How your super is fuelling Jim Chalmers’ budget brag

The target cash rate is up to a 15-year high and unemployment is up too - but the Treasurer says the budget’s looking better than even he expected. Why? Record tax revenue - and a big chunk of it is from all of our superannuation accounts. Economics correspondent Matthew Cranston is here. Read mor…

OpenAI apologises for hack, but boss won’t answer questions

OpenAI has apologised for a breach of Australian government websites, including Medicare – but its chief executive Sam Altman won’t answer questions from a parliamentary committee about how the hack happened. Plus, the Greens are in the market for a new leader after Larissa Waters steps down. Read…

Inside Ukraine’s fight for the next generation

As Vladimir Putin’s ‘special military operation’ in Ukraine enters a fifth brutal winter, Jacquelin Magnay reports from Europe on the fresh fight to bring home Ukrainian kids who were taken behind enemy lines, some of whom face being conscripted to fight for Russia. Plus - is Australia’s fresh $60m…

‘Killer cop’ told friend ‘nobody would ever find’ body

Former police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon allegedly told a friend he’d dispose of a body in bushland and dump their belongings in rubbish bins before allegedly murdering two people. Plus, thousands of Virgin Airways passengers left stranded by cancellations and delays, and cash to make a comeback …

Pauline, Queen of the North

Pauline Hanson is now the Queen of the North – a political celebrity like nobody else on the scene today – as evidenced by Australia’s most authoritative opinion tracker, Newspoll.  One Nation has overtaken Labor and the Coalition on primary votes in NSW and Queensland and is only one point behind…

Imaginary babies: the woman who tried to trap a Bachelor

When ‘America’s most hated Bachelor’, Clayton Echard, moved to Arizona, a routine real estate meeting spiralled into a massive paternity scandal. Hit podcast Love Trapped examines the complex resulting legal case, and an unlikely story of vindication. Read more about this story at theaustralian.co…

The Australian facing Chinese jail for ‘headbutting cop’

China-based businessman Nick Wilshire faces potential jail time following a court scuffle, with the embassy unable to intervene. Also in The Front’s afternoon headlines edition, the University of Sydney faces outrage as a student group seeks election under the party name 'Globalise the Intifada'. …

Total football: Peter V’landys just got even more powerful

He’s blown up racing, revved up rugby league and now Peter V’landys is cementing his authority as the most powerful person in sport by becoming the National Rugby League’s first ever executive chairman. Today, our columnist Andrew Webster on the take-no-prisoners titan of the toughest game of all. …

Cop ‘sized up body-bag’ before murders

The jury in the double murder trial of Beau Lamarre-Condon has seen CCTV footage allegedly showing the former NSW Police officer gauging the size of a surfboard bag he’d allegedly later use to conceal the body of his former partner.  Read more:  Lamarre-Condon surfboard bag purchase before allege…

‘Super intelligence’: Trump’s AI slapdown for Albo

The Trump administration has delivered a withering take-down of Anthony Albanese’s proposed tech regulations, but the PM says it’s about handing control back to Australians. Back in Sydney, AI evangelist Andrew Charlton vowed to protect Australian creativity while reaping the rewards of the data ce…