Porter Davis liquidators find builder to complete up to 375 homes

Nostra Property Group enters into agreement to complete multiple dwelling projects Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Another home builder has signed on to complete up to 375 unfinished Porter Davis properties. Liquidators Grant Thornton on Monday confirmed Nostra … Read more

Penny Wong and Paul Keating spar as minister warns against ‘frenzied’ Taiwan war speculation

Wong also hits back at former prime minister saying his comments diminish ‘his legacy and the subject matter’ Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Penny Wong has warned politicians and media against playing “the most dangerous of parlour games” by adding to “frenzied” speculation about a war over … Read more

Australians among the least likely in the world to pay with cash, global report finds

Cash payments are no longer king, representing just a fraction of the value of point-of-sale transactions in Australia Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast When it comes to settling the food bill or shopping at a retail outlet in … Read more

Greens predict ‘student debt avalanche’ – as it happened

This blog is now closed. Penny Wong and Paul Keating spar as minister warns against ‘frenzied’ Taiwan war speculationGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast The shadow minister for foreign affairs, Simon Birmingham, is chastising the PM for letting there be any doubt whether he will be attending the … Read more

‘Media frenzy’ directed at Brittany Higgins carried ‘risk to her life’, said Bruce Lehrmann trial judge

ACT chief justice publishes reasons for maintaining suppression orders in a newly released judgment Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast The judge who oversaw the trial of Bruce Lehrmann feared that the media frenzy directed at Brittany Higgins carried “a risk to her life”, a newly-released judgment shows. … Read more

Russia-Ukraine war live: Kremlin critic Kara-Murza sentenced to 25 years; Putin meets Chinese defence minister

Court sentences Vladimir Kara-Murza to 25 years in prison for criticising the war in Ukraine; China’s defence minister Li Shangfu tells Russian president Vladimir Putin their countries have ‘already entered a new era’ Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 418 of the invasion Ukraine’s agriculture minister said Kyiv would aim to … Read more