News Australia

Liberal senator Andrew Bragg has been rebuked by senior colleague Michaelia Cash, who said he was wrong for saying the Opposition could withdraw GST payouts to NIMBY states if they didn’t meet their housing targets. Speaking to reporters on Monday, Western Australian senator Cash definitively ruled it out, and said limiting GST had never been […]

Content warning: graphic A severely malnourished four-year-old girl with down syndrome had been dead in her bedroom for likely two days before authorities were alerted, a court has been told. The body of Willow Dunn was found in her Cannon Hill home on May 25, 2020. More than four years later, her stepmother Shannon Leigh […]

A woman has been raced to hospital with deep lacerations after being attacked by a tiger at a Gold Coast theme park. The woman, an animal handler at Dreamworld, was working with the tiger about 9am Monday when things took a turn for the worse. She sustained several deep cuts as a result of the […]

A pair of fraudsters will likely be deported once they have finished prison sentences for putting dodgy card reading devices into ATMs in Melbourne and Sydney. The Romanian nationals, a man aged 34 and a 33-year-old woman both living in Sydney, were sentenced to prison in NSW on Friday for their $36,000 scam. They put […]

Anthony Albanese has dodged a question about the purpose of AUKUS while spruiking a new “jobs for subs” initiative in Western Australia. Speaking to reporters from HMAS Stirling, an island naval base just off Perth, the Prime Minister was asked on Monday if the trilateral defence pact was designed to fight a third world war, […]

A special taskforce has found NSW’s bus system to be “neglected, underfunded and largely misunderstood” while cautioning for more safety initiatives like training for bus drivers and background checks on a driver’s safety history during the hiring process. Among the 10 key findings and 19 recommendations in NSW Bus Industry Taskforce chair John Lee’s final […]

A baby boy who was scalded by boiling hot coffee in an alleged random attack in a Brisbane park is back up “walking and causing chaos” while awaiting his third surgery. Nine-month-old Luka was with his mother and a friend at Hanlon Park on August 27 when he was allegedly attacked by a man who […]

Indigenous Affairs Minister Malarndirri McCarthy will visit the detention facility where a 17-year-old Aboriginal boy took his own life last week. The boy was in custody at Banksia Hill Juvenile Detention Centre for just two days before staff found him unresponsive in his cell. His is the second death in custody in 10 months at […]

Dozens of flights out of Sydney have been cancelled with high winds battering the east coast. Sydney Airport is using just one of its three runways due to high winds, with many of the cancelled flights bound for Melbourne, one of the world’s busiest routes. “Due to high winds Airservices Australia are operating our east-west […]

The ASX has suspended The Star Entertainment Group from trading after it failed to post its annual financial report by Friday, amid reports it is seeking new funding. The market issued the announcement on Monday morning, after the casino group requested a trading halt on Friday following the NSW independent Casino Commission (NICC) handed down […]