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Exorbitant grocery bills will be tackled by a powerful new commissioner to drive down transport costs if the state government is re-elected. Cooper Johns has spent the off-season flogging himself on a train-and-trial contract at Manly. Australia has ordered Elon Musk to prove he’s delivering on his vow to rid Twitter of child abuse material. Anthony Albanese has ­declared no “big changes” are plan...

Schoolkids in Sydney’s north were the academic powerhouse in last year’s NAPLAN results, but it’s a different story for far west NSW. Matthew Hayden says David Warner’s Test career isn’t over yet. Peter Dutton accuses the federal government of wanting to hike taxes on super to pay for its budget measures. The Australian Army has intensified its training of Ukraine troops.  For updates and breaking...

Two Sydney-based agents of the US Drug Enforcement Agency are being sent home after a Australian Federal Police complaint. St George Illawarra players had to be separated after a “heated exchange” outside the team hotel in Mudgee. Thousands of Australian children have started the new school year without qualified teachers in core subjects. As many as 138,000 jobs will be put at risk by the net zer...

Australia’s entire education system is in need of massive reform, with the federal government warning of a teaching “crisis” and launching the biggest overhaul of the sector in a decade. Teens in the bush will get a $5000 handout to swap their broken-down old cars for safer vehicles under a major scheme designed to drive down the regional road toll. Sydney businessmen, their wives and lawyers have...

A gay hate row has erupted in Sydney on the eve of World Pride. An explosion in the number of bureaucratic fat cats is now costing taxpayers almost $800 million every year, after a 419 per cent increase in the government’s “senior executive” ranks over the past decade. Candice Warner is finally ready to own her story. The celebrated athlete, mum and wife of Australian cricket star Dave Warner has...

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has revealed it is getting more than $1 million of profit an hour out of customers being crippled by the skyrocketing cost of living – especially borrowing. Racing NSW boss Peter V’landys has called on other authorities to follow NSW’s lead in banning race horses being sent to abattoirs and the knackery, accusing his interstate colleagues of failing “the most cru...

Every child diagnosed with cancer will now have access to a revolutionary treatment program being rolled out across the country in a world first. Federal Aged Care Minister Anika Wells has been ­accused of misleading older Australians, after she denied the federal government had made changes to the Home Care scheme. Printed parking infringements left on car windscreens have been scrapped by 36 NSW...

More than 200,000 Australians living on ‘Home Care’ packages have had their benefits shrunk by the federal government. A music festivalgoer has died from a suspected drug overdose after attending the Transmission Festival at the Sydney Showground on Saturday afternoon. A move by the prime minister to ditch Temporary Protection Visas has set off a war of words, with the government being accused of...

Homes and businesses in suburbs left languishing on the slow and unreliable copper network will get access to super fast internet from next year. Bombshell documents reveal interstate racing bodies had a plot drawn up to declare war on Peter V’Landys and Racing NSW to stop the state’s growing dominance in the sport The big four banks are being summoned to Canberra to be publicly grilled about whet...

Prescriptions for medicinal cannabis, antidepressants and sedatives are being dished out online within minutes, as GPs warn about the dangers of pop-up pill pushers Under fire for dudding millions of customers, Commonwealth Bank has super-sized the interest rate on a key savings account Comanchero bikie boss Allan Meehan moved his wife and child from Sydney to the Gold Coast because he had a “$3 m...

The Commonwealth Bank, which is the most profitable financial institution in the nation, is sneakily snaring tens of millions of dollars through its strategy of being quick to hike and slow to slice. Dominic Perrottet and Chris Minns will face off in an old-fashioned western-style shootout – of the verbal variety –  in a mid-election showdown for Western Sydney voters. The cost of seeing a doctor...

The father who left his toddler in a car for six hours on a 35 degree day has made a heartbreaking plea to other parents to be “120 per cent sure where your kids are The big banks should give families a break by not passing on the latest interest rate hike in full, NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet has declared. Three men will face court over allegations they defrauded the NDIS of more than $3.3 milli...

Healthcare workers and teachers who want to fill critical shortages in regional Australia are being denied priority visa processing due to a system “stuff up” disadvantaging the bush. Multi-billionaire pub mogul Arthur Laundy has negotiated the biggest single hotel deal in his sixty plus years in the industry The Reserve Bank of Australia is almost certain t o lift the cash rate  by 0.25 percentag...

