With living expenses going through the roof and interest rates likely to rise, now is not the time to over-extend. No matter what the Home Guarantee Scheme allows.

Households would do well to take a leaf out of Treasury’s books and sit down to have a good look at their own incomings and outgoings. Here are a few tips to get you started.

Investors are facing a dilemma: should they profit from the growing insecurity around the world, or are defence stocks beyond the ethical pale?

Greater Western Sydney are off the mark for season 2022 after a first-quarter blast propelled them to a comfortable 26-point win over Gold Coast at Giants Stadium.

A massive swell has hammered Sydney's beaches, with authorities searching for people missing in the swell.

Follow all the Round 3 action from our live AFL Saturday mega blog as GWS take on Gold Coast, Collingwood face Geelong and the Brisbane Lions host North Melbourne.

Police say they have smashed a transnational ice importing syndicate, with the arrest of the alleged ringleader and a freight forwarding worker who allegedly used his role to help import the drug and its precursor.

The right boot of Daly Cherry-Evans set up an excellent 25-6 win for Manly against Canberra.

It was telling that it was Hawthorn’s senior coach, not the outspoken president, who acted assertively to repair any further fallout from Rioli’s revelations.

Cryptocurrency advertising is becoming commonplace in sports, but it is largely unregulated. Should we be alarmed?

Artists and musicians say a universal basic income would be a “dream” as they struggle to get back on their feet after the pandemic.

Melbourne Boomers entered game one of the WNBL grand final with home-court advantage and the best defence in the league, but both titles were left in tatters as Perth Lynx went 1-0 up in the best of three series.

The council’s ambitions to give everyone a say over the future of the Northcote Golf Course this week hit a roadblock when it missed a key deadline.

A Queensland lawyer previously disqualified for creating a “sham” diamonds trade to evade consumer credit laws and sell payday-style loans to vulnerable people has had his appeal for the renewal of his practicing certificate rejected.

The newly minted Australian Values Party, headed by former special forces veteran Heston Russell, has vowed to “bring back accountability” to the nation’s politics.

The 10-year construction program for the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games begins next week with the first meeting of the Brisbane Organising Committee.

As Doncaster-winning jockey Craig Williams continued the Hayes family’s group 1 tradition on Mr Brightside at Randwick on Saturday, his thoughts were with  his wife Larysa’s family in Ukraine.

The first Indigenous person to play 100 games with Hawthorn and a former premiership teammate of Cyril Rioli says it is critical their experiences are acknowledged and lessons are learned.

The Omicron BA.2 sub-variant could potentially lead to “several hundred” extra hospitalisations a day in Victoria, the state government has warned.

Australia’s best sprinter joined Chautauqua as a winner of three straight TJ Smith Stakes. Now Chris Waller will try to win his first Royal Ascot race in front of his highest-profile owner.

Sydney Kings coach Chase Buford believes up to five of his stars are playing at a standard that wouldn’t see them out of place in the NBA.

It is almost four years since Hawthorn president Jeff Kennett spoke to Cyril Rioli’s wife Shannyn in a manner that ultimately precipitated the champion footballer’s dramatic exit from the football club and the game that he had so richly punctuate...

Everything you need to know to find a winner at the eight-race meeting.

The Ciaron Maher and David Eustace-trained colt has won the Victoria Derby, Australian Guineas and Australian Derby at his past three starts to join the great Mahogany.

Brisbane’s bright start to the season has fizzled out, losing 20-6 to the Warriors as Thomas Flegler managed to get charged four times in 58 minutes.

Adelaide Crows have ridden their finals experience and their quality forward line to a fourth AFLW grand final where they will meet the Melbourne at Adelaide Oval.

South-facing beaches such as Bondi copped the brunt of the swell on Saturday.

A Ukrainian official says at least three Russian ballistic missiles were fired at the Odesa region. Strikes were also reported in Poltava, east of Kyiv.

Many Panthers fans believe Anthony Griffin was a key reason for Bryce Cartwright leaving the club. But Cartwright only has good things to say about the Dragons mentor.

The stylish home of F45 co-founder Rob Deutsch sold at auction for $6.5 million more than its 2018 sale price after four buyers turned out to compete.

A crowd of at least 10 young families watched on, unable to get a bid in during the fast-paced sale that will allow the vendor to downsize after 27 years in the property.

Dragons coach Anthony Griffin has dropped a selection bombshell, axing two of the game’s brightest talents for Sunday night’s clash with the Eels.

The jockey turned and motioned for one of Fireburn’s rivals to hurry up in the Sires’ Produce Stakes as Gary Portelli’s filly has the triple crown at her mercy in a fortnight after smashing the Golden Slipper curse.

Australian-Tuvaluan Ian Fry has been chosen as the Human Rights Council’s first-ever Special Rapporteur on climate change.

Australia’s women can match Ricky Ponting’s 2003 team by going through this World Cup undefeated if they beat England in the final on Sunday.

Shortly after the first EU-China virtual summit since 2020 ended, a senior Chinese diplomat said his country wasn’t deliberately circumventing sanctions on Russia.

The Liberals’ bid to retain the formerly blue-ribbon seat of Wentworth has hit a snag, with the local council requesting the removal of Dave Sharma’s billboard in Edgecliff.

Former Wallabies boss Michael Cheika is set to become the first man to coach two nations in two different sports at two different World Cups within 12 months.

Despite the pandemic snatching almost two years of work away from live performers across music, theatre, comedy and the arts, the 26-year-old’s career has never been better.

From award-nominees to TikTok stars making it big and old hands making fresh comedy, there are the gigs you need to see (and then tell everyone you were there first).

With more than 450 acts in this year’s comedy festival, artists have to be imaginative, particularly online, to sell tickets

They say good things come to those who wait and, for Wagga trainer Gary Colvin, jockey Nick Heywood and Another One,  victory in the Newhaven Park Country Championships Final had been two years in the making.

The 18-year-old candidate in Farrer said he had conversations about how the campaign would fit in with his schooling, “but I made the decision that it was time for me to stand”.

Russian forces have left "a complete disaster" outside Kyiv, Ukraine's President said on Saturday.

Australia captain Meg Lanning is optimistic that star all-rounder Ellyse Perry will be fit for Sunday’s World Cup final against England.

The bad blood between Penrith and South Sydney is set to worsen after Spencer Leniu and Jai Arrow had to be separated after full-time on Friday night.

Israeli forces killed three Palestinians in the occupied West Bank on Saturday. Two more were killed on Friday, following attacks that left 11 Israelis dead.

The creative director behind Albus Lumen’s Société space on her go-to perfume and her three wardrobe essentials.

Western Bulldogs ruckman Tim English has escaped suspension for his clash with Nick Blakey, raising questions over the AFL’s crackdown on head-high contact.

It certainly presents an opportunity to fleece an unwary public, but it’s also asking you to decide whether the whisky is worth it.