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A tax increase to pay for Australia’s aged care system will be considered by Labor with an open mind in a move condemned as a “worrying sign” of a looming broken election promise. A tiny airline co-owned by Queensland footy legend Johnathan Thurston could be the world’s first to achieve carbon neutrality thanks to the planned introduction of hydrogen electric-powered aircraft to its fleet. Strikes...

The Fair Work Commission’s big increase to wages forced Philip Lowe to hike interest rates for a 12th time in 13 months, experts and employer groups say. More than 55 cars are being stolen from hard-working Queenslanders every day as the worst spots for car theft can be revealed, with some suburbs recording more than two a day. Families could fork out nearly $15 for a dozen eggs after a bill to ba...

Greedy property spruikers are profiteering from major flaws in a taxpayer-funded plan meant to rapidly increase the amount of NDIS “specialist disability accommodation”. Just as Matt Shirvington represented Australia at the Olympics, the former athlete says he will bring the same commitment as the new host on top breakfast show, Sunrise. A $100-per-child fee discount for the parents of children in...

The federal government will today unveil details of its plan to prevent and punish migrant worker exploitation with tough new penalties. South Australian prisoners have been arriving at court from jail affected by home brewed alcohol. QLD Government gives LifeFlight Australia a huge funding boost. A shocking development in the mystery disappearance of 14-year-old Linden Malayta. Parramatta Eels st...

ARL Commission boss Peter V’landys has revealed plans for an expanded NRL competition with Papua New Guinea at the “top of the list”. QLD nursing and midwifery students will receive a cost of living bonus to do placements in regional areas. Armed with tougher new powers, an elite NSW police unit has seized drugs and cash worth more than more than $180m. SA Supreme Court reveals the reasons four me...

Australia’s open-door policy to New Zealanders will add an extra $543m to the cost of the NDIS over the next four years alone. The mother of a baby girl abandoned in Sydney was known to the family who discovered the newborn. Company behind the iconic Hills hoist goes into administration. The RACQ motoring body is threatening to ditch insurance cover for more than a million motorists across Queensl...

Decorated soldier Ben Roberts-Smith will appeal against a civil court judgment that found he murdered innocent civilians in Afghanistan. Police allege a Sydney father accused of stabbing his toddler son to death fatally attacked the child in a fit of rage. A shocking new study has found unstable housing can shave years off Australians’ lives. A second teacher in Adelaide's northeastern suburbs has...

The RBA governor says Australians will have to get a housemate or stay at home with mum and dad as rents continue to soar. Ominous social media post made by an SA man accused of killing his partner. The QLD government will look to cut ties with professional services and consultancy giant PwC. Ben Roberts-Smith’s defamation judgement to be handed down. Record high indexation of university debt take...

Australia’s pension age will rise to 67 on July 1 but experts warn further increases should be gradual, spanning decades. The AFL’s independent investigation into the Hawthorn racism saga has wound up. Sky-high power prices are set to be pushed ever higher, with one of QLD’s biggest power generators remaining offline for longer. One of NSW’s greatest fullbacks says rookie Queensland No.1 Reece Wal...

Experts say illiterate students will suffer under a new NAPLAN grading system, reported against four levels of achievement instead of 10. NSW state politicians and public sector executives will cop a two-year wage freeze. A Gold Coast man has opened up about his incredible tale of survival, forced to pry open the jaws of a crocodile to save himself. State of Origin fever has hit South Australia. S...

The country’s biggest public health campaign to combat vaping will be launched in Victoria today.  A “crackdown” on taxi drivers breaking the law has failed to stop rampant fixed fare price gouging with Thursday nights the hot spot for Sydneysiders to get scammed.  Just one of Labor’s 66 election promises worth $140 million to Queensland sporting and community groups have reached a funding agreeme...

Anthony Albanese has sounded the alarm of the state of the nation’s early childhood, disability, veterans and aged care systems, signalling fixing them will be a major focus of his prime ministership.  Ex-NRL coach Daniel Anderson has no recollection of the shocking bodysurfing accident that almost killed him and has left him a quadriplegic.  Queensland children aged four and under will be given s...

