The Australian sharemarket closed the week higher, despite slipping away from its post-election 11-year high as trade war concerns were mounting. The S&P/ASX 200 Index rose 90.7 points, or 1.4 per cent, to 6456 this week, while the broader All Ordinaries Index added 85.4 points, or 1.3 per cent, to close at 6545.6. "The week…

Nathan Cleary's starring role in an 11th-hour State of Origin audition has him poised to retain the NSW halfback role when Brad Fittler names his game one team on Sunday night. Click Here: Despite declaring he was unsure if he had done enough to feature at Suncorp Stadium for the series opener, the Herald understands…

Perhaps we’ll be surprised. Perhaps calls from Liberals like Arthur Sinodinos and Simon Birmingham to embrace renewables in their energy policy and dissolve the false binary between the environment and the economy will be heard within the party. Perhaps Scott Morrison, a rare unifying figure in a party still enduring a civil war, will let…

It’s hard to look at people who spend the exciting, demanding parts of their sporting career lying down and think of them as super athletes. Because we can all drive a car, Formula One can tend to look like a bunch of over-paid, carefully coiffed, slim-hipped fellows turning a wheel with their wrists and occasionally…

The Opera House burst into life this evening in a display of Australian flora to celebrate the opening of Vivid 2019. Click Here: Los Angeles artist Andrew Thomas Huang created the artwork, which combines floral imagery with motion-captured movement from a dancer. "I knew I needed to make a piece that was unique to Sydney…

Track a good 4 with the rail true so should play even early with gradual trend away from the fence. Race 1 2YO HCP (1200m)  Smart Murwillumbah gelding 1. Badoosh can get punters off to a flying start. Was strong late first-up in a 2YO Hcp at home despite doing plenty of work wide from…

Two approvals Adani needs to build its contentious coal mine in the Galilee Basin should be resolved by June 13, Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says. Adani and state environment department officials had met on Thursday to agree on the deadline to finalise the environmental approvals needed for the mine to proceed, or not. Ms Palaszczuk…

Is the world's most bitterly contested coal mine finally getting the go-ahead? After Labor suffered heavy losses in coal-mining regions in Saturday’s Australian federal elections, the Carmichael project looks to be getting closer than ever to approval. In the view of the government's resources minister Matt Canavan, the pit being developed by Adani, a unit…

Whisky is considered a gentleman's drink – reserved for times of congratulations and clever conversations with life-long friends. So it is jarring that this drink should be at the centre of a brutal ASX-boardroom brawl that came to a head this week. The business, Tasmanian-based Australian Whisky Holdings, produces some of the world's best whisky…

Notorious Russell Street bomb-accused Craig Minogue has refused to give a DNA sample to police after being charged with abducting and raping two women in the 1980s, while his alleged accomplice has failed to front court. Police will apply to the court to force Mr Minogue to provide a sample after charging him and Peter…