Court hears former Liberal party staffer also had no agreement for a third party to cover costs of his defamation lawsuitFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastBruce Lehrmann did not have a third party lined up to pay his legal costs and his lawyers agreed to a no-win...

European debut to take over venues, galleries, clubs and spaces with focus on continent’s creative talentSouth by Southwest, the world-leading creativity festival from Austin, Texas that has hosted the likes of Barack Obama, Mark Zuckerberg and Amy Winehouse is launching a London edition next year.Known as SXSW, the multi-day event – which has been...

Also known as ‘devil birds’ for their haunting scream, they are just starting to arrive from sub-Saharan AfricaMay Day dawns cold and breezy, with sullen grey clouds promising rain. Hope seems very far away. But then, a distant dark streak scythes through the skies over the Avalon Marshes, stiff-winged, direct and determined. A single swift, my first...

Trade unions leaders want to go through policy with party leader after warning there should be no watering down of pledgesTrade unions leaders will meet Keir Starmer next Tuesday after several expressed public reservations about changes to the party’s workers’ rights policy – and warned there should be no watering down of what has been pledged.It comes...

Brett Button pleaded guilty to dangerous driving charges over NSW bus crash that left 10 people dead after manslaughter charges were droppedFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastDriver Brett Button has been taken into custody after pleading guilty over a bus crash...

Tim Pallas says the inequality between generations requires urgent action. Follow today’s news liveGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastCFMEU welcomes funding of 15,000 fee-free construction Tafe places in budgetThe CFMEU has welcomed a funding boost for apprenticeships and traineeships in the upcoming budget.This...