Anthony Albanese and Chris Minns have celebrated a $2.5 billion taxpayer-backed deal to save Australia’s largest aluminium smelter, but the extraordinary intervention has opened an uncomfortable question for Labor: how did a plant that has operated for more than four decades reach the point where government support was needed to keep its furnaces running? Tomago … Read more
Pauline Hanson is calling for Australia to stop ordinary migration from countries considered too dangerous for Australians to visit, opening a new front in the rapidly escalating national battle over immigration and security. The One Nation leader wants the federal government to use Australia’s own overseas security assessments when deciding whether migrants from high-risk countries … Read more
Please keep little Willow in your prayers. After a big meeting with all of her medical teams, her family received some encouraging news. Right now, Willow is considered stable with the help of her VAD and oxygen. Her liver and kidneys are doing well, and despite everything her little body has endured, her doctors say … Read more
Please Pray for 18-Year-Old Lydia She thought she had a piece of popcorn stuck under her gum. It turned out to be cancer. Now, at just 18 years old, Lydia Gable Drew is fighting a rare form of bone cancer affecting her upper jaw. Her story began with what seemed like something ordinary. After Christmas, … Read more
Anthony Albanese has nominated Bob Hawke as the Labor prime minister whose governing philosophy most closely resembles his own — an intriguing choice given the young Albanese emerged from a Labor Left movement that repeatedly challenged the Hawke government. The Prime Minister made the comparison during an interview with Kieran Gilbert as he reached another … Read more
Independent Senator Lidia Thorpe is facing renewed criticism over an extraordinary confrontation at a parliamentary racism inquiry in which she told an academic who opposed Welcome to Country ceremonies that the system was trying to “eradicate people like you”. The remarks were directed at Dr Peter Balan OAM during a public hearing in Brisbane on … Read more
Pauline Hanson has fired back after thousands of school and university students walked out of classes across Australia to protest against her and One Nation, telling young Australians their schools should teach them “how to think, not what to think”. The One Nation leader issued the pointed response after coordinated demonstrations were held across major … Read more
A Quiet Courage: How Children Born with Phocomelia Redefine Strength Beyond Physical Limits Entering the world with a rare condition often means inheriting a life filled with unspoken challenges, yet for children born with phocomelia, it also means displaying an extraordinary level of resilience from their very first breath. Phocomelia is an extremely uncommon congenital … Read more
At seventeen, Emily became a mother to three tiny girls—and in the same breath, she lost the family she had always known. When her parents learned she was pregnant, they made a choice that left her standing alone. The guidance, the support, the simple love she had hoped for disappeared overnight. Suddenly the girl who … Read more
Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi’s decision to openly encourage school students to leave class for a nationwide protest against Pauline Hanson has intensified a difficult political question: where should Australia draw the line between encouraging young people to participate in democracy and recruiting them into partisan political campaigns? The controversy centres on a Greens-authorised video published … Read more