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The daughter of missing camper Carol Clay has told a jury she was concerned her mother’s affair with Russell Hill would become public after their disappearance.    Apartments could become more affordable in Brisbane under Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner’s plan to remove outdated minimum carparking requirements for new developments in high-density areas.  Australia’s peak soccer body is refusing to say...

  Police will be able to use metal-detecting “wands” in major public spaces where knife crimes have been committed in the past year, in a key change to proposed new powers driven by concerns about the safety of yearly events like the Easter Show.    Accused High Country killer Gregory Lynn murdered campers Russell Hill and Carol Clay, probably after a dispute over a drone, prosecutors allege.    A...

Social media giants are being urged to work with the South Australian government as it seeks to legislate a ban on children under the age of 14 from the platforms.    Treasurer Jim Chalmers will today sell a budget Labor claims will help struggling households, but a growing chorus of experts warn the plan will also keep crippling mortgage repayments higher for longer.    NSW Police have joined the...

  Social media giants such as Meta and TikTok have been put on notice, with the federal government announcing a wide-ranging probe into online platforms’ potential harm to Australians.  Confronting footage has emerged of pro-Palestinian students at Queensland’s largest university admitting they would be terrorists if involved in the overseas conflict.  Troubled former North Melbourne footballer  T...

A repeat domestic violence offender with an apprehended violence order banning him going near his former girlfriend ambushed her outside a Sydney gym and stabbed her in the throat with a kitchen knife.  Jewish students and staff at Queensland’s top university fear for their safety after a suspected antisemitic attack on the office of a Jewish academic.  The governnment will pump an extra $3.25 bil...

Accused mushroom murderer Erin Patterson has formally entered not guilty pleas to three charges of murder and five of attempted murder as her case will be fast-tracked for trial to the Supreme Court.    Premier Steven Miles’ $1000 election sweetener, spruiked as helping Queenslanders with their power bills, could be cashed out and spent on anything in a $2.5bn billing loophole.    Medical experts...

Under-18s will be banned from buying knives, raising the age limit from 16 while NSW Police will get new powers to search people for blades in response to the alleged stabbing of an Assyrian bishop in Wakeley and the Bondi Junction massacre.    A new $400 bonus for an estimated 700,000 Victorian students will be unveiled as the key cost of living measure in today’s state budget.    The state gover...

Parents will be able to see social media through the eyes of their teenage children using a new tool exposing how young people can be surrounded by misogynistic content that promotes harmful attitudes toward women.  Staff shortages, lenient consequences for poor behaviour and the false perception educators get 12 weeks off a year are some of the systematic issues driving disrespect in the classroo...

Coward-punch killer Kieran Loveridge, whose unprovoked attack on a young man on a Kings Cross street 12 years ago shocked Sydney, is now out of jail and on a crusade to educate young men about the dangers of alcohol and violence, saying if anyone knows the horror consequences, it’s him.  The union for prison officers has accused the Victorian government of recklessly endangering their lives amid w...

Child experts are calling for a national blanket ban on mobile phones in schools as they warn kids are struggling with basic skills in the classroom like reading for long periods of time, critical thinking and recognising emotions on faces.    The father of accused Melbourne footballer Joel Smith says he fears his son is being “scapegoated” to cover up rampant illicit drug use in the AFL.    CFMEU...

Anzac Day - unspoiled by commericalism or activism - is fast becoming our nation’s seminal day.    Labor is on track for a savage electoral defeat as voters desert QLD Premier Steven Miles and the LNP extends its two-party lead just six months before the state election.    Victorian homeowners could be forced to fork out thousands of dollars to upgrade old appliances with energy efficient models a...

War heroes and army veterans have slammed a group of pro-Palestine protesters who are set to rally at several city locations on Anzac Day.    Police swooped on what they claim was a teen terror cell in Sydney’s southwest ­yesterday, arresting seven youths allegedly linked to the Wakeley church stabber.    Queensland teachers are being stabbed with pencils and having desks thrown at them by student...

