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The Trump administration ultimately gave the King a replica sword on the president’s recent state visit

The Eisenhower Presidential Library’s director has exited his position after advocating against giving a sword from the collection to King Charles as a gift during Donald Trump’s recent state visit, according to US media reports on Thursday.

Todd Arrington left his post on Monday after being told to “resign or be fired”, he told CBS News, which did not specify who had relayed the message to the historian.

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Pumped hydro project in Kosciuszko national park is 67% complete, but supply chain cost increases and issues with a borer have caused cost overrun

Snowy Hydro is preparing for another significant cost overrun on the massive Snowy 2.0 project in the Kosciuszko national park, with a line-by-line reassessment ordered from contractors on Friday.

The giant pumped hydro project, first touted by the Turnbull government in 2017 as costing $2bn, was later revised to a cost of $5.9bn. Escalating to almost $13bn in 2023, construction is due to be completed by the end of 2028.

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Exclusive: Despite being signed up to a new alert system, the South Australian emergency service was not notified during September’s triple zero outage

South Australia’s ambulance service was signed up to a new system that is supposed to send notifications when Optus has a triple zero outage, but says it was not notified during the outage last month.

September’s triple zero outage was caused by a network firewall upgrade which blocked emergency calls for Optus customers in South Australia, Western Australia, the Northern Territory and parts of New South Wales.

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Beau Lamarre-Condon accuses NSW police of corruption as he formally pleads not guilty to murders of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies

A police officer accused of the murder of a TV presenter and his partner claims he agreed to admit to manslaughter but prosecutors and police denied his offer.

As Beau Lamarre-Condon formally pleaded not guilty to the murders of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies he interrupted the court to launch a tirade at investigators.

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