Former federal minister and long-serving South Australian Labor senator Nick Bolkus has died aged 75, with colleagues and community leaders paying tribute to a “giant” of the Labor movement and a tireless advocate for migrants, refugees and multicultural Australia.

Coca-Cola has helped turn this Christmas into a little less lonely for many overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Australia, launching a 24-hour “Sound O fHome.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has used a Christmas Day visit to the Reverend Bill Crews Foundation in Sydney to highlight both Australia’s compassion for vulnerable people and the nation’s resolve in the wake of the recent antisemitic terrorist attack at Bondi Beach.​

A Canberra teenager has been charged with multiple offences after allegedly performing Nazi salutes in public and distributing extremist propaganda at shopping centres and a university campus in the nation’s capital.

Woodford Folk Festival is set to return to Woodfordia from 27 December 2025 to 1 January 2026, transforming the 500-acre site north of Brisbane into Queensland’s biggest summer celebration of arts, music and culture.