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Seven people have been charged over their alleged role in an international investment scam that swindled an estimated $14m from at least 30 Australians. Police will allege an international syndicate hired the seven to open fraudulent businesses and bank accounts with local financial institutions. Overseas scammers, pretending to be bank officials and stockbrokers, then allegedly […]

Nearly 500 requests for asylum were lodged by Palestinians since June, however no applications were approved or rejected, newly released data by the department of Home Affairs revealed. This comes as the government has been criticised for allowing Palestinians fleeing Gaza to come into Australia on visitor visas, and whether this meant consistent security checks […]

Australians have defied the cost-of-living crisis and flocked to airports in the past 12 months for international travel at rates just shy of pre-pandemic levels. The latest Australian Bureau of Statistics data shows in the past year, 1,010,640 short and long-term trips were taken by Australian residents, just 38,000 trips shy of 2019. An RMIT […]

The Coalition says the ABC has some “huge questions to answer” after the national broadcaster was accused of doctoring a soldier’s helmet footage in an investigative piece on alleged Australian war crimes in Afghanistan. The 15-second clip aired by the ABC in 2022 appears to show an Australian soldier firing six shots at two men […]

The driver accused of causing a horror beer garden crash which killed five looked “bloody awful” moments after, a court has been told. William Herbert Swale, 66, appeared in the Ballarat Magistrates’ Court on Monday for the start of a committal hearing to determine if his case heads to trial. The New Zealand-born retiree was […]

There’s a small glimmer of hope for Aussie homehunters desperate to enter the country’s roaring housing market, with one real estate giant suggesting property prices could be moderating after years of unstoppable growth. The latest auctions results from Ray White show auction numbers rising and active bidders falling, leading to a fall in overall clearance […]

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has become the latest politician to join TikTok as political parties ramp up their strategies to appeal to young voters ahead of next year’s federal election. While Mr Dutton called for the platform to be banned in Australia in March, he shared his first post on Monday, criticising Labor’s roadblocked housing […]

The NSW government is rolling out a $290m scheme to lower energy use in households. The scheme has 50 prongs to it and includes rebates on energy saving tech, ratings so renters and buyers can know how energy efficient their new homes are, and a target of one million houses and small businesses having solar […]

Aussies woke up shivering across much of the southeast on Monday morning, with the Bureau of Meteorology heralding a new record low temperature for Canberra. Temperatures at Canberra airport hit -6.9 C on Mondsy morning, the coldest it has ever been in the nation’s capital for the month of September. The previous record low was […]

The cost of living is forcing an “alarming” number of apprentice mechanics to drop out, data from a not-for-profit training organisation shows. Apprenticeships Are Us general manager Phil Cooksey said inflationary pressures were forcing 60 per cent of automotive apprentices to abandon their training. “The current cost-of-living pressure, especially in the Sydney area, is probably […]