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3 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Nick Grimm |Myles Houlbrook-Walk

Today's interest rate decision comes as new data shows that property prices and rents have reached new highs. Research from Corelogic shows house prices rose in all capital cities, except Hobart in the weeks after the RBA cut mortgage rates back in February. It comes as housing affordability shapes as a key election battleground for the major parties.

1 month ago | abc.net.au | Myles Houlbrook-Walk |Jon Healy

As the NRL prepares to launch its season in Las Vegas, invitations to Donald Trump and Dana White have sparked a backlash, with White Ribbon cutting ties with the league. Australian Rugby League Commission chairman Peter V'Landys took to US TV program Fox & Friends brandishing a match ball with the word "TRUMP" emblazoned on it, to invite the US president in the most public of forums to two matches this weekend.

Oct 22, 2024 | abc.net.au | Myles Houlbrook-Walk

King Charles and Queen Camilla have flown out of Australia, after a brief but memorable royal tour. While thousands of well-wishers turned out in Sydney and Canberra, the visit made headlines when the King was heckled by Independent Senator Lidia Thorpe at Parliament House. Now the Royals are heading to Samoa, for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.

Sep 10, 2024 | abc.net.au | Myles Houlbrook-Walk

Ralda Roma remembers the last week of her youngest son's life before she lost him to a stroke. WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this article contains the name and an image of an Indigenous person who has died, used with the permission of their families. During a trip to the shops in Darwin's outer suburbs on May 10, 2022, Ms Roma's son, Nicholas Roma Tipungwuti, began having a medical episode.

Sep 6, 2024 | abc.net.au | Myles Houlbrook-Walk

A historic stolen wages class action brought on behalf of thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander workers and their relatives in the Northern Territory has been settled with the Commonwealth for up to $202 million. Brought by lead applicant Minnie McDonald, the class action was filed in the Federal Court in June 2021 on behalf of First Nations people who worked in the Northern Territory between 1933 and 1971.