Exclusive Public transport

These passengers were hammered by delays.

Now there’s more bad news
Amid this week’s rail delays, the rollout of new intercity trains to two regional
commuter lines has been pushed back until at least the end of this year.
Death

Jelena Dokic reveals ‘difficult and complicated grief’

after father’s death
Former tennis star Jelena Dokic has confirmed the passing of her abusive father
Damir.

Analysis Interest rates

Two massive global events – and Trump is a bigger

problem than both combined
The Reserve Bank chooses its words carefully. In its most recent economic outlook, it
used the word “uncertain” much more than ever before.
Shane Wright

Inside story Australia votes

Inside the Coalition split: Ley and Littleproud’s animus

laid bare
The tension between Sussan Ley and the Nationals has been building for nearly a
quarter of a century. This week it boiled over.
1 hour ago

Opinion Liberal Party

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begun
If the existing split in the Coalition moves beyond a difference about policy, the self-
destructive consequences will be devastating.
George Brandis
Former high commissioner to the UK and federal attorney-general
Opinion Electric vehicles

We talk a big game on EVs, but Australia is stuck in reverse

Australia is viewed as a nation of early tech adopters, but on this, it looks
increasingly like momentum has stalled.
Elizabeth Knight
Business columnist

Updated Public transport

Hellish commute home after 24 hours of pain on

Sydney’s trains
Train passengers were urged to head home early to avoid overcrowding on Sydney’s
rail network as major service disruptions roll on.
Queensland Police

Commissioner thanks officer who threw a speed radar at a car

Queensland’s top cop empathised with the officer, saying “police are out there every
single day dealing with just reckless, stupid behaviour on our roads”.

Trump diplomacy

‘Wildly expensive’: Inside story of Trump’s search for a new Air

Force One
Unhappy with flying in 35-year-old planes, the US president needed a quick solution.
Enter Qatar and a $230 million gift.

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James Magnussen’s wild doping experiment and the

birth of the Enhanced Games
The Australian Olympian details the performance-enhancing drugs he is taking
ahead of the Enhanced Games.

Olympics

$700m quarterback could be an Olympian after NFL gives stars

green light
Patrick Mahomes and a number of his fellow stars could be Olympians in 2028 after
the NFL gave players the go-ahead to try out for the US flag football team.
World golf

Bryson DeChambeau wants ‘a golf ball that flies straighter’. His

nerds are working on it
The self-proclaimed Mad Scientist of golf believes he has the solution to becoming
the world number one.

Victoria residential property

How Bec Judd transformed her holiday home in four

months - and sold it
Glamour couple Bec and Chris Judd have sold their “bush Australiana
vibe” holiday house and now she’s dreaming of the next one.

Analysis Aged care

‘Unaffordable’: Why aged care costs are about to skyrocket

Australians in or facing retirement are in for a nasty surprise.
Rachel Lane

Streaming

The Bear is back with a new season. But will you be

watching?

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more “chaos and turmoil”.

Los Angeles

‘I know you’re broke but here’s the deal’: Why this eatery
is covered in car licence plates
Each of those number plates hanging over your head has a story, but they just
scratch the surface of the tales that Barney’s Beanery has been associated with.

Australian TV

The ‘nonsense’ that became a cult game show even border security
guards love
It was a low-key show with high-stakes drama, now Montgomery’s Guy Mont
Spelling Bee is back.
Courts

Trump hotel was Diddy’s favourite, sex trafficking trial told

The trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs has heard details from his former personal assistant
about how the music mogul expected his hotel rooms to be prepared.

JUST IN
1 hour ago
Opinion These hi-tech appliances lack fridge benefits

1 hour ago
Inside the Coalition split: Ley and Littleproud’s animus laid bare

2 hours ago
NSW flooding as it happened: Mid North Coast, Hunter regions battered by heavy
rainfall; Evacuation orders issued as Manning River levels break almost 100-year
record

$700m quarterback could be an Olympian after NFL gives stars green light

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Australia votes

The crossbench is as big as the opposition. How will parliament

work?

Sunday Life

It began as an ordinary day. Then I accidentally set myself on fire

Mushroom trial

Death cap webpage accessed on computer seized from Patterson’s home, court told

Morning Edition newsletter

Our guide to the most important stories, analysis and insights.
Trial by Water podcast: New bonus episode
A new investigative podcast about one of Australia’s most controversial cases.
Mini Crossword
How quickly can you solve our new pocket-sized puzzle?

NRL 2025

Updated

Wests Tigers to grant Lachlan Galvin permission to

negotiate with rivals
Blues to give Haas as long as he needs to prove Origin fitness
A wet and slippery training surface greeted the NSW players for their first full
training session, with star forward Payne Haas standing on the sidelines.

‘He’ll be there yapping in my ear’: Martin ready to reignite Munster rivalry

Cameron Munster and Liam Martin are ready to clash – again – next Wednesday
night.

