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Residents in a Sydney council have become fed up after parking meters were replaced by an app payment system, demanding locals hand over their personal information. North Sydney Council has been slammed by residents who now need an app to park their car and provide the local government with their private details. The move comes […]

A quarantine area around the whole of Perth has been extended to stop the spread of a tree-killing beetle. Effective from Friday, the WA Department of Primary Industries has broadened a quarantine area, restricting the movement of plants. Authorities are trying to get a handle on the destructive polyphagous shot-hole borer, which burrows into tree […]

Bollards have been erected around an international military exhibition that is expected to attracted tens of thousands of anti-war protesters planning to blockade the event. Workers could be seen installing the bollards around the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre on Friday, ahead of the event next week. A Land Forces expo will be held at […]

Swillhouse, the hospitality group in the middle a storm of serious allegations of sexual misconduct, drug use, and harassment, has issued a formal apology two weeks after an explosive investigation. The company, which operates some of Sydney’s most prominent venues including The Baxter Inn, Restaurant Hubert, and Shady Pines, is now in damage control mode, […]

The Reserve Bank of Australia has been dealt more criticism, with a colourful attack by former Treasurer Wayne Swan. Australia’s central bank is “punching itself in the face” and “putting economic dogma over rational economic decision making”, Mr Swan told Channel 9 on Friday. The RBA holding interest rates high was “hammering households, hammering mums […]

The leader of an Indian political party’s Victorian chapter has been charged after allegedly forcing his ex-wife’s new husband out of the country. Sairam Uppu, 40, appeared in the Victorian Supreme Court on Friday and lodged a bid for bail on charges including kidnapping, extortion and assault. He has yet to enter pleas. Detective Senior […]

A group of Gold Coast police officers have been heard mocking a domestic violence survivor in a sickening telephone recording. The audio – shared by the Queensland woman, whose identity is protected, with 7News – was captured after she’d called them to her house for help earlier this year, alleging her ex-partner had broken in. […]

A congregation of faith healers accused of withholding a girl’s insulin – resulting in her death – have attacked the police case against them as “fiction” and insisted the girl will be raised from the dead. The mammoth Supreme Court trial of the 14 people accused of killing Elizabeth Struhs, 8, entered its final arc […]

CFMEU members will foot more than $1.9m across three years in order to pay the salary of the government-appointed administrator tasked with reforming the union, with enraged union bosses lashing the takeover as an attack on workers and members. Government-appointed administrator and senior barrister Mark Irving will be given a remuneration package of $643,640 a […]

Sunrise news reader Edwina Bartholomew has revealed on air that she had no symptoms when she was diagnosed with chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) in July. A doctor sent the news reader for routine blood tests when one came back that was “out of whack”, revealing Bartholomew had cancer. CML is a type of cancer that […]