  Elon Musk could afford to personally pay the fine for his social media platform X’s refusal to remove footage of a violent stabbing attack in Sydney for centuries, as the billionaire is accused of putting his “ego” ahead of “common decency”.    Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has admitted the government “needs to do more” to grapple with the growing domestic violence crisis in Australia.     The...

Five young Victorian children – including two known to child protection – died from malnutrition and neglect in just 17 months during the pandemic.    A NSW woman has allegedly been murdered by her ex-partner just over a fortnight after he was granted bail after being accused of raping her three times.    Queensland’s youth crime epidemic has been laid bare as a new report reveals the number of yo...

Pro-Palestine activists are turning up at University of Melbourne classrooms and photographing students after asking   for a show of hands to indicate who agrees with their views on the Israel-Gaza war.  A teenager has been charged after allegedly attacking an Assyrian Christian bishop during a livestreamed service at a church in Sydney’s southwest after days in hospital.  Police say the Australia...

Brittany Higgins will keep the $2.4m compensation payment she received from the government despite Justice Michael Lee finding the basis for her claim, that there had been a political cover up of her assault, was “untrue.”    The family of schoolboy accused of the Sydney church stabbing say the teen was “religious but not a radical” and he is “extremely remorseful”.    Ongoing protest action that...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has hinted that a brave Frenchman who faced off  with a rampaging knifeman, who stabbed six people to death in Bondi Junction, on Saturday may jump the queue to become an Australian citizen.  Woolworths CEO Brad Banducci has been threatened with jail time after refusing to answer questions about the supermarket chain’s profitability in a two hour-long standoff with...

  After one aborted, then abandoned, criminal trial and two successful out of court settlements Bruce Lehrmann was on Monday found to have raped Brittany Higgins.    The Victorian government is pushing for a “substantial ­increase” for workers on minimum and award wages, well ahead of the “economically ­responsible” lift other states want amid warnings too big a rise may drive up inflation.    A n...

Drug dealing would be virtually impossible for criminals without social media and apps like Meta-owned WhatsApp, with a new study finding 70 per cent of Australians use them to buy illicit substances.    NSW households face paying at least $20 a year extra on their electricity bills after a blowout in the already massive cost of a new privately owned transmission line to the troubled Snowy Hydro 2...

In a devastating on-air moment, a Channel Seven veteran has announced the tragic death of Sunrise reporter Nathan Templeton.    A $1 billion money laundering and tax evasion syndicate has been busted by the Australian Federal Police, who claim 1200 business were cashing in on the scheme.    Security footage has captured the moments after a 21-year-old Adelaide man was stabbed to death in a “sensel...

The state government is looking at charging foreigners more to buy property in NSW, with Treasurer Daniel Mookhey declaring money from overseas investors should be directed to help “build new homes”.  A large group of Hells Angels bikies charged over a joy ride have appeared in court, prompting a heavy police presence in Adelaide’s CBD.  Double time when it rains, a full month of rostered days off...

The man charged with murdering his ex-girlfriend, who was found dead in a burnt-out car near Ballarat, posted a tribute after her death saying he would “forever love you” and allegedly messaged friends claiming she had taken her own life.  The owner of an e-scooter that allegedly set fire to a hotel room, causing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of damage, had taped over the room’s smoke ala...

Students were shown pictures of adults who had undergone transgender transformation surgery, and incest and bestiality were discussed in an unsupervised  sex-ed session in an Adelaide school.  Former Seven producer Taylor Auerbach says that Bruce Lehrmann was reimbursed by the network for drugs and prostitutes during a night out which prompted him to tell his boss the former political staffer was...

  Australia’s next Governor-General will be a female corporate high-flyer with a long history of advocacy on gender, climate and Indigenous issues.    A Queensland pumped hydroelectricity project slated to cut through the world’s platypus capital and furiously opposed by locals could balloon to $18bn – the state’s most expensive project ever.  Bosses at the Seven Network are holding crisis talks o...

Former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann’s defamation trial against Network Ten and presenter Lisa Wilkinson has been reopened at the 11th hour after sensational new evidence was presented to the Federal Court.    Parents in Sydney’s booming northwest are being forced to make 90 minute round trips to pick up their children from their catchment primary school after the state failed to deliver any of i...