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The man accusing Alan Jones of kissing him when he was a 17-year-old schoolboy has denied under cross-examination that he and his mother tried to deceive the veteran broadcaster to obtain as much financial assistance as possible before he came forward with his allegation.
· 2 sourcesWallabies coach Les Kiss has retained Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii on the wing to use his aerial ability, while All Blacks coach Dave Rennie brushes off his past sacking by the Wallabies, saying it is "not about me". The rivals named their teams on Tuesday for Saturday's Bledisloe Cup opener at Eden Park.
The vast HVO coal mine in NSW's Hunter Valley is expected to face a court challenge after the High Court struck down a separate mine approval for failing to account for the climate impact of exported coal burned overseas. Premier Chris Minns is resisting opposition calls to legislate around the ruling, while energy industries in Queensland and Western Australia warn it threatens future investment.
· 8 sourcesThe fifth complainant in Alan Jones' sexual assault trial has denied deceiving the former broadcaster to obtain more than $100,000 in financial support, as tense cross-examination focused on emails sent during his teenage years.
· 4 sourcesChampion apprentice Siena Grima is aiming to back up her debut Group 1 victory on God's Window in the Epsom Handicap with another strong performance in the $1.5 million Alan Brown Stakes at Rosehill on Saturday.
· 3 sourcesAustralian rugby prospect Treyvon Pritchard is close to returning from an ankle injury that ended his World Rugby Junior Championship campaign and any outside chance of a shock Wallabies call-up. The injury came from a hip-drop tackle, a style World Rugby has now banned.
· 4 sourcesNew Zealand Rugby has filed proceedings in the High Court of New Zealand against the National Rugby League (NRL) over the naming of the incoming PNG Chiefs team, seeking an injunction to prevent the use of the name in New Zealand.
· 3 sourcesPromising filly Satono Glow will make her Sydney debut in the group 2 Roman Consul Stakes at Rosehill on Saturday, with trainer Tom Charlton hoping for a trouble-free run as she builds towards a potential start in the group 1 Coolmore Stud Stakes next month.
· 3 sourcesAustralia’s higher education sector has warned that the Coalition’s new pledge to cut international student commencements by 55,000 each year risks creating a “very significant hole” in university budgets, as the number of visa approvals has already plunged under Labor.
· 4 sourcesJames Spyridon Vlassakis, one of the Snowtown serial killers, has been filmed leaving the Adelaide Pre-release Centre after the South Australian government's attempt to overturn his parole was rejected. The 46-year-old will spend up to 12 months at the centre under supervision before final release conditions are set.
· 2 sourcesWestern Australia is falling further behind its National Housing Accord target, with new data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics revealing a 6.3 per cent drop in the number of homes completed during the June quarter. The total number of dwellings completed over the last financial year fell below 20,000, prompting criticism from the opposition as the state grapples with a housing crisis.
· 3 sourcesMick Mundine, a prominent Sydney Indigenous elder, businessman and advocate, has been arrested and is being questioned over allegations of historical child sexual assault. The 79-year-old chief executive of the Aboriginal Housing Company was arrested on Thursday in Redfern and taken to Newtown Police Station.
· 4 sourcesA 3.2 magnitude aftershock shook Gippsland residents awake on Wednesday night, days after a 4.8 magnitude earthquake rattled Victoria, with a leading seismologist warning that a larger event cannot be ruled out in the short term.
· 4 sourcesA critically endangered aquatic snail once feared extinct has been found in a weir near Walgett on the Barwon River in western NSW, surprising ecologists and Aboriginal rangers who say human-made water infrastructure may offer an unexpected refuge for the species.
A small business owner has criticised the Australian Taxation Office for refusing to reverse its ban on accepting credit card payments, accusing the government of being 'un-Australian' amid mounting pressures.
· 4 sourcesTwo landmark class actions accusing Queensland's child safety department of racial discrimination against First Nations families are set to be discontinued in the Federal Court after losing funding, leaving plaintiffs such as grandmother Cindy feeling let down by the system once more.
