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Rugby Australia has suspended Kurtley Beale from all forms of the game following the star player being charged on Friday night over the alleged sexual assault of a woman in Bondi last month Olympic hero Peter Bol has pleaded with Australia to believe his innocence after testing positive to a performance enhancing drug. Underworld figures who have aligned themselves with Comanchero boss Mark Buddle...

Police in Queensland have confirmed they are investigating a public spat between former Australian cricket captain Michael Clarke and his girlfriend Jade Yarbrough. Suburban Sydney families are being slugged with home insurance hikes of more than 50 per cent  Drenching rain has ignited another push for Sydney to get a roofed stadium. And The battle is intensifying for Sydney’s most precious piece...

Aussie cricket great Michael Clarke and Today Show host Karl Stefanovic have squared off in a wild fracas in a public park QANTAS pilots dramatically issued a mayday call when one of their plane’s engines blew during a flight carrying 145 passengers to Sydney from Auckland yesterday. The grieving father of murdered mum Dayna Isaac arrived at a western Sydney courthouse to see his daughters alleged...

The body of a young mother allegedly murdered by her boyfriend lay just metres away when police following up on a call by the neighbours knocked on her door – but the officers left, ­assuming no one was inside. Safe drivers who get stung for minor offences will have fines waived under a re-elected Coalition government  Internal documents have revealed permanent teacher vacancies in NSW public scho...

Demerit points will expire faster for safe drivers who avoid traffic infringements if Labor wins the March state election. A Sydney schoolteacher who was a keen traveller and surfer is believed to have died in a plane crash in Nepal that killed at least 68 people The only people possibly feeling worse than Nick Kyrgios right now are the executives at Channel Nine who shelled out a fortune to secur...

Teenagers across the state are being “sextorted” at a chilling rate by overseas crime syndicates  Aboriginal leaders will travel to every corner of NSW next month to inform local communities about the Voice to Parliament amid concern about a lack of grassroots consultation. An Australian was on board a plane that has crashed in Pokhara, Nepal., reportedly killing at least 40 people. And Manly shou...

She is one of Australia’s most recognised faces – an actor, author and a mother of six. But for more than three decades Madeleine West has harboured a dark secret Roads will be made safer and more flood resilient, and commutes will be quicker under a $1 billion transport splurge in Western Sydney. Parents intent on sending their kids to a top-rated public school are running out of options for subu...

Controversial former Auburn deputy mayor Salim Mehajer could be released from prison as early next week, after spending months in solitary confinement in a bare cell  Premier Dominic Perrottet realised his “terrible mistake” of having chosen a Nazi costume to wear to his 21st party on the night, with one guest recalling how he had offered to take it off during the event An aged care worker has bee...

Dominic Perrottet’s election campaign has been dealt a body blow after the Premier admitted to wearing a Nazi uniform to his 21st birthday party almost 20 years ago. A woman was shot in the chest and police were hunting a gunman after a daylight attack in south-west Sydney, which police believe may have been linked to domestic violence. Traumatised victims of sexual violence will now be able to lo...

Cardinal George Pell was “on top of the world” hours before his sudden death, according to his devastated brother. Australia's former navy chief has been criticised for using a Collins submarine as his personal “love sub” after taking his girlfriend on an overnight ride and proposing Voters could go to the polls in March without knowing the outcome of a corruption probe into former premier Gladys...

China's ambassador to Australia opened an extraordinary press conference in Canberra by toasting the Chinese-Australian relationship with a glass of Barossa Valley red  Sydneysiders have seen their weekly rental cost climb yet again, despite new figures revealing prices have stalled in most other Australian cities. Mining and large manufacturers will be forced to cut emissions by 28 per cent by 20...

North Sydney council is preparing an official policy governing fur and leather in a move which could ban iconic RM Williams boots, leather bags and a large array of sporting equipment on council sports fields. Children as young as eight are accessing disturbing content on TikTok — a remnant of the Covid pandemic where many parents relaxed their online safety rules to support their child’s learning...

Young teens are being fed videos on TikTok which detail graphic sex acts, rate their sexual “purity” and encouraging them to make explicit videos themselves, as concerned experts warn parents to protect teenagers from the “vortex” of inappropriate content.  The locations of 50 new urgent care clinics to treat non-life threatening injuries and illness are yet to be finalised despite the Albanese go...

