Heroic Teen 31/05/24

A teenage boy who made the call for emergency services to help an unresponsive young girl in Adelaide who later died has recalled the incident in harrowing detail.  Queensland monthly building approvals have dropped to 25 per cent below their 10-year average, with struggling families turning to mea…

Samantha Murphy 30/05/24

Investigators have uncovered a phone while searching a dam for the body of missing Ballarat mother Samantha Murphy.  Killer bus driver Brett Button was behaving oddly in the hours leading up to the Hunter crash which left 10 dead and 25 injured, boasting to wedding guests he could perform “donuts”…

Search For Mum And Baby 29/05/24

There was still no sign of a mother and baby more than 24 hours after a human placenta and umbilical cord were found on a Sydney riverbank as officials plead for the woman to take herself and her newborn to hospital.  Heat sensors have been installed in the homes of teachers in a remote Queensland …

Black Marketplace 28/05/24

Facebook has become a thriving marketplace for black market merchants hawking everything from counterfeit cash, cloned credit cards and illegal firearms.  A sexual harassment scandal has engulfed one of the country’s biggest retailers, implicating its CEO, and forcing the resignation of a senior e…

Ozempic 24/05/24

Black market merchants peddling methamphetamine, ice and heroin are using Facebook posts promoting illegal vapes to funnel customers to websites and Telegram chats selling hard drugs.  A new diabetes drug thought to be “better than Ozempic” will be trialled in Melbourne in a move researchers hope …

Top Doc Backs Insta Ban 23/05/24

SA Premier Peter Malinauskas’s push to ban children under 14 from social media has been bolstered by the US’s top doctor, who urged government action to tackle “a medical emergency among young people”.  Aviation experts have begun an investigation into how a Singapore Airlines flight dropped more …

Cost Of Living Crisis 22/05/24

Anthony Albanese has declared he will not go to the polls until he has broken the back of the cost-of-living crisis, saying he is committed to going the distance in his first term of government.  A staggering 70 per cent of Queensland’s public hospital staff have been assaulted or witnessed viol…

Failed Asylum Seekers 21/05/24

More than 60,000 of 80,000 failed asylum seekers still in the country have been allowed to remain here with full work and study rights.  Patient prescriptions and private GP and healthcare provider information was among the data leaked in the major medical breach involving MediSecure.  Victoria P…

Unemployment Rates 17/05/24

Almost 320,000 Australians have been unemployed for between two years and a decade despite living through the biggest jobs booms in Australia’s history.  The University of Melbourne has warned pro-­Palestinian protesters occupying a major building on campus that it will send in police to break up …

Missing Campers' 14 Year Secret 16/05/24

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 req…