NRL superstar Latrell Mitchell was supposed to be staying at Jack Wighton’s home in Canberra over the weekend to celebrate the Canberra Raiders star’s 30th birthday.  After declaring 2022 the Year of the Strike, unions have warned 2023 will be the Year of the Hike, with a mass exodus of teachers, nurses and other frontline workers sparking a new industrial war before the state election   Experts h...

Families across NSW will be given a $250 bonus payment from the state government to seek a cheaper power contract under a half-a-billion-dollar plan to put downward pressure on bills.   A police detective tasked with catching the fraudsters who stole $30,000 from an elderly woman instead stole her credit card details and ­attempted to purchase more than $16,000 worth of goods.  Salim Mehajer’s ex-...

Former NRL star Tristan Sailor says he’s found his purpose after being acquitted of the rape of a woman back in 2020.   A surge in pet ownership during the pandemic has prompted the ­NSW government to pledge a record $40.6m towards improving animal welfare and rehoming, including ramped up enforcement efforts to tackle animal abuse.  Home seekers would need to earn nearly $250,000 a year to afford...

Qantas chief Alan Joyce has written to 14 million frequent flyer members to alleviate any safety concerns after a spate of turnbacks, as the airline also slashed the price of 170,000 seats in a price war with Virgin Australia.  Monarchists are outraged that King Charles is being snubbed for Australia’s new $5 note, saying it’s “republicanism by stealth”.  The race is on to protect thousands of res...

More than 800,000 Australian households face further financial pressure as many shift to more expensive variable rates in 202. A court has heard the mother of NRL star Nicho Hynes was  taken to hospital “pale and dishevelled” the night a friend died from heroin toxicity in her two-bedroom granny flat,  Channel 7 has nabbed Dr Chris Brown from rival Channel 10 in the first major TV power move of 20...

Dominic Perrottet’s bid for sweeping poker machine reform has been given a boost after the loudest industry voice opposing a cashless gaming card was fired over comments invoking the Premier’s Catholic faith.  Labor leader Chris Minns has pledged to pump $10 million into sporting organisations across NSW that have been stagnating at the same low level of funding since the 2000 Sydney Olympics.  Et...

A Court has heard that Online news outlet Crikey effectively “begged to be sued” over an article published on its website about News Corp chair Lachlan Murdoch, using the case to sell subscriptions worth $500,000, promote an online fundraising campaign and sell merchandise.  The State’s most wanted man has been arrested in Turkey and is facing extradition over allegations he was a kingpin in Sydne...

A group of Catholic schools including the high school attended by Premier Dominic Perrottet has taken the extraordinary step of warning parents of a “targeted attack” by the ABC which they say is designed to smear them and the NSW Liberal Party as religious extremists. It was an Australia Day where Aussies did what they do best – while thousands attended protest rallies many thousands more hit the...

Homeowners are warned to brace for more mortgage pain with further interest rate hikes imminent as “unacceptably high” inflation fuels a cost-of-living crisis.  Body image advocate Taryn ­Brumfitt has been named Australian of the Year 2023.  An elderly man charged with damaging Guy Sebastian’s fence claims he was merely trying to widen the access to his property so he could wheel in medical equipm...

Temporary alcohol restrictions will be introduced in Alice Springs in a desperate effort to curb a shocking spike in violent crime and anti-social behaviour.  Guy Sebastian’s neighbour allegedly threatened to kill him when a long-running feud between the pair escalated on Monday, according to police.  Sending your child to an independent school in Sydney will cost you as much as $60,000 more than...

Michael Clarke appears set to be replaced as a commentator on the upcoming Indian cricket series, with broadcasters sending an SOS to Test great Mark Waugh. An Australian teacher has been poisoned in Africa and his body tossed into a crocodile infested river in a murder his grieving family has described as “too painful to conceive.” NSW Opposition leader Chris Minns is pulling no punches in his bi...

Bikies are now secretly calling police to raid their properties as a way of surrendering their patches without violent ­repercussions from their gangs. When Peter Bol heard the knock on the door at 8am on a Tuesday, he knew exactly who it was. Labor is headed to a thumping victory over the Coalition at the March state election, with a new poll showing young voters are set to oust Premier Dominic P...