A former NRL star has opened up about his $3000 a week  ice addiction. Opposition leader Peter Dutton has warned Anthony Albanese his refusal to release more detail on the Indigenous Voice to Parliament is a “catastrophic mistake” that will doom this year’s referendum to failure.  Being a pet owner and a renter can at times feel like an impossible task, having to compete for a small amount of pet...

Homeowners are staring down 2023 with a massive change in fortune as new modelling reveals house values in many  Sydney suburbs have fallen dramatically, by up to $800,000, over the last ­tumultuous year of soaring rates and rising inflation.  Just one in seven NSW beaches are patrolled, leading to a call from prominent beach safety expert for authorities to ‘think outside the flags’ and life save...

Every ISIS bride repatriated to Australia is being investigated after one of the women was charged with travelling to Syria almost a decade ago.  A nine-year-old boy critically injured in the Sea World chopper tragedy has miraculously woken from a coma and even given a thumbs up from his hospital bed.  The ATO is coming for ­Australia’s multimillion-dollar “influencer” industry with a promise to t...

A Sydney mother has died while her son continues to fight for life after a horror helicopter crash that killed four people near the Sea World theme park on the Gold Coast.  Criminal charges have not been ruled out over the deadly Sea World helicopter crash but Queensland police commissioner Katarina Carroll said any outcome could take weeks.  Eloise Carey has witnessed first hand how a nurse can c...

Four people were killed and three seriously injured after two helicopters on holiday joy rides from Sea World collided mid-air over the Gold Coast.  Tributes have poured in for Ashley Jenkinson, the pilot who lost his life in the Sea World helicopter collision on Monday afternoon. The mother of Brisbane Broncos NRL star Payne Haas has been charged with manslaughter over the horrific Gold Coast cra...

Motorists – particularly those in Western Sydney – will see as much as $750 hit their bank accounts by the end of the month now the state ­government has begun its toll relief rebate scheme.  Two star NRL players have been involved in a heated confrontation at a nightclub.  Newly declassified cabinet documents have revealed The Howard Government refused to send Australian Defence Force personnel t...

Sydneysiders will launch into 2023 celebrating diversity, with just under 150,000 fireworks and effects to light up the city skyline this New Year’s Eve.  A young Sydney woman allegedly bashed by her former partner spent days in hospital with a smashed face but, almost a year later, she’s still living the nightmare as courts fall behind following Covid-19 disruptions  Sydney Harbour partygoers wil...

AUSTRALIA will stamp out bullying, abuse and misconduct in all levels of sport with world-class safety and integrity measures ready to support the next generation of athletes “from the playground to the podium”.  TAXI drivers who flout the law by refusing to use their meters and demand fixed prices from customers will be in the sights of the industry watchdog in an unprecedented New Year’s Eve bli...

A former NSW minister has warned the state’s communities still on their knees from the Black Summer bushfires are living in a “blast furnace” ready to explode and green tape is preventing landowners from protecting themselves.  Two cousins were killed when an inflatable they were riding struck a submerged stump while they were being towed by their grandfather in a boat in country NSW.  An Instagra...

New Year’s Eve revellers will be able to enjoy the city’s iconic fireworks celebration for free from sought-after harbourside locations currently charging up to $70 per person if Labor is elected to government next year.   Two teenagers have been charged with the murder of a former Sydney mother and the stabbing of her husband during a home invasion at their new house in Brisbane.  Kevin Rudd will...

Flood victims are calling for urgent help after many spent Christmas sleeping in their cars or under their houses while emergency housing pods built specifically for them... stand empty on the side of the road.  As an emotional sea of zinc-covered faces and floppy hats engulfed the MCG in honour of Shane Warne, the legend’s son Jackson had a message for others who have lost a loved one.  A Sydney...

BOXING Day bargain hunters will spend a record amount across Australia this year, with NSW leading the ­retail resurgence. KEY Liberal candidates for the March election may not be preselected until well into January after the party erupted over a botched deal to get gender parity in the upper house — despite Premier Dominic Perrottet insisting he wants more women in the party. GANGSTERS have becom...