40+ min ago   (810+ words) July 28, 2026 — 6:00am There was a time when The Castle popped up on telly so regularly that its creators feared it might soon wear out its welcome entirely. “After about the eighth time, I said to everyone, ‘Hey, we’ve got to stop…...

1+ hour, 40+ min ago   (737+ words) July 28, 2026 — 5:00am Eloise Pearce accumulated $20,000 in Higher Education Contribution Scheme (HECS) debt studying beauty therapy, but spent just six months working in the industry before realising it wasn’t for her. When Pearce lodges her tax return next week, she will have…...

1+ hour, 40+ min ago   (732+ words) July 28, 2026 — 5:00am Former Qantas CEO Alan Joyce has resurfaced after nearly three years in the wilderness to cobble together some sort of redemption tour. But early interviews have so far rendered a man unchanged. He’s sorry, but we’re not really sure…...

1+ hour, 40+ min ago   (593+ words) July 28, 2026 — 5:00am Two-thirds of nurses and midwives in NSW often consider leaving the industry, while almost half have already started looking for alternative work, a damning new report has found. Registered nurse and union delegate Sarah Ellyard’s shifts vary between mornings,…...

1+ hour, 10+ min ago   (595+ words) July 28, 2026 — 5:30am Even with a career break like the Spice Girls, which jettisoned five unknown British singers in 1996 to international stardom with the single Wannabe, Melanie Chisholm, aka Sporty Spice, knows success is hard won, and not easy to sustain. Since…...

1+ hour, 10+ min ago   (686+ words) July 28, 2026 — 5:30am People who know poverty in their youth can grow up to be ruthless about money in their adulthood. Perhaps that explains Alan Joyce’s determination when it comes to Qantas’ finances. No one leads Qantas for 15 years without having the…...

1+ hour, 10+ min ago   (487+ words) July 28, 2026 — 5:30am Carlton are ahead in the race for Western Bulldogs key defender Buku Khamis, who has been offered a longer and more substantial deal by the Blues than the Bulldogs. Khamis, 26, has been offered a deal of at least four…...

1+ hour, 40+ min ago   (997+ words) July 28, 2026 — 5:00am When organisational psychologist Amantha Imber began fantasising about being hospitalised just to get some rest, she realised something had to give. “2024 was my absolute year of utter burnout,” she says. At the time, Imber had reluctantly stepped back into…...

1+ hour, 40+ min ago   (753+ words) July 28, 2026 — 5:00am Three weeks ago, Low Kee Hong spent an exhausting 48 hours without sleep, assisting Ai Weiwei as the acclaimed artist ate, slept, exercised and washed inside a replica of the Chinese jail cell he was secretly held in 15 years ago....

1+ hour, 40+ min ago   (1066+ words) July 28, 2026 — 5:00am As billionaire accused tax cheat Phillip Dong Fang Lee wrangles a multimillion-dollar tax liability and a property empire under government control, tax office records have linked him to a wholly separate trophy estate in Bellevue Hill that bears the…...