The costs of Cate Blanchett's Broadway debut and converting Muriel's Wedding into a stage musical have left the nation's busiest not-for-profit theatre with the biggest deficit in its 39-year history.

Australia's first city-based esports league launches in Sydney this weekend as the billion-dollar industry's growth extends to its own piece of prime real estate.

The online retail giant will prevent Australian consumers from accessing its global sites to counter new laws to force it to collect the good and services tax on transactions.

Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young uses Senate Estimates to raise an allegation that a school chaplain told a student with anorexia that she was "hungering for the word of God".

One Nation's senators are further divided, with Brian Burston telling the Government he will vote for company tax cuts that Pauline Hanson says she will block.

Former Labor Senator — and right-wing union powerbroker — Joe Bullock switches from red to blue, joining the Liberal Party after 39 years in the ALP, saying he felt "isolated and lonely" inside the Labor Party.

Footage showing excrement-covered Australian cattle being unloaded from a ship was not proof of mistreatment, federal bureaucrats say as independent observers found conditions on board passed the test.

Labor MP Julian Hill calls for an urgent Senate inquiry into dowry abuse in Australia in a bid to stop family violence, murders and suicides caused by perpetuating a "culture of ownership of women".

Victims of institutional child sexual abuse are one step closer to receiving compensation, after the Catholic Church announced it would sign up to the national redress scheme.

Coca-Cola is aiming for a 10 per cent reduction in sugar across their range by 2020. But a single can of reduced sugar Coke still contains almost 40 per cent of your recommended daily intake, plus these drinks remain a "dental disaster", writes Rosemary Stanton.