Twenty-five years ago, on a deserted stretch of Australian highway, Bradley John Murdoch flagged down British backpackers Joan Lees and Peter Falconio. Falconio was never seen again. Now, as police try to trace his family, a former British government expert says he ‘probably’ knows the place where Falconio’s body was hidden. queensland correspondent ben smee
Victoria has a new Prime Minister after the Labor Party voted out Education Minister Ben Carroll during a chaotic caucus meeting on Tuesday morning. Her predecessor, Jacinta Allen, stood down after a turbulent few months at the helm of a government that struggled to contain a rising One Nation ahead of the November state election
Leila Slimani’s latest book, I’ll Take the Fire, is the third in a trilogy inspired by the generations of her Moroccan French family. She is also the author of the bestselling thriller The Perfect Nanny. He is photographed above in Paris on March 17, 2026. Joel Saget/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Joel
The Labor Party conference held once every three years may be an opportunity for open debate on complex policy issues – but this was different. Reged Ahmed spoke to political editor Tom McIlroy About whether the Prime Minister is exerting too much control and what his tight grip means for his party’s prospects at One
This year the FBI issued an urgent warning to parents about 764, a global online community where children are recruited to commit acts of violence. Hundreds of investigations are underway around the world, including Australia, accusing 764 and groups like it of using coercion to turn vulnerable minors into victims and, in some cases, predators.
toyota Toyota is a company that has been quite open about its pride in its manufacturing practices, and for good reason. The Toyota Production System pioneered and popularized many lean manufacturing principles, which have since been adopted by many companies in and outside the auto industry. These
The biggest car news and reviews, no BS Our free daily newsletter delivers the stories that really matter straight to you every weekday. If you’ve been following the car scene any time since the turn of the century, you’ve probably heard of the RTR. With the name being so obvious—RTR means “ready to rock”—it’s a
Talking to political editor Tom McIlroy and Chief Political Correspondent Dan Jervis-Bardy At the 50th Labor conference in Adelaide, Peter Malinauskas talks about his own state contest with One Nation and why progressives shouldn’t talk to Pauline Hanson’s supporters. And despite the US admitting this week that the production rate of the Virginia-class submarines has
Image copyright © Phoebe Wahl 2026 / Courtesy of Little, Brown Books for Young Readers There is a braiding craze in the second grade class. They’ll knit anything: shoelaces, hair, friendship bracelets, the tails of their toy ponies. But Noah has nothing to braid. So his teacher takes a whiteboard cloth and tears it into
caption for a toxic love story on netflix Reads, “A series of threatening emails turns into a revenge plot in this true-crime documentary involving a newlywed U.S. Marshal and his ex-girlfriend.” But who sent them? according to USA Today,Michelle Hadley “spent 88 days in jail for a crime she didn’t commit.” “I will find ways