First home buyers will be given a leg up to get into the property market under the major expansion of a guarantee scheme to help young people, regional families and single parents in a “cost of living” pre-election budget pitch to Australians.  

The state’s most wanted man, who is believed to have organised the murders of several members of the Hamzy family, is thought to have paid up to $750,000 to flee the country on a fishing trawler off the coast of Western Australia. 

The ex-partner of young Newcastle mother Mackenzie Anderson has been charged with murder over her late night stabbing death that has shocked the local community. 

Education Minister Sarah Mitchell wants HSC students to sit their exams on computers rather than using pen and paper in one of the biggest shake-ups in the exams’ 50-year history. 

For updates and breaking news throughout the day take out a subscription at dailytelegraph.com.au.