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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 […]

Former NRL star Jarryd Hayne’s legal woes are not over despite successfully appealing his rape convictions, with a civil lawsuit returning before the court. The former Parramatta Eels fullback was found guilty last year of two counts of sexually assaulting a woman without her consent at her Newcastle home on the night of the 2018 […]

Plans for Australian pop star Vanessa Amorosi’s mum to hand over control of two properties have been delayed as lawyers continue to negotiate terms. Earlier this month, Supreme Court Justice Steven Moore ruled a supposed “kitchen agreement” between Ms Amorosi and her mother, Joyleen Robinson, never happened. The Melbourne-born artist launched legal action against her […]

For almost as long as she has been in power, Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore has publicly pushed for a chunk of a sprawling 18-hole golf course on a prized parcel of land to be shut down. What the veteran politician has been less forthcoming about is the proximity of her home to the 100-year-old […]

Woolworths Group’s earnings have risen 3 per cent but the company bottom line has been smashed by impairments on its New Zealand supermarkets, leaving its overall profit just more than $100m. Releasing its annual results on Wednesday, Woolworths posted a 5.6 per cent rise in sales to $67.9bn on the back of its Australian supermarkets. […]

Unseasonable heat and strong winds are forcing firefighters to fight wintertime bushfires in NSW, while residents in Victoria have been warned to brace for strong winds. The Rural Fire Service has been called to a one-hectare grass fire at Yatte Yattah, near Lake Conjola, 170km south of Sydney on Wednesday morning. That fire is being […]

Residents of four states are being warned to get prepared as one of the strongest cold fronts of the year so far powers through. The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) has issued multiple severe weather warnings for New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania. Across much of the south east the wild conditions could kick […]