Police allege the encounter between an officer with a taser and a great-grandmother with a knife all played out within one minute.  A LAB analysis of “lolly” flavoured vapes widely sold in Queensland has revealed the devices are filled with a toxic cocktail of chemicals including arsenic, formaldehyde and lead.  Lawyers for the First Nations families at the centre of the Hawthorn racism scandal ha...

From her powerhouse vocals and rise to popularity as a black female solo artist, she also became a symbol of resilience after leaving her abusive ex-husband Ike and clawing her way back to the top to becoming one of the best-selling artists of all time.    A heritage building in Sydney’s CBD has gone up in flames and dramatically collapsed, firefighters have dodged falling debris and a car was set...

Great-grandmother Clare Nowland  passed away in hospital last night, one week after she was tasered by a NSW Police officer in her Cooma nursing home.  The former NSW multiculturalism minister has been forced into an apology after making a comment  about a Vietnamese-Australian MP, which has been labelled “offensive” and “racist”.  A Centrelink worker stabbed in a bloody ambush in Melbourne is pla...

The Australian sex offender, who enjoyed a decades-long career in showbiz until his arrest on indecent assault charges in 2013, died after a battle with neck cancer.  New data shows School-childrens’ lives are being put at risk by thousands of dangerous drivers who speed and run red lights at traffic intersections in school zones.  Firefighters are furious after their commissioner didn’t attend a...

Sydney’s housing crisis is ­driving a wave of “working homeless” – residents who can’t find or afford a home despite holding a job – with the situation so bad an encampment of tents and car-sleepers has emerged in the heart of Anthony Albanese’s inner-west electorate.  A man has been shot dead in Sydney’s western suburbs and two burnt out cars have been found nearby, in the latest suspected gangla...

The No campaign against an Aboriginal Voice to parliament has warned Australians a successful vote will inevitably lead to a treaty that will ultimately “divide Australians and destroy reconciliation”. Abbie Chatfield thought she had a good gauge on a player over someone genuinely looking for love … until she began shooting new reality show, FBoy Island. Signing up to a “buy now pay later” account...

The father of a young girl who swallowed a button battery has told of his daughter’s rocky road to recovery and the emotional toll it has taken on the family. Kindergarten would be made free under a cost-of-living shake-up being considered by Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, in a move that would save Queensland families thousands of dollars a year. SEVERAL obstetricians at Cairns Hospital are consid...

For mum-of-two Adriana Carmona, finding a lump in her breast was not unusual. Next month’s state budget will not be in surplus for the 2022-23 financial year – despite the forecasts of last year’s state budget and mid-year ­review. Household energy prices will rise even higher and widespread business viability will be threatened if the state government adopts aggressive new carbon-cut policies rec...

The co-author of the Albanese government’s plan to transform the Australian Defence Force and combat China has sounded the alarm about the lack of lethality in the navy’s surface fleet, foreshadowing a major shift to smaller and more heavily armed vessels. Hundreds of patients have been awarded a total of $140m in compensation because of state government medical bungles in the past 13 years, parli...

Joe Biden’s last-minute decision to cancel his trip to Australia and Papua New Guinea is a major blow to America’s standing in the region, experts have warned, and has forced the cancellation of the Quad summit in Sydney. THE truck driver charged over Monday’s horror school bus crash has said he saw a light “flicker” between the trees moments before the crash that caused “life-changing” injuries f...

Former Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens has warned a period of elevated interest rates is likely to persist as central banks around the world continue to tackle a “once-in-a generation” inflation crisis. South Australian year 4 students are trailing their peers when it comes to literacy, according to a newly released global study. Ten children on a bus packed with 45 students have suffered seri...

Calls for new house construction targets tied to population growth, speed up approval times and support more “build-to-rent” homes. Missing woman found in South Australia. Key recommendations from a landmark inquiry into how Queensland Police respond to domestic and family violence have not been enacted. Concerns raised over a national scheme to facilitate the formal transfer of community-based or...

Unsuspecting mum-and-dad investors are among those conned by a global “boiler room” scam – which netted more than $1bn. A man’s believed to have been killed in a shark attack near Elliston on the west coast of South Australia's Eyre Peninsula. Peter Dutton wants tech giants to step up and tackle QLD’s youth crime crisis. Minimal enforcement of current vape laws is giving Victorian retailers confid...