has pushed Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke to launch a security assessment into seabed security, as Labor boosts training among office workers to avoid a catastrophic hacking incident.As AI allows hackers to mimic human voices to dupe workers and enter firms’ digital networks, Burke shifted focus from major critical infrastructure to the millions of small and medium-sized firms where he wants to create a “human firewall”.Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke and the…