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A teenage boy will remain on remand after being charged over the alleged stabbing of a university student which forced a Sydney campus into lockdown. Emergency services were called to The University of Sydney following reports a 22-year-old man had allegedly been stabbed in the neck with a pair of scissors while on the Parramatta […]

A 19-month-old boy’s death after he was misdiagnosed at an understaffed hospital was preventable, a coroner has found. Noah Souvatzis died days after falling ill while holidaying with his family near Myrtleford, in Victoria’s northeast, in December 2021. About 3am on December 29, his parents, Steph and Ben, woke to find the usually “delightful little […]

A major rubbish bin change that will affect millions of Australians has left residents fuming. To align with the Victorian Government’s new recycling policy, the Mitchell Shire Council, located north of Melbourne, will introduce a new 4-bin system in March 2025. Alongside the current red (general rubbish), yellow (mixed recycling) and green (food and garden […]

A former real estate agent who dipped into homebuyers’ deposits to prop up his struggling business has been jailed. Justin Scavo, 40, returned before the County Court of Victoria on Monday after pleading guilty to 12 offences under the Estate Agents Act. Handing down his sentence, Judge Gerard Mullaly said the former sole director of […]

The Victorian and NSW premiers are throwing pot shots over the mandate for NSW public servants to get back into the office five days a week. “I’ve seen the Victorian government knock NSW for this change,” NSW Premier Chris Minns said on Tuesday. “We think it’s important for the public service in NSW. “And at […]

Heartbreaking details have emerged about the final moments before a NSW doctor was taken by a crocodile after he fell into a river. David Hogbin was nearby a riverbank at the Annan River near Cooktown in Far North Queensland, when he fell into the river on Saturday. Police have confirmed Dr Hogbin was on a […]

US tech giants copped sizeable losses overnight as the battered ASX and Nikkei managed to make up some losses on Tuesday. The ASX energy sector dipped 1.9 per cent by early afternoon, while financials pegged back more than 1 per cent early, settling to a 0.7 per cent gain about 2pm. Discretionaries bounced back too, […]

A prominent university is investigating a claim one of its economics classes was taught in part in Chinese, prompting a “dejected and excluded” English-speaking student to drop out. ABC Radio yesterday aired an interview with a first-year undergraduate student, identified only as Harry, who enrolled in a commerce degree at the University of Melbourne at […]

Australians have been warned to exercise a “high degree of caution” when travelling to the United Kingdom as violent riots continue. The riots come after three young girls, Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice Dasilva Aguiar, nine, were murdered at a Taylor Swift dance event in northwest England on July 29, while […]

Peter Dutton has called on the Albanese government to reconsider its funding of a UN aid organisation in Gaza following revelations staff “may have been involved” in the October 7 attack on Israel. The United Nations said on Monday nine employees of UNRWA, its agency for Palestinian refugees, had been fired as a result of […]