7+ hour, 3+ min ago   (431+ words) September 14, 2026 — 6:44pm Hundreds of workers at the collapsed Whyalla steelworks will lose their jobs after the site’s administrators abandoned efforts to restart its ageing blast furnace, despite more than $1 billion in taxpayer support being on the table for a potential buyer....

10+ hour, 41+ min ago   (496+ words) September 14, 2026 — 3:06pm Northern Territory senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has delivered a blistering rebuke of Pauline Hanson, accusing the One Nation leader of “wilful ignorance” after she described Indigenous Australians as “the most primitive race on earth”. Price, a prominent Indigenous voice…...

10+ hour, 25+ min ago   (1447+ words) September 14, 2026 — 3:22pm Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian was riding high in early July, fresh off the successful negotiation of a peace agreement with the United States, and had travelled to neighbouring Iraq for part of a weeklong funeral spectacle for Iran’s slain…...

11+ hour, 37+ min ago   (998+ words) September 14, 2026 — 2:10pm Brisbane’s inner-city streets came to a standstill on Monday as the Queensland Police Service farewelled its former leader, Steve Gollschewski, who died of cancer earlier this month, aged 67. Uniformed police officers lined the streets alongside citizens as funeral processions…...

12+ hour, 53+ min ago   (366+ words) September 14, 2026 — 12:54pm One Nation was ordered to almost double its campaign spending details for the last Queensland election after the state’s electoral watchdog found the party failed to disclose more than a quarter of a million dollars. Initial records filed to…...

12+ hour, 42+ min ago   (845+ words) Motorists often avoid this crumbling stretch of the Western Highway where Peter Mason, 71, was enjoying a weekend motorcycle ride before he hit a pothole and died. A retired spray painter and avid motorcyclist went for a weekend ride with a…...

13+ hour, 35+ min ago   (447+ words) September 14, 2026 — 12:12pm The Queensland transport minister says neither a credit rating cut nor a potential slashing of overseas migration will get in the way of his government delivering the infrastructure it has promised. The state will spend $55.9 billion on transport projects…...

13+ hour, 52+ min ago   (739+ words) September 14, 2026 — 11:55am Peter Barry was about to start an exciting new chapter in his life. He was preparing to sell his house in Colac, in Victoria’s south-west, and take a job driving heavy machinery and trucks in the West Australian mining…...

13+ hour, 59+ min ago   (1174+ words) September 14, 2026 — 11:48am London: Former British prime minister Boris Johnson was on a train travelling from Ukraine to Poland when the railway line was targeted by a Russian drone. Johnson was returning from a security conference in Kyiv when he was woken…...

15+ hour, 37+ min ago   (30+ words) SMH.com.au A Russian drone struck a train in Ukraine shortly after senior visiting officials passed through. September 14, 2026 — 10:10am...