Keyword "Australian history" - List of latest news (90 results)

21/04 The stories behind stirring AFL Anzac tributes

In 1917 a former Collingwood player, Malcolm ‘Doc’ Seddon, was as far from the MCG as any footballer could be.

12/04 Aussie sprinting set for ‘final for the ages’

Australian sprinting is set for “a final for the ages” after Lachlan Kennedy eased to a 10.16 seconds effort in his 100m semi-final at the Australian Athletics Championships in Perth.

10/03 Devastating detail in iconic beach photo

The golden shores that attract millions of visitors every year to the southeast corner of Queensland have been left battered and bruised at the hands of ex-tropical cyclone Alfred.

04/03 ‘Shameful’: AFL torched for Opening Round cyclone action

The AFL will on Tuesday be forced to abandon its plans for Thursday night’s season opener in Brisbane with the Queensland government reportedly making the decision for them.

22/02 Albanese hits Dutton where it hurts most

Anthony Albanese is tipped to call an April election as early as next weekend after announcing his $8 billion investment in Medicare to deliver “free” GP visits for Australians.

22/02 Anthony Albanese reveals $8 billion Medicare offer

Free GP visits will be offered to the vast majority of Australians in a dramatic $8 billion investment in Medicare that the Prime Minister hopes is big enough to save his job and save families hundreds of dollars a year.

14/02 Love costs a fortune this Valentine’s Day

One anonymous devoted Sydney partner has broken down the costs of trying to impress his girlfriend, which came to more than $1400 dollars.

13/02 Legend lashes out over infuriating Kerr issue

Former star striker Lisa De Vanna has launched a tirade at Football Australia over its handling of Sam Kerr’s court case.

04/02 Regular egg consumption associated with 29 per cent lower risk of cardiovascular death, study finds

Egg-cellent news for egg enjoyers — eating eggs nearly every day may drastically lower your chance of dying, new research has found.

27/01 ‘Rush’ for eye-watering $70m prize

A lucky Australian could be up to $70m richer after the biggest lottery draw of the year so far.

10/01 ‘This is unacceptable’: Aussie fans condemned as racist cricket chant exposed

The MCG have condemned an ugly chant which marred one of the best Test series’ in recent memory between Australia and India.

06/01 ‘Has to happen’: Powerbrokers considering two-tier Test cricket structure

Cricket’s powerbrokers are reportedly considering the introduction of a two-tier structure for Test cricket to ensure Australia, England and India play each other more often.

03/01 Stomach ache leads to wild discovery

Two Hungarian nationals have been charged for allegedly smuggling heroin into the country, prompted by one of the travellers complaining of a stomach ache.

15/12 2000 bodies exhumed from Aussie sports field

Nearly 2,000 bodies have been exhumed from a sports field at a Tasmania boarding school - with some buried six people deep - in what is believed to be Australia’s largest mass exhumation.

07/12 16-year-old Gout Gout breaks Peter Norman’s 56-year 200m record

Gout Gout has just run himself into Australian history at the 2024 Chemist Warehouse Australian All Schools Athletics Championships, breaking Peter Norman’s 56-year 200m record.

08/07 What were dingoes like before the European invasion? Centuries-old DNA reveals a surprising history

Dingo DNA study reveals an ancient population split and surprisingly recent links to New Guinea singing dogs.

11/05 Look closely at Archie Moore's mammoth family tree and you might find yourself

It took four people months to draw Archie Moore's enormous family tree – but it'll all be erased soon.

22/04 ‘Really low for Australian history’: Our fertility rate is dropping steadily amid cost of living crisis

Australia’s birthrates are at startling lows two decades on from the Liberal Party’s baby bonus, prompting concerns from demographers who say our nation must prepare for population decline.

08/04 ‘Sadness’: Aussie music industry legend dead

A respected Australian music industry stalwart “passed peacefully” on the weekend following complications from surgery.

21/03 Graph exposes $40 billion ‘lie’ driving immigration

Australia’s record immigration intake is largely being fuelled by an unprecedented influx of international students, which universities claim are Australia’s fourth-biggest “export” bringing in $40 billion a year.

17/03 Aussies set for whopping $272m Uber payout

Uber is set to fork out a whopping $272 million to Australian taxi drivers in a historic world-first-class action settlement.

08/03 ‘Great rock’: PM’s tribute to Indigenous leader

A trailblazing Indigenous leader who suffered through the trauma of discrimination before rising up to help usher in native title laws in the 1990s has been remembered as a “great rock” in Australian history in an emotional farewell attended by Anthony Albanese and hundreds of mourners.

