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Nov 9, 2026 - World

EVs and home batteries are in Treasury’s crosshairs despite a better economic case for scaling back nuclear-powered submarines and diesel fuel rebates for minersGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAs Jim Chalmers, the treasurer, comes under increasing pressure to fight inflation by slashing spending in the midyear budget update, the drumbeat is loudest for cuts in one specific area: green energy subsidies for households.Receiving the most focus is the cheaper home batteries program, which from July last year has offered a taxpayer-backed 30% rebate to households and businesses. Continue reading...

Nov 9, 2026 - World

Prosecutors dropped cases because survivors ‘didn’t act how a rape victim should’, Australian Institute of Criminology review of 19,000 sexual assault cases findsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastQueensland police put sexual assault investigations “on the backburner” because detectives were overworked and under pressure to prioritise cases linked to political issues such as youth crime, a major new study has found.The report, published this month by the Australian Institute of Criminology, sought to investigate why so many sexual assault complaints – about two-thirds of those made to police in Queensland – were withdrawn, not substantiated or considered unsolved. Continue reading...

Nov 9, 2026 - World

Mexican prosecutors said police killed a 7-year-old American girl when officers opened fire from a helicopter while fighting back against drug cartel operatives near the Texas border.

Nov 9, 2026 - World

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday ordered a sweeping overhaul of the U.S. military's professional education system to eliminate what he said were "decades of academic drift" and restore a focus on combat readiness and warfighting skills.

Nov 9, 2026 - World

Pope Leo XIV has drawn 2.5 million people to his first Mass in Argentina