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Energy drinks with as much caffeine as nine cans of Coca-Cola have been removed from store shelves in a major crackdown blitz. About 700 drinks were seized from South Australian retailers after it was revealed they contained as much caffeine as nine cans of Coca-Cola or three shots of coffee, nearly doubling the legal caffeine […]

Australian Olympians have been warned against wearing their team uniforms outside the Olympic village following the alleged gang rape of an Australian woman in Paris. Disturbing CCTV footage captured the moments after an Australian woman was allegedly gang-raped in Paris just days before the start of the Olympics. French media reported a woman, 25, was […]

EXCLUSIVE Liberal Senator Linda Reynolds has defended her decision to call Brittany Higgins a “lying cow” and hold an employment meeting in the same room where she was allegedly raped, insisting she never “raised any objection to the location of the meeting”. In new documents released by the Western Australia Supreme Court, Senator Reynolds has […]

Australia’s online safety regulator is stepping up its campaign to protect children from sexual exploitation, delivering legal notices to a sweep of tech companies that will compel them to do more to stamp out online child sex abuse. The notices, issued by eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant, will require Apple, Google, Meta and Microsoft to […]

Disturbing CCTV footage has captured the moments after an Australian woman was allegedly gang-raped in Paris just days before the start of the Olympics. French media reported a woman, 25, was found disoriented and unable to speak French outside a kebab shop on Boulevard de Clichy in Paris’ 18th arrondissement about 5am on Saturday, just […]

Exclusive Former defence minister Linda Reynolds repeatedly leaked confidential correspondence about Brittany Higgins’ compensation payout to the media according to legal documents filed in the WA Supreme Court in conduct that is alleged to constitute an ongoing “campaign of harassment”. The alleged conduct, detailed for the first time in Ms Higgins’ amended defence to Senator […]

The woman accused of killing a Brisbane mother in an alleged hit-and-run incident is the new girlfriend of the mum’s ex, according to reports. Queensland Police charged Larissa Rita Mae-Leigh Sant, 24, with murder after she allegedly struck 23-year-old Kiesha Thompson while driving a silver Toyota Prado about 9am on Friday in the Logan suburb […]

Australia has just recorded its deadliest 12 months on the road in more than a decade. Data from the Australian Automotive Association shows an 11.7 per cent surge in deaths from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2024, with the total road toll reaching 1310 fatalities. The road toll for the prior year was 1173. […]

Senator Linda Reynolds wants Brittany Higgins to pay the cost of her medical bills, claiming the “intense questioning” she faced in the wake of allegations her former staffer was raped in Parliament House exacerbated a previously undiagnosed cardiac condition. The Western Australian Senator has claimed in documents filed in her defamation case against Ms Higgins […]

A major trade union claims Bunnings shoppers and workers could be at risk of lead poisoning after some of its members allegedly purchased rolls of lead sheeting from the retail giant that may not have been safely packaged. The alleged exposure is understood to have happened at the Bunnings’ Woodville store in metropolitan Adelaide, with […]