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A “long-serving” and “well-loved” worker has died in an accident reportedly involving a crane at a coal mine west of Mackay in Central Queensland. On Saturday morning, Resources Safety and Health Queensland (RSHQ) were notified of worker’s death at the Byerwen mine site. Although the cause of the accident has not been confirmed, initial reports […]

WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned that this article contains mentions of deceased persons. Northern Territory Police will make an apology over injustices and harms caused to Indigenous Australians by the force. NT Police Commissioner Michael Murphy announced he’ll make an apology at The Garma Festival of Traditional Cultures in Gulkula, northeast […]

In the world of finance and economics, the stakes are rarely as high around an ABS data release as they were for the latest quarterly inflation figures released on Wednesday. In the run-up to the release, the average market forecast was for 1.0 per cent inflation in quarter-on-quarter terms for both the headline reading and […]

It’s one of the most googled questions during each Olympics – and the answer requires a bit of a history lesson. During 2024 Paris, Taiwanese athletes are again competing under the name of a country that doesn’t exist: “Chinese Taipei.” They’ve done so since 1984 – and despite growing calls for the name to be […]

A motorist has shared an encounter with police and the brutal way he discovered a lesser-known driving law. After being pulled over for failing to indicate, Sydney driver Fred Khoury took out his phone to record the police interaction. He was then swiftly informed by the officer that what he was doing was actually illegal […]

The national union watchdog has launched Federal Court proceedings to have the scandal-plagued CFMEU placed into the hands of an independent administrator. On Friday, the Fair Work Commission’s general manager Murray Furlong initiated action in the Federal Court to appoint an independent administrator to the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union’s construction and general division. […]

“Serious failures” in Israeli military practices were responsible for the deaths of Australian aid worker Lalzawmi ‘Zomi’ Frankcom and six of her colleagues in April, according to a report commissioned by the Australian government. The report confirmed Ms Frankcom, who worked for non-profit World Central Kitchen, was killed in Gaza in an “intentional strike” carried […]

Prosecutors have called for a cryptocurrency enthusiast to be jailed after he spent millions of dollars wrongly refunded by an online exchange. Jatinder Singh’s court troubles began after he tried to deposit $100 in his Crypto.com account in May 2021 using his partner’s bank account. But discrepancies between the names of the accounts led the […]

Nearly 900 kilograms of meth has been seized by police in Sydney, landing inside machinery sent from the US. Police removed the drugs from inside machines at Port Botany last week based on a tip-off received by US authorities. After the 896kg of meth had been tested, removed and weighed, the shipping container was sent […]

A senior cop has relived the moment she was fired upon by crazed gunmen who killed her colleagues and a neighbour after she heroically used a car to contain the shooters on a regional property. Multiple senior officers are giving evidence at an inquest into the deaths of six people – including two Queensland Police […]