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A police officer who took his own life at work was stopped at an international airport days before his death. WA Police commissioner Col Blanch told 6PR the officer was a 45-year old Homicide Squad detective who had returned from a family event overseas. The officer took his own life at a Perth police facility […]

A deadly new opioid 1000 times stronger than morphine was discovered in a round yellow counterfeit oxycodone pill that was brought into a Canberra drug testing centre. The discovery prompted ACT Health to issue a warning after a type of nitazene called N-pyrrolidine isotonitazene was detected in the fake tablet. A CanTest spokesperson said the […]

An Aboriginal historian who helped convince Tanya Plibersek to block a $1 billion gold mine project in NSW had previously sought to have every waterway in the shire declared a protected heritage site. The federal Environment Minister last month used Aboriginal heritage laws to make an eleventh-hour intervention against Regis Resources’ Blayney gold mine, near […]

The daughter of former deputy mayor Paul Cohrs has told a court that while her dad remains alive she will “always be fearful of him”. Cohrs, 64, returned before the Victorian Supreme Court on Tuesday after a jury found him guilty of murdering his mother Bette Schulz-Cohrs, 81, almost six years ago. During a 10-day […]

Millions of Australians are sitting on ticking time bombs that could detonate at any moment and those meant to prevent disaster are almost powerless to help. New research from the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute has revealed 70 per cent of the estimated 10.9 million homes across the country have some kind of major […]

Anti-Semitic graffiti, some dripping in red paint, has been sprawled across Sydney suburbs, just weeks away from the anniversary of the October 7 attacks. Graffiti appearing to support the terrorist organisation Hamas has cropped up across Bondi, Bronte and Tamarama, in Sydney’s east – an area home to one of the largest Jewish populations in […]

Housing Minister Clare O’Neil has been likened to a salesperson following a social media post promoting the home guarantee scheme. Ms O’Neil took to X on Monday to encourage young Australians to apply for the home guarantee scheme, which allows people to purchase a home with a deposit of 5 per cent. “Buying a house […]

Sweeping aged care reforms that will likely result in some Australians paying more for aged care have stalled again, with the opposition saying it needs more time to consider the Bill. Shadow treasurer Angus Taylor said the Coalition remained in “good faith negotiations” with the Albanese government on the legislation. “We only received a 500-page […]

The hosts of a popular breakfast show have been left shocked and bewildered following an abrupt end to a call-in from Aussie supermodel Elle Macpherson. Stav Davidson, Loren Barry and Matty Acton, the hosts of Hit’s B105 show in Brisbane, spoke with Macpherson about her new memoir Elle on Tuesday morning, but the lighthearted conversation […]

A man charged with the murder of a woman told police he “didn’t think” about her killer’s request to drive to her home and fill up a jerry can with petrol along the way, a court has been told. Chilling footage of Bradley Bell filling up a jerry can with petrol for his boss, Brian […]