Author: admin

Veteran newsreader Mark Ferguson will co-anchor Seven’s Sydney news with Angela Cox after weeks of speculation over the direction of the flagship bulletin. There had been speculation that the 58-year-old Fergusoncould be moved aside after news and current affairs director Anthony De Ceglie took over. Cox had sat in for Ferguson on the 6pm bulletin […]

Australians have been warned the “windiest spell” in the country’s bout of wild weather is still to come, while residents of one state will swelter through temperatures in the mid-30s on the first day of spring. Much of the country has been blasted with wild weather over the past week, with power cut, trees smashing […]

Catriona Rowntree has slammed the Victorian government over “secretive” plans to build a massive renewable energy battery project next to her farm southwest of Melbourne. The Getaway presenter, 53, is furious about the proposal to build batteries and solar panels on 770 hectares of land in Little River at the base of the You Yangs […]

Rapper Fatman Scoop, the rapper who briefly became involved in an Australian political drama, has died aged 53 after tragically collapsing on stage during a gig in the US state of Connecticut. The family of the hip-hop legend, real name Isaac Freeman, confirmed his death in a heartbreaking social media post on the New York-born […]

READING LEVEL: GREEN Aussie kids have shown their might in the school round of the fourth annual Prime Minister’s Spelling Bee. Run by Kids News, the Bee’s record-breaking 70,557 student registrations nationwide were driven by two more new records: 2752 teachers at 1170 schools. The top 200 students in each state and territory across the […]

One million households across Australia will benefit this month from greater assistance from the government following an announced boost to the rental assistance scheme. The federal government announced on Saturday it would increase Commonwealth Rent Assistance by 10 per cent from September 20 as part of a raft of new measures. Aimed at curbing cost […]

Police have issued a major warning about the circulation of potentially lethal illicit drugs in Canberra after four deaths from overdoses over the past two months. ACT Police suspect high purity drug levels, or the addition of synthetic opioids like fentanyl or nitazenes, are responsible for the deaths in the capital. The most recent deaths […]

The Muslim community leader behind a political advocacy group gearing up to be a disrupting force in the next federal election has given a warning to the Labor: “You’ve always assumed our community will vote Labor, and we will show this election that that will change”.  Ahead of the national campaign launch of Muslim Votes […]

Struggling Australians are fed up with the Woolworths and Coles duopoly as the grocery giants continue to bank huge earnings, Oxfam Australia says. Coles posted an annual $1.1bn profit this week (up 10 per cent), making 2.56 cents for every dollar a customer spends. Woolworths, which makes 2.5 cents off every dollar spent, announced an […]

Anthony Albanese’s new contender for the seat of Moreton has been revealed following a long-serving Labor MP announcing he will bow out at the next election. The prime minister was in Brisbane on Saturday to announce Graham Perrett’s replacement for the federal seat, paying tribute to Mr Perett for his service to the people in […]