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A host of underworld identities have descended on Adelaide for the funeral of a colourful mafia-linked businessman previously accused of attempting to import one of Australia’s largest cocaine imports. Italian-born mechanic and business owner Carmello Loprete died on October 27 following a battle with cancer. He was 66. A crowd of men and women, some […]

The Greens are calling for a total ban on free flight upgrades for politicians amid furore over revelations around MPs’ travel perks. Parliamentarians have been scrambling to get their mandatory declarations in order since Anthony Albanese was accused of soliciting free seat bumps from former Qantas boss Alan Joyce. The ensuing scrutiny has painted a […]

An Aussie stone company has copped a massive fine after one of their workers was crushed to death underneath two stone slabs weighing more than 600kg. Avant Stone, a stone slab supplier to stonemasons and builders across Sydney, was ordered to pay a $450,000 fine after it was found not to have appropriate safety measures […]

Australia would be a casualty in a US-China trade war if a re-elected Donald Trump hiked tariffs on Beijing, the Treasury chief warns. Mr Trump has said he would impose a 60-100 per cent levy on Chinese imports if he won the presidency. He said he would also slap a blanket 10 per cent tariff […]

A drug addict who savagely beat a female police officer over the head with a brick before leaving her for dead in Sydney’s Kings Cross will be released on parole despite pleas from his victim. Sergeant Samantha Barlow was on her way to work in the night-life district in 2009 when she was attacked by […]

Forcing former immigration detainees to wear ankle monitors and to live under curfew has been ruled unconstitutional by the nation’s highest court, in a massive blow to the Albanese government. The High Court ruled on Wednesday the federal government did not have the authority to impose the harsh restrictions on former detainees, declaring they are […]

Sparks have erupted in Canberra after senator Jacqui Lambie lashed the federal government for perceived inaction on a key recommendation into Australia’s rolling defence suicide crisis. The irate Tasmanian senator, appearing at an estimates hearing into veterans’ affairs, called for the immediate establishment of Recommendation 122 from the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide […]

The United States’ ambassador to Australia has weighed in on what a change in the White House might mean for Australia, as polls start to close across the US. Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of US president John F. Kennedy, took up the diplomatic posting in Canberra in July 2022. If Republican nominee Donald Trump wins […]

The identity of an unnamed senior counsel taking over Bruce Lehrmann’s fight to overturn his failed defamation case against Network 10 and The Project journalist Lisa Wilkinson will remain a mystery as the date of his landmark appeal is set. Justice Wendy Abraham last month ruled that Lehrmann would not have to pay a $200,000 […]