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It was a quiet Friday morning, on a cul-de-sac opposite thick bushland in a sleepy town on the NSW Mid North Coast. A young boy played in the yard of his foster grandmother’s home with his sister. And at some point, his foster mother has said, during a game of “daddy tiger”, he slipped around […]

Labor has invited a local Muslim community group with ties to a sheik who celebrated the October 7 attacks and has been linked to the extremist group Hizb ut-Tahrir to apply for its share of $2.4 million in grant money in the name of “social cohesion”. Addressing a crowd at a pro-Palestine rally organised by […]

The Albanese government is gearing up to give early childhood workers a 15 per cent wage increase, with promises of wages rising by a combined $258 by December 2025. The laws to allow the legislated pay bump will be introduced to parliament on Thursday, and if passed, will be delivered across two years with a […]

The grieving father of two boys suspected of being killed by their mother in an attempted murder-suicide has recounted the shattering moment he found his sons’ bodies. Nick Smith rushed to the home of his ex-partner Trish Smith, 42, in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, about midday on Tuesday after he could not contact […]

Two young siblings who were rescued from a house fire in Melbourne’s northwest have died in hospital surrounded by family. Emergency services rushed to a home at Fergus Court in Sydenham about 9.30pm on Sunday after neighbours raised the alarm. Firefighters entered the burning home and found five-year-old girl Izabel, three-year-old boy Kalais and another […]

Western Australia senator Fatima Payman has used her platform in parliament to give a bizarre speech only generation z and alpha could understand. The senator was speaking out to oppose the government’s proposed social media ban for children, saying young Australians often fail to have their voices heard in parliament. Senator Payman called on the […]

A builder has managed to get all his clients into their homes before he went bust owing creditors about $880,000 as Australia’s housing crisis continues to worsen. The Victorian company miraculously finished building the last of its client’s residential homes but had no new builds on its books to cover loan repayments. The company, Geelong […]

The Reserve Bank has warned unemployment is expected to rise but says the jobs market is still too strong and is fuelling inflation, dashing hopes of a pre-Christmas interest rate cut. Stronger than expected employment is one of the reasons RBA governor Michele Bullock last month effectively ruled out cutting the cash rate from 4.35 […]

Australia’s Paralympians have touched down to a hero’s welcome in Sydney. The team won 63 medals in Paris with 18 gold, 17 silver, and 28 bronze, finishing ninth in the overall tally. “You have done your country proud,” Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said. “On behalf of all Australians, it is my great honour to welcome […]

There were tears and gasps in shock as the man responsible for driving a bus which crashed, killing 10 people and injuring 25 more in NSW’S Hunter Valley, learnt his fate after a marathon three-day hearing. Brett Button, 59, was sentenced before Judge Roy Ellis at Newcastle District Court on Wednesday afternoon to 32 years […]