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A Black Lives Matter activist has threatened Ben Fordham live on-air in a heated phone call, telling the 2GB radio host he had “put a target” on himself and that he would be “waiting for you” outside the building. Paul Silva, 26, called into the Sydney radio station on Monday taking issue with Fordham for […]

Universities will be forced to cap numbers of overseas student enrolments as part of Labor’s efforts to ease pressures on Australia’s housing market and slash the migration intake ahead of the next election. The federal government will introduce new legislation to set limits for the maximum number of new international student enrolments. New laws, set […]

A woman suing Hillsong church over an indecent assault left Australia before key documents were ready, a court has been told. Anna Crenshaw, 26, was indecently assaulted by Hillsong Church staffer Jason Mays when she was just 18 years old. Mays pleaded guilty in 2020 to one count of indecent assault and was sentenced to […]

High-risk offenders facing serious domestic-violence related charges could be denied bail even if they don’t have a criminal history, in a suite of legal reforms set to be introduced into NSW parliament this week. The bill will be taken to NSW cabinet on Monday and will need to be debated on and voted through NSW […]

The Coalition is demanding answers and have brought Labor’s economic credibility into question after the government revealed its inflation forecasts were at significant odds with those of the Reserve Bank. Treasurer Jim Chalmers will hand down his third budget on Tuesday night that will assume inflation is due to return to the RBA’s target range […]

Senator Jacqui Lambie has spoken out claiming social media addiction is as damaging for teenagers as meth. The Tasmanian senator appeared on the Today Show on Monday where she backed the South Australian Premier‘s push to ban under-14s from social media. Premier Peter Malinauskas has appointed Robert French, former Chief Justice of the High Court, […]

A teenager who fatally stabbed a Queensland mum at her home north of Brisbane on Boxing Day will find out whether he will spend the rest of his life in prison for the horrifying act, which was captured on CCTV. North Lakes woman Emma Lovell was killed when a teenager, then 17, stabbed her in […]

Jaqcui Lambie has likened kids’ addictions to social media and their phones to an “ice pipe” as she blasted the impact it is having on young generations in light of terrifying bullying in Australian schools. In a typically passionate appearance on Today this morning, the Tasmanian politician linked perceptions of an increase in youth crime […]

Loved ones of two Australian brothers killed in Mexico have paid tribute to them two weeks after their deaths. Perth brothers Jake Robinson, 30 and Callum Robinson, 33, and their friend Jack Carter Rhoad, 33, were on allegedly murdered while camping on a surf trip near Ensenada in the Baja California region in late April. […]

Inflation could return to the Reserve Bank’s target band by the end of 2024, Tuesday’s federal budget will show, a full year ahead of the Reserve Bank’s own forecasts which predict a resurgence in price pressures. In positive news for cash strapped households, Treasurer Jim Chalmers third budget will predict that the recent surge in […]