25/02 Aussie crowd’s brutal Logan Paul act puts star in his place

The biggest pro wrestling event in Australian history promised to be a wild one and it certainly delivered.

06/02 ‘Disaster’: Australia demolish West Indies in ‘embarrassing’ historic bloodbath

Australia has absolutely destroyed the West Indies, wrapping up the third ODI with 259 balls remaining in an absolute shellacking.

02/02 Queensland man reveals brutal plan for $200 million Powerball jackpot

One bold Queenslander has likely landed himself in hot water at home after confessing on breakfast TV that he would skip town and not tell his wife if he scored the $200 million Powerball jackpot.

01/02 Mum’s big plan after $100m Powerball win

A mum who took home half of Thursday’s record-breaking $200m Powerball draw plans to quit her job and go on an “overseas” tour with her life-changing winnings.

01/02 Winning $200m Powerball numbers revealed

Two entries have won Thursday’s $200m Powerball jackpot, the biggest lottery prize in Australian history.

29/01 Bookstore owner sorry for ‘white kids’ spray

A Melbourne bookstore owner who complained that there were not enough books with “just white kids on the cover” has apologised.

25/01 Winning $150m Powerball numbers revealed: 21, 9, 27, 6, 1, 26, 4. Powerball 10

The winning numbers in the $150 million Powerball lottery have been drawn.

23/01 ScoMo quits politics: Former prime minister Scott Morrison’s surprising new job

Scott Morrison has left politics to join a set of strategic and defence firms with two Trump-era politicians.

14/01 Baby Boomer ‘fact’ everyone gets wrong

Over the past 12 months there has been a great deal of coverage of how older demographics – aka Baby Boomers – are the last remaining driver of per capita consumer spending and disproportionately contributing to inflation.

12/01 Powerball soars to $100 million

Powerball has started the new year with a bang as the jackpot rockets to a huge $100m for the next draw.

29/12 ‘Ah. Cool’: Cummins’ hilarious response to Pakistan’s wild ‘played better’ claim

After taking home the Urn despite England’s ‘moral victory’ in The Ashes, Australian skipper Pat Cummins was surprised to hear Pakistan were the superior team in a Boxing Day Test.

17/12 ‘Lost our love of it’: Australia divided by ‘pathetic’ Test crowd as cricket debate reignites

Is Test cricket in crisis? What’s the truth behind poor crowds? Are Aussies just sick of winning?

11/12 Family’s touching tribute to slain cop

The family of a slain police constable killed in a religiously motivated terror attack in regional Queensland have paid tribute to his “kindness, empathy and willingness to help” one year on from the tragedy.

11/12 Political insider’s dish on Annastacia Palaszczuk’s downfall

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11/12 Luckiest Aussie lotto hotspots revealed

When it comes to winning lottery tickets, some parts of Australia are luckier than others, but the lottery hotspots may surprise you.

08/12 Big win for Australia in John Rahm’s $900m defection to LIV

The last time Jon Rahm played in Australia he anonymously chipped balls during practice rounds for the 2016 World Cup at Kingston Heath as the world’s 120th ranked player.

03/12 How High Court exposed Aussie ‘warehouse’ issue

An immigration law expert says a court decision which resulted in dozens of refugees – some of them serious criminals – being released into the community has ended a “warehouse-like arrangement” where the government would lock up “people they didn’t want to deal with”.

02/12 Why did generations of Australians grow up with names like Bing Crosby, Stalin and Hitler?

Across northern Australia, some Aboriginal people have grown up bearing the names of Hollywood stars and fascist dictators. It's a link back to a dark chapter in history.  

28/11 Maxy delivers another Indian miracle

Glenn Maxwell left India in style smashing the equal-fastest T20 hundred in Australian history, in 47 balls, and 20 runs off the final over to guide his team to a miraculous five-wicket win in his final match of the series in Guwhati.

03/11 John Howard is wrong, multiculturalism is Australian

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16/10 Fury grows over $400 million ‘debacle’

Pressure is growing on the federal government to explain the Voice referendum “wipe-out” and the $400 million poured “down the drain” on the vote during a cost-of-living crisis.

29/09 ‘Top of his game’: Surprise call on Dan

Despite cheers in the centre of Melbourne the moment his resignation was official, Daniel Andrews is perfectly placed for a high-paid corporate gig after leaving politics.

