Sydney Morning Herald National News

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 21:00:00 +1100
Precise dialect or just a half-baked theory?
At least the miners dig it.

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 20:34:17 +1100
Watchdog issues safety alert for Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs
The high-profile weight loss and diabetes drugs will come with two new warnings.

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 20:16:26 +1100
Gold Coast helicopter crash inquest continues
Sea World Helicopters crash survivor Nicholas Tadros has attended the inquest into the crash that killed his mother.

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 19:45:00 +1100
How Melbourne’s train network stacks up against the best in the world
With the addition of the $15 billion Metro Tunnel, the city’s train network now comprises 16 lines connecting 227 stations via 1000 kilometres of track.

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 19:36:33 +1100
Queensland families under pressure as house prices rise again
Brisbane is now the second most expensive city in Australia to buy a property and the population is expected to continue to swell over the next 10 years.

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 19:30:51 +1100
Plastic kettles release microplastics into water, study finds
A new study has found making your cuppa with a plastic kettle can release microplastics into your drink.

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 19:30:00 +1100
Legal reversals and landmark US decision won’t change shaken baby prosecutions
There have been controversies over the science in Australia, abandoned cases and now a landmark court decision in the United States.

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 19:25:14 +1100
Senior police raise alarm over job vacanies in child abuse taskforce
Officers say job vacancies are limiting their ability to investigate some of Queensland's worst offenders.

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 19:14:43 +1100
Cars weaponised by domestic violence abusers
Domestic violence perpetrators are turning their victims' cars against them and using the vehicles to carry out abuse.

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 19:09:43 +1100
Fresh safety warnings for weight-loss drugs
The Therapeutic Goods Administration has updated its advice on pregnancy and suicide for drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy.

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 19:05:47 +1100
Police reveal key clues about whoever is behind school threats
Police have revealed key clues in the hunt for who is responsible for the online threats to Glenunga International High School.

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 19:05:05 +1100
Allan is less popular than her opposition
Jacinta Allan is celebrating the soft opening of the Metro Tunnel on the day new polling confirms she is much less popular than Opposition Leader Jess Wilson.

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 19:03:39 +1100
Teen charged as man, 18, falls from car roof during schoolies
A teenager has been charged as a man, 18, fights for life after falling from the roof of moving car on Mornington Peninsula during schoolies.

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 19:03:38 +1100
Multiple people rushed to hospital after gas leak
Twenty-one people have been hospitalised after a poisonous gas leak at a Melbourne factory.

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 19:01:38 +1100
Truck driver jailed for injuring students in horror bus crash
Students who were seriously injured when a truck crashed into the back of their school bus can finally move on now the driver has been jailed, a principal says.

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 19:00:00 +1100
My suburb is mocked relentlessly. But people can’t stop talking about it
It seems everyone has an opinion on my neighbourhood, where there’s a lingering characterisation that we’re the heart of Melbourne’s boring suburbia.

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 18:56:44 +1100
Marnus explains why Khawaja doesn't need advice
Marnus Labuschagne defends Usman Khawaja amid focus on his spot in the Test side.

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 18:56:33 +1100
Terrifying footage of bus crashing into home
A bus driver who crashed into home in Sydney, narrowly avoiding another bus and car, had underlying, undiagnosed heart conditions.

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 18:56:29 +1100
NAB CEO's $60 billion housing plan
NAB chief executive Andrew Irvine has a $60 billion three-point plan to solve the housing crisis.

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 18:51:32 +1100
Man thrown and killed from car after crash in Sydney
A man has died after he was thrown from a car in a crash on a busy Sydney road, with two others injured.

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