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Western Australia's opposition will introduce an amendment to the Coroners Act on Thursday to give the attorney general explicit power to order a coronial inquest, escalating pressure on the Cook government over the 2022 murders of three children in Port Hedland.
Vikki Campion, the News Corp columnist and wife of federal One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce, has begun working as an adviser for the party in New South Wales in the lead-up to the March state election, providing media advice on a part-time basis as a contractor.
A Jetstar Airbus A320 narrowly avoided colliding with a van on the runway at Townsville Airport on October 7, with the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) classifying the event as a serious incident and launching an investigation.
A Perth police officer who admitted shaking his five-week-old daughter when she would not settle has been sentenced to a 10-month community-based order, with a magistrate warning the assault on the newborn was a 'betrayal of trust'. Nickolas Wayne Peake, 30, appeared in Midland Magistrates Court on Tuesday after pleading guilty to common assault in circumstances of aggravation.
Former federal treasurer Josh Frydenberg has revealed he will wait until 2027 before deciding whether to run for his old inner-Melbourne seat of Kooyong, a timeline that casts a shadow over Opposition Leader Angus Taylor's leadership.
A split has emerged within the Australian Greens over military aid to Ukraine, with senator Sarah Hanson-Young breaking ranks to support arming the Ukrainian army while new party leader David Shoebridge has explicitly opposed such assistance. The division became public after Shoebridge held a tense meeting with Ukrainian-Australian community leaders on Friday.
The man killed when he was thrown from a roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia has been identified as Hassan Jihad Ibn Kariem, a 42-year-old technology manager at an Atlanta public charter school. Nine similar rides remain closed across the United States and Canada while police and state inspectors investigate how Mr Kariem was ejected from the Goliath coaster on Monday.
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered a halt to tree-cutting at East Potomac Golf Links in Washington DC until 26 October, escalating a confrontation with the Trump administration after hundreds of mature trees were removed over the holiday weekend despite prior court directions to disclose major changes.
As renewed fighting in Ethiopia's Tigray region threatens to unravel the November 2022 Pretoria peace agreement and destabilise the Horn of Africa, the United Arab Emirates has publicly backed Ethiopia's federal government while Saudi Arabia has remained silent on the latest escalation, according to reporting from Addis Ababa.
Glenorchy City Council Alderman Peter Ridler, who is seeking re-election, breached the council's code of conduct through a series of inappropriate interactions with female employees, a code of conduct panel has found. The determination, made public this week, followed a complaint from the council's former chief executive, Tony McMullen.
Federal ministers are facing renewed pressure from cabinet colleagues to halt the controversial Lee Point housing development in Darwin, as divisions emerge within the local Larrakia Indigenous community over whether sacred site concerns should stop the project.
A 40-year-old man and a 42-year-old woman have been charged with criminal neglect and concealing human remains after a six-month-old baby boy was found dead at an Adelaide motel, with police investigating reports the infant's body may have gone undiscovered for up to a month.
The Powerhouse Museum has appointed celebrity chef Kylie Kwong to a new ambassador role worth $440,000 of public money, just a month after confirming her tenure under a controversial associates program was over. The appointment has angered the arts sector while the museum remains under scrutiny for overspending and an executive procurement investigation referred to the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC).
Police have launched a homicide investigation after the body of 73-year-old grandmother Yvonne Whear was found partially submerged in a stock dip on a rural NSW property, almost eight months after she was last seen in the Northern Rivers.
New quarterly figures show nine in ten children in urgent need of Queensland state care were not assessed on time in the past four months, a backward step on a year ago, as Child Safety Minister Amanda Camm returned to parliament and insisted the residential care system had stabilised.
North Melbourne has secured Sydney Swans All-Australian defender Nick Blakey on an eight-year deal worth close to $12 million, with reports revealing the Kangaroos took steps to manage the risk posed by the unresolved Pullman hotel incident before completing the trade.
