Australia is currently in the early stages of the rollout of the 5G network which promises to revolutionise the country’s wireless infrastructure, but not everyone is convinced. Nine.com.au has put together this explainer to address every question you might have about Australia’s next generation phone network before it rolls out across the country. What is 5G? 5G is the fifth-generation cellular ...

you would hope by now that the government is ready to face up to reality. I know this might be a rather optimistic anticipation on my part, but surely the treasurer and his predecessor and now prime minister, realise they have a problem with the economy? One of the more amusing things this week was the government and their conservative ...

Electric public transport is coming to Australia and soon commuters in major cities could be whispering about it. They will be talking in hushed tones because British tests with electric-powered buses apparently found they were so quiet the passengers lowered their voices to match. And a company providing electric taxis says trials show the softer engine noise and smoother ride ...

Cory Bernardi has told colleagues he is considering quitting parliament amid speculation he could rejoin the Liberal party. The Guardian understands the South Australian senator, who quit the Liberals in 2017 to form the Australian Conservatives party, is closely considering his future, and has canvassed the option of leaving the Senate before his term expires in 2022. Bernardi is said to ...

BEIRUT: Michele Hajal, the runner-up in the Miss Lebanon 2016 competition, died Monday of cancer at the age of 25, having fought the disease for over a year. The news was announced in a Facebook post by Hajal’s sister Paula, alongside a photo of the former beauty pageant finalist captioned, “Stay smiling up above,” and describing her as a “blessing.” ...

Egypt’s former president Mohammed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood leader who rose to office in the country’s first free elections in 2012 and was ousted a year later by the military, has collapsed in court during a trial and died, state TV and his family said. The 67-year-old had just addressed the court, speaking from the glass cage he is kept ...

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — Russian and European firms are mulling investments in Lebanon’s nascent oil and gas sector as it prepares to launch offshore drilling by the end of 2019, Lebanese Energy Minister Nada Boustani said. “Several big companies have visited Lebanon,” she said in an interview. “We are talking about Gazprom [Russia], Lukoil [Russia], and soon, the [Britain] BP ...

Australia has been warned it is falling behind on measures to fight climate change in comments by a powerful voice behind the United Kingdom’s move towards zero carbon emissions by 2050. Julia King, the Baroness Brown of Cambridge, had been asked whether Australia’s bid to reduce emissions by 28 per cent by 2030 meant it was falling behind when compared ...

Guatemala City, Guatemala – Olivia Aju arrived at the airport before dawn, but not for a flight. For more than two decades, she has been selling crafts outside Guatemala City’s international airport. Now her means of subsistence is in jeopardy. “What we do is survival, because there are no job opportunities,” Aju told Al Jazeera. An indigenous Maya Kaqchikel and single mother of ...

Australia should team up with Japan in Southeast Asia to keep Chinese military as far away from Australian shores as possible, a leading defence think tank has argued. The Australian Strategic Policy Institute has called for a total rethink of Australia’s forward defence posture, arguing that defence planners should deploy Australian assets to bases in Japan, Guam and Papua New ...