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Posties are being hit and injured on Australian roads 30 per cent more this year. In the past financial year, 86 postmen and women were injured as a result of a third-party traffic collision. The drivers are suffering concussions, broken bones, and psychological stress as well as time off work. “Too many posties are sustaining […]

CCTV footage has captured the moments before a fire tore through a home killing an eight-year-old girl and her babysitter. Raven Contini, eight, and Stephanie Ryan, 31, were found dead after a fire broke out in Bayside Court in Thorneside in Brisbane’s Bayside region on Sunday. Footage obtained by 9Newsshows a white SUV leaving Bayside […]

Former military lawyer David McBride has been granted leave to appeal his convictions and jail sentence for stealing and leaking military information. In May, the whistleblower was sentenced to a maximum of 68 months behind bars in the ACT Supreme Court after he pleaded guilty to two counts of disclosing military information and one count […]

Labor and the Coalition are trading blows over the future of the National Broadband Network (NBN), after the Albanese government introduced a Bill to keep it in “public hands”. Chaotic scenes played out in question time on Wednesday, peaking when House Speaker Milton Dick booted out Liberal MP Tony Pasin for his contribution to the […]

Exiled Labor Senator Fatima Payman has cemented her position as Australia’s answer to a pro-Palestine Pauline Hanson announcing she will form her own party to be called Australia’s Voice. Announcing she was leaving the ALP in July, Senator Payman pledged to be a “true voice” for Palestine and warned that her “conscience leaves me no […]

Former Wentworth deputy mayor Paul Cohrs has been jailed for three decades over the shotgun murder of his elderly mother almost six years ago. Paul Anthony Cohrs, 64, returned before the Victorian Supreme Court on Wednesday for sentencing after a jury rejected a mental impairment defence and found him guilty. The court was told Cohrs […]

A Sydney semi-retired businessman has been charged with attempting to murder his wife by spiking her tea with ant poison, according to court documents. Stephan Wagner, 61, appeared in Campbelltown Local Court on Wednesday, one day after being arrested at his Lanark Place, St Andrews home. Police allege that his 66-year-old wife, Glenda Wagner, was […]

Australia’s university sector is on a “precipice”, experts warn, with a majority of the country’s 10 top centres of higher learning suffering falls in the latest global ranking from Times Higher Education. The respected survey, which marks 2860 universities across the world on a range of metrics from teaching to research, shows just one Australian […]

Footage of police forcefully arresting a man who allegedly punched an officer has emerged. The video shows a shirtless man being subdued on bitumen in Melbourne’s northern suburbs. A female officer throws three punches that appear to strike the man on the side or back of his upper leg, while two more officers try to […]

Renegade Labor senator Fatima Payman has launched her own political party which will run candidates in every state at the federal election. The first-term senator sensationally defected from Labor in July after she crossed the floor while supporting a Greens motion recognising the state of Palestine. Senator Payman revealed during a press conference on Wednesday […]