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One Nation's Victorian state election launch descended into controversy when party figure Mark Nicholson declared former premiers Daniel Andrews and Jacinta Allan should be in prison by Christmas. The call drew immediate condemnation from federal Liberals, who said threatening to jail political opponents is unacceptable in a liberal democracy.
Several popular Perth beaches remain closed after a whale carcass that washed ashore at City Beach last week led to unexpectedly high levels of E. coli bacteria in the water, the Town of Cambridge has confirmed. The whale was removed to Red Hill tip on Thursday, but precautionary water sampling taken last weekend returned unusual results, prompting an extended closure.
In an opinion piece published across multiple news outlets on October 5, 2026, writer Bunny Banyai describes the macabre kinship among women who grew up in Melbourne in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when the nightly news was dominated by the kidnappings of girls by a man dubbed Mr Cruel. She writes that even though her own daughters do not know his name, they quietly carry her fears.
Melbourne student Ella Stiebel thought her brain would explode as she prepared to fly home from Bali after a family hike left her confined to a hotel room with severe dengue fever. Her ordeal comes as the Qdenga vaccine becomes commercially available in Australia following updated advice from the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI), recommending the shot for some travellers particularly those who have already contracted the disease. Cases of the mosquito-borne virus are spiking in popular tourist destinations and have triggered a state of emergency in parts of Florida.
As New South Wales HSC students begin their final year of school, the age spread in year 12 classrooms can span more than two years, raising perennial questions for parents about when to start their children in kindergarten.
Buckingham Palace has told Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor that the private allowance he receives from King Charles must not be used to fund his High Court challenge against Thames Valley Police over the search warrants that led to his arrest in February, a royal source has said.
Anti-migrant protesters scuffled with police in Gosport, Hampshire, on Sunday evening as nearly 150 people rescued from the English Channel were brought ashore, in the second such protest in the town in recent weeks.
The West Australian government has conceded a desalination plant at Esperance will be needed, a significant backflip from its dismissal of the proposal during last year's state election, as work ramps up on a $543 million upgrade to the historic Goldfields water pipeline.
Police in northwest Pakistan's Hangu district have installed fishing nets over security outposts as a low-tech defence against drone attacks, after a seven-hour assault in April killed one officer and injured another. The nets, costing about 400,000 Pakistani rupees ($1,435) per checkpost, are intended to catch or deflect explosive-laden quadcopters launched by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
The United States National Weather Service has issued extreme heat warnings for parts of southern California, including Los Angeles, until Thursday, with temperatures expected to reach the high 30s Celsius. The heat is one leg of a broader pattern of extreme weather linked to El Niño, which is also driving an intense wildfire season in Indonesia and an unusually active typhoon season in the Pacific.
Opposition Leader Angus Taylor will release a fully costed policy on Tuesday aimed at halting One Nation's electoral momentum, pledging to cut net migration to around 100,000 per year, roughly a third of the current intake. The larger-than-expected reduction is a bid to neutralise an issue that has driven voters to Pauline Hanson and become a central political battle in Canberra.
A celebrity fitness guru is expected to appear in court today, according to reports from multiple Australian news outlets. The specific identity of the figure and details of the charges remain unclear at this stage.
Russia has ramped up attacks on critical infrastructure in Kyiv, damaging a second major bridge over the Dnipro River and forcing traffic suspensions, as the U.S. makes a renewed push for peace talks. The escalation comes alongside a pledge of 1 billion euros in German military aid and a Ukrainian threat to strike Russian oil refineries.
Russian drones have reportedly struck major bridges in Ukraine, according to multiple Australian news outlets, though no further details have been provided in the available source excerpts.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has called a snap general election for 29 November, days after parliament rejected his emergency housing measures. Hours after his televised announcement, a rally in Barcelona over the cost of renting turned violent, with masked demonstrators setting fire to cars and rubbish bins and confronting police.
Hawthorn have secured Essendon star Zach Merrett on the opening day of the trade period, acquiring the seven-time Crichton Medal winner in exchange for picks 15 and 25 in this year's draft and a future second-round draft pick. The 31-year-old has signed a four-year deal worth $1 million per season, and the club is now confident it can also land Gold Coast restricted free agent Ben King without using additional draft capital beyond a first-round compensation pick.
