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A vicious weather system off the east coast could bring a dangerous weekend featuring nine metre waves, gale force winds and rain “cracking triple digits,” forecasters have said. Northern areas of New South Wales and southern regions of Queensland could be at risk but messy conditions can be expected across a wide swath of the […]

The bodies of four Australian air force servicemen lost during a mission over Papua New Guinea in World War II have finally been identified. The men’s RAAF plane, that failed to return from a misison more than 80 years ago, was discovered in waters off the coast of Gasmata in PNG late last year. Mining […]

Materials saw its best week since October 2015, despite the Aussie share market remaining relatively flat at Friday’s closing bell. The ASX200 was slightly up 8.5 points, or nearly 0.1 per cent, to close at 8,212.20. Meanwhile, the broader All Ordinaries index set a new 100-day high by gaining 14 points, or 0.17 per cent, […]

Telecommunications firms are facing an overhaul after a senate probe into last year’s massive Optus outage recommended sweeping changes to the industry. About 10 million Optus customers and more than 400,000 businesses were impacted when an apparent software update sparked complications across its Australia network on 8 November. Some customers could not even call 000. […]

New data has revealed the areas in Australia most targeted by scammers as Australians report losing $183m to cybercriminals this year alone. Westpac research found the postcodes with the highest number of reported scams Australia-wide were in NSW and Victoria, while the rate of scams per capita was highest in Western Australia and Queensland that […]

Anthony Albanese has taken a stern line on Benjamin Netanyahu after the Israeli leader vowed his country would continue striking Lebanese militant group Hezbollah with “full force”. The Prime Minister on Friday renewed Australia’s call for “an immediate ceasefire” on the Israel-Lebanon border as well as in Gaza. “We want to see an end to […]

A driver behind the wheel when his car crashed into a tree during a street race in Sydney’s south last year, killing two young boys, has made an “unusual” request in court. Jimmy Martin Brito, 33, appeared before Downing Centre District Court on Friday after pleading guilty to two counts of manslaughter over the August […]

A man has been labelled an “idiot” for walking into Australia’s most croc infested river to fish for barramundi in front of his family and horrified onlookers. Footage has emerged on social media of a man fishing at Shady Camp in Mary River in the Northern Territory, which is recognised as one of the best […]

Opponents of a proposed school in outer Melbourne say the development threatens hundreds of kangaroos and creates a serious bushfire risk. Thousands of people have put their names to a petition against a new school at Lysterfield Lake, about 30km southeast of Melbourne’s CBD. “This site is in a green wedge A zone in an […]

The price of a typical basket of groceries has increased by more than 20 per cent in the past five years, with low-income households currently spending more than a fifth of their income on food, a highly-anticipated report into supermarkets has found. While prices across all grocery product types had increased, the most considerable hikes […]