USA Update

The Cook Government is set to announce another $2 billion plus budget surplus in tomorrow’s end-of-year financial update as pressure mounts on Labor to spend more on tackling rising living expenses.

Councils have warned library services could soon be limited due to funding failing to kept pace with demand, as the cost-of-living crisis drives more people to use public resources. 

Nathan McSweeney won’t be a part of Australian cricket’s biggest day and the decision to dump him for the Boxing Day Test was not only harsh, but it looks like he was set up to fail.

It’s put up or shut up for a number of teams in the NFL this week, with an abundance of playoff clinching and ruining scenarios waiting to unfold. 

This year’s slate of Boxing Day and New Year’s Day movie releases is noticeably lacking at the big-budget end of the spectrum, but what it lacks in blockbusters, it more than makes up for in critters. 

I told my bank manager I was planning on being scammed. It was like I’d just announced I wanted to close a credit card, or get a vasectomy, or something else you shouldn’t disclose to your bank manager.

The lead-up to Christmas is frantic.

I’ve had an interesting lead-up to Christmas. I’m starting to wonder if I should give it a miss this year: whether Father Christmas is trying to send me a message that I should sit this one out.

Once-tight business associates fell out when Sasha Hopkins’ A Team Property Group took off like a rocket with slicker marketing and more success Ricky Hirsch’s Fulfil The Dream.

The US is set to remove a $10 million bounty on Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, the leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the opposition group that spearheaded an offensive against Bashar Assad’s Syrian government forces. Barbara Leaf, the Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, made the announcement in an online briefing on Friday while […]