Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Education department to cut half its staff as Trump vows to wind the agency down The US education department said on Tuesday it would lay off nearly half its staff, a possible precursor to closing alltogether, as government agencies scrambled to … Read more
Nine Entertainment has defended the decision to publish an advertisement worth $200,000 from Clive Palmer’s Trumpet of Patriots party on the front page of the Age, saying any other decision might imply it endorsed the sentiments of political ads. But staff and readers have criticised the Age for running the ad, which says “There are … Read more
A 13-year-old girl has been charged with murder and arson after the body of a woman was found in a house in Northamptonshire. Firefighters and police officers discovered the body of a woman in her 40s in a house in Newcomen Road, Wellingborough, in the early hours of Monday after reports of a fire at … Read more
Simon Holmes à Court has denied any ties between Climate 200 and a community media organisation the Coalition claims is peddling “disinformation” and promoting teal independent candidates. The Coalition has filed a complaint to the Australian Electoral Commission about the five digital newspapers owned by Gazette News. “I don’t know a lot about Gazette,” Holmes … Read more
The Coalition has once again been forced to clarify its policy on breaking up the big insurance companies, with Peter Dutton now saying “certainly something has failed” in the market as Australians struggle with spiralling premiums. After days of confusion over whether their divestiture policy would apply to the insurers, the opposition leader appeared to … Read more
Queensland’s government has denied using the “cover” of Tropical Cyclone Alfred to cancel a long-running review of the way objections to mining leases are handled by the state land court. The Queensland Law Reform Commission had been conducting the independent review since June 2023, with recommendations due on 30 June. On 4 March, with the … Read more
Rivers are unlikely to be granted the protections of bathing water status under the government’s changes to the system, campaigners have said. River activists have reacted with fury as details of the reforms were revealed on Wednesday. In an unexpected move, ministers are imposing a feasibility test on any waterway where a community is seeking … Read more
The UK’s embattled statistics agency cannot reverse a pandemic-era decision to release official data on the state of the economy before financial markets open because its creaking website could crash, it has emerged. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) had sought views on whether to revert to releasing statistics – such as GDP and inflation … Read more
The centre-right Democrat party has won the most votes in Greenland’s parliamentary elections, a surprise result as the territory went to the polls in the shadow of US president Donald Trump’s threat to take control of it “one way or another”. None of the parties are set to win a majority of the 31 seats … Read more
The European Union has announced it is launching €26bn (nearly £22bn) of trade “countermeasures” in retaliation to Donald Trump’s tariffs on steel and aluminium imports, escalating a global trade war. The European Commission chief, Ursula von der Leyen, called the 25% levies on the metals coming into the US, which came into force at 4am … Read more