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The finance minister is promising to look at spending cuts across the board as the government comes under pressure to rein in inflation. A judge in America has thrown out a more than $14 billion lawsuit brought by US President Donald Trump against The Wall Street Journal, and its owner Rupert Murdoch, over a letter allegedly written to the late paedophile Jeffery Epstein.  After 378 days in isolat...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has arrived in the Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda for the 28th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. Iran has dismissed the possibility of direct talks with the United States as mediators in Qatar attempt to avoid renewed conflict in the Gulf.  One Nation has confirmed its candidate for Melbourne has quit, just four weeks out from the Victorian state el...

Iran's Supreme Leader has ordered his military chiefs to respond to any attack immediately and without geographic restriction, raising the spectre of war spreading well beyond the Gulf. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will be landing in the Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda this morning, ahead of the 28th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. 50 per cent of Australian general practices n...

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The world's biggest cryptocurrency exchange Binance says it'll cover all losses and allow clients to trade again within days following the AU$9 billion hack of its platform.

Two people have died and another is in a critical condition after a three-vehicle crash south of Byron Bay. One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has criticised the National Party at an agricultural convention in Perth, and thrown her support behind Western Australian farmers. Cyber security experts say Australians are likely to have been caught up in a major hack impacting the world's largest currency...

Multiple people have died in a three-vehicle crash in Suffolk Park, south of Byron Bay in northern new south wales.

The Department of Foreign Affairs says it's providing consular assistance to the family of two Australians in connection to a train crash in Spain that claimed at least 69 lives.

Australian authorities are working to confirm the wellbeing of two Australians after this week's deadly train disaster in Spain.

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Hackers have attempted the biggest hack in the history of cryptocurrency, potentially stealing $8.9 billion worth of digital money from the world's largest crypto exchange Binance. US blockchain analysis firms believe North Korea's elite hacking unit is behind the hack, but there's been no comment from the alleged hacking group. A Victorian judge says Erin Patterson's elaborate series of deception...

Could US voters be confused by two candidates named Dan Sullivan on the ballot in Alaska's Senate race. New York Times' reporting suggests there was an elaborate scheme by Democratic party operatives to get another Dan Sullivan on the ballot against the Republican incumbent.  The US Justice Department says that if the original Dan Sullivan narrowly loses, the result should not be certified and an...

Victoria's highest court has increased the jail term for mushroom killer Erin Patterson and has also dismissed an appeal to overturn her convictions. The decision by Victoria's Court of Appeal means Patterson will likely die in jail. A man who allegedly obtained explosives in preparation for a terror act has appeared in the Perth Magistrates Court. The court has heard Lucas Sean Cameron allegedly...

Victoria's highest court has dismissed mushroom murderer Erin Patterson's appeal against her convictions and granted the prosecution's appeal, meaning she will likely die in jail. The Court of Appeal found her offending involved such shocking criminality that it was inappropriate to fix a non-parole period, removing the chance of parole after 33 years. So what legal options, if any, does Patterson...

Sir Patrick Stewart, the actor known as Captain Picard in Star Trek and Professor X in X-Men, has died aged 86. His family said he died in the loving care of his wife Sunny following a brief and poignant journey with Alzheimer's disease and Lewy body dementia. So what made his work, from Shakespearean stage dramas to Hollywood, span so many generations?

Judges in Victoria's highest court say triple murderer Erin Patterson acted with calculated criminality after rejecting her appeal and removing a non-parole period that was set last year. In 2023, she served a beef Wellington laced with death cap mushrooms to four relatives, killing three of them. Notorious childcare paedophile Ashley Paul Griffith has been charged with 202 additional offences, al...

Mushroom murderer Erin Patterson has lost her appeal against her murder convictions and will now likely spend the rest of her life in prison. The Court of Appeal dismissed her grounds and upheld the prosecution's appeal, with Justice Stephen McLeish saying that given the seriousness of the crimes, it was inappropriate for parole to be an option. So what legal options does Patterson have left?