Opposition transport spokeswoman Jodi McKay is firming as the front-runner in the contest for the NSW Labor leadership, with almost half the shadow cabinet publicly backing her. However, supporters of water spokesman and Kogarah MP Chris Minns, who is also contesting the leadership, are quick to point out that the month-long campaign is still in…
It has been two years since the publication of the Uluru Statement from the Heart, in which a council of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders made a significant proposal for recognition of their community’s “rightful place” in modern Australia. They called for a change to the constitution to create a new body of Indigenous…
Loyal staff are being offered an extra five days of paid annual leave to stay put, while others are given the option of taking the school holidays with their children. As the Reserve Bank of Australia grapples with stubbornly slow wage growth and a rise in unemployment, some companies are offering alternatives to a pay…
Sydney expect John Longmire to not only stay at the club next year but to coach the Swans beyond 2020 after his current contract expires. The Swans' premiership-winning coach is set to be targeted by his former club North Melbourne, who formally parted ways with Brad Scott on Sunday after more than nine years at…
London: The prospect of a "no deal" Brexit was fast becoming the central battle of the race to succeed British Prime Minister Theresa May on Sunday, as Environment Minister Michael Gove became the eighth candidate to declare. May said on Friday she was quitting over her failure to deliver Brexit, potentially opening the way for…
The Sydney woman accused of targeting the lucrative international student market for unenforceable fees in the eastern suburbs has been slapped with a travel ban in China amid fresh allegations she ripped off a business partner. In a significant escalation of the business woes of Ashleigh Howe, a 29-year-old alumnus of SCEGGS Darlinghurst, a series…
Click:chinese fan dance props Bong Joon-ho has become the first Korean ever to win the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or – the top film prize in the world – for his film Parasites, the extravagantly wacky story of a poor family that infiltrates a rich household by taking all their service positions, an employment victory…
Amman: Three French members of Islamic State were sentenced to death by a Baghdad court Sunday. Click Here: The three were among 13 French citizens handed over to Iraq in January by the Syrian Democratic Forces, the mainly Kurdish US-ally that led the battle to oust Islamic State from Syria. The sentence sheds some light…
Australia has made great strides in recognising its disadvantaged and its minorities, but it cannot be a complete commonwealth until it recognises the most disadvantaged and overlooked of all. Our first peoples are humanity's longest continuing civilisation and confer a unique status on our country, and also a unique responsibility. Loading Yet they are excluded…
Former Seven West Media executive John Fitzgerald is now looking after the accounts of small businesses in Sydney's western suburbs, despite facing multimillion-dollar fraud allegations from the broadcaster which are being investigated by the police. Mr Fitzgerald is listed as the Parramatta franchisee for Shoebox Bookkeeping, a small business accounting and tax advisory service, the…