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Stay up to date with the latest polling

SYDNEY

Updated NSW floods

‘Not out of the woods yet’: Locals brace for more rain amid flood
disaster
The Mid North Coast is coming to grips with a “one-in-500-year” folding event that
saw trapped locals winched from roofs and more than 48,000 isolated.

CBD

Unexpected poo emoji lands in a Federal Court judgment

War criminal Ben Roberts-Smith’s failed defamation appeal brought
a legal first in a Federal Court judgment.
Exclusive Brumby cull

After the cull: How Kosciuszko is slowly stirring back to life

After the NSW government adopted the controversial policy of
shooting wild horses from the air, the alpine national park is beginning to recover.

Night-time economy

‘I’m trying to activate a dead city’: Restaurateur’s rant at rangers

A Sydney restaurateur has lashed out at council red-tape after
rangers showed up at her eatery to investigate a complaint about an obstructed
footpath.
Sydney councils

Council fires contractor in synthetic turf saga as costs more than

double
Ku-ring-gai Council has torn up a contract to build a much-delayed
synthetic pitch, ordering tradies to down tools and pack up as an ongoing dispute
heats up.

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Domain

Tennis champ Nick Kyrgios selling his

Sydney penthouse fully furnished for
$1.8m

POLITICS

Defence

Pilot may have saved four lives as helicopter crashed

The lives of four other airmen are likely to have been saved by a last-second evasive
manoeuvre, according to the final report of military air safety investigators.
Analysis Australia votes

The Nationals were once feared. Now they just stamp their feet
Tony Wright

Housing crisis

Albanese vowed to build 1.2 million homes. His own agency shows him falling well
short

Updated Australia votes

‘Stupid move’: John Howard lashes Coalition split

BUSINESS

Opinion Elon Musk

Musk turns away from Trump in bid to rescue Tesla

Elon Musk’s role at DOGE is winding down and his financial support for Donald
Trump and the Republicans is being cut back, but the damage has already been done
to Tesla.

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Senior business columnist

Aviation

Qantas illegally fired staff to survive ‘business calamities’, court hears

Updated World markets

ASX rises amid bets for more rate cuts; CBA gains, Mayne tanks

Updated AI

Google’s new features in Search, Meet and more escalate the AI war

WO R L D

Analysis Russia-Ukraine war

Trump is washing his hands of the Ukraine problem, without quite

saying it
Despite the apparent effort to ramp-up pressure on Russia to agree a ceasefire,
Trump once again seems to be letting Vladimir Putin off the hook.
Michael Koziol

Pakistan

Five killed in suicide attack on Pakistan school bus

Joe Biden

Biden did not get a prostate cancer blood test for more than a decade

Israeli-Palestinian conflict

‘History will judge them’: UK takes action against Israel as Gazans wait for food

OPINION

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to blame
Alexandra Smith
State Political Editor

Albanese can now define patriotism beyond the Anzacs and the
Wallabies
Tim Soutphommasane
Political philosopher and columnist

What the Cannes ‘nude dress’ ban really reveals

Adam Geczy
Academic

After 50 years, we’re back to the glory days of full employment

Ross Gittins
Economics Editor

E X P LO R E

Editorial

Explainers

CBD

Letters

Column 8

Domain Magazine

Good Weekend

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Home loans

Mortgage brokers’ warning to home buyers – especially if they’re on

$200,000 a year
Home buyers were worried last year about interest rates going up again, but they’re
starting to change their tune after two cuts.

Luxury property

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Australian tennis superstar Nick Kyrgios is selling his Sydney penthouse with a price
guide of $1.8 million, after purchasing it in 2021.
Property investment

Where property investors can make $100,000-plus a year on Airbnb

Exclusive Title Deeds

Oroton heir spends $10m on Clontarf house – to redevelop it

NSW residential property

Expensive, stretched, uncertain: Where Sydney home owners are selling now

Mince

Be your own meal prep hero with these mix and match midweek
beef bowls
Coming soon

Top chef’s new pizzeria will serve a meat lover’s topping that’s
totally ‘wild’
Review Marrickville

The stakes are high in Sydney’s gyros heartland. Does Olympic

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Healthy eating

How to cook with less salt without sacrificing flavour

L I F E S TY L E

Meghan Markle

Meghan shares private family photos on wedding

anniversary mood board
Baby pictures of Archie and Lilibet were among the snapshots shared on Instagram
to mark Meghan and Harry’s seventh wedding anniversary.

Catherine, Princess of Wales Weight loss

Princess Catherine spreads ‘the Kate Five foods that release the same
effect’ in butter yellow ‘fullness’ hormone as Ozempic

Got a Minute? Friendship

My teenage daughter has just started a The chess world is changing. Meet the
part-time job. How can I help her deal check mates making all the right
with rude customers? moves

C U LT U R E

Review

This truth-telling book unsettled me, both mentally and

physically
Kate Grenville’s moving book follows her pilgrimage through the places her family
stories happened, to put the stories and the First People back into the narrative.

