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The principal of a prestigious school that made headlines after a group of Year 11 students were caught ranking their female classmates online has said there shouldn’t be a blanket ban on social media for young people. The shocking list was posted by four boys from Yarra Valley Grammar School in Melbourne onto the platform […]

Gold Logie winner Larry Emdur has shared a final message almost 24 hours after his win. In a video shared to social media, wearing Ugg boots and a comfortable matching tracksuit, the television personality said Sunday was “the best night” of his life. “I’m trying to get back to all these messages, I’ve literally got […]

More positive than gloomy financial results have dragged the Australian share market into positive territory, although serious concerns about the iron ore price loom large. Jim Chalmers raised the alarm about a looming $3bn hole in the public purse should the ore price stay below Treasury forecasts, and on Monday the market responded in kind. […]

A teenager who has tragically died while on a gap year in the UK has been remembered as a “generous and lovely young man”, as a campaign is launched to bring him home. Jack Ryan had been working at a school in Kent, southeast England, when he collapsed in the bathroom of his on-site accommodation […]

Two tight-knit Victorian families have been left shattered after a decision to show off a new “high performance” car killed two cousins on Easter Sunday. Rory Teiffel, 25, returned before the County Court of Victoria on Monday as he learnt he would be jailed for a minimum of five years and four months over the […]

A woman accused of killing a young diabetic girl told detectives the child wasn’t dead, asserting she could not be charged for killing someone who was “alive”, a court has been told. Members of a cult-like religious group accused of killing a young diabetic girl were celebrating for the child’s “diabetes school stuff” to be […]

More mortgage holders are behind on repayments and businesses are battling falling demand as cost-of-living grinds on the Australian economy, Westpac’s latest quarterly results show. In a third quarter update to the ASX on Monday, Westpac chief executive Peter King said financial headwinds were tough. “The cost of living and high-interest rates remain a challenge […]

Rex chairman John Sharp has filed a complaint with the Australian Federal Police against the airline’s former chairman. The criminal behaviour complaint, filed on August 12, is in relation to a recording former chairman Lim Kim Hai allegedly made of the final Rex board meeting. Mr Hai offered the recording to a journalist, according to […]

A Sydney businessman fighting allegations he supplied national security secrets to Chinese spies was all smiles as he left court for the first time after being granted release on bail in June following more than a year behind bars. Alexander Csergo, 56, appeared before Downing Centre District Court on Monday after pleading not guilty to […]

Independent MP Zali Steggall says she doesn’t regret telling Opposition Leader Peter Dutton to “stop being racist” during a heated House debate on visas for Palestinians fleeing war-torn Gaza. Ms Steggall made the controversial interjection after the Liberal leader repeatedly interrupted her. Speaking to the ABC on Monday, Ms Steggall said it was “always better […]