Navigation sounders turned off before ship hit sea floor, report notes
Tue, 17 Mar 2026 05:18:46 +0000
A preliminary report has revealed new details about how an Australian research vessel hit the ocean floor after navigational echo sounders were turned off to stop interference with scientific sampling.
Remote NT town's only major supermarket set to leave region
Tue, 17 Mar 2026 05:04:06 +0000
Woolworths has run the main supermarket in the NT town of Nhulunbuy since 1972, but is now planning to pull the pin on its operations.
Avoid sugar hits economists warn as rate hike pain rolls out
Tue, 17 Mar 2026 04:29:31 +0000
Economist are urging the government make brave budget calls as Australian households prepare to sweat through another rate rise.

Live: Reserve Bank hikes cash rate to 4.1 per cent after 'robust' conversations, RBA governor says
Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:33:40 +0000
The Reserve Bank has raised the cash rate to 4.1 per cent, its second hike in as many months as inflationary pressures continue. Follow the latest updates in our live blog.
Avoid sugar hits economists warn as rate hike pain rolls out
Tue, 17 Mar 2026 04:29:31 +0000
Economist are urging the government make brave budget calls as Australian households prepare to sweat through another rate rise.
'People are DONE': The online MAGA beef over the Iran war
Tue, 17 Mar 2026 04:03:01 +0000
A civil war within the MAGA movement is getting more lewd by the day as prominent right-wing figures feud online over the war in Iran.
'We haven't seen anything yet': China's plan to kick foreign oil habit
Tue, 17 Mar 2026 01:27:46 +0000
China is adopting green energy at a scale hard to imagine for many other countries, with the country's latest five-year plan further signalling its intention to reduce its dependency on foreign oil.

What Rankine learned after AFL ban, Swans back their new 'focal point'
Tue, 17 Mar 2026 03:55:31 +0000
Izak Rankine is set to play his first AFL match in 2026 since serving a four-match ban for a homophobic slur.
Towns pick up pieces after loss of Commonwealth Games that should have started today
Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:34:11 +0000
The 2026 Victorian Commonwealth Games would have started today, but attention now turns to the unbuilt housing and unfinished regional projects that were promised.
Chelsea receives record Premier League fine for breaches of financial rules
Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:07:18 +0000
Chelsea are fined a record total of $20.2 million for historical breaches of the Premier League's financial regulations, but avoid a points deduction.
Australian tennis coach cops doping ban after admitting to blood transfusion
Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:22:17 +0000
Former world number 39 Marinko Matosevic receives a four-year doping ban from tennis's global integrity agency, which he had labelled "corrupt" during its investigation.