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Tributes have poured in for Australian TV legend and sports commentator Graham McNeice who has died aged 76 after a short illness. McNeice was a documentary filmmaker, TV presenter, race caller and sports commentator on radio and television. His career kicked off after a chance connection with Frank Kennedy, a prominent commentator and promoter in […]

A 27-year-old mystery surrounding the disappearance of a tourist who was windsurfing off the West Australian coast has been finalised. In 1997, experienced windsurfer Werner Schoenhofer travelled to Western Australia from Germany with a group of sailboarders for a five-week holiday. The group visited Geraldton, about 420km north of Perth, which is rated one of […]

The father of one of the victims of the Hunter Valley bus tragedy says he is planning to launch a class action against Transport for NSW. The bus driver Brett Button, 59, was behind the wheel driving guests from a wedding reception when it flipped at a roundabout at Greta, killing 10 people and injuring […]

A one-time NRL player turned professional boxer has been cleared of allegations he broke into a Sydney smash repair shop and stole tools, with a judge stating “suspicion was not a substitute for proof”.Willis Pele Meehan, 29, was sentenced to 12 months in prison in February before Burwood Local Court after being found guilty of […]

Independent MP Kylea Tink is mulling her future after the country’s electoral authority abolished her seat of North Sydney. The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) announced on Thursday electorate of North Sydney would no longer exist, with its 100,000 voters being absorbed into the marginal Labor seat of Bennelong, the Liberal seat of Bradfield and independent-held […]

EXCLUSIVE A man once questioned by detectives over the disappearance of William Tyrrell believes it’s time to let the toddler and the community “rest” as the boy’s family marks 10 years since he vanished. William went missing from the small town of Kendall, on NSW mid-north coast, a decade ago on September 12, 2014. How […]

The aged care sector will be overhauled to ensure its viability and quality after the federal government and Coalition finally reached agreement. The Prime Minister announced on Thursday afternoon the deal, which had been months in the making, had finally been made after the opposition held it up earlier this week. The new Aged Care […]

Senior bureaucrats have denied the evaluation process to raze Sydney’s Rosehill racecourse to build a new metro station and 25,000 home mini city was anything out of the ordinary after questions over the speed of progress were raised. The major redevelopment between the Australian Turf Club (ATC) and the NSW government is in the second […]

Commuters in Australia’s most congested city spend 92 hours a year stuck in traffic, idly burning more than $200 of fuel, research has found. Going on a time-to-travel 10km yardstick, Novated Lease finds Melbourne is the most gridlocked. Melburnians typically need 21 minutes to drive 10km. Drivers in the Victorian capital spend 92 hours a […]

The father of two young boys fatally stabbed inside a Blue Mountains home has broken his silence, revealing his “unimaginable pain and distress”. The bodies of the boys, aged 9 and 11, were found inside their Faulconbridge home by their father, Nick Smith, on Tuesday afternoon, alongside their mother Trish, 42, who was taken to […]