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One of Australia’s deadliest snakes has broken a terrifying world record, extracting enough venom to kill 400 people in a single yield. The snake, named Cyclone, is a coastal taipan that lives at the Australian Reptile Park and is part of a deadly and dangerous venom program that helps save lives across Australia. The reptile […]

If it seems like everyone is sick at the moment, it’s not your imagination. NSW is swimming in a “respiratory bug soup” that is putting “unprecedented” strain on hospital emergency departments, driven by a monster flu outbreak and high levels of Covid. But a little-known infection that causes a persistent cough that can last for […]

A 28-year-old father is facing murder and attempted murder charges following a horrific house fire in Sydney that killed three of his children. The man is accused of starting a fire at a home on Freeman St, Lalor Park in the early hours of Sunday. He then allegedly prevented police from getting into the home. […]

A major river in Sydney could be stripped of its association with Captain James Cook and given the Indigenous name “Goolay’yari”, which is said to mean “place of pelican dreaming” in the local language. Cooks River, which runs from Bankstown in Sydney’s southwest, through Strathfield and Tempe before entering Botany Bay, is the latest Australian […]

Telstra customers have been struggling with slower data speeds and patchy coverage after a factory explosion in Melbourne damaged a mobile site. Emergency services were called to Swann Drive in Derrimut about 11.20am on Wednesday after an explosion. Crews have been battling the large blaze overnight, and while it remains under control it continued to […]

Residents have been warned to avoid the area of a massive factory explosion as remnants of the toxic blaze will linger for days. There were 180 firefighters and 66 appliances called to the factory in Derrimut in Melbourne’s west after a “large chemical explosion” about 11.20am on Wednesday. It is understood the factory is both […]

The leader of a faith-healing group accused of killing a young girl by withholding her insulin medication allegedly sent a chilling text where he said “God shall prevail” as the girl’s father raced her to hospital. Brendan Luke Stevens is the leader of the hardline religious group known as The Saints and one of 14 […]

An Australian executive was on a work trip overseas when he was assaulted and placed into an induced coma, missing for four days before consulate officials went “hospital to hospital” in an effort to find him. Grain Producers Australia chief executive Colin Bettles was walking back to his hotel after meeting with colleagues in San […]

A student has told a court how a male nurse allegedly “put his hands down” her pants during a “lesson” on how to listen to bowel sounds with a stethoscope, in an incident he has defended as being “purely educational”. Sydney nurse Ali Khamis Moh’d, 44, is currently on trial in the Parramatta District Court […]

A massive brawl involving about 50 people has broken out in Alice Springs just days after a 72-hour town curfew was implemented by police. The curfew came after off-duty police officers were attacked by about 20 men on the weekend. Police Commissioner Michael Murphy ordered the snap curfew to prevent adults and children from entering […]