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An Aussie pub that locals claims to hold the record for the most stabbings in one night is about to shut its doors after it was listed for sale in one of the nation’s most iconic mining towns. The Pier Hotel in the Pilbara town of Port Hedland, located about 1627km north of Perth, has […]

Julian Assange has walked free from prison after the WikiLeaks founder reached an agreement with the US Department of Justice, ending a years long legal saga that centred on the release of hundreds of thousands of classified State Department cables, a development that has been welcomed across the Australian parliament. According to court documents filed […]

Tech and social media companies could be hit with strict taxation measures as a way to boost compliance with the News Media Bargaining Code, a senior government bureaucrat has revealed. Speaking at a wide-ranging parliamentary committee on social media and its impact on Australian society, Treasury assistant secretary overseeing competition Tony McDonald said the department […]

Health Minister Mark Butler says pharmacists won’t be forced to sell vapes after backlash from the industry over a deal with the Greens to water down vaping reforms. He said the decision to stock vapes would be made by individual pharmacies. “This is, I think, a sensible balance between access and serious reform to return […]

A Queensland couple claims a major fertility clinic made a “catastrophic error” and used the “wrong sperm” in their IVF treatments, after discovering their eldest son is not related to their two youngest boys. Anastasia and Lexie Gunn paid for the same sperm donor to be used when their three sons were conceived through the […]

Police say it’s possible the horror substance fentanyl could be involved in the presumptive overdose deaths of four people. The four were found dead at a house in Melbourne’s north early on Tuesday. The deceased were males aged 17, 32 and 37 and a 42-year-old woman. Emergency services were called to the Broadmeadows home on […]

A lead investigator has spoken outside a north Melbourne home after four people, including a teenager, were found dead. It can now be revealed that police are investigating suggestions the deaths were a mass drug overdose and that three of the dead were “known to police”. Police were called to a house in Bicknell Court, […]

A Perth businesswoman and mum with more than a million online followers has revealed the effects the housing crisis is having on her own family. ‘Mumfluencer’ Constance Hall has amassed 1.3m Facebook followers and 370,000 on Instagram, sharing stories about her children, partner, and selling clothes and underwear. She shared on Facebook on Monday her […]

Did you hear the news? Peter Dutton’s teenage son’s mates tested positive for being d*ckheads on Monday. As news broke that the offspring of the Liberal Party leader had been photographed holding a bag of white powder, there it was. Proof, if you needed it, that teenage boys’ frontal lobes don’t fully form until they […]

Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek has defended Peter Dutton’s son after a leaked social media photo pictured him holding a bag of “white powder”. The image, which was first reported by the Herald Sun, made newspaper front pages on Tuesday morning. Originally shared on Tom’s Snapchat and quickly deleted, the photo of 18-year-old Tom Dutton featured […]