The AFL has claimed this season's most-watched sporting grand final, with its decider out-rating Sunday's NRL grand final by about 230,000 viewers, new television figures show.
A murder investigation has been launched after a body was discovered in a van that was on fire on a lane in Prestatyn, Flintshire, North Wales Police said.
Residents across south-east Queensland are bracing for a dynamic weather shift as severe thunderstorms are predicted across the region on Tuesday, following an extremely dry September statewide, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.
After 17 years of renting across Sydney's inner west, Marie Healy has finally found a place to call home in Hurlstone Park, a suburb she describes as a pocket of Federation charm and gardens tucked away at 'the Paris end of Canterbury Bankstown'.
Kyle MacLachlan, best known for playing FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper in Twin Peaks and Jeffrey Beaumont in Blue Velvet, has released a new memoir, Fictional Selves, co-written with Jon Sternfeld. The book explores how the actor ended up in a peculiar niche: playing characters with an earnest quality that audiences trust, even as things get strange.
Only two leaders from nations outside the Pacific are attending the pre-COP climate summit in Fiji this week, as the Albanese government faces pressure to justify the estimated $20 million cost of hosting the talks and its broader climate diplomacy in the region.
Samoa's Prime Minister Laaulialemalietoa Leuatea Schmidt has apologised after a video emerged of him leading a Nazi salute and saying 'Heil Hitler' at a family gathering in 2007. In a statement on Monday, Schmidt rejected Nazism, antisemitism and racism, calling his words and gesture 'inappropriate and capable of causing offence and hurt.'
Crude oil exports from the Middle East have risen above pre-war levels on four of seven days in the last week of September, according to provisional data from ship-tracking firm Kpler, even as a senior Iranian commander downplayed the volumes moving through the region and Tehran insisted the Strait of Hormuz remains closed until its conditions are met.
Credit rating agency Moody's has warned that aging Western populations will soon begin shrinking, putting severe pressure on public finances, healthcare systems and economic growth. Europe's population is projected to peak as early as 2029, after which a sustained decline will begin, according to the European Commission.
Australia has experienced its second hottest September on record, with the Bureau of Meteorology reporting average temperatures 2.71C above the long-term average. The extreme heat, driven by a combination of global heating and a strengthening El Niño, also produced the hottest minimum night-time temperatures for any September on records dating back to 1910, and pushed snow depth in the Kosciuszko National Park to zero for the first time since monitoring began in 1954.
The federal Indigenous Australians Minister has voiced support for a grandmother's campaign for a coronial inquest into the deaths of three children murdered by their mother in Port Hedland in 2022, as the WA Attorney-General maintains he cannot overrule the coroner's decision without fresh evidence.
Country folk-rock musician Zach Bryan has broken Gillette Stadium's attendance record while wearing a "Free Palestine" shirt, weeks after rapper Macklemore was barred from the same venue over pro-Palestinian remarks.
Works have commenced on the renewal of one of Western Australia's oldest pieces of infrastructure, the Perth to Kalgoorlie water pipeline, with a $543 million project to replace 44.5 kilometres of the 566-kilometre line and double the capacity of the Binduli Reservoir.
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has warned that Scotland is on course to miss legally-binding targets to cut child poverty "by a wide margin", with one in five children living in poverty.
James Tedesco produced a grand final record 388 run metres and won his second Clive Churchill Medal in the Sydney Roosters’ 19-18 victory over the Knights on Sunday, but remains far from certain to wear the Australian No.1 jersey when the World Cup kicks off next Thursday. Coach Kevin Walters, who named Tedesco in the squad on Monday, has yet to decide between the 33-year-old captain and incumbent fullback Reece Walsh.
Crisis accommodation services for young people across Perth are rejecting an average of 15 requests for help each day, with children as young as 12 being turned away, according to new data from the Ending Child and Youth Homelessness Coalition. The coalition released its 2027-28 Pre-Budget Submission on Monday, urging the state government to invest in early intervention and new accommodation facilities.
Britain is considering imposing tariffs on Chinese electric vehicle imports, according to a report in The Times, as concerns grow that Beijing is flooding the market with state-subsidised cars. Business minister Jonathan Reynolds is said to be drawing up a potential tariff package.
