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A family has been left shattered after a horror car crash that killed a father and his daughter and left his young son in hospital with critical injuries. Emergency services were called to the tragic scene on Milperra Road near Murray Jones Drive near Bankstown around 7.40pm on Sunday after a rideshare vehicle carrying a […]

Fatima Payman has doubled down on her calls for a Palestinian state, further alienating the renegade WA senator from the Labor Party’s position ahead of a parliamentary sitting week. Senator Payman caused ripples through the party room earlier this month when she broke ranks to accuse Israel of genocide in the ongoing war in Gaza. […]

A senior ABC journalist has come under fire after declaring Australia a “racist country”. Laura Tingle, chief political correspondent for ABC’s 7.30 program, was on a panel at the Sydney Writers Festival on Sunday when she reportedly said: “We are a racist country, let’s face it. We always have been and it’s very depressing”. The […]

Landlords potentially caught up in Victoria’s illicit tobacco trade have been warned of the insurance risks that come from crime, with council letters sent out to shop owners across metropolitical and regional areas advising them of potential “adverse impacts” to their coverage. Victorian Police, in conjunction with councils, have warned owners that Taskforce Lunar investigators […]

The most expensive state for young Australians to learn to drive in has been revealed, with the national average hitting $80 an hour for lessons. Latest research from EzLicence took a look at the hourly cost of a driving lesson across 2500 suburbs. From there, they were able to analyse and discover which states and […]

Police negotiators have been sent to a standoff between Australian National University staff and pro-Palestinian protesters, who are defying an “immediate and non-negotiable” ordered to disbane their protest camp. Protesters at the Kambri Tent Encampment were woken up at 8am on Monday by more than 20 university security guards. Protest pages on Instagram issued multiple […]

Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles has condemned “confronting” levels of antisemitism in Australia after a Jewish school was vandalised with threatening graffiti. Mr Marles visited Mount Scopus College in Melbourne’s east on Monday after the school’s fence was found sprayed with the words ‘Jew die’ on Friday night. Speaking alongside Labor MP Josh Burns, the […]

Jacqui Lambie has called for Australia to establish a national guard in the wake of Rishi Sunak’s plan to reinstate mandatory national service. The Tasmanian senator has proposed a domestic arm made up of young Australians not working or studying to help the ADF meet the requirements of non-traditional missions – such as assisting with […]

A senior ABC journalist has come under fire after declaring Australia a “racist country”. Laura Tingle, chief political correspondent for ABC’s 7.30 program, was on a panel at the Sydney Writers Festival on Sunday when she reportedly said: “We are a racist country, let’s face it. We always have been and it’s very depressing”. The […]

A “gutless” property developer who shot dead two innocent women before killing himself had 13 guns stored inside his $4.5 million mansion. Mark Bombara, 63, was hunting for his estranged partner when he shot dead widow Jennifer Petelczyc, 59, and her daughter Gretl, 18, inside their Perth home on Friday afternoon. It’s understood Mr Bombara’s […]