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The leader of a faith-healing religious circle charged with a diabetic girl’s murder said the child was “going to be healed”, with the group calling her condition an “elephant in the room” in the years before her death. Fourteen members of the cult-like group known as The Saints are on trial in Brisbane Supreme Court […]

A federal Liberal MP has taken a shot at the cost to get Julian Assange home to Australia despite commitments from a European foundation to cover the bulk of the costs before Assange left prison in London. Documents from Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s office show it cost $883,958 for Mr Assange to return to Australia […]

Thousands of eggs from endangered rare birds in Tasmania have been seized during an international egg-smuggling investigation. Australian authorities swooped on a property in Granton, Tasmania, where more than 3400 eggs were seized on July 9. A 62-year old Tasmanian man is alleged to be involved in the international operation, with authorities claiming he collected […]

Former NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has announced his retirement from politics, and will reportedly move to Washington DC. In a statement shared to X on Friday, Mr Perrottet said it had been “the greatest privilege of (his) life” to serve in the NSW government, and that he intended to deliver his valedictory speech when parliament […]

Victorian High Country killer Greg Lynn has flagged he will appeal his murder conviction, a court has been told. Lynn appeared for a pre-sentence hearing in the Melbourne Supreme Court on Friday. “There will be an argument the prosecution conducted the trial unfairly. They broke the rules 25 times,” his lawyer Dermott Dann KC told […]

Leaked text messages have revealed the messages of support that senior Labor women offered to CFMEU leader John Setka after he faced domestic violence charges for texting his estranged partner to call her “sh*t” and a “fu**en dog.” At the same time as Liberal leader Peter Dutton warns Australia’s rogue union the CFMEU is “corrupt […]

A dangerous new drug 10 times more potent than the ultra-deadly fentanyl has hit the streets of a major Australian city and health authorities are sounding the alarm bells as overdoses rise. Protonitazene, a specific compound within the nitazene opioid class, has been found laced in oxycodone pills and other illegal drugs in Adelaide. Last […]

Qantas is introducing a new feature for passengers taking “ultra-long haul flights” that aims to prevent jet lag. More than 150 hours of testing went into creating 12 unique lighting scenes inspired by the Australian landscape which have been designed to improve passenger wellbeing. The process involved the testing of hundreds of lighting patterns and […]

An Australian hockey player has amputated part of his finger in an extreme show of dedication to the Olympics. Matthew Dawson is all set to represent the Australian men’s hockey team — the Kookaburras — at the Paris 2024 Olympics after he opted to amputate part of his right ring finger. Dawson’s Olympic participation was […]