Northern Ireland's Court of Appeal is due to hear a challenge to a decision allowing a controversial Orange Order parade to proceed along the nationalist Garvaghy Road in Portadown, reopening a dispute that fuelled some of the worst sectarian violence of the Troubles era. The deadlock has lasted since last Sunday morning, with residents maintaining a presence on the road.
A WA Greens staffer and activist who was fined over a planned protest at the home of former Woodside chief executive Meg O'Neill has had a ban on entering the Land Forces Expo security area temporarily overturned after legal action. Matilda Lane-Rose will be allowed into the security zone around the Perth Exhibition and Convention Centre between 8am and 6pm on Tuesday, but the ban will take effect again after 8pm that day.
Daly Cherry-Evans kicked a grand-final-winning field goal for the Sydney Roosters in his final NRL appearance, securing the 2026 premiership and finishing a storied 352-game career. The victory, however, has reignited debate around the club's ability to recruit top talent like Cherry-Evans and Reece Robson while remaining under the salary cap.
Carles Puigdemont, the former Catalan president who fled Spain in 2017 to avoid imprisonment for leading an illegal independence push, is expected to be cleared for return this week after Spain’s constitutional court rules that a charge of misuse of public funds is covered by the 2024 amnesty law. But the Catalonia he would come back to is a very different place from the one he left, now governed by a non-nationalist party and preoccupied with housing and jobs rather than sovereignty.
Jukka Salovaara, the newly installed European Union ambassador to the UK, has indicated Brussels will be 'ready to engage' with whatever the Andy Burnham government decides, as Labour signals a full range of options – including rejoining the EU – are on the table ahead of the next election manifesto.
A court in Seoul sentenced a former director of a state-run care home for intellectually disabled people to 15 years in prison for repeatedly sexually assaulting three residents, in a case that has sparked outrage and renewed scrutiny of disability care in South Korea.
The FBI has arrested a California woman at Los Angeles International Airport, accusing her of spying on the son of Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te at the direction of Chinese officials, a case Taiwan's government is calling a 'typical case of transnational repression.'
Yusuf Zahab, the Australian taken as a boy to live under Islamic State, could be on the verge of returning home after Iraqi investigators concluded he was not a combatant or supporter of the group, according to sources close to his family. Zahab, now 23, was snatched from a Syrian prison by American soldiers and transferred to Iraq in February as part of a mass prisoner transfer, but two sources say he has been told he will not be prosecuted because he was a minor when taken to Syria.
Jaymie Graham will coach North Melbourne in 2027, taking over the role vacated by Alastair Clarkson after being selected by the club's coaching search panel. The appointment was confirmed by a source with knowledge of the matter ahead of the official announcement.
Barnaby Joyce has defended One Nation’s plan to move its national headquarters to an $8 million Brisbane office building bought by mining billionaire Gina Rinehart, insisting the party will lease the property at commercial rates.
The man fatally shot by police in southern NSW on Sunday after allegedly pointing a rifle at officers has been identified by his family as Danny Di Biccari, a 45-year-old father-of-six. Police were called to a crash scene near the small town of Rugby about 2.50pm, where Di Biccari appeared unconscious in his crashed Chrysler station wagon before picking up a firearm and aiming it at an officer, prompting police to open fire.
Australia's auction clearance rate has fallen to its lowest level in three months, with new data showing less than half of homes sold at auction last week and the number of unsold properties rising by more than a fifth over the past year.
Actor Gillian Anderson has addressed criticism after she was filmed telling a group of devoted fans they could no longer sit in the front row of her West End theatre performance, saying the regular presence was distracting. She later clarified that she was speaking to women she has known for many years.
Penrith Panthers lock Isaah Yeo has announced his availability for the upcoming Rugby League World Cup, while Cody Walker has been selected for the Kangaroos, marking a significant development in Australian rugby league representative selections.
Brazil’s presidential election is heading to a second round on October 25 after neither Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva nor Flavio Bolsonaro secured the outright majority needed to win in Sunday’s first round, prolonging a deeply polarised race with major implications for Latin America’s largest economy.