Streaming Australian TV

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But will you be watching? game show even border security
guards love

Vale Streaming

‘A guy who never left the bar’: Cheers Gen Z Friends? This new comedy is ‘a
star George Wendt dies aged 76 love letter to a generation’

Food and wine

Never eat pizza with pasta: The 16 rules of dining in Italy

Table manners in Italy come down to “la bella figura”: to make a good impression, be
well-mannered and always on your best behaviour.
UK

Britain’s most dangerous road has become a global tourist attraction

Opinion Travel tips

The big (new) problem with taking photos on holiday

Los Angeles

The modest shack where Hollywood stars go before they’re famous

How Piastri still leads F1 championship standings after not winning

Imola

2026 Toyota RAV4 teased one last time ahead of tomorrow’s reveal

End-of-financial-year deal sees big savings on electric SUV and free

home charger

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Amanda Seyfried stars in the brand new series Long Bright River, only on Stan.

S P O RT NRL RUGBY UNION CRICKET SOCCER AFL RACING

Olympics

$700m quarterback could be an Olympian after NFL gives stars

green light
Three-time Super Bowl champion Patrick Mahomes and a number of his fellow stars
could be Olympians in 2028 after the NFL gave players the go-ahead to try out for
the US flag football team.

Death State of Origin

Jelena Dokic reveals ‘difficult and Blues to give Haas as long as he needs to
complicated grief’ after father’s death prove Origin fitness
The former tennis player confirmed her A wet and slippery training surface
father had died on Friday. greeted the NSW players for their first
full training session, with star forward
Payne Haas standing on the sidelines.

Analysis Europa League Updated Wallabies

‘I’m not a clown, mate’: Why winning Wallabies star Bell signs for Ulster in
the Europa League would be major blow to Waratahs
Postecoglou’s biggest achievement
The Waratahs will be without one of
Thursday morning’s Europa League their top performers in 2026, with prop
final between Tottenham and Angus Bell to spend a sabbatical season
Manchester United feels more in Belfast.

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Postecoglou has ever managed.
Vince Rugari

World golf Drugs in sport

Bryson DeChambeau wants ‘a golf ball James Magnussen’s wild doping

that flies straighter’. His nerds are experiment and the birth of the
working on it Enhanced Games
The self-proclaimed Mad Scientist of Australian Olympian James Magnussen
golf believes he has the solution to details the performance-enhancing
becoming the world number one. drugs he is taking ahead of the first
Enhanced Games.
H AV E YO U R S AY

40/20 NRL Podcast: Daley stays loyal for Origin I as Latrell stays silent
Why did Laurie Daley select Max King over Terrell May and Mitchell
Moses over Jarome Luai? Michael Chammas and Christian Nicolussi chop up the big
issues around the game one teams.

M OR E I N S PORT

Updated NRL - Wests Tigers to grant Galvin permission to negotiate with rival clubs

SWIMMING - James Magnussen’s wild doping experiment and the birth of the Enhanced
Games

AFL - ‘That has to happen’: Cox calls for more mental health action in AFL after Selwood’s
passing

NRL - Furious Broncos poised to fine Reece Walsh over ‘joke’ punch video

Opinion SPORT - Gary Lineker has no one to blame but himself for exiting BBC in disgrace

NRL - ‘He’ll be there yapping in my ear’: Martin ready to reignite Munster rivalry

Opinion SOCCER - Is it OK to want your team to lose? A Manchester United fan hopes for a
Spurs victory

NRL - A no-show and drug slurs: SBW comes out swinging ahead of Gallen fight

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Around the clubs

‘Like Tuivasa-Sheck’: Parramatta rookie expected to make NRL

debut

RAC I N G

Horse racing

Race-by-race tips and previews for Thursday’s meeting at Goulburn

Horse racing

Waugh switches focus to Goulburn after coastal deluge

Racing integrity

‘Our Melbourne Cup’: Local trainer savours special victory at Scone

M O S T V I E W E D TO DAY

1 NSW flooding as it happened: Mid North Coast, Hunter regions

battered by heavy rainfall; Evacuation orders issued as Manning River levels
break almost 100-year record

2 Sydney train delays as it happened: Service disruptions continue

for afternoon commute after live wire falls on train at Strathfield

3 ‘Not out of the woods yet’: Locals brace for more rain amid flood
disaster

4 Australia news as it happened: Fallout from Coalition collapse

continues; Qantas seeks mid-range penalty for illegal sackings; Election
mastermind Paul Erickson addresses press club

5 Opinion
tax?
Can I withdraw from my super to avoid the proposed $3m

6 Bruised and angry, Elon Musk says he will cut back on political
spending

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 7 ‘This is ridiculous’: How a row of plants sparked fury in Potts Point

8 Five foods that release the same ‘fullness’ hormone as Ozempic

9 OpinionThere is something strange afoot at Australia’s biggest bank,

and experts are stumped

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