Australia's regulator says ASX favoured shareholder returns over system resilience - reuters.com

Australia's regulator says ASX favoured shareholder returns over system resilience  reuters.com

Pakistan and Afghanistan hold peace talks in China

First face-to-face contact since December comes after tensions erupted into open conflict

Fuel prices to fall another 5.7 cents a litre after states and Canberra strike GST deal

Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese announces GST revenue on fuel sales to be used to reduce fuel costs by a combined 32 cents a litre Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Track Australia’s fuel prices, service station outages and shipments in charts A deal with the states to return GST revenue on fuel sales will knock another 5.7 cents off the price of petrol for three months, bringing the total reductio...

By Patrick Commins, Krishani Dhanji and Ben Smee

Australia’s Albanese says Iran war goals met, asks what more is left to achieve

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the US-Israeli war on Iran appears to have achieved its key initial aims of curbing Tehran’s nuclear and missile capabilities – and questioned what further goals remain. “We did express support for the original objectives: preventing Iran from ever obtaining a nuclear weapon and degrading its capacity to endanger its neighbours,” Albanese said in a speech on Thursday at the National Press Club in Canberra. “And now those objectives have been...

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Albanese locks in plans to scrap investor tax breaks as way through housing crisis - SMH.com.au

Albanese locks in plans to scrap investor tax breaks as way through housing crisis  SMH.com.au

Evening Update: Today’s headlines from The Straits Times on April 2, 2026 - The Straits Times

Evening Update: Today’s headlines from The Straits Times on April 2, 2026  The Straits Times

Pakistan says it is in talks with Afghanistan to end conflict

China has been trying to mediate a negotiated settlement to the conflict between the allies-turned-foes that share a 2,600-km (1,600-mile) border

Pakistan in talks with Afghanistan but Kabul must demonstrate ‘visible and verifiable actions’: FO

Pakistan is holding talks with Afghanistan to end the current conflict between the two countries, but Kabul must “demonstrate visible and verifiable actions”, said Foreign Office Spokesperson Tahir Andrabi on Thursday. Since Pakistan launched Operation Ghazab lil-Haq against terrorist hideouts in Afghanistan on February 26, diplomatic contact between the two sides had largely ceased. The talks in the northwestern Chinese city of Urumqi were being held between senior officials of the two count...

By none@none.com (News Desk)

China’s state airlines are aviation’s unlikely losers from war

Despite providing flights to Europe bypassing the Middle East, carriers' shares have tumbled since the conflict began.

Chinese airlines to raise fuel surcharges on domestic flights

Tones And I, FISHER Join Forces And Do Us a ‘Favour’: Stream It Now

“Favour” unites the Aussie pair for the first time.

By Lars Brandle

The Bachelorette Australia’s Konrad Bien-Stephen Dead at 35

Australian reality TV fans are mourning the loss of a bright star. Konrad Bien-Stephen—a third runner-up on Brooke Blurton’s season of The Bachelorette Australia and a star of The Challenge...

Australian universities surge in global subject ranking, closing in on US, UK peers

Australian universities are strengthening their global competitiveness, with hundreds of institutions moving up across multiple fields to enter the top 100.

Peak romance: Why Syed Saddiq’s proposal left Bella Astillah breathless at 4,000 meters

KUALA LUMPUR, April 2 — An exhausting climb up Mount Kinabalu in January culminated in a surprise proposal for act...

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