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A group of sovereign citizens who claim the Australian government is illegitimate have filmed themselves entering a number of council offices to hand over “cease and desist” notices and proclaiming the establishment of a “demilitarised zone”. In bizarre footage posted to TikTok, a group of activists with a group calling itself “Nmdaka Dalai Australis”, led […]

NSW Premier Chris Minns is the latest political leader to have his office attacked by vandals who sprayed the word “murder” and covered the building in red paint overnight. Pictures from the scene have captured the extent of the vandalism – with the Kogarah office sprayed with red paint and graffiti that read “murder” overnight. […]

Australians experiencing financial stress are being urged to ask their bank or lender for help, after new research revealed that almost half of Australian adults with debt struggled to make repayments in the past 12 months. Research from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) found 47 per cent of Australian adults with debt – […]

People need to be wary of scammers ripping them off under the guise of tax time cons, Australia’s Customer Owned Banking Association warns. In June 2023, Australians lost $38 million to scams, government figures show. End of financial year business makes an attractive disguise for scammers, Customer Owned Banking Association financial crimes chief Leanne Vale […]

International students studying in Australia have been targeted in a virtual kidnapping scam which has seen families lose hundreds of thousands of dollars to scammers. Since August last year, four cases of virtual kidnapping have been reported in Perth with police saying the scam is on the rise. Those targeted ranged in age from 18 […]

A young Aussie has taken to social media to claim there’s nothing to do in Sydney, Australia’s most expensive city. Alannah took to social media to call out the people complaining that there is nothing to do in Sydney when it rains, boldly claiming there is nothing to do in the city even when the […]

More than 20 visas of foreigners with serious criminal histories have been cancelled by Immigration Minister Andrew Giles. The federal government had previously cancelled the visas of non-citizens convicted of crimes including murder, sexual assault and drug trafficking. The Administrative Appeals Tribunal overturned hundreds of cancellations under its interpretation of a ministerial ruling, known as […]

Clean-up is underway after a weekend of wild weather that ripped the roof off a rural pub and left millions inundated by heavy rains. Two people were hospitalised after a severe storm that ripped the roof off the Parade Hotel in Bunbury, south of Perth, on Sunday. It comes less than a month after a […]

A woman’s body has been found after an explosion ripped through a suburban townhouse in Sydney’s west. The explosion happened in Whalan, around 45 kilometres west of Sydney’s CBD, just before 1pm on Saturday. The body was found at the scene about 3.20am on Monday and is yet to be formally identified. It comes amid […]

The double-murder trial of former Jetstar pilot Greg Lynn is expected to resume on Monday after jurors were given a “long weekend”. The 14-person jury was sent home early on Thursday afternoon after Justice Michael Croucher said the next witness to be called was “crook”. “You may have noticed that the informant, Detective Florence, who […]