The Australian Defence Force has paused the use of its troop carrier fleet following the death of a young soldier. The circumstances surrounding the incident are under investigation.
· 3 sourcesA former Roman Catholic bishop has been sentenced to six and a half years in prison for sexually abusing two young Indigenous men in Western Australia, in a case that has again focused attention on abuse within the Australian church.
Australia's rental market is losing steam, with new Domain data showing capital city house rents were unchanged at $700 per week over the September quarter and rents flatlining or falling across most major capitals, a trend experts say indicates tenants have reached their limit to absorb further increases.
· 2 sourcesMelanie Chisholm, better known as Sporty Spice of the Spice Girls, has made Australia her part-time home after marrying Australian model and producer Chris Dingwall in July. The pop star, DJ and presenter now divides her time between London and Sydney, and recently shared some of her favourite dining spots in both cities.
Australia's High Court has declared invalid the approval of a major coal mine expansion, a landmark decision that will force New South Wales planning authorities to consider emissions from Australian coal burned overseas. The ruling is among several developments making headlines on Thursday, October 8, as the nation marks one year since the October 7 attacks in Israel.
· 3 sourcesA father in Queensland has been charged with the murder of his infant son, according to reports from several Australian news outlets on 7 October 2026.
· 4 sourcesAustralian actor Hattie Hook, who grew up in Mount Eliza on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula, appears alongside Catherine Zeta-Jones in the new show Kill Jackie. Hook, who began her career through dance and musical theatre before moving into film as a teenager, said she was raised on Zeta-Jones's work and felt supported and inspired on set.
· 3 sourcesAnna Torv, known for her long career playing police roles, returns to the genre in the new ABC crime drama 'Dustfall', a series about the drugging and rape of a young woman that explores not only the victim's experience but the wider generational and social ramifications. Torv says she was drawn to the show's serious treatment of consent and its refusal to preach.
· 3 sourcesA new survey has found that 88 per cent of Australian teachers still believe students learn better when taught according to their preferred learning style — a theory that has been scientifically debunked since 2008.
Mehreen Faruqi, the federal Greens senator from NSW, has been defeated in the party's leadership vote, with an Age opinion column arguing that the most significant aspect of the result lies in almost a decade of internal factional warfare.
A power struggle among Victoria's racing clubs has led to last-minute amendments to state racing governance legislation, after an email from Melbourne Racing Club vice president and billionaire Liberal Party backer Jonathan Munz to Racing Minister Anthony Carbines prompted the state opposition to withdraw support and forced the government to weaken its reforms.
A forum in Hobart has brought together police, GPs, social workers and family violence experts to improve the recognition and response to non-fatal strangulation, which experts call a 'red flag' for potentially lethal abuse. Advocates argue that despite Tasmania making strangulation a standalone crime in 2022, more needs to be done to integrate services for victim-survivors.
As all major parties commit to cutting net overseas migration, experts warn the political debate is missing a critical blind spot: large parts of regional Australia are already shrinking and rely heavily on migrants to sustain their populations and workforces.
Australian police have arrested an alleged crime kingpin in connection with the fatal shooting of an 11-year-old child, according to reports from multiple Nine Publishing outlets. The development marks a significant step in a case that has drawn national attention.
· 4 sourcesThe number of Australian pharmacies stocking the abortion pill MS-2 Step rose by nearly 50 percent after the Therapeutic Goods Administration relaxed prescribing restrictions in 2023, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open. Researchers say the changes have made medication abortion safer and faster to access, particularly for women in regional and remote areas.
· 2 sourcesPerth renters are unlikely to catch a break from the city's housing downturn, with new data showing asking rents stalled at $750 a week and the rental vacancy rate tightening to 0.4 per cent even as house prices fall.
· 3 sourcesCoalition leader Angus Taylor's proposal to slash net migration to 100,000 and reduce temporary migrant numbers by 650,000 may lead to higher prices for rideshare and food delivery services, but one labour economist argues the move could boost productivity by forcing firms to innovate rather than rely on low-wage workers.