22/09 Waleed reveals Voice’s biggest mistake

Waleed Aly has revealed what he believes is the “biggest mistake” Voice supporters have made in selling the proposal to the Australian public.

11/09 ‘Kick him in the d*ck!’: Unbelievable scenes from UFC in Sydney

It’s a Sunday morning and 20,000 people are gathering to worship at the altar of complete anarchy.

05/09 Woman kept as slave gets record payout

An elderly Tamil woman kept as a slave by a Melbourne family will receive what is believed to be the “largest amount ever recovered by a victim of slavery in Australia”.

04/09 Farnham faces backlash over Voice move

John Farnham is facing a wave of bitter backlash for lending his iconic anthem You’re the Voice to the Yes campaign for the Indigenous Voice to Parliament.

02/09 Farnsy’s big move as he lends his voice to The Voice

Aussie music legend John Farnham has lent his iconic anthem You’re the Voice to the Yes camp in support of the Voice to parliament.

02/09 Father’s Day appeal for William Tyrrell

The former foster parents of missing toddler William Tyrrell say they’ll “never give up” in a Father’s Day plea for information.

09/08 ‘People were angry’ during Uluru dialogues

Calls for “reparations” and a “percentage of GDP” to Indigenous Australians in a series of regional dialogues leading up to the 2017 Uluru Statement from the Heart came at a time when participants were “angry” at then Prime Minister Tony Abbott for pulling half a billion dollars in funding, one of the architects says.

08/08 Huge twist in ‘full’ Uluru Statement blow-up

Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price says the Uluru Statement from the Heart has been “confirmed” as being 26 pages long by the agency that produced the documents under freedom of information, as she called on Anthony Albanese to “come clean” after the Prime Minister derided the claim as a “QAnon” style conspiracy theory on Tuesday.

04/08 ‘Land tax’: Secret doc reveals Treaty demands

Taxpayers may be forced to pay “reparations” to Indigenous Australians for “past, present and future criminal acts” under a proposed treaty, with suggestions that “a fixed percentage” of GDP be handed over through “rates, land tax and royalties”, documents released under freedom of information reveal.

01/08 Cops uncover one of the biggest drug labs in Australian history

Police have uncovered potentially the biggest drug laboratory in Queensland after raiding three storage unit in Brisbane's north.

12/07 Aussie staple unveils ‘incredible’ new look

Vegemite has unveiled a bold new look, shaking up its much-loved packaging in honour of a very special occasion.

07/07 ‘Recession’: Sign economy running out of gas

Since the pandemic first began significantly impacting the Australian economy in the early months of 2020, we have witnessed surprise after surprise for the economy and households. Through a commitment of more than half a trillion dollars in stimulus between state and federal governments and pandemic-fuelled demand, the economy has proven to be far more resilient than most expected.

23/06 Can Australia dodge a recession?

In the years since the 1990-1991 recession, Australia’s economy has become the envy of the world, as the Lucky Country managed to dodge a technical recession for almost 30 years.

21/06 Clock ticks on $100M powerball draw

Australians are counting down the hours ahead of the second biggest lottery draw ever that could make one lucky person a multi-millionaire.

06/06 Jackie ‘O’ reveals the response to her weight loss

Jackie ‘O’ Henderson is one of the most famous women in Australia, and with that comes the public’s excessive interest in her weight. Now, she’s ready to really talk about it.

04/06 Kochie to name new Sunrise host

David Koch will name his successor in just hours, after dropping the bombshell he was leaving the Sunrise couch after more than 20 years on air.

03/06 Leyland Brothers star Mal plans 'last hurrah' travel documentary adventure across Australia

From gun-slinging stand-offs to scorched testicles, the surviving half of the Leyland Brothers has plenty of stories left to tell.

02/06 Disturbing photos that undid ‘war hero’

Photographs featuring Ben Roberts-Smith alongside US soldiers holding an artificial limb known as “Das Boot”, have come back to haunt the decorated war veteran amid his defamation lawsuit against Nine newspapers.

29/05 Antiques Roadshow expert stuns guest

An expert on Antiques Roadshow has left a guest shocked after revealing the value of her stunning collection of 18th Century jewels.

29/05 Kochie’s next move after bombshell call

David ‘Kochie’ Koch will leave Sunrise after a record 20 years on the show – but says his next move won’t take him too far.

