Operation Amarok VI ran from Wednesday to Saturday across the state. Follow the day’s news liveGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastACTU lodges submission for right to disconnect to be incorporated into awardsThe Australian Council of Trade Unions has today lodged its submission to the Fair Work Commission on the...

Coup leader killed and 50 people, including Americans, arrested after men reportedly attacked presidency in capital KinshasaThe leader of an attempted coup on Sunday in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has been killed and some 50 people including three American citizens arrested, a spokesperson for the Central African country’s army told Reuters.Gunfire...

Republican senator’s comments come as he is considered among Trump’s top candidates for vice-presidentThe Republican Florida senator Marco Rubio said on Sunday he would not commit to accepting the 2024 presidential election results, insisting that “if it’s unfair” his party will “go to court and point out the fact that states are not following their...

A country already in political transition could soon be forced to replace more than one leaderThe Iranian helicopter crash comes at a time when the country, faced by unprecedented external challenges, was already bracing itself for a change in regime with the expected demise in the next few years of its 85-year-old supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.In...

Taliban says four arrested over attack at Bamiyan heritage site that killed three Spanish visitors and an AfghanIslamic State has claimed responsibility for an attack by gunmen in Afghanistan’s central Bamiyan province that killed three Spanish tourists on Friday.The Taliban’s interior ministry spokesperson, Abdul Mateen Qani, said on Sunday that four...

Labour sees no electoral gain in flagging sector’s funding crisis – but losses cannot be sustained much longerEx-ministers say universities will go bust without higher fees or fundingWhy are universities in such financial dire straits? According to one sector leader, it’s because they are losing money on two of their three income streams, while their...