· 3 sourcesA retired couple from the New South Wales Hunter Valley has defeated a billion-dollar coal company in a landmark High Court case, successfully challenging the expansion of the Mount Pleasant coalmine on climate grounds.
With the next federal election potentially two years away, Australia's major political parties and One Nation have released immigration policies with sharply differing net overseas migration (Nom) targets, sparking debate over the feasibility and consequences of rapid reductions.
Australia's High Court has struck down a state regulator's approval of a massive coalmine expansion in the Hunter Valley, a likely historic victory for community members that could have ramifications for other fossil fuel projects. The judgment, delivered on Wednesday, came as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese led a delegation of Pacific leaders to Tuvalu, where the contrast between his climate advocacy and his support for coal at home was under scrutiny.
· 2 sourcesAustralian cricket great Ellyse Perry has refused to set a timeline on her retirement, declaring she still loves the daily challenge of getting better and working with her teams. The 35-year-old spoke in Brisbane ahead of the three-match one-day series against Bangladesh, which begins on Friday at Allan Border Field.
· 3 sourcesThe Australian Defence Force has suspended operational use of the Supacat troop-carrying vehicle involved in a fatal rollover that killed a soldier during a training exercise at the Mount Bundey training area in the Northern Territory on Monday evening.
Australian portrait artist Ralph Heimans, whose subjects have included Queen Elizabeth II, has unveiled an oil-on-canvas portrait of the late English anthropologist Jane Goodall in Washington, more than a decade after he first resolved to paint her at a Westminster Abbey service.
· 3 sourcesEssendon has traded two of its premier players, Zach Merrett to Hawthorn and Jordan Ridley to Geelong, by lunchtime on Wednesday, a full week before the AFL trade period closes on October 14, in what has been described as a reset of the club's approach at the trade table.
· 3 sourcesA Chinese mother who immigrated to Perth to give her daughter a fresh start after bullying at home was murdered in a hotel room by a man she trusted. Nongyu Peng, 42, was killed by an overdose of GHB administered by 27-year-old Ruihong Nie in February 2024, according to reports from the Supreme Court of Western Australia.
· 4 sourcesCoalition and Greens senators have joined forces to oppose the Albanese government's plan to abolish the private health insurance rebate bonus for Australians aged over 65, as new modelling reveals the majority of those affected have an annual income below $37,000. The bipartisan revolt threatens the reform's passage through parliament and the $3 billion in savings Labor is counting on to fund aged care beds and cover its backdown on charging older Australians for at-home care services.
· 3 sourcesTourism operators in the Northern Territory are calling on the federal government to establish a dedicated resilience fund to help businesses survive the coming wet season, warning that rising costs, reduced flights and the impact of extreme weather earlier this year have left many small and family-run operators at risk of closure.
· 2 sourcesSpeculation that Powderfinger may reunite has intensified, with multiple major news outlets now covering the cryptic billboards that appeared in three Australian cities. The Sydney Morning Herald published a follow-up report on Wednesday, adding to the buzz surrounding the band that broke up 16 years ago and last performed together in 2017.
· 7 sourcesA senior police officer broke down in the witness box during the murder trial of former police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon as she described finding the remains of the two men he is accused of killing.
· 3 sourcesThe highest-paid head of department in Queensland earned more than $900,000 in the 2025-26 financial year, with more than half a dozen public servants paid more than Premier David Crisafulli, according to annual reports released by the state government.
· 3 sourcesThe High Court of Australia has found that New South Wales coal mines must account for the emissions created when their product is burnt overseas, a decision an international climate law expert has labelled a 'game changer' for the industry.
· 6 sourcesA leading constitutional expert has accused Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's government of 'grey corruption' over a $6 million grant to a golf club in his electorate, describing the grants scheme as a 'farce' that dressed up political favours as sound public policy.
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