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China’s President Xi Jinping attaches ‘great importance’ to Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s opinion, and Australian whistleblowers may be offered more protection in mooted legislation.

Tempers flared after England narrowly lost their World Cup semi-final by a single point to Samoa with Victor Radley and Ireland's James Bentley allegedly involved in a punch-up

Australian relatives of dead or jailed ISIS militants are en route to Sydney, local media reported on Friday, as the country begins the controversial repatriation of dozens of Australian women and children from Syrian refugee camps. Australia first rescued eight children and grandchildren of two dead ISIS extremists from a…

The world is hot and getting hotter and is close to an ‘irreversible’ climate breakdown, the UN warns, and although Labor is pretty sure to win the November 26 election in Victoria it’s not looking like another ‘Danslide’.

Former ACCC chair Rod Sims says the big gas companies should be bullied into lowering their prices, and the risks of heart disease from two of the COVID vaccines were not known until months after being put into Aussie arms.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers says energy bills will surge in the next two years but the government will spend $25 billion on climate change until 2030, and the Medibank cyber attack details get worse by the day.

House prices in Australia will have fallen by up to 20% by the end of 2024, and NSW Transport Minister David Elliott’s spear-throwing days are over: he’ll leave politics at the March election.

Friday: Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak are among the runners to replace Liz Truss, who will become her country’s shortest-lasting leader. Plus: why we love cheating scandals

Britain is once again leaderless after Liz Truss resigned having served for only 45 days as prime minister, and hackers say they have the medical records of 1 million Medibank Private customers.