Exclusive: Fringe investigation finds complaints from two performers about Simone Pulga’s behaviour to be substantiatedFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastMelbourne Fringe will not use the Butterfly Club as a festival venue this year, after complaints alleging...

PM expresses frustration with unspecified newspapers and commentators, saying many articles ‘essentially about clickbait these days’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAnthony Albanese has accused some rightwing media of being “stenographers” and a “cheer squad”...

Labor MP Brittany Lauga says she will contest the October state election despite enduring an ‘indescribably tough’ timeGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA Queensland MP who recently alleged she was drugged and sexually assaulted has confirmed she will run in the state election despite an “indescribably tough” few...

Royal assent to be given to law overturning convictions of branch operators accrued over 22 years in England and WalesHundreds of post office operators convicted on charges including false accounting, theft and fraud are set to be exonerated by an unprecedented act of parliament.The moment will be marked by the release of an open letter to all the affected...

Mike DeWine ordered emergency session to fix scheduling issues preventing Biden’s name from being placed on November ballotOhio’s Republican governor, Mike DeWine, has called an emergency legislative session to put Joe Biden’s name on the presidential ballot after what he called an “absurd” threat from the state’s top election officer to remove the...

Organisers expect 75% of identified bacterial pollution will be gone by the time the starting gun fires for the open water eventsBeside a sign saying “No swimming”, Pierre Fuzeau defiantly pulled on his swimming cap, slipped into the green water of the Ourcq canal on Paris’s northern edge, and set off with a strong front-crawl.The 66-year-old company...