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- The flow-on effect of stardom Bringing the champers in with the bathwater.
- Federal Government hit with fine after schoolgirl burned at Questacon exhibit The nine-year-old girl suffered burns to her hands when she used alcohol-based hand sanitiser and touched a plasma globe exhibit at Questacon.
- 'Right decision made': Greats react to Neale's hearing Nathan Brown and Matthew Lloyd give their thoughts on Brisbane star Lachie Neale's appeal board hearing result.
- Editorial: Don’t let AI scare knock us off from the future path We have to work out how to extract the best out of this emerging technology and work out how best to use it.
- Former suburban Melbourne mayor jailed for sexually assaulting teenager Former Moonee Valley councillor Cam Nation has been jailed for three months over a 2019 sexual assault.
- Mother to face new murder charge after one-year-old baby dies in hospital days after alleged stabbing in Blue Mountains A second child allegedly stabbed by their mother in the Blue Mountains at the weekend has died. NSW Police confirmed on Thursday the baby had died.
- Second child dies after alleged Blue Mountain stabbing as mother faces additional murder charge One-year-old dies after alleged attack on Sunday, while three-year-old sibling remains in critical condition. Their three-year-old and one-year-old siblings went to hospital with serious injuries, police said.
- HSBC decides Samsung Secure Folder and Android's Private Space are no place for a banking app HSBC has blocked its Android app from running inside Samsung Secure Folder and Android Private Space without warning. The Register asked HSBC to explain the change.
- Russell makes most of teammate's woes in Baku practice British driver George Russell was fastest in the first practice session ahead of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, with Australian Oscar Piastri sixth.
- Flash sale: AO snaps up camera seller Jessops from Dragons’ Den star Peter Jones The troubled camera retailer Jessops has changed hands after AO World acquired the business from the Dragons’ Den star Peter Jones.
- Keep Miley weird! But maybe not this kind of weird, this is bad weird The pop star enlists indie provocateur Cole Haden on an album that dips a toe into grimy club music, and worse.
- Sri Lanka beat England by 16 runs: second men’s one-day cricket international – as it happened
- AFLW round seven: Magpies record a win, frustration continues for St Kilda Round Seven of the AFLW season begins with a double-header at IKON Park headlined by Kate Hore’s Demons taking on powerhouse North Melbourne on Friday night.
- AFLW round seven: Magpies record a win, frustration continues for St Kilda Round Seven of the AFLW season begins with a double-header at IKON Park headlined by Kate Hore’s Demons taking on powerhouse North Melbourne on Friday night.
- Crime Stoppers receives influx of calls about Gus Lamont There has been an influx of calls to Crime Stoppers about the disappearance of Gus Lamont since his parents made an appeal for information and police announced a $1 million.
- Revolut is piloting facial recognition at store checkouts in the UK The company says its Pay with Smile system is the UK's first in-store facial recognition system and has no processing fees for merchants.
- OpenAI's agent hacked into an Australian government website An OpenAI agent hacked into the public website of the Australian government's Medicare public health insurance system in June, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said.
- For MariaDB, LLMs are the new search engines to win over Its vector search is ready, but coding assistants keep pointing developers toward other databases, says the foundation's chair.
- PM needs to stand up for more that’s in our interests Readers question the worth of Anthony Albanese’s trip to the UN and to see Donald Trump.
- Shai Bolton and Luke Jackson are tipped to be grand final difference makers for Fremantle Dockers Shai Bolton and Luke Jackson have proven they can play on the grand final stage and have been influential all year. Now they have been tipped to the difference makers.
- Australia calls for 'absolute consensus' on Pacific military group Pacific defence ministers are taking a cautious approach to expanding the Pacific Response Group, a military force. The South Pacific Defence Ministers' Meeting has wrapped up in Fiji.
- Who did the PM hug at the UN? Take the Brisbane Times Quiz Catch up on the week’s local, national and international news with this multiple-choice challenge.
- Second child dies after Blue Mountains stabbing, third child still critical A second child has died after a mother allegedly stabbed her three children in the Blue Mountains on the weekend.
- How sons of Lions royalty forged their own legacies, and can go even further Their fathers will live in Lions’ history, but this modern-day trio are on the cusp of cementing their own legacies out of the shadow of their most potent star.
- Infantino under pressure to include abandoned World Cup sell-off plan in external Fifa review Fifa council members will demand that Gianni Infantino include the abandoned World Cup sell-off plan and the Folarin Balogun affair in his proposed external review of Fifa’s governance.
- Warwickshire blow through Leicestershire to hone in on title: County Championship cricket, day one – as it happened
- Distressing video emerges of alleged attack on Gold Coast security guard Chris Price at Westfield Coomera The footage shows 66-year-old security guard Chris Price approaching the group at Westfield Coomera, Gold Coast, on Tuesday night.
- Fremantle player profiles: Meet all your Fremantle Dockers going for AFL grand final glory Fremantle are on the edge of glory and here are the 23 Dockers players that could immortalise themselves on Saturday.
- The footy team kicking goals outside the mainstream The CoHealth Kangaroos are a team designed for players who don't fit into footy.
- It’s a game for sporting legends. It’s also a game for those who don’t fit anywhere else This weekend the best players in the AFL will battle it out in the finals. Down at JJ Holland Park, the game is changing lives.
- Nice work on the Medicare hack, Albo, but you’re still letting AI steal my art Come to Australia, steal and plunder.
- Diana’s brother says he is an ‘eyewitness to history’ in his memoir. But is he a narrator? Factual errors are only part of the reason critics are lashing his book as a revenue measure.
- ‘Shift of terror to absolute buy-in’: Every public school child to learn an instrument The NSW government says every child will be able to learn an instrument under a 10-year plan to roll out music education in the state’s public primary schools.
- ‘He’s doing a fantastic job’: Ancelotti’s glowing endorsement of Popa’s Socceroos Carlo Ancelotti, one of the greatest managers ever, is a big Tony Popovic fan – and their friendship goes way, way back.
- ‘Too early’ for Cooney-Cross to return for Matildas after family incident Kyra Cooney-Cross took a break from soccer to support her mother through her cancer battle.
- ‘Identity rabbit hole’: One Nation cops spray over criticism of Aboriginal flag pin ‘Identity rabbit hole’: One Nation cops spray over criticism of Aboriginal flag pin.
- Western Power: Employees who gave glowing references to colleague who raped co-worker have left company Three Western Power workers who gave glowing character references to a co-worker after he raped a colleague no longer work for the utility.
- Brethren members campaigned across NT during 2025 election, inquiry hears Former senior Territory Labor politicians have claimed members of the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church helped campaign for the Country Liberal Party during the 2025 federal election.
- UK activist arrested after migrant dinghy reduced A far-right activist is in custody after he was filmed slashing the side of an inflatable boat in the English Channel with a rescue crew member still on board.
- Kylie Minogue ready for Melbourne homecoming in blockbuster AFL grand final show Kylie Minogue ready for Melbourne homecoming in blockbuster AFL grand final show.