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With more than 970,000 migrants expected in the next three years, figures reveal only around half that number of new homes will be built. The family of convicted NCA bomber Domenic Perre is considering issuing a petition for mercy following his death. More funding offered to turn a dormant quarantine facility into an emergency shelter for Brisbane’s homeless. New guidelines recommend bowel cancer...

Peter Dutton has made his second budget-in-reply speech overnight, with measures for female health, mental health and welfare. Calls to stop QLD poaching police officers from Victoria. Concerns over potential levies for developers building new housing in Sydney. SA country footballer farewelled following his death after his club’s season-opening match. Severe punishment considered for officials in...

The Coalition and economists have warned that Labor’s cost-of-living relief increases the “risk” of higher interest rates for longer. Landmark Path to Treaty legislation passes in a special regional sitting of QLD parliament. Confusion over the future of Melbourne’s Airport Rail Link after Minister’s backflip. The SA Government launches an anti-vaping campaign for high schoolers. A Wiggle reveals...

Centrepiece of the federal government’s cost-of-living relief package is a $3.5bn investment to triple the bulk-billing incentive for GPs. A South Australian trade office will be opened in Germany to spearhead the state’s green hydrogen push. Violent and abusive behaviour at community sporting matches could see parents and spectators across NSW banned for life. Queensland’s Family and Child Commis...

Australia will have a budget surplus for the first time in 15 years with a $4bn surplus expected this financial year. An escort’s been charged over the death of a young tradie found in the stairwell of a Sydney apartment block. Members of the exclusive SA club that hosted LIV Golf don’t want the event back next year. The QLD Police Commissioner is warning that the rise of vigilantism across the st...

Single parents, pensioners, welfare recipients and low to middle-income households will be the big winners from a $14.6bn cost-of-living relief budget package, but Labor’s targeted cash splash will not ease the inflation pain for everyone.  An attempt to rename the proposed new “Gadigal” metro station in Sydney in honour of Indigenous war hero Reg Saunders has been rejected.  Victorian government...

Standing in the same church where, just 229 days earlier, the King bid his “darling Mama” an emotional farewell, the 74-year-old was officially crowned monarch to the cheers of “God Save the King”, from the congregation.  Outback Wrangler Matt Wright has accused Northern Territory Police of ignoring crucial evidence that shows a series of safety rules were broken in the lead up to a deadly flight....

Paying interest on Australia’s debt will cost $700 every second for the next five years as the federal government moves to target mega gas profits, high super balances, smokers and multinationals with tax hikes to raise budget revenue.  A man who turned up to television star Sophie Monk’s house holding a single rose claims he was duped by an online scammer into believing he was in a relationship w...

The 15th season of MasterChef Australia will go to air with the blessing of late judge Jock Zonfrillo’s family.  As many as 95 major infrastructure projects across NSW including highway upgrades and road safety programs could face the chop after federal Infrastructure Minister Catherine King announced a snap audit Monday as the government looks to rein in spending.  The teenager allegedly behind t...

Entertaining MasterChef judge and award-winning chef Jock Zonfrillo’s devastated wife and their two young children are understood to be making their way home from Rome where they were on a family holiday before his sudden death at 46.   Health workers will today walk off the job in a bid to get the NSW government to deliver on its pre-election promise to scrap the public sector wage cap.   Three w...

A soccer referee whose jaw was shattered and teeth knocked out, allegedly by a suspended player, at the end of a match says it won’t stop him officiating the game he loves. Australia will dramatically rethink how the criminal justice system responds to sexual ­assaults and prevent the courts process further traumatising victims under a $14.7m investment into preventive programs and a sweeping revi...

Friends, siblings, a parent and child and legal guardians like aunts, uncles and grand parents will be able to tap into government cash to help buy a home, under a major expansion of who qualifies for three housing schemes.  Thousands of calls and texts to Lifeline are going unanswered each week as centres struggle to assist suicidal Australians amid huge volunteer shortages.  It’s been three year...

It’s been revealed Australia’s favourite showman Barry Humphries waged a  long secret battle with inoperable cancer before his death in Sydney last week.  If Kathleen Folbigg is released from prison, which now appears more likely than not, she will swap her jail cell for the wide open spaces of a farm in the Northern Rivers not far from where she is currently imprisoned.  Parents will be able to g...

