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The Greens are pushing for “Robin Hood” tax reforms to target the “excessive profits” of some of Australia’s largest companies, including the major banks, Wesfarmers, Telstra and Coles and Woolworths. Leader Adam Bandt will use an address to the National Press Club on Wednesday to launch the Greens’ three-pronged Big Corporations Tax to fund cost-of-living […]

An Aussie “family man” has tragically died overseas in a horror motorbike accident just a day before he was set to return to Australia. Jayme Altieri, a 41-year-old from Western Australia, died after suffering head trauma while on his way back from dinner in Bohol, a province in the Philippines, on August 18. Mr Altieri […]

Gold Logie award winner Larry Emdur has had an AVO taken out to protect him just days after winning the major award. The order has been taken out by NSW Police on behalf of Emdur against Victorian man Rodney Pearce. NSW Police said officers were called to Network Seven’s Eveleigh office on Central Ave in […]

A Melbourne billionaire has given a brazen intruder a taste of his own medicine after catching two men breaking into his $40 million penthouse. Adrian “Lambo” Portelli confronted one of the intruders who he caught breaking into his apartment in the early hours of Monday morning. The 35-year-old businessman decided to turn the tables on […]

A man has been jailed in what’s been described as one of the worst sextortion cases in history after he posed as a teenage social media celebrity to coerce more than 250 victims – including 180 children – to perform sexually explicit acts on camera. Muhammad Zain Ul Abideen Rasheed, 29, from Perth has been […]

A woman found dead with stab wounds in a unit in Sydney’s inner-west has been remembered as a daughter, friend and top student who will “never be forgotten” The Burwood community gathered at the Burwood Pavilion Centre to honour the life of Xiaoting Wang on Tuesday evening after she was found dead in a Conder […]

A chemicals company is under fire after one of its truck drivers was found dead in his cab after he was allegedly exposed to cyanide while cleaning his vehicle. In a scathing statement, the Transport Workers’ Union on Tuesday called for “urgent action and accountability” following the death of the driver who was employed by […]

More than a dozen people are trapped on a ride at Sea World, marking the second time thrillseekers have been left trapped on rides at the popular theme park just this week. It is understood there are 13 people trapped on the Vortex ride, which stopped about 2.45pm Tuesday. “We are experiencing a ride stoppage […]

A man accused of raping his wife multiple times before he murdered her allegedly hired a private investigator to sit outside her home and got a friend to contact her multiple times, a court has been told. Family members and friends of slain Gold Coast mum Kelly Wilkinson walked through the doors of Southport Magistrates […]

As the world races towards a lower carbon reality, Aussie companies are losing billions of dollars as one of the key resources to make it happen collapses in price. One large Australian miner has revealed its profits dropped a staggering 86 per cent over the past year and it’s feared projects and jobs around the […]