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The length of ski seasons will be slashed by one-third by 2030 even if greenhouse gas emissions are cut radically, new research has found. According to the research by the Australian National University, New South Wales fields Charlotte Pass, Perisher and Thredbo, and Victoria’s Falls Creek and Mt Hotham fare better than others under the […]

Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock expects the March quarter national accounts figures to show growth over the first three months of 2024 will be “quite low”. Economists expect the figures will show Australia’s economy expanded by an anaemic 0.2 per cent in the first quarter of 2024, a result that would bring annual growth to […]

EXCLUSIVE It’s early in the evening of March 14 when Sydney teenager Tyler Mason films a video of himself smiling in the elevator of a luxury hotel. Shortly after, another clip is shared to social media showing the boy, who’d just turned 15, singing and dancing along to an Eminem song inside a suite on […]

The jury in the trial of a former Jetstar captain has heard police had a difficult time locating the site where Greg Lynn said he dumped the bodies of two missing campers. Mr Lynn, 57, is facing trial in the Victorian Supreme Court after pleading not guilty to murdering Russell Hill, 74, and Carol Clay, […]

Alleged killer Justin Stein gave his final message to the jury who is set to decide his fate in a matter of days: “I never killed Charlise”. After more than 40 witnesses, Mr Stein’s murder trial in the NSW Supreme Court has entered its final stages. Mr Stein was the only witness called in the […]

One of NSW’s top cops has issued a major warning for revellers to watch their drinking ahead of State of Origin, with a Blues star revealing a surprising insight in how fans have changed over the years. Ahead of the Blues and Maroons’ clash at Sydney’s Accor Stadium, senior government and police figures have teamed […]

Enraged mental health advocates have taken aim at the NSW government for gutting a program helping some of the healthcare system’s most-vulnerable patients. A $111.8m pre-budget funding announcement on Tuesday contained a four-year funding commitment of $40m for the Pathways to Community Living Initiative (PCLI). But that was significantly less than the $160m over four […]

South Australia will completely abolish stamp duty for first homebuyers purchasing or building a new home in a bid to help more Aussies into home ownership. SA Premier Peter Malinauskas made the announcement ahead of the 2024-25 state budget being handed down on Thursday, stating the country was experiencing a housing crisis “borne of successive […]

A former Sydney Airport worker pocketed almost half a million dollars from selling electronics stolen from cargo while he was employed as a freight handler. The 38-year-old man has been handed a three year and four month jail term after pleading guilty to a raft of offences, including dealing with the proceeds of crime. In […]

A couple who befriended an elderly bachelor and sought to manipulate him into giving them control over his six-bedroom ski lodge in the Snowy Mountains have been blasted as “rogues” by a judge. Abby May, 44, and Dean Gibson, 50, launched proceedings in the NSW Supreme Court last year against Neil Walker, 82, seeking to […]