
#theguardian.com. × Victorian attorney general lambasts integrity expert over ‘unfounded claim’ CFMEU corruption cost taxpayers $15bn. Rotting from the Top report author Geoffrey Watson says ‘personal attacks’ from Labor government ministers have ‘crossed a line’
#Feb.18.2026

#theguardian.com. × Race commissioner calls on Pauline Hanson to apologise amid condemnation of ‘reprehensible’ Muslim comments. One Nation leader’s statements about Muslims also labelled ‘bigoted and wrong’ by NSW minister for multiculturalism
#Feb.18.2026

#theguardian.com. × Wealthy Americans top ‘golden visa’ surge in New Zealand and applications from China double. US family who were 100th to be granted residency under investor scheme say they want to give back to ‘amazing’ New Zealand
#Feb.18.2026

#theguardian.com. × Man charged with murder after Merrylands stabbing spree had allegedly absconded from hospital. Sydney health authorities say 25-year-old accused ‘absconded from care while being transferred from Cumberland to Westmead hospital’ 10 days earlier
#Feb.17.2026


#theguardian.com. × Role of far-right ‘manosphere’ in homophobic attacks on men to be investigated in Victoria. Exclusive: Greens move to call parliamentary inquiry after series of ‘disturbing’ attacks targeting gay and bisexual men lured via dating apps
#Feb.17.2026

#theguardian.com. × Will Tony Abbott return to frontline politics? The Liberal party’s most polarising figure can imagine a way. The former PM is open to resurrecting a parliamentary career if Angus Taylor does what Peter Dutton wouldn’t and actively drafts him in
#Feb.17.2026

#theguardian.com. × Building 1.2m homes will barely put a dent in Australia’s housing affordability, one expert says. Here’s why. Thinking ‘supply is the answer’ lets politicians dodge a much more difficult conversation about tax – for investors and owners
#Feb.17.2026

#theguardian.com. × Algorithm-based tool for home support funding is ‘cruel’ and ‘inhumane’, Australian aged care workers warn. Mark Aitken, who worked in the sector for 16 years, said eight times out of 10 he disagreed with the integrated assessment tool
#Feb.17.2026

#theguardian.com. × Gentoo penguins the first birds on Australian territory to contract H5N1 as bird flu spreads. Australian Antarctic Program scientists say virus on Heard Island has spread to new species
#Feb.17.2026

#theguardian.com. × Family of 85-year-old Sydney man kidnapped by mistake say they are ‘living through a nightmare’. Chris Baghsarian’s relatives say ‘kidnapping feels surreal and we are struggling to make sense of the fact he has been taken’
#Feb.17.2026

#theguardian.com. × Angus Taylor says his new frontbench will take the fight to Labor, but his biggest battle is to save the Liberal party. Opposition leader picks Tim Wilson as shadow treasurer while rewarding his supporters and elevating some strong performers
#Feb.17.2026

#theguardian.com. × How a hardline ‘Trump-style’ Liberal immigration policy to ban migrants from Gaza and Somalia was developed. Another senior member of Sussan Ley’s team has expressed serious reservations about aspects of the plan
#Feb.17.2026

#theguardian.com. × Tony Burke ‘taking advice’ from security agencies about Australian women and children in Syria seeking to return. Temporary Exclusion Orders allow the home affairs minister to stop a person entering for up to two years, but there is a high bar for the powers
#Feb.17.2026

#theguardian.com. × Liam Alexander Hall named as man accused of attempted Invasion Day bombing in Perth. Liam Alexander Hall is the first person to be charged with terrorism offences in Western Australia
#Feb.17.2026

#theguardian.com. × NSW police end restriction on protests now Israeli president has left the country. Widespread allegations of police brutality followed a rally outside Sydney’s Town Hall on 9 February against visit by Isaac Herzog
#Feb.17.2026

#theguardian.com. × Man arrested after stabbing in western Sydney leaves one dead and two critically injured. Three people stabbed in attack near Merrylands train station, with NSW police stating accused was known to them for past ‘mental health incidents’
#Feb.17.2026

#theguardian.com. × Coles tells court its Down Down promotions were ‘fair dinkum’ and did not mislead shoppers. Supermarket defends pricing practices after ACCC labels discounts ‘utterly misleading’ in federal court case
#Feb.17.2026

#theguardian.com. × Former NRL star Matt Utai shot outside home in western Sydney. Premiership-winning Canterbury winger hit in stomach and leg in Greenacre shooting
#Feb.16.2026


#theguardian.com. × KPMG partner fined for using artificial intelligence to cheat in AI training test. Firm says person fined A$10,000 is one of over two dozen staff in Australia caught using AI in exams since July
#Feb.16.2026

#theguardian.com. × Scientists to track 10,000 moths across Australia, using little more than eyelash glue and confetti-like tags. First-of-its-kind project will see bogong moths tagged in the Australian Alps and monitored as they reach breeding grounds
#Feb.16.2026

#theguardian.com. × What the Albanese government did on the environment amid the Liberals’ turmoil: threatened species, a new coal project and carbon leakage. Labor chose a day when attention was focused on the opposition to slip out a handful of announcements
#Feb.16.2026

#theguardian.com. × Moderate Liberals warn Angus Taylor against adopting Trump-style immigration policies. Paul Scarr, the shadow immigration minister under Sussan Ley and South Australian senator Andrew McLachlan expressed concern
#Feb.16.2026
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