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Australia news live: Chalmers says budget will pay down more debt; families of Bondi shooting victims to take stand at royal commission

Australia news live: Chalmers says budget will pay down more debt; families of Bondi shooting

Jim Chalmers is putting a positive spin on the economy, but is the outlook for Australia grim?

Australia grim? The economy slowed sharply in early 2026 and Australians’ living standards are once

Feeling gloomy about the economy? The ‘vibecession’ has arrived in Australia – but experts are less worried

Australia – but experts are less worried Australian households were already on edge before the bombs

Australia's most-decorated soldier vows to 'fight' war crime charges

Australia's most-decorated soldier vows to 'fight' war crime charges Australia's most decorated

Hot weather and hungry datacentres lift Australia’s energy demand to record highs but batteries quell prices

Australia’s energy demand to record highs but batteries quell prices More datacentres and warmer

Passenger banned from Qantas after allegedly biting attendant on flight from Australia to US

Australia to US A passenger has been banned from future [Qantas](https://www.theguardian.com/business/qantas) travel

Australia’s social media ban preventing teens from accessing the news, research finds

Australia’s social media ban preventing teens from accessing the news, research finds Australia’s social

Australia news live: rental vacancies at record low in most big cities and prices rising

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Trump administration labels Australia’s media bargaining laws ‘foreign extortion’

Australia’s media bargaining laws ‘foreign extortion’ The Trump administration has described Australia’s moves

The Eurovision Song Contest reaches its grand final with pop and protests

Australia performs the song "Eclipse" during the dress rehearsal for the Grand Final of the 70th

Former NSW MP spruiked as ‘esteemed’ Liberal at campaign event – despite Icac’s ‘serious corrupt conduct’ finding

Australia from the opening speeches,the staff member acknowledged Sidoti’s presence after welcoming state

Moore Park golf course to be cut by a third instead of 50% under compromise to create new parklands

Australia, the PGA of Australia, Golf NSW and the Moore Park golf club [responded to a draft

Australian women linked to Islamic State charged with offences over Syria travel

Australia and joined IS. She has also been charged with being a member of a terrorist

One Nation’s rapid national expansion in disarray as ‘significant risks’ force dissolution of new branches

Australia show the party’s new general manager, Kelvin Morton, issued a directive to the party

Top US Senate Democrats again try for war powers resolution – as it happened

Australia’s Qantas by up to A$800m (****$570m) in the second half of this

Governments failed to deliver $160m of river improvements including for now-parched NSW wetlands, report finds

Australia email](https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed&CMP=emailbutton) In Queensland, promised refurbishments and upgrades to weirs also never

What’s the full match schedule, groups and format for World Cup 2026?

Australia, Turkiye ⚽ **Group E:** Germany, Curacao, Ivory Coast, Ecuador ⚽ **Group F:** Netherlands, Japan, Sweden, Tunisia

Coles put commercial interests above its customers – and was caught red-handed

Australia’s best known campaigns. But the supermarket has been caught red-handed after a federal

Can CCTV really stop children being abused in nurseries?

Australia is currently trialling cameras in 300 childcare centres. But both Genevieve and Noah died

Albanese joins coalition of nations calling for an end to Israeli settlement expansion in the West Bank

Australia email](https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=copyembed&CMP=emailbutton) Israel’s far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, who is himself