Hamas claims to have “lost contact” with the captors of the last Israeli-American hostage in Gaza, whose release reportedly takes centre stage in Israel’s latest proposal for a renewed ceasefire.

Will Glasgow is The Australian’s North Asia Correspondent. In 2018 he won the Keith McDonald Award for Business Journalist of the Year. He previously worked at The Australian Financial Review.

Fortescue will fork out $350m for electric drill rigs at its iron ore operations in Western Australia where it has started ...

Qantas Frequent Flyer and Qantas Business Rewards members will now be able to earn points on their transaction account balances under a new partnership with AMP Bank, as the airline deepens its push ...

The number of international students challenging visa decisions via the Appeals Review Tribunal has soared to 25,854, prompting warnings the backlog will stall efforts to reduce temporary migration.

Growth in residential property prices should “ideally” lag behind wage gains, opposition housing spokesman Michael Sukkar has declared, offering an aspirational target behind the Coalition’s plans to ...

Former BlackBay Lawyers partner Justin Carroll was sacked by the firm for “serious misconduct”, including using anti-Semitic slurs to describe clients and using “sexist and misogynistic” language ...

A US court has thrown out all claims made in a lawsuit launched by sinking Australian sports betting company PlayUp against a former key American executive.

Corporate Australia is frustrated the federal government’s net zero emissions program has not modernised and evolved to head off greenwashing claims, the Carbon Market Institute says, as the nation’s ...

The Australian sharemarket rose slightly during a quiet Tuesday’s trading, as the market digests the latest carve out from the US President Donald Trump’s tariff plan.

Lieutenant General Leahy and former air force chief Geoff Brown have accused both sides of politics of failing to back their own warnings of Australia’s dire strategic circumstances by allocating ...

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