Frank Chung

1 week ago | news.com.au | Frank Chung

LIVEWelcome to our live coverage of the 2025 federal election results. Anthony Albanese has become the first Prime Minister to win re-election since 2004 after more than 18 million Australians cast their ballot today. Labor’s lead is increasing, crushing opposition leader Peter Dutton’s hopes to pull off a last-minute upset. Follow our live results below as counting continues. There are 150 House of Representatives seats up for grabs this year.

1 week ago | news.com.au | Frank Chung

Anthony Albanese has been re-elected for a second term as Prime Minister after delivering a crushing defeat to Peter Dutton. After three years dominated by debates over the economy, cost of living, housing affordability and immigration — against the backdrop of rising geopolitical tensions, the war in Gaza, Chinese aggression and Donald Trump’s shock re-election — voters have opted to give the PM a second shot.

2 weeks ago | news.com.au | Frank Chung

Tens of thousands of Catholic faithful and world leaders gathered in Rome for the funeral of Pope Francis on Saturday morning. The Argentine pontiff, who died on Monday aged 88 after a 12-year papacy, was honoured in a funeral mass at the famous St Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. US President Donald Trump was among more than 50 heads of state attending the mass that drew an estimated 200,000 people, with a massive security operation in place.

2 weeks ago | news.com.au | Frank Chung

Bite marks discovered on an ancient Roman skeleton in the UK have been hailed as the first ever physical evidence of gladiators fighting large cats like lions and tigers in public games. The skeleton was one of 82 excavated in a 2004 dig at the Driffield Terrace cemetery in York, one of the only known Roman-era burial grounds thought to have been used for gladiatorial combatants.

3 weeks ago | news.com.au | Frank Chung

As Australia’s capitals are squeezed by record population growth, regional towns and cities across the country have one message — bring them here. For years regional leaders have pleaded for more migration, not less, as small towns slowly die and tens of thousands of jobs go unfilled, from baristas, hair dressers and nail salon workers to tradies, office professionals and fruit pickers. “Regional towns will die if we don’t get immigration right,” Port Hedland Mayor Peter Carter said.