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Australians could see the effects of a global tech outage that impacted supermarkets, banks and airlines for days to come, as the company responsible shared new details on what went wrong.  About 3pm on Friday, computers across the country began shutting down with multiple workers reporting issues at multiple different businesses. The issue comes from […]

A cyber expert has warned a global outage which is the “biggest the world has ever seen” could possibly be a “dress rehearsal” for what a cyber terror attack would look like. Millions of people across Australia have been affected by major outages across multiple businesses such as banks, airlines, supermarkets and media outlets. Around […]

Airports across Australia have been plunged into chaos after a global software outage has impacted millions of businesses around the world. Frustrated travellers have been left facing delays around the country on Friday afternoon, with many reporting being stranded at airports and huge wait times due to the systems being down. In the US, entire […]

Millions of people across Australia have been affected by a massive Microsoft outage that is causing chaos across multiple businesses  About 3pm on Friday, computers across the country began shutting down with multiple workers reporting issues with multiple different businesses. The shutdown forced Microsoft devices to go blue and then try to reboot, locking users […]

The leader of a faith-healing religious circle charged with a diabetic girl’s murder said the child was “going to be healed”, with the group calling her condition an “elephant in the room” in the years before her death. Fourteen members of the cult-like group known as The Saints are on trial in Brisbane Supreme Court […]

A federal Liberal MP has taken a shot at the cost to get Julian Assange home to Australia despite commitments from a European foundation to cover the bulk of the costs before Assange left prison in London. Documents from Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s office show it cost $883,958 for Mr Assange to return to Australia […]

Thousands of eggs from endangered rare birds in Tasmania have been seized during an international egg-smuggling investigation. Australian authorities swooped on a property in Granton, Tasmania, where more than 3400 eggs were seized on July 9. A 62-year old Tasmanian man is alleged to be involved in the international operation, with authorities claiming he collected […]

Former NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has announced his retirement from politics, and will reportedly move to Washington DC. In a statement shared to X on Friday, Mr Perrottet said it had been “the greatest privilege of (his) life” to serve in the NSW government, and that he intended to deliver his valedictory speech when parliament […]

Victorian High Country killer Greg Lynn has flagged he will appeal his murder conviction, a court has been told. Lynn appeared for a pre-sentence hearing in the Melbourne Supreme Court on Friday. “There will be an argument the prosecution conducted the trial unfairly. They broke the rules 25 times,” his lawyer Dermott Dann KC told […]

Leaked text messages have revealed the messages of support that senior Labor women offered to CFMEU leader John Setka after he faced domestic violence charges for texting his estranged partner to call her “sh*t” and a “fu**en dog.” At the same time as Liberal leader Peter Dutton warns Australia’s rogue union the CFMEU is “corrupt […]