The Latest Breaking News from Dan Himbrechts

Stan Grant to step down as Q+A host permanently and move on to other ABC roles

RN Breakfast host Patricia Karvelas will replace high-profile Indigenous journalist, who quit after being the target of racist abuse

The Guardian - AU · Jul 24, 2023

Minister orders briefing on $33m grant – as it happened

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The Guardian - AU · Jul 19, 2023

Wright, Hodge cut from Wallabies' Bledisloe Cup squad

Tom Wright and Reece Hodge have been dropped from the Wallabies' Bledisloe Cup squad as Eddie Jones turns to fit-again pair Jordan Petaia and Andrew Kellaway.

AAP · Jul 19, 2023

Afternoon Update: Lowe says struggling Australians could work more; Fraser Island renamed K’gari; and the origins of masturbation

RBA governor warns against idea that all workers’ wages should rise in line with inflation

The Guardian - AU · Jun 7, 2023

The man who wasn’t there: Ben Roberts-Smith misses his day of reckoning

On the day a judge ruled the Victoria Cross winner had lost his defamation case and been proven to be a war criminal, Roberts-Smith didn’t turn up to court

The Guardian - AU · Jun 1, 2023

RFS captain tells Black Summer bushfire inquest back-burn was a 'foregone conclusion'

A Blue Mountains fire brigade captain tells a NSW coronial inquest the decision to conduct a back-burn that later broke containment lines was a "foregone conclusion" by the time she found about it.

ABC News · May 18, 2023

RFS defends Gospers Mountain back-burn decision at Black Summer coronial inquest

A Rural Fire Service commander tells an inquest into the 2019-20 bushfire disaster that he did not ignore concerns raised by a supervisor about the decision to conduct a back-burn that jumped containment lines when the weather changed.

ABC News · May 16, 2023

Knitting Nannas tell court NSW protest laws have left them ‘frightened’ to take climate action

Two members of the environmental group are challenging new laws which impose jail terms for demonstrations that disrupt major roads or public facilities

The Guardian - AU · May 10, 2023

Daniel Mookhey: best way to fix the rental crisis is to build, new NSW treasurer says

Faced with a housing crisis and concerns over energy and living costs, the 40-year-old says he’s open to other people’s ideas

The Guardian - AU · Apr 19, 2023

Jarryd Hayne to remain on bail ahead of sentencing for sexual assault conviction

Disgraced former NRL star Jarryd Hayne again walks free on bail despite being convicted of sexually assaulting a woman in Newcastle more than four years ago.

ABC News · Apr 6, 2023