Hamas will release dozens of hostages from Gaza in an agreed prisoner swap and ceasefire deal with Israel – but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed the war will go on. 

The woman seated alongside alleged killer teenager driver Dhirren Singh Randhawa has told police the son of SA Police Commissioner Grant Stevens “ran across the road, into the path” of the vehicle moments before the fatal impact. 

US band The Brian Jonestown Massacre cancelled a Victorian show on Wednesday after their Melbourne gig degenerated into abuse and fist fights on stage. 

Australia’s richest person has called on the federal government to give the nation a “Christmas bonus” in the form of a petrol excise tax cut to deal with spiralling costs.