16 September 2026
‘MAGA’: Grim call on Pauline’s politics NT News
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16 September 2026
Hanson’s personal attacks and offensive comments are straight out of the populist playbook. But they come with risks The Conversation
16 September 2026
The rise of the One Nation-curious CEO SMH. com. au
16 September 2026
The children's charity says far too many kids continue to be challenged by poverty, violence, mental distress, barriers to opportunity, poor housing and poor health outcomes.
16 September 2026
Premier Ben Carroll adopts Coalition’s stance on Jack’s Law, which gives police and PSOs power to randomly search people for knives with metal detectors Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Ben Carroll on Wednesday announced he would match a commitment made by the Coalition opposition last year to introduce Queensland’s Jack’s Law , named after 17-year-old Jack Beasley, who was fatally stabbed in Surfers Paradise in 2019.
16 September 2026
Omar Yassine was arrested and charged with stalking and intimidation after allegedly hurling insults at year 8 student wearing a hijab
16 September 2026
Defenders of forests and rivers killed at rate of one every three days in 2025, with 85% of deaths in Latin America Nature and land defenders were murdered at the rate of one every three days last year, prompting many communities to set up self-defence units, according to the latest annual death toll by the independent watchdog Global Witness. Organised crime groups or professional killers were implicated in more than a third of the 124 killings of defenders in 2025 as narco-trafficking activities overlapped with intrusions into indigenous territories and environmental crime, such as illegal logging and wildcat gold mining.
16 September 2026
Dozens of Bank of England directors and founding subscribers invested in trafficking of enslaved Africans The Bank of England and the British financial system were for centuries deeply involved in the enslavement and transatlantic trafficking of millions of African people, according to new research on Britain’s slavery history. Research by historians compiling the Register of British Slave Traders has found that the scale of the financial system’s involvement in enslavement is greater than previously known or acknowledged. The Bank of England, the central bank owned by the government since nationalisation by Clement Attlee’s Labour administration in 1946, had dozens of financiers involved in its foundation who were also significant investors in the transatlantic trafficking of enslaved Africans.