Leaked draft documents show the Prime Minister's office edited and approved lines in a bipartisan parliamentary letter on artificial intelligence before it was sent to Anthony Albanese, prompting accusations of political interference and a rejection of that criticism from the committee's chair.
The World Surf League has provisionally suspended Alan Cleland Jnr after it was made aware of allegations of a sexual assault involving an NSW teenager at a private gathering in Tahiti in August. Three other alleged perpetrators are not affiliated with the league.
Saudi Arabia's energy minister has vowed a 'serious' response to Houthi attacks on the kingdom's airports and oil and gas facilities, as international carriers suspend flights to Riyadh and Dammam and authorities say Riyadh's main airport will stay closed until Saturday.
The Northern Territory government has announced it will make pepper spray accessible to 16 and 17-year-olds as part of legislation to permanently legalise the self-defence weapon, following a 12-month trial. Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro said the reforms would expand on trial conditions that limited purchase to adults.
Telstra’s nationwide mobile outage in July wiped an estimated $552 million from the Australian economy, according to new modelling that consumer advocates will put before senators this week. The figure is more than 500 times the roughly $1 million Telstra has paid in compensation.
A 39-year-old unvaccinated woman in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, has become the sixth person to die from measles amid a state outbreak that has infected over a thousand people since April, according to local health authorities.
Queensland Attorney-General Deb Frecklington has told state parliament that notorious childcare paedophile Ashley Paul Griffith has been approved for extradition to New South Wales, where he will face about 180 additional charges relating to children.
Polish authorities say two Turkish citizens have been arrested in Germany over a fire that destroyed a Starlink station in central Poland, an attack Warsaw has branded an act of sabotage carried out on Russia's behalf.
At least two people have died in Mexico as Hurricane Simon and former tropical storm Rachel bring torrential rain and catastrophic flooding to Pacific coast communities, with officials warning the toll could rise.
New South Wales police have confirmed that a decomposed body found in a stockyard trough near Murwillumbah last week is Yvonne Whear, the 73-year-old woman who vanished eight months ago. Her death is being treated as homicide.
The Queensland ombudsman, Anthony Reilly, has backed away from a call to close the Wacol youth remand centre even as a new inspection report details children self-harming in an attempt to be transferred, warning that the state's tougher bail laws could instead spark a crowding crisis in police watch houses.
Missile strikes on the Ukrainian cities of Kharkiv and Kyiv have killed at least four people and wounded dozens, as the Kremlin declined to confirm a US-announced ceasefire on attacks against energy infrastructure.
A man has been charged after an unmarked police car collided with an 80-year-old driver during a high-speed pursuit through Perth's southern suburbs, leaving the elderly man in a critical but stable condition in Royal Perth Hospital.
Australia has taken a 1–0 series lead over South Africa, winning the first Test in Durban by 214 runs, but the victory was overshadowed by concern for Steve Smith, who remains under assessment for a potential concussion after being struck on the helmet by a delivery from Anrich Nortje.
The Teaching Council has been condemned for ignoring a police warning about a sex offender, allowing him to continue working as a teacher. Radio New Zealand reports that Timothy Fisher was sentenced to four years and five months in prison after pleading guilty to indecent assault and making objectionable recordings.
A nest of red imported fire ants, described by the Invasive Species Council as one of the world's worst super-pests, has been discovered at the Enfield Intermodal Logistics Centre in Sydney's inner west, prompting a containment response from NSW authorities. The nest, found in a lure used by Commonwealth Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry officials, has been destroyed and no further nests have been found.
The County Councils Network (CCN) has warned that English local authorities are on track to accumulate £10bn in debt from special educational needs and disabilities (Send) support by 2028, despite the government writing off more than £5bn in historic debts earlier this year. The rapid re-accrual of debt is driven by a surge in applications for Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs) as families rush to secure support before planned government reforms.