Major drug importers are shopping large bricks of cocaine and other drugs on social media in a brazen new distribution strategy, as the price of drugs landing on Australian shores continues to fall.  Radio king Kyle Sandilands   will marry long-time partner, Tegan Kynaston, in a lavish wedding at one of Sydney’s most prestigious homes on Saturday.  Online gambling using a ­credit card will be bann...

Kathleen Folbigg, the woman who has spent 20 years behind bars branded Australia’s worst female serial killer, yesterday got a glimpse of freedom.  Interest rates are likely to stay on hold again next week after new inflation figures weren’t as bad as feared.  A crackdown on “bloodsuckers” ripping off the National Disability Insurance Scheme will be bolstered with a $48.3m investment in new fraud...

The alleged leader of the ­Alameddine crime clan is known as “the king” in Lebanon, where he has been joined in recent weeks by some of the group’s highest-profile associates.  Time-wasting admin tasks tying teachers up in red tape will be slashed from this term in a bid to give frontline school staff more time for ­educating kids.  Aussie pop star turned swimmer Cody Simpson wants Aussie men to m...

Diggers who served in Iraq and Afghanistan will be honoured with a new memorial dedicated to Australia’s involvement in the Middle Eastern conflicts.  A Goulburn man accused of ­assaulting two teenage women at night and terrorising the tight-knit bush community could soon be extradited to face ­charges after being arrested in Western Australia.  She already stood out with her dyed blue hair and br...

  A shoelace was the only thing she could find when Anne Carlos was told she urgently needed to clamp the umbilical cord of a newborn baby abandoned in her backyard. A bikie turf war could be set to reignite on Sydney’s streets after the Hells Angels moved into a beachfront suburb that has long been a stronghold for the Comanchero. Long range missiles, unmanned drones and underwater vehicles, cybe...

Australia is mourning the loss of stage great Barry Humphries, who entertained global audiences for seven decades through his unforgettable comic creations, most notably Dame Edna Everage.  Sydney Roosters star Angus Crichton has emerged from the privacy of his five-month battle with bipolar disorder to declare himself ready for his Anzac Day comeback.  The state’s prosecuting authority conducted...

A highly-contagious influenza A strain is running rampant across NSW as parents are urged to get their children the flu shot after a spike in hospital admissions. The Australian Army is set to lose three battalions of combat vehicles and a column of Howitzer cannons under recommendations in the blueprint for the future of the Australian Defence Force. More than 350,000 Kiwis living in Australia wi...

The Albanese government has been accused of “going soft on criminals, sex offenders and drug traffickers” after figures show the number of New Zealanders living in Australia who have had their visas cancelled on character grounds has halved since Labor took office. A teenage girl bashed unconscious and raped on a street banged on a stranger’s door screaming for help while dripping in blood, before...

The Daily Telegraph can reveal the incredible allegations about Yusuf Nazlioglu’s killer’s double take, and just how close his wife came to being another innocent victim of Sydney’s gang war, after a man was charged with allegedly being involved in his murder on Wednesday. Former governor-general Sir Peter Cosgrove believes more needs to be done to support veterans leaving the Australian military...

Delays to the Snowy Hydro and Kurri Kurri gas plant renewable energy projects have left Premier Chris Minns with no choice but to intervene to keep coal-fired power station Eraring open, according to experts. The closure of temporary Covid testing sites across NSW could begin as early as Wednesday. The monthly number of people attempting to stay in Australia by claiming to be refugees despite havi...

The husband of a Sydney woman murdered on Easter Sunday insists he didn’t kill his wife as he revealed police arrested him over her violent death hours after he made the grisly discovery. A bizarre outburst outside a seedy Melbourne strip club has landed controversial independent senator Lidia Thorpe with a lifetime ban from the adult establishment. NRL stars Latrell Mitchell and Cody Walker have...

A woman was blindfolded, had the tips of her fingers and toes amputated and was left tied to a tree in one of six horrific Sydney kidnappings, which is becoming the brutality of choice for feuding gangsters.  The Voice has been the last thing on the minds of remote Northern Territory communities forced to evacuate their homes due flooding, but with the waters now receding locals are starting to co...