19 October 2026
How One Nation’s negative migration plans would drive up debt by $275b The Age
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19 October 2026
Pauline Hanson cartoon mocks Jacqui Lambie’s private health battle The Mercury
19 October 2026
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19 October 2026
The tanker market has entered such extraordinary territory that independent owners could be making an additional $400m a day above their original earnings expectations, a windfall that, if sustained for a year, would almost match the entire container shipping industry’s profits during its pandemic-era boom. In its latest weekly report, broker Hartland estimates that independent …
19 October 2026
German tanker owner and shipmanager Chemikalien Seetransport (CST), backed by the Krämer family, is continuing to reduce its exposure to ageing tonnage, selling its 20-year-old LR1 tanker London Star to Chinese interests. The 73,900 dwt New Century-built tanker has just been renamed Tenyou. The disposal leaves the Hamburg-based outfit with one other 20-year-old LR1 tanker on …
19 October 2026
New IMO rules will shift the focus of pilot transfer safety from how ladders are rigged to how ships are built, potentially forcing owners into significant modifications as compliance deadlines approach. Alex Byelyavtsev reports. For years, pilot-transfer safety was read as a rigging question. If the ladder was wrong, the crew had tied it wrong. …
19 October 2026
A judicial review is underway to decide the future of the West Coast Christian community's school.
