Sky News political editor David Speers is expected to take a significant pay cut after accepting a role with the ABC replacing Insiders host Barrie Cassidy, fuelling speculation about why he would leave the 24-hour news channel after more than a decade. Canberra-based Speers, who is still contracted to the Rupert Murdoch-owned cable network, is…
Brussels: Mainstream European Union parties are holding their ground against the assault from populists in elections for the bloc's Parliament, according to the first set of exit polls. With voting still going on in some countries, the parties who rally against foreigners, want to rein in the EU and despise the cozy relationship between centrist…
On election night I was swapping messages with a good friend, a passionate, smart, generous advocate for Indigenous people who was now despondent. She said she feared for the future of the First Peoples under three more years of a conservative government that had already said no to the hopes and aspirations in the Uluru…
It’s the rail line that even some of the Premier’s colleagues and advisers did not want her to build. When the Sydney Metro Northwest line opened on Sunday, to the delight of tens of thousands who queued for a free ride, it delivered rail services for the first time to the burgeoning suburbs of Cherrybrook,…
The chief executive of Suncorp, Michael Cameron, is stepping down after nearly four years in the role, with the board declaring now is the "right time for change." Chairman Christine McLoughlin said in an announcement to investors that a change in leadership would give the financial services group an opportunity to lift its performance. She…
The son of former federal politician Bob Baldwin has been reported missing to police. Robert Baldwin, 28, lives in Adelaide with his wife. Bob Baldwin told the Newcastle Herald on Friday morning that his son had not been seen by his wife, and that he had not contacted her or his family, since leaving home…
Eileen Ormsby commissioned a hit on her husband. Ormsby, the author of The Darkest Web, contacted a range of murder-for-hire services on the dark web asking someone to kill her ex. Price negotiable. It was a safe bet that nothing would come of it. First, the address she gave for her husband was a vacant…
President Donald Trump's trade war against China has so far focused on attacking imports. His new front: Weaponising American exports. The Trump administration is seeking to choke off Beijing's access to key technologies by limiting the sale of vital US components to China's Huawei Technologies. The US is considering putting at least five Chinese surveillance…
Australian of the Year organisers have severed a 38-year partnership with the Commonwealth Bank over fears the scandal-plagued finance industry was damaging the reputation of the national awards. The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age understand the National Australia Day Council and the bank reached the decision before Saturday's election. Labor last November seized on…
The Reserve Bank will go further than previously thought by cutting the cash rate not two, but three times before 2019 is over, according to a leading economist. Westpac chief economist Bill Evans , who in February became the first top economist from the big four banks to predict two rate cuts this year, said…