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Dec 8, 2025 - World

Chalmers flags pressure on national finances as Reserve Bank contemplates possibility of interest rate rises next year Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastJim Chalmers has foreshadowed more “difficult decisions” in next week’s mid-year budget update after cabinet decided not to extend billions of dollars in energy bill rebates into the new year.The withdrawal of the power bill subsidies comes as the Reserve Bank’s monetary policy board mulls a recent rebound in inflation that could force the central bank to hike interest rates next year. Continue reading...

Dec 8, 2025 - World

The World Health Organization reports that drone strikes in Sudan's Kordofan state have killed 114 people, including 63 children

Dec 8, 2025 - World

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is meeting with French, German and British leaders in London

Dec 8, 2025 - World

Mohammad Marwan has been struggling to rebuild his life after being released from Syria’s Saydnaya prison a year ago

Dec 8, 2025 - World

Exclusive: Labor’s minister for communications and sport has stood by her use of family travel expenses as within the rulesFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAnika Wells claimed more than $8,500 in family travel expenses to Melbourne during AFL grand final weekends in 2022, 2023 and 2024, when she received free suite tickets to the matches.The minister for communications and sport has stood by her use of family travel expenses as within the rules, but the Coalition opposition is demanding reforms to expense rules and an inquiry into Wells’ spending by the independent parliamentary expenses authority (IPEA), which tracks and reports politicians’ spending on travel and office expenses. Continue reading...