The Acting Prime Minister is hopeful of “a good decision” for a Tamil family locked on Christmas Island, with their fate to be determined by the end of the week. Michael McCormack has confirmed Immigration Minister Alex Hawke will hand down his decision on the...
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Aussies who will get $25k cash boost
First home buyers will hopefully get an extra leg-up to try and enter the housing market in NSW as the government unveils a bold plan for $25,000 grants. The proposal would see first home buyers given the $25,000 instead of stamp duty concessions, as the...
Workers eat from rubbish bins to survive
A Taiwanese foreign worker says she was exposed to such horrific rates of underpayment on an Australian farm she was forced to eat from public rubbish bins just to survive. Kate Hsu said she was paid just $4 an hour picking oranges on a South...
Crazy 52km traffic jam towards Sydney
It has been slow going on many of NSW’s major roads today as thousands of people make their way home after spending the long weekend away. Anyone heading towards Sydney was told to expect major delays, with 7News reporting traffic is stretching back more than...
Man charged after alleged fatal hit and run
A 23-year-old has been charged with manslaughter after an alleged hit and run fatality north of Brisbane. The Aspley man turned himself in, according to police, following the traffic incident in Caboolture on Saturday morning, which killed a 45-year-old man. Police will allege the pedestrian...
Covid-19 fragments discovered in Brisbane, Sunshine Coast wastewater
Residents in more than 20 Queensland suburbs are on high alert after Covid-19 fragments were detected in wastewater catchments over the past week. Results released by Queensland Health on Monday revealed sewage from four suburbs in Brisbane and 23 on the Sunshine Coast had tested...
Murder victim honoured on birthday
The parents of a young woman whose dead body was found on a secluded north Queensland beach have remembered their daughter on what would have been her 27th birthday. Toyah Cordingley, 24, went out to walk her dog on October 21, 2018 – her family...
One killed, two injured in desert race: Police
A man has died and two others have been injured after a group of spectators were hit by a vehicle at the Finke Desert Race near Alice Springs on Monday morning. NT Police confirmed the death of a male spectator in his 60s, and serious...
Producer accused of stalking Barilaro
A producer for YouTube comedian Friendlyjordies has been charged after allegedly stalking and intimidating NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro. NSW Police confirmed the arrest and charges of 21-year-old Kristo Langker in a statement to NCA NewsWire on Monday. The arrest followed a complaint by the...
Moment giant sinkhole traps fire truck
There were warnings of peak hour chaos in Brisbane on Monday morning, after a fire truck became stuck in a sinkhole on a major thoroughfare. Fire crews were responding to a burst water main at the intersection of Juliette and Beatrice streets in Greenslopes at...