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Sydney’s new Metro line has welcomed one million riders as it moves into its first weekend. NSW Premier Chris Minns celebrated the milestone alongside his predecessors Mike Baird and Dominic Perrottet and NSW Transport Minister Jo Haylen and Metro workers and planners on Saturday. The transformative $21bn public works project has exhilarated Sydneysiders since its […]

Disturbing details are emerging in the investigation into a young man’s death in a suburban park in Melbourne. The man, 28, was found injured at the Lennon Parkway at 4.20am on Saturday. Emergency services performed CPR on the man, however he died at the scene. Victorian Police Detective Inspector Dean Thomas said homicide investigators had […]

China has cornered the market for electric vehicles and the race to sell green cars is only going to get tougher for established brands. More than 80 per cent of electric vehicles sold in Australia come from China, and that number is likely to increase as new names such as Zeekr, XPeng, Smart, Foton and […]

EXCLUSIVE A 28-year-old man who pleaded guilty to grooming a 14-year-old girl via Snapchat will be eligible for parole in just two months after being sentenced for his crimes. Chicken shop worker Corey Mcconnell faced the NSW District Court on Tuesday where his messages to the schoolgirl were read out in open court. Mcconnell was […]

Hundreds of text messages between Brittany Higgins’ husband, David Sharaz, and the journalist who broke the story of her rape in parliament have been released. The messages, released as part of Linda Reynolds’ defamation trial, chronicle months of exchanges between Mr Sharaz and News.com.au journalist Samantha Maiden. Beginning in January 2021 with back-and-forth messaging about […]

An Aussie university student has slammed the state of the nation’s higher education system, saying she’s been made to feel “like a cash cow” while studying for her degrees. The debate over the health of Australian universities has been in the spotlight recently as the federal government plans to cap international students from January 2025. […]

The Queensland mining regulator has effectively stopped most operations at a Queensland coal mine after two fatalities occurred on site within weeks of each other. A male worker at Byerwen Mine was killed on Thursday when two vehicles, including a truck, collided in the Bowen Basin about 160km west of Mackay. Resources Safety and Health […]

The Albanese government has been told it needs to consider the scourge of domestic violence as not just a “crisis” but a “national emergency”. A panel of six independent experts tasked with developing prevention methods to reduce the scourge of domestic, family and sexual violence (DFSV) said the significance of the issue should “not be […]

Travellers have been warned to expect delays as tradies plan to walk off the job for 24 hours at a major Australian airport next week. More than 30 tradies responsible for the smooth running of the luggage conveyor systems and airbridges at Brisbane’s domestic and international airport will strike on Monday. The industrial action could […]

Hundreds of angry farmers and community members from regional Victoria have staged a mass protest while Premier Jacinta Allen was metres away addressing the Rural Press Club. The farmers and regional Victorians were protesting the government’s plan to “run transmission lines and renewable energy projects on private farmland,” the Herald Sun reported. The Victorian government […]