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The career criminal who is at the centre of a political storm after his visa cancellation was overturned pleaded for mercy by telling a psychologist that he was traumatised after cradling bloodied gangland crime lord Tony Mokbel in his arms in jail until paramedics arrived. Kevin Farrugia, who remains in jail in Victoria, was spared […]

“If war broke out tomorrow, would you fight to defend Australia?” A handful of men were asked this question on the streets of Melbourne last week, with some admitting they would not stand at arms for the nation. In a video conservative journalist Fred Pawle posted to his social media feeds, the responses captured a […]

The Tech monopolies — especially social media networks such as Meta, TikTok and X — choose to operate outside our legal system. In the space of just one generation, we have gone from magic to madness. Remember when we first discovered search — when we learned we could find out anything we wanted to know […]

News Corp Australia’s executive chairman Michael Miller has used his National Press Club address to call on the government to enact stronger laws to control social media giants, with punishments that would block them from operating in Australia if they don’t comply. Speaking in Canberra on Wednesday, he said companies like TikTok, X, and Meta, […]

The online watchdog has dropped its legal action against Elon Musk’s social media giant X after it refused to remove content related to the Sydney church stabbing. eSafety launched proceedings in the Federal Court earlier this year after X, formerly Twitter, vowed to fight a global take-down order content from the attack. X Corp initially […]

Legendary radio and television star John Blackman has died age 76. The Hey Hey It’s Saturday star died on Tuesday after a heart attack, according to The Morning Show reporter Peter Ford. Blackman begun his career in the late-60s but rose to prominence because of his voiceover work with the Channel 9 series. He was […]

Three Tourism Australia employees have been fired for spending almost $140,000 of taxpayers’ money on personal holidays, with the National Anti-Corruption Commission called in to investigate. Tourism Australia is the Australian Government agency responsible for promoting Australia as a destination and attracting international visitors here. The agency’s chief executive Phillipa Harrison confirmed three employees had […]

The length of ski seasons will be slashed by one-third by 2030 even if greenhouse gas emissions are cut radically, new research has found. According to the research by the Australian National University, New South Wales fields Charlotte Pass, Perisher and Thredbo, and Victoria’s Falls Creek and Mt Hotham fare better than others under the […]

Australia’s GDP growth was brought to a near-standstill in the first three months of 2024, as crunched household budgets, squeezed corporate profits and weakened terms of trade weighed on the economy. In real terms, Australia’s gross domestic product expanded by just 0.1 per cent in the March quarter, cutting annual growth to 1.1 per cent […]