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No other stores like David Jones? Is the era over?

By Robert Crawford After 188 years, department store David Jones has been put into administration over unpaid rent at some of its 38 Australian and New Zealand stores,

Brand case reveals dark side of British entertainment

By Sam Tobin and Michael Holden Russell Brand’s conviction for sex crimes has renewed scrutiny of how Britain’s entertainment industry has treated

Mystery of the missing layers of Earth’s history solved

By Santosh Dhungana and Nicolas Flament Imagine opening a history book and finding several chapters torn out. This was what geologists looking into the rock records of

US election breaks age-old rules of American politics

By Andrew Gawthorpe Donald Trump’s Republican Party has received a stunning rebuke in the US midterm elections. Republicans went into election evening hoping that the

Economy starting to feel like a recession

By Stella Huangfu The Reserve Bank of Australia has raised the cash rate to 4.85 percent from 4.6 percent – its highest level since the global financial crisis in

Can Trump interfere with the US midterm results?

By Jean-Nicolas Bordeleau On Tuesday, voters across the United States will cast their votes in the 2026 midterm elections. All 435 seats in the House of Representatives

Labor dropping towards its record 2011 low

By Adrian Beaumont Labor’s primary vote dropped two points to 27 percent in Newspoll, equalling the mid-September Newspoll for their lowest this term. It’s one

Poor children tend to become poor adults

By Roger Wilkins and Esperanza Vera-Toscano About 757,000 Australian children aged under 15 lived in poverty in 2022-23 – more than all the people living in cities of

Grim warning from PM on cost of living outlook

By Michelle Grattan New South Wales Premier Chris Minns delivered an attention-grabbing prediction this week. “By any poll, by any measure, (One Nation leader) Mike

Antarctic change puts global climate into the unknown

Every southern spring and summer, sea ice around Antarctica melts with the change of season. The melt injects fresh water into the sea, where it mixes and sinks, then

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