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A possibly severe thunderstorm looks set to dump even more rain on Sydney as a sustained wet period drags on. Parts of the NSW south coast have been issued with severe weather warnings as 70 to 200mm of rain could fall. The Bureau of Meteorology is forecasting certain rain in and around Sydney for Saturday, […]

The bodies of murdered Perth brothers Callum and Jake Robinson have been moved into the United States, beginning their journey home after they were killed in an attempted carjacking in Baja California. The brother’s deaths sparked an outpouring of grief after they disappeared on April 27 while on a surfing trip in the northern Mexican […]

The Albanese government will unveil an $11.3bn housing package, predominantly designed to boost the supply of social and affordable homes, as a centrepiece of its May 14 budget. In a tacit admission that its effort to alleviate Australia’s acute housing crisis had not been enough, Labor will inject billions of dollars of additional funding to […]

The Hindu Council of Australia wants prayer rooms removed from public schools due to fears they could be used to promote “radical ideologies”. A 16-year-old boy was shot dead by police last Saturday night after he stabbed a man in the back at the Willetton Bunnings carpark, in Perth’s south. Police shot the boy after […]

A tornado hit the town of Bunbury in Western Australia on Friday destroying youth centre with children playing inside. Two people were taken to hospital after the tornado hit the Bunbury Police and Community Youth Centre in Western Australia’s south. Multiple ambulances are at the centre, with a woman aged in her 30s taken to […]

EXCLUSIVE The family of a woman who died on a party boat has received a major settlement payout from the cruise company following claims her two sons suffered “nervous shock” as a result of her death. Shalina Abdulhussein, 39, was found dead in a toilet cubicle during a birthday party on February 2, 2019 on […]

A rabbi has called out a Labor MP in Western Australia for “appalling” comments he made comparing a parliamentary colleague to Adolf Hitler. WA Liberal leader Libby Mettam had spoken out against a bill that would make it easier to change gender on a birth certificate and said her party would ban the use of […]

The largest shopping centre in Perth was plunged into a lockdown after a knife incident that left one young man with a wound to his face. Police confirmed two males were involved in a physical altercation, with one of them armed with a knife. A 20-year-old man suffered a slash wound injury to his face. […]

A lawyer is locked in a legal battle with Jetstar after finding a loophole in the airline’s ‘return for free’ promotion and booking 58 flights for $0 each. Tyrone Barugh booked a flight from Auckland to Sydney for $260, receiving the return fare for free as part of the promotion. Mr Barugh then cancelled the […]

A Melbourne courier enlisted his brother for a campaign of “manipulation” aimed at covering up violence perpetuated against a woman, a court has been told. Jawad Qayyum, 41, appeared in the Victorian County Court on Friday for sentencing after pleading guilty to attempting to pervert the course of justice. Handing down a two-year jail sentence, […]