After positive clinical trials for antiviral drug Molnupiravir, it joins other medicines that have shown promiseCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe first clinical trial results showing a positive effect for a pill that can b…
NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian resigns after Icac announces investigation
Independent Commission Against Corruption is investigating whether Berejiklian was involved in a ‘breach of public trust’Explainer: What is behind the NSW premier’s resignation?Full text of Berejiklian’s speech announcing her resignationFollow the Aust…
Free flights and $1,000 vouchers: Australian hospitality sector lures UK workers
As the industry prepares to ramp up again amid staff shortages, one company is offering big incentives to British workers Chelsee Whitehead has worked in the hospitality industry since she left high school four years ago. Before Covid-19, she always th…
‘Someone lied’: French foreign minister accuses Australia of submarine betrayal in latest broadside
Jean-Yves Le Drian says Australia reassured France everything was fine right up to the day the Aukus pact was announcedGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingFrance has accused Australia of lying shortly before Canberra cancelled a major …
Can I use my Australian property to increase the money available for a UK deposit?
I want to buy a flat or small house, have £55,000 in savings but the price of housing in Bristol is highQ I own properties in Australia. That in itself is complicated as they are owned jointly with my brother but once I can visit Australia after the pa…
‘Psychedelics renaissance’: new wave of research puts hallucinogenics forward to treat mental health
In what’s been described as a ‘paradigm shifter’ for psychiatry, clinical trials are exploring the therapeutic use for illegal substancesIt was out of desperation that Michael Raymond found himself sitting in a remote retreat in the Peruvian Andes, sip…
Voices from Australia’s Covid frontline: the shop owner and the customer
A children’s book seller and a mother of two have developed a strong sense of community during Melbourne’s long stretches in lockdownFollow our Covid live blog for the latest updatesNSW and Vic restrictions; Vic hotspotsVaccine rollout and rates tracke…
‘Free and open’: Quad leaders call for ‘stable’ Indo-Pacific in veiled China dig
Joe Biden meets leaders of Australia, India and Japan in latest effort to cement US leadership in Asia US president Joe Biden and the leaders of Australia, India and Japan highlighted their Quad group’s role in safeguarding a stable, democratic Indo-Pa…
Malka Leifer ordered to stand trial in Melbourne on child sex abuse charges
Former principal of ultra-Orthodox Adass Israel School has pleaded not guilty to 70 chargesFormer ultra-Orthodox school principal Malka Leifer has been ordered to stand trial on 70 child sexual abuse charges.Leifer, 55, pleaded not guilty to the charge…
‘Donnez-moi un break’: Johnson deepens rift with France over defence deal
UK prime minister hits out after Paris reacted with fury to announcement of defence pactBoris Johnson has reopened the rift with Paris over the Aukus defence and security deal, urging the French to “prenez un grip about this and donnez-moi un break”, a…