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An Australian is among the hundreds of people who have died during a Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia when temperatures soared to 50C. Each year hundreds of people die while undertaking the pilgrimage, with some counts placing mortality rates as high as 900. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) confirmed the death in […]

The head of News Corp has urged federal parliamentarians to force social media giant Meta to renew funding news, saying the social media giant was “preparing to blackmail” Australia. Meta – the parent company of Facebook – announced in March it would not renew commercial deals with Australian media companies at a cost of an […]

A young girl who witnessed her mother being shot in her Queensland driveway is struggling to come to terms with the “devastating” incident. Natalie Jane Frahm, 34, was sitting in her car in the driveway of her Robb Place home in South Mackay when she was allegedly killed by her neighbour Ryan Geoffrey Cole, 31, […]

A fourth person has been arrested over the alleged murders of Perth brothers Callum and Jake Robinson, who were killed while on a surf trip in Mexico. Brothers Jake, 30, and Callum Robinson, 33, and their friend Jack Rhoad, 30, had been on a surfing and camping trip in the Baja California region of Mexico, […]

The family of a 5-year-old boy have been left heartbroken after he suddenly and inexplicably passed away in his sleep. Cruz passed away on May 11 from a condition similar to SIDS called sudden unexplained death in childhood (SUDC), which, as the name suggests, there is no explanation for the child’s untimely death. The Red […]

Shocking footage shows the reality of one state’s gun issues, as violent criminals are set to be stripped of their firearms under the strictest gun laws in the country. Amendments to WA’s Firearms Act will see the introduction of mandatory disqualifying offences and orders, which will give police power to remove guns from serious offenders, […]

An extensive police search to find a man who had been missing for 10 days tragically ended after his body was discovered in a suburban lake. Bradley Hutton, 52, had been missing since June 9 from the Perth suburb of Padbury, with CCTV footage showing the missing man walking around the area before he went […]

A young mother who was allegedly shot in the head as she pulled up outside her Queensland home has been idenified. Natalie Jane Frahm, 34, was allegedly killed at 4.30pm on Wednesday as she sat in her car in the driveway of her Robb Place home in South Mackay. A Good Samaritan who came to […]

Australia’s Hindu community has slammed what it claims is an “unfair” and “fearmongering” ABC expose about the extent of India’s spying in the country. Four Corners on Monday night revealed fresh details about the alleged “nest of spies” that were quietly booted from the country in 2020 after an investigation by Australia’s intelligence agencies. It […]

Australia’s telecommunications watchdog has alleged Optus could have fixed a simple coding error four years before hackers were able to steal personal details of millions of customers. In a claim published by the Federal Court on Wednesday, the Australian Telecommunications and Media Authority (ACMA) outlined how it alleged the September 2022 cyber attack took place […]