Nathan Cleary's starring role in an 11th-hour State of Origin audition has him poised to retain the NSW halfback role when Brad Fittler names his game one team on Sunday night. Despite declaring he was unsure if he had done enough to feature at Suncorp Stadium for the series opener, the Herald understands Cleary's best…

Perhaps we’ll be surprised. Perhaps calls from Liberals like Arthur Sinodinos and Simon Birmingham to embrace renewables in their energy policy and dissolve the false binary between the environment and the economy will be heard within the party. Perhaps Scott Morrison, a rare unifying figure in a party still enduring a civil war, will let…

It’s hard to look at people who spend the exciting, demanding parts of their sporting career lying down and think of them as super athletes. Because we can all drive a car, Formula One can tend to look like a bunch of over-paid, carefully coiffed, slim-hipped fellows turning a wheel with their wrists and occasionally…

The Opera House burst into life this evening in a display of Australian flora to celebrate the opening of Vivid 2019. Click Here: Los Angeles artist Andrew Thomas Huang created the artwork, which combines floral imagery with motion-captured movement from a dancer. "I knew I needed to make a piece that was unique to Sydney…

Track a good 4 with the rail true so should play even early with gradual trend away from the fence. Race 1 2YO HCP (1200m)  Smart Murwillumbah gelding 1. Badoosh can get punters off to a flying start. Was strong late first-up in a 2YO Hcp at home despite doing plenty of work wide from…

Two approvals Adani needs to build its contentious coal mine in the Galilee Basin should be resolved by June 13, Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says. Adani and state environment department officials had met on Thursday to agree on the deadline to finalise the environmental approvals needed for the mine to proceed, or not. Ms Palaszczuk…

Is the world's most bitterly contested coal mine finally getting the go-ahead? After Labor suffered heavy losses in coal-mining regions in Saturday’s Australian federal elections, the Carmichael project looks to be getting closer than ever to approval. In the view of the government's resources minister Matt Canavan, the pit being developed by Adani, a unit…

Whisky is considered a gentleman's drink – reserved for times of congratulations and clever conversations with life-long friends. So it is jarring that this drink should be at the centre of a brutal ASX-boardroom brawl that came to a head this week. The business, Tasmanian-based Australian Whisky Holdings, produces some of the world's best whisky…

The Morrison government wasted little time putting the heat back on the energy sector after its election victory, committing to hardline interventionist action designed to reform and punish the power industry. Analysts have already called the Coalition's win "a negative” for energy companies, and warned it could make power prices more volatile. The energy stoush…

Arts leaders are demanding a long-term vision from Canberra in the wake of the Morrison government's shock re-election. Those who work in the visual and performing arts say the recent election campaign was dominated by tax reform, leaving little air-time for the specific issues plaguing their industries. A key concern was that the Liberal Party's…