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1 week ago | 
news.com.au | Shannon Molloy
A major financial institution has unveiled a “bold” new mortgage product with a significant difference – borrowers won’t actually pay anything off their home. Instead, AMP’s new offering is a 10-year, interest-only loan, which it said provides customers with “more choice, long-term financial flexibility and greater control over their cashflow”.
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1 week ago | 
news.com.au | Shannon Molloy
In the dying days of the election campaign, ousted opposition leader Peter Dutton turned desperately to the final arrow in his culture wars quiver. After initially denouncing the actions of a pair of neo-Nazis who booed the Welcome to Country at an Anzac Day service at Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance, Mr Dutton changed tact and declared the ritual was inappropriate at such an event.
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1 week ago | 
news.com.au | Shannon Molloy
For several weeks, Shaun Bedford worked on building a bespoke armchair with a former furniture maker as part of a disability support program encouraging social participation. The walnut rocker had been carefully and lovingly brought to life – an activity that gave the young man purpose and a sense of achievement. Mr Bedford sent it off to an upholsterer for its bouclé fabric finishing touches. Once complete, Mr Bedford booked an Uber courier service to bring the masterpiece back to his home.
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1 week ago | 
news.com.au | Shannon Molloy
It’s the question on everyone’s lips: When will we know who has won the 2025 Federal Election? The answer depends on a few variables and one or two unique features. Weeks of successive opinion polls have pointed to a defeat for the Coalition and either a convincing or narrow victory for Labor, depending on the provider. But those who recall the outcome of 2019, when Scott Morrison pulled off an electoral “miracle” to beat hot favourite Bill Shorten, won’t be counting their chickens.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.com.au | Shannon Molloy
A seemingly co-ordinated scare campaign erupting on social media, claiming Anthony Albanese has a secret plot to unleash tax hike carnage if re-elected, has been rubbished as “desperate”. The platform X has been flooded with posts attacking Labor and the prime minister for a whole host of contentious tax policies targeting property, superannuation and inheritance.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.com.au | Shannon Molloy
Leading financial expert Scott Pape has slammed the major housing policies of both Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton as “dumb and dangerous”. The best-selling author, known as The Barefoot Investor, declared the proposed solutions to Australia’s crippling housing crisis won’t help many, if any – and will likely make things much, much worse. “Labor wants to slash deposits to five per cent, which is as dumb as it is dangerous,” Pape wrote in his regular column in the Herald Sun.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.com.au | Shannon Molloy
The grief-stricken parents of two Australian brothers murdered while on a surf trip in Mexico are still coming to terms with the “constant ache and deafening silence” they have been left with. Twelve months ago, Jake and Callum Robinson vanished along with their travel companion Carter Rhoad, sparking a massive search operation and the eventual discovery of the burnt-out vehicle they were travelling in, alongside three abandoned tents at a camp site.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.com.au | Shannon Molloy
Perched outside a fish and chip shop, across from a hair salon and overlooking the remnants of a long-since-relocated tyre service centre, a public phone looks like any other you’d find in the inner-city. There’s the angular shape of the box, a bright orange glowing top emblazoned with the instantly recognisable Telstra logo, and a few tags etched into the walls courtesy of a bored local youth. But this one on Melville Road in Melbourne’s Brunswick West has a secret that’s been untold until now.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.com.au | Shannon Molloy
Tougher laws are being drafted and will go to the Northern Territory parliament next week following the alleged murder of a beloved elderly shopkeeper yesterday by a teenager who was bailed just six days prior. Fury has erupted in the Top End over the death of Linford Feick, 71, who ran the Friendly Grocer store in Nightcliff in Darwin’s north and was allegedly stabbed while confronting a shoplifter.
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3 weeks ago | 
news.com.au | Shannon Molloy
Monique Ryan’s latest media train wreck could have disastrous consequences for her bid to be re-elected in the hotly contested seat of Kooyong, experts say. The teal independent MP was at a pre-poll booth in Melvern in Melbourne’s southeast yesterday, handing out how-to-vote cards to those casting their ballots early, when her third shambolic encounter of the campaign played out live on Sky News.
