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An Australian hotel is rewarding guests for doing the one thing they’re expected to do when booking a room – sleep. Sleep tourism is a new travel trend seeing hotels around the world offering services from pillow menus to sleep experts, to help guests get a good nights rest. According to HTF Market Intelligence, the […]

NSW Police have arrested a young man and woman for a sweep of alleged offences linked to right-wing extremist thinking. The 19-year-old man and 20-year-old woman were taken into custody after police executed a search warrant at a home on Menzies Rd in Marsfield in Sydney’s northwest on Tuesday. “During a search of the home, […]

An urgent health warning has been issued after a traveller with measles landed in Melbourne, visiting a busy McDonalds and multiple high-traffic shops along the Great Ocean Road. The returning traveller was infectious and arrived from overseas on Tuesday June 25, before visiting a McDonalds near the airport, toy shops and grocery stores in the […]

A Melbourne couple recorded themselves plotting to lure a man to their car in broad daylight before he was fatally shot in the back, a court has been told. Duc Nguyen, 44, and his then-girlfriend Stacey Curham, 23, appeared in the Victorian Supreme Court on Wednesday for a pre-sentence hearing after Nguyen was found guilty […]

EXCLUSIVE Exiled Labor Senator Fatima Payman is poised to quit the Labor Party as early as this week as her links with a $1 million Islamic television studio that campaigns against “homosexuality” in Barbie movies and dangerous “feminist propaganda” emerge. The Labor Senator will be able to keep her $233,000-a-year salary if she quits the […]

The mother of a woman murdered in the Bondi Junction stabbing attack has joined mental health advocates at Parliament House urging federal, state and territory governments to urgently reform Australia’s mental health system. Elizabeth Young was part of a roundtable led by Wentworth MP Allegra Spender and the Black Dog Institute that was attended by […]

Australian social media sensation Millie Ford has revealed she met Taylor Swift’s boyfriend Travis Kelce about a year before the global superstars started dating. Ford made the revelation on her latest podcast Missed the Memo, saying how she met Kelce in the VIP section at a DJ gig on a night out with friends in […]

The consumer watchdog has given interim approval to the multimillion-dollar deal to ensure Armaguard can continue distributing cash across the country. Australia’s big four banks – ANZ, Commonwealth Bank, NAB and Westpac – teamed up with four of the largest retailers in Wesfarmers, Coles, Woolworths and Australia Post to help the cash transport distributor stay […]

A leading analyst has revealed the impact a feared interest rate rise would have on Australia’s property markets, declaring “some cracks are already showing”. The monthly measure of inflation for the year to May, released last week, hit four per cent, which was above expectations and marked the highest rate of the year so far. […]

A former Home and Away star who led police on a three-day manhunt will ask to be released on bail after his case was hit by a delay. Orpheus Pledger, 31, was brought before the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday after pleading guilty to repeatedly assaulting a woman earlier this year. Pledger had been expected […]