A multi-billion-dollar initiative involving cash handouts of up to $300 for every Australian worker is emerging as one of the key cost-of-living measures in next week’s Budget.

Australia is working to finalise an upgraded security treaty with Fiji this week as China appears to have killed off efforts to clinch a similar deal with Vanuatu. 

The Reserve Bank has raised interest rates by another 25 basis points to 4.35 per cent, undoing last year’s relief. Governor Michele Bullock hinted at more pain and cautioned against higher government spending.

The motorcade of Vice President JD Vance went through the area not long before the shooting.

A spokesperson said he developed a restrictive airway disease after 9/11 which ‘adds complications’ to respiratory illnesses.

ANDREW GREENE: A top US commander has arrived in Australia for talks after warning America lacks the naval strength to counter China’s growing aggression.

NT Children’s Commissioner won’t investigate what authorities knew about Kumanjayi Little Baby before her death as questions mount and the girl’s accused killer Jefferson Lewis faces court for the first time.

The Reserve Bank has raised interest rates by another 25 basis points to 4.35 per cent, undoing last year’s relief. Governor Michele Bullock hinted at more pain and cautioned against higher government spending.

Maree Mavis Crabtree is accused of murdering her son to claim $125,000 insurance payout, and her daughter is a witness in the trial.

AARON PATRICK: A government that has spent four years splashing cash, driving up inflation and interest rates, is now promising to become fiscally conservative.

War inflation is squeezing the owner of Bunnings, Kmart and Target, with the boss warning higher costs will soon be passed onto customers.

Australia’s biggest steelworks is generating about half the profits it could be from assets like Port Kembla, according to businessman Ryan Stokes, who is leading a takeover bid for the company.

There’s more to the Danish capital than Noma and the evolution of new Nordic is currently cooking. 

Attempting to recreate an African safari experience on the outskirts of a major Australian city is an ambitious endeavour. Does Journey Beyond’s new South Australian savannah deliver?

A former cargo shed is reinvented as a lush, riverside retreat — inside Australia’s first 1 Hotel.

EDITORIAL: A Government cash splash will be working in direct opposition to the RBA. And looking at the big picture beyond a possible small Government sugar hit, we will all be the losers.

AARON PATRICK: A government that has spent four years splashing cash, driving up inflation and interest rates, is now promising to become fiscally conservative.

The Devil Wears Prada 2 is, of course, a fantasy, but it’s a fantasy that audiences — especially, it seems safe to say, female audiences — are flocking to. 

AI never needs to sleep, never tries to form a union and often outperforms real people on real tasks; of course companies will want to replace human beings with this human-being-replacement machine. 

On the first day of testimony in a landmark trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, two notably different tales were offered of how OpenAI evolved.

The Devil Wears Prada 2 is, of course, a fantasy, but it’s a fantasy that audiences — especially, it seems safe to say, female audiences — are flocking to. 

There are two months and two weeks to go until Christopher Nolan’s take on the original epic is released.

From Margot Robbie’s simple gold gown to Madonna wearing a ship as a hat, check out this year’s weird and wonderful fashion statements.

AI never needs to sleep, never tries to form a union and often outperforms real people on real tasks; of course companies will want to replace human beings with this human-being-replacement machine. 

Testing will be ramped up following the shock discovery.

A young woman says she lost the ability to walk after becoming addicted to something widely available across Australia.

Houses near the beach an hour’s drive from a major capital city are still on the market for just $600,000. Here’s why prices here have hardly moved during the past five years.

Health experts have warned the government to act quickly on unregulated nicotine patches or risk repeating the vaping epidemic that has plagued Australia.

Fussy eaters? A nutritionist shares simple sugar-free recipes and tricks that actually get kids eating well.

AFL chief executive Andrew Dillon says Carlton had sufficient cues to know they needed to withdraw Elijah Hollands earlier in their loss to Collingwood as the league revealed the Blues’ punishment.

If I can offer Craig Bellamy one piece of advice as he enters this most challenging chapter of his life — do what makes you happy.

A young boy has died in horrific circumstances after a dream family holiday turned to tragedy. 

Upon meeting Mr Mountbatten-Windsor for the first time, a former diplomat said he was ‘surprised’ by this one trait of the former prince’s.

Three people are dead after a small plane crashed into a residential building in southeastern Brazil.