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A celestial body has lit up skies along Australia’s east coast on Thursday morning, leaving early risers questioning what the bright streak could possibly be. People from Toowoomba to Newcastle to Sydney saw the bluish-green tail illuminate the sky before 6am. While there is a comet on a million-year orbit of the sun which was […]

A Queensland schoolgirl left her family a heartbreaking six-word note before she tragically took her own life after battling mental health issues and bullying. Isla Marschke, 14, died by suicide at her family’s home in Bundaberg South, over 360km north of Brisbane, on Tuesday. Her mother found her in the backyard that evening and performed […]

A retiree has walked away from a dentist appointment with $8m after winning Oz Lotto. The man was having breakfast with his wife when a Lott official delivered the good news, telling him he held the only division one winning entry in the Oz Lotto draw 1599 on Tuesday. “Oh my! That’s unbelievable!” the man […]

A shocking 86mm of rain has fallen in a single hour on a Queensland town, while Brisbane was smashed by a wild storm. The Gold Coast town of Mudgeeraba was hit with 100mm of rain over six hours with 86mm in an hour and 69mm falling in just 30 minutes. Nearby Burleigh Waters recorded 122mm […]

A fed-up Sydney dog owner forced to clean what she believes to be human excrement off her pooches has called out Bondi’s “public poopers”. Julia Sakr regularly walks her dogs through the beachside suburb, and says the occasion is often ruined by the sighting of “human sh*t”. The woman says she knows it is human […]

Anthony Albanese has adamantly “ruled out” making a deal with the Greens if Labor fails to win majority government at the next federal election. Two peak Jewish bodies – the Zionist Federation of Australia and the Executive Council of Australian Jewry – have jointly called on both major parties to rule out forming relying on […]

A once-promising politician who smashed through a garage with a car before unleashing a bloodied assault on his elderly godmother also attacked his mother in her home. Sam Einfeld, 45, fronted Downing Centre Local Court for sentencing after pleading guilty to two counts of common assault – one domestic violence related. The charges relate to […]

Police are investigating a possible gang link in a brutal early morning home invasion that left a woman and man in hospital with stab wounds. The attack happened in Gulfview Heights in Adelaide’s northeast about 3.45am on Wednesday. A 53-year-old woman and 17-year-old boy were inside a home when they were assaulted by a group […]

Two brothers charged with pasting more than 20 “provocative” pro-Palestine posters across Sydney’s CBD defended their actions to police, telling officers they could not be “expected to sit here and do nothing”. Mouhammed Misselmany, 20, and brother Moahmmed Ali ElMisselmany, 24, pleaded guilty before Downing Centre Local Court on Wednesday to a single charge of […]

Crumbl has made a cheeky dig amid news of an official Australian store following the emergence of a “scam” pop-up of the popular cookie brand last month. A group of people allegedly flew to the US and purchased a small fortune in Crumbl cookies, with the group earlier claiming they spent more than $13,000 importing […]