News Today: 14 November 2026 | Australia and World Headlines

Saturday 14 November 2026Three headline stories from Australia and around the world.

Featured image: Photo by Ad Meskens (CC BY-SA 3.0), via Wikimedia Commons. Illustrative image of an aircraft at Chicago O’Hare International Airport.

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Victorian Election Campaign: Treaty, Farm Levy and Regional Promises in Focus

Australia

1. Victorian election campaign focuses on Treaty, farm levy and regional promises

Two weeks before Victorians vote on 28 November, the campaign has centred on the Coalition’s plan to repeal the Treaty laws within 100 days and abolish the Gellung Warl body, which a United Nations Special Rapporteur criticised after a two-week visit. Labor promised to make permanent the 28.7 per cent cap on the farmland emergency services levy, while the Coalition and One Nation would scrap the levy. The Coalition has said it will release its full costings on 27 November, the ABC reported.

Around the World

2. US lifts order grounding flights after air traffic communications failure

The US Federal Aviation Administration ordered a nationwide ground stop on departing flights on Friday, US time, after a communications failure affected air route traffic control centres. FlightAware figures cited by the ABC showed about 10,500 US flights delayed and more than 1800 cancelled by mid-morning Saturday, Australian time. SBS News later reported that the United States had lifted the order. Officials said there was no indication of a nefarious act, and the cause is still being investigated.

3. Microsoft apologises for global outage as recovery continues

Microsoft said it was deeply sorry for the global outage that disrupted Outlook, Teams and Copilot, and said it was a technical issue not related to cyber attack or AI agents. It said an issue from an earlier network capacity upgrade surfaced after a recent network change. On Saturday morning Microsoft said it was seeing encouraging recovery progress, with no timeline for a full return of service. Downdetector logged more than 7.4 million reports worldwide, SBS News reported.