Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at Marvel Stadium on Thursday evening.

‘We Indians infuse the world’:Thousands cheer Narendra Modi at stadium extravaganza

In front of an estimated 20,000 people,the Indian prime minister said that just as sugar sweetens milk,Indians integrate and sweeten societies globally.

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Builder Peter Aquino,pictured at Rialto,has been fighting Oak Capital for years.

Its employee was chased into a toilet by a TV crew. Now this loan company is in liquidation

Mo Ahmed,an employee at the centre of the Oak Capital scandal,continues to deny he is bankrupt,as the non-bank lender’s financial woes grow.

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Georgie Purcell at the Midwinter Ball.

Midwinter Ball as it happened:‘Famous for Canberra’ people gather as recycled fashions mingle with designer gowns

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Andrew Fox,left,and Peter Fox,right,remain in the shadow of their father Lindsay.

From Portsea to Paris:Inside the bitter rift splitting one of Melbourne’s wealthiest families

This week’s restructure of Lindsay Fox’s empire has laid bare years of infighting over everything from rainbow lanyards to relations with former premier Daniel Andrews.

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Paula Fox.

‘How could they say that?’ Paula Fox denies husband Lindsay has dementia amid tension over family empire

Paula Fox has defended her trucking magnate husband,vowing to find out “what is going on” with their eldest son,who it has been announced will retire.

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Linfox’s Peter Fox with father Lindsay in Brisbane in May,2025.

Eldest son out at Linfox amid billionaire sibling rivalry

The succession plans of Melbourne’s billionaire Fox family are in disarray after eldest son Peter abruptly resigned this week.

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The Big Issue is celebrating its 30th anniversary after its launch on the streets of Melbourne in 1996.

I was too busy for the charity vendor. But he said something that stopped me in my tracks

Australia’s giving sector has shown its incredible heart this week,but behind the scenes,an unsustainable number of non-profits are competing for survival.

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Advertising legend Peter Clemenger.

At 98,Peter Clemenger is not too old for one life-affirming revelation

The advertising executive was an industry giant who once child-minded the young Lachlan and James Murdoch.

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Katie Allen in November 2025,a month before she died of cancer.

Medical pioneer and ex-MP Katie Allen honoured posthumously in King’s Birthday list

A host of trailblazing women are recognised in this year’s honours including philanthropist Janet Calvert-Jones,radio host Fran Kelly and gender equality advocate Natasha Stott-Despoja.

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Mum with the Sydney Morning Herald crossword outside her home in Neutral Bay in August 2023.

I thought I knew awkward. Then Mum published her Swinging Sixties travel diary

Mum never thought anyone – least of all her future children – would ever read her diary. Then her granddaughter asked what a hitchhiker was.

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