28/05 Dramatic moment Sydney man arrested at airpot

An alleged mastermind behind of one of Australia’s biggest heroin hauls has been arrested.

17/05 Tourists flock to spectacular Aussie site

In the centre of the Australian desert, a newly constructed viewing platform engraved with indigenous artwork by artist Christine Brumby stands tall on a dirt red sand dune.

09/05 ‘Cruel’: Union boss’ call on Qantas case

A leading union has launched a scathing attack on Qantas’ outgoing chief executive as a landmark court hearing gets underway over the airlines dismissal of 1700 employees during the pandemic.

06/05 Fears vaping reforms will make things worse

Experts are divided over whether proposed new vaping reforms will stamp out a rise in its use among young Australians, or fuel an uptake of smoking.

05/05 Chart sums up why Millennials are so angry with Boomers

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01/05 Huge change to Aussie vaping laws

Australia is set to ban the importation of most vapes, introduce plain packaging and strip them from convenience store shelves under world-first reforms.

26/04 ‘This is wrong’: Voice slammed by ex-judge

A familiar face of Australia’s legal sector has launched a scathing attack on the federal government’s voice to parliament referendum, coining the vote “wrong in principle”.

23/04 Goodbye Possums: farewell to Barry Humphries

Barry Humphries was, at the very least, one of Australia’s greatest ever entertainers.

06/04 Australia has already made the first step to ditching King Charles

With King Charles’ royal coronation now less than a month away, there has been an increasingly pressing question on the minds of the Aussie public.

04/04 Law firm publishes testimonies from refugees on Nauru, Manus Island | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site

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04/04 Cody Simpson shares note for girlfriend Emma McKeon, swimming legend | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site

Cody Simpson has bared his soul in an emotional message for partner Emma McKeon, celebrating their one-year anniversary.

04/04 The best footy team that never was

Despite murmurs of his fake footy team becoming a lucrative side hustle, Dr Ken Sakata says if he wanted to make money, he would just “do more medical work”.

31/03 Doug Mulray’s TV show was pulled off air for a crude cilp that angered Nine boss Kerry Packer

Legendary Aussie breakfast radio host Doug Mulray had his fair share of success and scandals during his time on the airwaves – and his foray into televison was no different.

31/03 Clive Palmer sues Australia for $300b

Mining billionaire Clive Palmer has launched a $300 billion lawsuit against the Australian government over the Balmoral South Iron Ore Project in Western Australia.

23/03 ‘Why Australians should vote Yes’

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17/03 The strange thing stopping the Australian property market from crashing

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11/03 'We don't flick on the TV and order Uber Eats when the crew goes home': Carol Ferrone on living in the past 24/7

Carol Ferrone and takes us behind the scenes of what happens filming Back In Time For The Corner shop and art director Jason Schara explains the lengths producers go to for historical accuracy.

07/03 What to watch on streaming in March: Netflix, Disney, Binge, Amazon Prime, Apple TV+ and more

The much-anticipated returns of Succession, Ted Lasso and Yellowjackets might be the flashier offerings for March but there really is a lot to get excited about.

07/03 Buddha found on Aussie beach worth $180k

A tiny bronze Buddha statue has been confirmed to be an ancient relic of the Chinese Ming Dynasty, and could be the smoking gun that proves Chinese sailors touched down in Australia centuries before Europeans did.

24/02 Sign Boomers could destroy Australia’s inflation plan

Since the RBA started raising rates in May of last year, Australians have seen the largest relative increase in mortgage interest repayments in Australian history by an enormous margin. Prior the current rate rise cycle, the largest increase in interest repayments was 58.5 per cent, which occurred over a six-year period between 2002 and 2008.

23/02 Ford reveals full price and specifications for new F-150

Everything about the new Ford F-150 is big. Including the price.

17/02 No pay rise for Aussies in 2023, despite perfect conditions

So far, 2023 has seen the situation facing Australian households riddled with contradictions.

16/02 ‘Up to him’: Aussie call-up next for run machine

Daniel Hughes has a pretty simple secret behind the production of one of the most outstanding, and potentially under-recognised, one-day records in Australian cricket.

10/02 One thing that could crash Australian housing market

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01/02 Final journey for controversial cardinal

A protester has been dragged away by police outside the funeral for Cardinal George Pell, one of the most divisive church leaders in Australian history.

30/01 Anthony Albanese attacked over Australian Open moment

A moment during prime minister Anthony Albanese’s appearance at the Australian Open has caused a stir among a group of his critics.