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A man has died and a woman is in critical condition after a tree fell on their car, as damaging winds continue to lash the country’s south east. Emergency services received reports a tree fell on a car in Victoria’s southwest on Wednesday afternoon. It is believed the car was travelling along Main Road near […]

Lawyers for Senator Linda Reynolds and Brittany Higgins have returned to the WA Supreme Court as the blockbuster defamation trial between the pair nears its end. Last-minute evidence was tendered to the court on Wednesday, before both teams deliver closing statements next week. Senator Reynolds is suing Ms Higgins and her husband David Sharaz over […]

A shocking number of Australians are spending nearly a third of their income on mortgages, with new data revealing the grim reality facing homeowners across the country. A Finder survey of more than 1000 Australians, including 346 who have home loans, has found up to 40 per cent are spending nearly a third of their […]

A Greens’ proposal for a Robin Hood tax to target the “excessive profits” of Australia’s largest companies has been lashed as “economic sabotage” and “cheapskate politics”. Leader Adam Bandt unveiled the minor party’s three-pronged Big Corporations Tax policy in an address to the National Press Club on Wednesday, months out from a federal election due […]

A bizarre claim that Sydney has pulled ahead of Melbourne in terms of vibrancy and nightlife was met with scoffs, laughing and jeers from a cynical crowd of locals and business owners. That ambitious declaration from the city’s Lord Mayor Clover Moore was made at a public forum of mayoral candidates on Tuesday night, held […]

A Sydney man is flummoxed over being charged $2.75 to pay his Telstra bill. Patrick rang 2GB’s Ben Fordham on Wednesday to air concerns about his cash conundrum. He says when he goes into the Telstra store in Penrith to pay his bill, in cash, there is a $2.75 non-electronic payment surcharge. Telstra and many […]

Colleagues of a man who went missing alongside his son while fishing off a popular tourist spot on the NSW south coast have made a desperate plea for help. Nelson Chan, 47, and his 17-year-old son Joshua failed to return home from a fishing trip to Storm Bay, south of Kiama, in the Illawarra region […]

A convicted murderer who set his wife on fire in a horrific domestic violence attack has broken his silence over accusations he raped his wife in the months before he killed her. Brian Earl Johnston, 37, is serving a life sentence for the murder of his estranged ex-wife Kelly Wilkinson, 27, after he doused the […]

Melbourne Storm rising star Shawn Blore will battle allegations he was involved in a late-night brawl in the Sydney CBD. Mr Blore’s matter was mentioned before Sydney’s Downing Centre Local Court on Wednesday, a month after the 24-year-old was arrested. He was charged with one count of affray following an alleged incident in the Sydney […]

EXCLUSIVE A Melbourne dad who had to “learn to walk again” after a life-changing reaction to AstraZeneca has warned there “will be suicides” if the government does not urgently rethink its support for those suffering Covid vaccine injuries. The federal government’s Covid-19 Vaccine Claims Scheme, launched in 2021, is set to end on September 30 […]