All articles published by The Daily Perspective from 28 February to 29 March 2026.
Queen Mary returned to Australia this week as reigning monarch for the first time, combining personal homecoming with a major trade mission focused on renewable energy and sustainable development.
Fatima Al-Rashid 
Australia has not been asked by the United States to deploy warships to secure the Strait of Hormuz, Defence Minister Richard Marles says, joining several other allied nations in rejecting Trump's call for a naval coalition.
Samantha Blake 
SUBCO has announced a new strategy to improve the resilience of its east-west cable corridor by splitting the Sydney-Melbourne segment across independent subsea and terrestrial paths, protecting critical infrastructure from disruption.
James Callahan 
The Reserve Bank's March decision has become genuinely uncertain. Inflation still high, but petrol shocks and weak household spending complicate the case for another rate rise this week.
Aisha Khoury 
Dylan Moore's drug paraphernalia charge was dismissed by Scottsdale prosecutors, but the Hawthorn forward faces ongoing scrutiny over the club's initial decision to keep the off-season arrest quiet.
Samantha Blake 
The RBA has raised the cash rate, pushing up mortgage repayments by up to $151 a month for a $1 million loan, with more hikes likely to follow.
Sarah Cheng 
Moscow's week-long internet blackout has pushed residents to buy pagers and maps while experts warn the Kremlin is testing a system to isolate Russia from the global web.
Yuki Tamura 
Australia's competition watchdog has called an emergency meeting with major fuel retailers to justify rapid price increases since war erupted in the Middle East. The ACCC is investigating whether price hikes are justified or represent deliberate market manipulation.
Victoria Crawford 
Queensland Police are investigating two separate sexual assaults in Mackay after women were attacked at Town Beach and near Illuka Park in February. Police are warning the public about safety risks.
Rachel Thornbury 
Enterprise organisations are discovering that AI-generated code comes with hidden costs: lower quality, massive technical debt, and growing market pressure. Insiders warn the honeymoon period is ending.
Mitchell Tan 
Two Iranian women's soccer players have begun training with Brisbane Roar after most of their teammates withdrew asylum bids. The pair chose to stay despite family pressure.
Patrick Donnelly 
Police body camera footage has revealed new details of Hawthorn duo Dylan Moore and Connor Macdonald's arrest in Arizona last November, with officers capturing the moment they were taken into custody for trespassing.
Sophia Vargas 
Investigation reveals alleged illegal waste-burning operation on Melbourne's northern fringe, with small building contractors supplying industrial waste to avoid state landfill levies.
Priya Narayanan 
Australia exports LNG but imports 90% of its oil. The Iran-US-Israel conflict is exposing a structural vulnerability that reserves alone cannot solve.
Fatima Al-Rashid 
The Matildas face defending champions China in an Asian Cup semi-final in Perth on Tuesday, but their biggest tactical challenge may be dealing with Ante Milicic, the Australian who now coaches the opposition.
Aisha Khoury 
A New York antitrust trial resumed Monday with more than three dozen states pushing ahead against Live Nation and Ticketmaster after the federal government withdrew from the case.
Victoria Crawford 
Towns across rural Victoria have run completely out of fuel this weekend, leaving farmers scrambling for diesel and exposing Australia's dangerous reliance on imports.
Bruce Mackinnon 
Lizzy Hoo can read a room before she steps on stage. After years performing across Australia, she knows which nights bring the wildest audiences and which venues demand her sharpest material.
Mitchell Tan 
Acclaimed architect Ed Lippmann has rejected the oversized home trend in Sydney's affluent postcodes, choosing to renovate his parents' modest Rose Bay bungalow rather than demolish and rebuild.
Sophia Vargas 
NSW has rolled out digital birth certificates for 16 to 21-year-olds through the Service NSW app, becoming the first state offering this option on a mobile device.
Nina Papadopoulos 
A man's body was discovered on a regional highway in western Victoria on Monday, with police arresting a 49-year-old armed with a knife later that evening.
James Callahan 
More than 700,000 Australians use medicinal cannabis, but new research finds no evidence it works for depression, anxiety, or PTSD—conditions it's widely prescribed to treat.
Meg Hadley 
A woman was threatened by an armed man in a Lidcombe carpark Tuesday morning before he escaped in a white Subaru SUV fitted with cloned number plates.
Tanya Birch 
Micron has begun high-volume production of HBM4 memory designed for Nvidia's Vera Rubin AI platform, delivering 2.3 times the bandwidth of previous generation memory while consuming 20% less power.
Yuki Tamura 
Australia's Deputy Prime Minister has urged citizens to resist panic buying as the government releases hundreds of millions of litres of fuel to address regional shortages caused by the Middle East conflict.
Victoria Crawford Game Pass just jumped 50%, PlayStation Plus costs have soared, and the Nintendo Switch 2 arrived at $699.95. The real cost of gaming in Australia is becoming impossible to ignore.
Jake Nguyen 
A tropical low system moving towards far north Queensland could intensify into a cyclone by week's end, threatening already waterlogged communities with renewed rainfall and flooding.
Sophia Vargas 
Salesforce is committing itself to decades of debt repayment to fund a $50 billion stock buyback, signalling management confidence in share value but raising questions about capital allocation in a slowing market.
Mitchell Tan 
Google is rolling out a bookmark bar to Chrome on Android tablets and foldables, mirroring the desktop version. The feature appears in Chrome 146 and must be manually enabled.
Darren Ong 
Two men aged 21 and 22 have been charged with murder following a fatal shooting in western Sydney. A 38-year-old man was found with gunshot wounds at a Lidcombe address and died in hospital.
Samantha Blake