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The mercury is tipped to plummet across the southeast of Australia into the weekend as a cold front which brought wild winds and rain dissipates. The Bureau of Meteorology warned of frost conditions from Tasmania to Darling Downs in Queensland’s southeast on Thursday and Friday. It comes after Sydney dipped to a monthly low of […]

Residents in one of Australia’s richest suburbs are up in arms about a proposed $230m development that would knock down an 1960s apartment block and replace it with luxury units. Dozens of residents and neighbours of the apartments at Billyard Ave and Onslow St in Elizabeth Bay in eastern Sydney met with the NSW Land […]

People travelling to Australia on a visitor visa will be banned from applying for a student visa under new restrictions designed to fix loopholes in the country’s migration system. As of July 1, the federal government will move to restrict ‘visa hopping’ by banning foreigners on visitor visas from applying for a student visa onshore. […]

The independent official charged with investigating corruption issues at the newly formed corruption watchdog is set to launch an inquiry into the body’s decision not to investigate the referrals from the Robodebt royal commission after she received almost 900 complaints into the matter. Last week, the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) announced it would not pursue […]

NSW is headed for a “more severe flu season than usual” with the state recording a 25 per cent week-on-week surge in cases. The latest NSW Health Respiratory Surveillance Report detailed a 22 per cent jump in people presenting to hospital emergency departments with flu-like illnesses. NSW Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant said health authorities […]

Clickbait ads are harvesting data and onselling contact details to dodgy financial advisers pushing high-fee superannuation accounts via dubious, high-pressure cold-call sale tactics. The ACCC published a warning on the practice earlier this year, but the Super Members Council says fraudsters are exploiting legal loopholes. Anti-hawking legislation bans the unsolicited selling of financial products, but […]

Booming migration numbers accounted for 84 per cent of Australia’s population growth in 2023, according to the the latest figures from the ABS, pushing the total population to nearly 27 million. Net overseas migration was 547,300 in 2023, with 751,000 arrivals and 204,200 departures. The 27 million figure marks a 2.5 per cent increase in […]

Two police officers charged over the arrest of a 92-year-old man were responding to calls from a dementia sufferer, NSW’s top cop has revealed. Police were called to a home on Campbell St in Picton, on Sydney’s outskirts, just before 9pm on Sunday January 21 after reports of a domestic incident. The 92-year-old man was […]

Decades after his wife Lynette Simms vanished, Chris Dawson was charged and found guilty of her murder. On Thursday, his bid to overturn the conviction failed, with the former sporting star likely to die in jail. The Court of Appeal found Dawson did kill his wife, to make way for his teenage lover to become […]

The start of the new financial year is just around the corner, and as always there are a raft of big changes kicking in. “The end of the financial year always brings with it the opportunity to get your finances in order,” said Sarah Megginson, personal finance expert at comparison website Finder. “But this year, […]