Written by An Australian-led project to grow plants on the moon has secured a ride on a lunar mission scheduled for takeoff in 2025. Plants and seeds ensconced in a carefully engineered capsule will make the 380,000km trip aboard an Intuitive Machines lunar lander. The mission – the Australian Lunar Experiment Promoting Horticulture (Aleph) – is one […]
Victoria Cross for Vietnam war veteran who ran into enemy fire to help comrades Kate Lyons The governor general and prime minister have announced the posthumous awarding of the Victoria Cross, Australia’s highest military honour, to Private Richard Norden, a veteran of the Vietnam war. Norden, then aged 19, ran into enemy fire after his […]
Jamie Oliver says he is “devastated” by the offence he has caused to First Nations people and has issued an apology, after calls by Australia’s peak body for Indigenous education for the British celebrity chef to withdraw his children’s book from sale. Oliver is in Australia promoting his latest cookbook, Simply Jamie, but it is […]
Systems outage impacting international arrivals and departures Sydney airport has confirmed there are delays at immigration due to a national outage affecting Border Force processing systems. In a statement, the airport said passengers are being processed manually and that no flights have been affected – despite queues being longer than usual. Passengers travelling today are […]
Australian movie star Chris Hemsworth has been criticised for starring in a slick advertisement promoting Abu Dhabi as a tourism destination in partnership with the United Arab Emirates government, the latest celebrity to use their influence to promote the gulf state. Hemsworth features in the minute-long ad with his actor and model wife, Elsa Pataky, […]
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Shadow treasurer Angus Taylor says the country is off track, and asks why Australian families are paying the price for the government’s “reckless spending”. Treasurer Jim Chalmers says the Coalition gave Australia much higher public debt and student debt, while Labor […]
Ultra-aggressive Australia almost fumbled a certain victory but eventually steadied after a lightning quick spell from Haris Rauf to beat Pakistan by two wickets in the first ODI at the MCG. Chasing just 204, Australia crumbled to 139 for six in the 21st over as Rauf skittled the middle order, when the hosts were trying […]
Good morning Well hello, Australia, and welcome to the third-last sitting week of the parliamentary year. I just learned that the word for that is “antepenultimate”. Prime minister Anthony Albanese joined South Australian premier Peter Malinauskas yesterday to kick off what some are referring to as the election campaign. When we’re all distracted by the […]
Unclaimed Myki credit sits at $115m Josh Taylor The Victorian government is holding $115m in unclaimed Myki funds in a trust, Guardian Australia can reveal. Last month, the NSW government announced it was holding $143m in unused Opal transport card funds from nearly 18m cards that hadn’t been tapped on for over a year, encouraging […]
ATO reveals almost a third of companies paid no income tax in 2022-23 Elias Visontay Australia’s largest corporations paid almost $100bn in income tax in a year, fresh statistics published by the government reveal. The latest data, released by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) on Friday, covers the 2022-23 financial year, and reveals the office […]