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The Greens have hit out at Labor’s decision to introduce higher tax rates on Australians with millions of dollars in their super accounts while still planning on implementing the controversial stage three tax cuts. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced Australians with more than $3 million in their superannuation accounts would have their concessional tax rate doubled from 15 per ...

It’s now emerged friendly fire involving two of the Bulldogs’ most feared and toughest legends Mark O’Meley and Willie Mason was responsible for Luke Thompson’s likely season-ending injury. The two former premiership winning enforcers were on the field at training on Tuesday holding bump pads when the Englishman ran at them before falling to the turf like a sack of ...

The Broncos are weighing up a dramatic eleventh-hour bid for Gold Coast star David Fifita after Herbie Farnworth and Tom Flegler’s Dolphins defections cleared $1.5 million in Brisbane’s salary cap. News Corp can reveal the Broncos have emerged as a late contender for Fifita’s signature as they consider getting one back on their south east Queensland rivals the Titans by ...

A man has been arrested over the collision of a passenger and a freight train in central Greece that has killed at least 43 people and injured dozens, the government and police sources say. The 59-year-old station master of a train station in the city of Larissa testified before a prosecutor and was arrested, a government official said. A police ...

Labor’s superannuation tax changes are a low-risk plan for repairing the budget — and an important political turning point After nearly four years in a small target crouch, nursing the bruises and fearing the ghosts of 2019, Labor poked its nose above the tax reform parapet this week. The superannuation tax increase announced this week is modest, even timid, compared ...

An Australian man fatally attacked by a shark while holidaying in New Caledonia has been identified as a Sydney father-of-three and star triathlete. Chris Davis, 59, was swimming near a pontoon off Chateau-Royal Beach, south of Noumea, when he was bitten multiple times about 4.10pm on Sunday, February 19. t comes as local authorities believe they have caught the shark ...

A man accused of playing a role in a terrorist plot which killed police employee Curtis Cheng had an “extremist mindset” at the time of the shooting, a court has been told. Mustafa Dirani is facing a trial over his alleged involvement in the fatal shooting outside the NSW Police Headquarters in Parramatta in 2015. Mr Cheng, a police accountant, ...

Two pet dogs involved in the fatal mauling of a newborn baby girl had been reported to the local council by terrified neighbours who feared they would attack someone. Five-week-old Mia Riley died in Moruya Hospital on Saturday night after two rottweilers took hold of her while she slept in a bouncer. The dogs belong to a cousin of Mrs ...

Mortgage holders will soon be forking out a record high on repayments as the Reserve Bank of Australia all but locked in another interest rate rise for March. The RBA on Tuesday released the minutes of its February meeting where it raised the official cash rate – which guides interest rates set by lenders – up 25 basis points to ...

Anthony Albanese will use a key speech to forewarn of “gaps” in Australia’s defence capability and lay the groundwork to bolster defence spending and boost ties with the US in the May budget. The Prime Minister will outline the government’s national security priorities and confirm the release of the unclassified outcomes from the defence strategic review. In an address to ...