The Westfield founder says it’s hard to find another explanation for the suddenness and scale of the recent spate of incidents in Australia.

More than 1000 baggage handlers stopped work this morning at major service contractor Dnata, which services 21 airlines at Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane airports.

The executives were asked to think big picture about the risks and opportunities we’re not sufficiently considering. Here are their ideas for a better nation.

Angelina Jolie and Nicole Kidman were tipped for best actress nominations, but members of the film academy had something different in mind.

The Platinum co-founder’s multibillion-dollar hedge fund is taking aim at rush to US tech stocks sparked by the president’s return to the White House.

A federal judge has called Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship order “blatantly unconstitutional”. Follow live updates.

A new parliamentary committee will grill university leadership after a spate of management and governance failures.

Sydney Airport is intensifying calls for the government to change legislation around Sydney’s curfew as important flights risk running afoul of a legal loophole.

The $110 million Robbie Williams biopic was a box office flop but some in the industry say there needs to be more funding for this sort of gutsy storytelling.

Australian shares are set to open higher, helped by Donald Trump pressing for lower oil prices and lower interest rates.

With oil prices going down, I’ll demand that interest rates drop immediately,” Mr Trump said. “And likewise, they should be dropping all over the world.” ...

The firebrand, chainsaw-wielding libertarian says a new axis is forming that wants to stamp out bloated bureaucracy and woke ideology in the rest of the West.