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More than 30 bullets were fired at a home in Chester Hill, Sydney, just after 2am, with dashcam footage capturing a white SUV fleeing the scene. Three residents inside the property escaped unharmed despite the barrage of gunfire. Detectives believe it was a targeted attack and are investigating possible gang connections, with police searching for the white SUV and its occupants. See omnystudio.com...

Multiple violent crime incidents across Australia have resulted in arrests and ongoing investigations. Four teenagers have been arrested over a brutal home invasion in Greenacre, Western Sydney, where a 23-year-old man's hand was severed with a machete. Australian man Simon Carman has been charged with the murder of 17-year-old Thunchanok Donhomla in Pattaya, Thailand. In Melbourne, a 15-year-old...

Multiple violent crime incidents across Australia have resulted in arrests and ongoing investigations. Four teenagers have been arrested over a brutal home invasion in Greenacre, Western Sydney, where a 23-year-old man's hand was severed with a machete. Australian man Simon Carman has been charged with the murder of 17-year-old Thunchanok Donhomla in Pattaya, Thailand. In Melbourne, a 15-year-old...

Victor Willis, frontman and founding member of legendary disco group The Village People, has died at age 74 after a short illness. Willis co-wrote the band's biggest hits including YMCA and Macho Man, helping the group sell 100 million records worldwide. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The University of Queensland is establishing Australia's first egg and sperm bank for koalas to preserve genetic diversity of the species. Sperm and eggs will be collected from animals arriving at koala hospitals to create a genetic backup for future conservation efforts. The university has pioneered marsupial reproduction, achieving the first koala joey born through IVF and producing kangaroo IVF...

Arts degree costs will remain at $50,000 until at least 2028 following the Job Ready Graduates Program, which reduced fees for STEM courses while increasing humanities costs in a scheme now admitted as a failure. Seventeen Australian slang terms including 'yeah nah', 'checkout chick' and 'donkey vote' have been officially added to the Oxford Dictionary. A TikTok video sparks debate about household...

The Australian ski season has experienced one of its worst starts in decades, with almost no snow on the ground at Thredbo and Perisher through June. A strong winter cold front is forecast to bring 20 to 40 centimetres of snow over the next 48 hours, along with subzero temperatures that will enable snowmaking. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Four teenagers have been arrested over a brutal home invasion in Greenacre, Western Sydney, where a 23-year-old man had his hand severed by attackers armed with a machete who demanded money from a safe. In separate incidents, a 15-year-old boy was fatally stabbed near a medical centre in Craigieburn, Melbourne, with two people arrested, and a Chester Hill home was sprayed with over 30 bullets in a...

A Chilean rescue team discovered a survivor trapped in rubble days after devastating twin earthquakes struck Venezuela, using fibre optic cable to locate and communicate with the victim before beginning extraction. The survivor was found physically fine in a tomb-like void. The official death toll has risen to more than 2,000 people, with tens of thousands still missing. See omnystudio.com/listene...

The Northern Territory Supreme Court has released secret audio recordings from Matt Wright's trial for attempting to pervert the course of justice following a fatal helicopter crash that killed his co-star Chris Willow Wilson. The recordings include a phone call five months after the crash between Wright and Michael Burbidge discussing helicopter logbooks, revealing concerns about undocumented fli...

Australian man Simon Carman has been charged with the murder of 17-year-old Thunchanok Donhomla in Pattaya, Thailand. New details reveal Carman was seen drinking at a bar in the red light district around 2am before allegedly meeting the victim, known as 'Cake', and taking her to his apartment where police say he murdered her and hid her body in his bathroom. While the teenager's body was in his ap...

Twelve foreign nationals arrived by boat at a remote Cape York beach in Queensland and travelled to a pub in Weipa before being detained by authorities. A 34-year-old Taiwanese national has been charged with people smuggling, while the suspected Chinese nationals have been removed from the country or placed in detention. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

UK broadcaster Piers Morgan appeared on Karl Stefanovic's podcast to offer support after Stefanovic's departure from Channel Nine's Today Show. Morgan criticised the decision to sack Stefanovic, telling him the network would regret it. Stefanovic disclosed that he had planned to resign from Today months before he was actually axed. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A home in Chester Hill, Sydney's west, was targeted in a drive-by shooting around 2am, with over 30 bullets fired at the property. Four people inside the home escaped uninjured as a white SUV pulled up and a gunman opened fire in two separate rounds before fleeing. Police are investigating potential links to ongoing gang violence escalating across Sydney in recent weeks. See omnystudio.com/listene...

A 15-year-old boy was fatally stabbed in a car park outside a community hospital in Craigieburn, Melbourne's north, just before 8pm. Homicide detectives have arrested a 20-year-old man and a 16-year-old boy in connection with the death, following what police believe was an ambush by a group of youths. Despite CPR efforts from a passerby and a doctor, the teenage victim could not be saved, and poli...

Four teenagers have been arrested following simultaneous police raids across Sydney in connection with a violent home invasion in Greenacre on 6 June. The group allegedly forced entry into a home on Banksia Avenue armed with a machete, demanded money from a safe, and severed a 23-year-old man's left hand. The victim has undergone multiple surgeries and police say he will never regain full use of h...

Two women have been arrested and charged following a violent altercation at Bankstown Central shopping centre in Western Sydney. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Western Australia's road toll is on track to reach approximately 200 deaths by year's end, with 111 lives already lost in the first six months. Despite record government investment in road safety measures including AI-enabled cameras and new technology, experts and the RAC identify driver complacency as a critical factor contributing to the state having the worst per capita road fatality rate in t...

The EQ West Tower at Elizabeth Quay in Perth remains unfinished after years of delays, with electrical trades recently walking off the job over a pay dispute. The 50-storey apartment building and hotel complex was built on land sold by the state government to billionaire Victor Goh a decade ago. The adjacent vacant lot four has sat empty for nearly ten years, with its development application deadl...

A Perth man, Jesse Bruzzese, has been missing in Mexico for a month with his last known location in the Cancun region on 3 June. The 35-year-old from Mandurah had been documenting his nine-month solo world trip online before going silent, prompting his family to report him missing and authorities to issue an Interpol yellow alert. Australian property markets are experiencing a sharp decline with c...

Jesse Bruzeze, a 35-year-old Perth man from Mandurah, has been missing in Mexico for four weeks after travelling the world for nine months and documenting his journey online. His last known location was the Cancun region on 3rd June, and his phone appears to be switched off or out of service. An Interpol yellow alert has been issued, with DFAT, the Consulate Corps, and local Mexican authorities wo...

Bluey's Big Play: The Stage Show has opened at Melbourne's Comedy Theatre for the school holidays, running until July 12th. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A 62-year-old driver became trapped in his car after attempting to cross a flooded creek in Lancefield in the Macedon Ranges. Emergency services including police and SES responded to the incident around 7pm, winching the man from his vehicle after the region received 87 millimetres of rain. He was airlifted to hospital in a stable condition. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Northern Hospital in Melbourne recorded over 4,000 violent incidents against healthcare staff in a single year, with security called 12 times daily. Healthcare workers face physical assaults, threats with weapons, and verbal abuse from patients affected by drugs, alcohol, mental illness, and frustration from long emergency wait times. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On tonight's Bright Side, Sophie Delezio's next chapter - helping others. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.