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Firebrand politician Pauline Hanson has called for Australians to push back against Welcome to Country ceremonies conducted by Indigenous people. The One Nation leader delivered a fiery statement in the Senate on Tuesday afternoon, describing the tradition as “divisive” and something “many people tell me they are just over”. Her remarks follow ongoing controversy over […]

A secret report into the military justice system was briefly leaked on the website of the royal commission into veteran’s suicides before it was seized and leaked to media by senators Jaqui Lambie and David Shoebridge. The 141-page report looking into the Inspector General of the Australian Defence Force (IGADF) had been received by Defence […]

Workers in Sydney and Melbourne have taken to the streets as part of another CFMEU rally. The protests, which began at 11am, brought thousands of workers to both city centres. New South Wales police are at the protest in Belmore Park. The rally is expected to force rolling road closures along Elizabeth Street and Macquarie […]

The alleged mastermind of an encrypted messaging platform used for years by bikies, mafia figures and Korean and Middle-Eastern organised crime has been arrested. The Australian Federal Police stormed the home of 32-year-old Jay Je Yoon Jung in Sydney, where he lived with his parents, as part of a sweeping two-day raid across NSW, Victoria, […]

A million motorists are being warned to ditch a dangerous habit while behind the wheel or risk copping a mammoth fine, with new cameras watching from above. Mobile phone detection cameras have been running in a testing phase in South Australia since June, but will start issuing fines from midnight tonight. And it seems a […]

Lawyers acting for a diabetic man accused of killing five in a horror beer garden crash will seek for the case to be thrown out of court. William Swale, 66, was charged by police a month after his white BMW SUV allegedly ploughed into diners outside the The Royal Daylesford Hotel in Victoria’s spa country […]

It’s that low-hanging cloud that millions of us can see hovering on the horizon, threatening to rain on us in our old age: dementia. For some, that cloud is just a speck in the distance, but for those who have been lapping the sun for seven or more decades, it might just be time to […]

An encrypted app allegedly used by the criminal underworld to plan drug deals, murders and kidnappings has been exposed in a huge operation. Sydney man Jay Ye Yoon Jung, 32, is among those arrested in the AFP raids on Tuesday morning after authorities claim he created the criminal platform ‘Ghost’ nine years ago when he […]

Perth transit guards are under fire, as footage of a collarbone-breaking headlock emerges and six incidents are escalated to the public service’s internal integrity unit. On Tuesday, a host of WA state government department annual reports were tabled in parliament, including reports from the Corruption and Crime Commission. Included in the documents was a review […]

EXCLUSIVE Michelle Milthorpe, who helped spearhead news.com.au’s groundbreaking #JusticeShouldntHurt campaign to make court less traumatic for child sexual abuse victims, will today announce her intention to run as an independent candidate against deputy opposition leader, Sussan Ley, in the federal division of Farrer, located in south west NSW. At a 10am press conference in Jindera, […]