The man accused of building the bomb that destroyed Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie has told a US court he was illegally seized from Libya in a 'cloak and dagger operation conducted in the dead of night,' abducted by armed men and handed over hooded and bound to FBI agents who flew him out of the country.
Police in Lansing, Michigan, say they have solved a 17-year-old murder cold case after recovering a buried shotgun that forensic testing matched to the 2009 fatal shooting of 19-year-old Edric Hinton. The suspected gunman and getaway driver are both dead, meaning no criminal charges can be brought.
Northern Territory Police say a rivalry played out on social media is fuelling a wave of car thefts in Katherine, with children as young as 11 allegedly trying to outdo each other in a spate that saw six cars stolen in a week.
NSW Health has issued an urgent warning after 43 people were assessed for bat bites or scratches over the past two weeks, a significant increase from 10 cases in the same period last year, prompting renewed calls for the public to avoid handling bats due to the risk of bat lyssavirus, a close relative of rabies.
The former chairman of FIFA's governance committee has accused Gianni Infantino of a “clear violation of FIFA's statutes” and called for an investigation, after US tax filings showed the FIFA president received $US1.76 million from a FIFA-owned World Cup organising company that was not disclosed in the governing body's 2024 annual report.
The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has issued an urgent recall for 13 immune system supplements containing andrographis, following reports of anaphylactic reactions including a fatal attack in June 2024. Consumers are advised to stop using the products immediately and return them to the place of purchase.
Britain has offered to host a seven-nation initiative, including Australia, to counter rising antisemitic hatred and violence, after UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband met with Jewish community leaders in London. The proposal could lead to a ministerial meeting attended by Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong.
Two young brothers, aged 4 and 11, were shot and killed in Los Angeles on Sunday afternoon, and their father is in custody after apparently shooting himself, police said. The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) responded to a report of a shooting on a sidewalk near Venice Boulevard and Catalina Street around 12:49 p.m. and found the two Hispanic boys suffering from gunshot wounds. Their 35‑year‑old father, also Hispanic, was located with an apparent self‑inflicted gunshot wound and identified as the suspect.
US President Donald Trump has insisted that both Russia and Ukraine have agreed to an energy ceasefire, even as Ukrainian officials reported fresh Russian strikes on at least six energy facilities and Moscow’s foreign minister explicitly rejected any pause in fighting. The competing claims highlight the confusion around a deal Trump announced on Sunday that appears to have been neither negotiated nor confirmed by the warring parties.
A global food crisis monitor has warned that conflict and an El Nino-induced drought are increasing the risk of famine across Sudan's Darfur and Kordofan regions, compounding the effects of displacement, driving up prices, and threatening livelihoods.
Prime Minister Mark Carney has used his Thanksgiving message to urge Canadians to stay united, a week before Alberta votes on a proposal to begin a process that could lead to secession from Canada.
An anonymous Cornell University student's civil lawsuit accusing the Chi Phi fraternity and seven of its members of gang rape has reignited debate over fraternity culture in the United States, prompting the university's president to say Cornell 'must do better' and renewing pressure to change New York's sexual assault laws.
Bolivia's acting attorney general has opened a preliminary investigation into former president Evo Morales over the 2009 police raid on a hotel in Santa Cruz in which three European citizens were shot dead and two survivors reported being tortured, the attorney general's office says.
Cuba is rapidly expanding its renewable energy capacity in response to a tightening US oil blockade that has cut off fuel imports, forcing the island to rely on domestic resources. Energy Minister Vicente de la O Levy said 144 solar farms with a combined capacity of roughly 1,418 megawatts have been installed in recent years, as the government seeks alternatives to the foreign oil shipments that once powered its economy.
Votes of no confidence in Northern Ireland First Minister Michelle O'Neill and three other Sinn Féin ministers have failed after they did not secure the necessary cross-community support in the Stormont Assembly. The motions, backed by unionist parties, were prompted by the ministers' handling of the Drumcree dispute in Portadown, County Armagh.