Tax breaks for work lunches are on the cards as part of a push by the Coalition to win over small businesses, as Peter Dutton looks to regain ground in inner-city Brisbane seats. The opposition leader used a campaign rally to unveil a plan to allow tax deductions of up to $20,000 for meal and…
A infant has been killed and four children and an adult injured in a horrific house fire in Tasmania on Sunday morning. Police and emergency services responded to reports of a fire at Rokeby shortly before 9am. The house was alight when fire crews arrived to contain the blaze. A child and an adult were…
It’s not unusual to see individuals championed as heroes of climate action, with their efforts to install rooftop solar and buy electric cars promoted as pivotal in the fight to save the planet. Hero figures can motivate others to follow suit, but a University of Sydney study suggests the way the energy sector shapes this…
The New South Wales premier, Chris Minns, has vowed to strengthen the state’s hate speech laws in response to a spate of antisemitic incidents, including the vandalism of a prominent Jewish leader’s former home on Friday. The series of attacks in Sydney, which include vandalism of homes and setting vehicles alight, has prompted concern from…
A Queensland man has been charged with attempted murder for allegedly setting fire to a woman in a horrific act of domestic violence in a home south of Brisbane. After being treated by paramedics at the scene in the Logan suburb of Kingston on Saturday morning, the 34-year-old woman was rushed to the Royal Brisbane…
City workers in Atlanta have killed a man living in a tent while clearing a homeless encampment with construction equipment near Martin Luther King’s famous Georgia church. The death of Cornelius Taylor on Thursday afternoon resulted from an effort to reduce the visibility of people without shelter near the city’s historic Ebenezer Baptist church as…
A fuel tanker exploded after flipping over in central Nigeria on Saturday, killing 70 people who had scrambled to take the fuel. Kumar Tsukwam, the head of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) in Niger State, said a truck carrying 60,000 litres of gasoline had an accident at about 10am at the Dikko junction on…
Two judges have been killed in a shooting on Saturday at the supreme court building in Tehran, Iranian state media has reported. “This morning, a gunman infiltrated the supreme court in a planned act of assassination of two brave and experienced judges. The two judges were martyred in the act,” the judiciary’s Mizan Online website…
Donald Trump has said he will “most likely” give the Chinese-owned TikTok app a 90-day reprieve from a potential ban in the US after he takes office on Monday morning. The incoming president said on Saturday, in an interview with NBC News, that he was considering the extension on a Sunday deadline laid down for…
The UK is to introduce digital driving licences this year as the government looks to use technology to “transform public services”. The digital version of driving licences will be available in a virtual wallet in a government app, instead of being added to existing Google or Apple wallets. It could be accepted as a form…
