19+ hour, 34+ min ago  (462+ words) Sydney Opera House ForecourtThe 77-year-old is one of our greatest living performers, doing sit-ups, hula-hooping and even flashing the audience " but her rich voice is the true revelation From her island life as a young girl in Spanish Town, Jamaica,…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago  (1083+ words) Infrastructure minister says the Newcastle-Sydney project will build on decades of work and planning " but experts "won't be cutting any cakes until there's shovels in the ground' "A second airport for Sydney has to be connected to Sydney by both…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago  (724+ words) A third family says the Australian government must do more to hold Israel and the Israeli Defence Force to account, including demanding an apology The families of dead Australian soldiers whose graves were bulldozed by the Israeli Defence Force in…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago  (858+ words) Town in the state's Pilbara region was the site of three blue asbestos mines and has been described as "the largest contaminated site in the southern hemisphere' A group of Indigenous Australians whose traditional lands have been contaminated for decades…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago  (922+ words) Jess Wilson's housing plan offers little that is truly new " but Jacinta Allan claims it draws a line through Melbourne and locks millennials out A genuine policy contest has finally broken out over housing in Victoria " but it is as…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago  (206+ words) Sydney'The Guardian Two men arrested over alleged kidnapping and murder of 85-year-old in Sydney as police say "others involved" Two men arrested in relation to alleged kidnapping and murder of Chris Baghsarian " video Police searching for kidnapped Chris Baghsarian tracked…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago  (711+ words) Rail line projected to cost taxpayers $61.2bn, with further line to Western Sydney international airport to cost extra $32.4bn Australians would pay $31 for a 60-minute high-speed train between Newcastle and central Sydney from 2039, costing taxpayers $61.2bn, according to a business case provided to…...

6+ day, 8+ hour ago  (794+ words) Transport minister Catherine King will pledge $230m for planning work for the first phase of a bullet train on Australia's east coast Long-mooted plans for high-speed rail could be "shovel-ready" within two years, according to the federal government, which will on…...

6+ day, 13+ hour ago  (401+ words) Tony Burke says he is still considering whether to deny visa application from TV journalist Zvi Yehezkeli An Israeli journalist who once said 100,000 Gazans should have been killed after Hamas" 7 October attack could be stopped from entering Australia ahead of…...

1+ week, 12+ min ago  (175+ words) A man has been charged with serious vilification or hate crime and other offences after a car was allegedly used to ram the gates of a synagogue in Brisbane. Officers allege the man was driving a Toyota Hilux utility when…...