Migration policies should align with broader economic needs, not serve as patchwork solutions echoing voter frustrations As Australia’s 2024 budget debate rages, the issue of migration has become a hot topic. The government plans to reduce net overseas migration to 260,000 next year, a target which is achievable and likely inevitable due to the natural...

Police say the boy’s mother raised concerns after the father failed to hand over the child for an access visitFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA crime scene has been established after the bodies of a man and his two-year-old son were found in a home on the...

Coroner Terry Ryan says he could not rule Phillips’s mysterious disappearance in 1986 was caused by a Brisbane taxi driverThe Queensland coroner has found that the cause of Sharron Phillips’s mysterious disappearance in 1986, one of the state’s most high profile cold cases, is “undetermined”.Phillips’ surviving family did not attend court to hear coroner...

Sydney chef to close Lucky Kwong, saying she wants to focus on ‘sharing other people’s stories’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastKylie Kwong has announced she is quitting the restaurant business after 24 years as a restaurateur and will close her Sydney eatery...

Operation Amarok VI ran from Wednesday to Saturday across the state. Follow the day’s news liveGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastPolice minister says domestic violence blitz occurs every quarter in NSWNSW police minister Yasmin Catley was on ABC News Breakfast earlier to discuss the state’s four-day domestic violence...

Want to get this in your inbox every weekday? Sign up for the Morning Mail here, and finish your day with our Afternoon Update newsletterGood morning. A Guardian Australia investigation reveals some family lawyers are leaving their practices or warning juniors to avoid entering the field, as they experience burnout and stress from a system that requires...