A suspended Queensland police officer accused of committing “serious violence” against a woman, making false CrimeStoppers reports and threatening to shoot himself in the head, has been granted bail after spending a night in the watch house. Detective Senior Constable John Paul Daniel McDonnell was initially charged with one count of stalking (domestic violence offence)…
A court has been told an alleged religious cult leader groomed a girl for more than a decade and told her it was her “mission from God” to become his wife and bear 45 of his children. William Kamm, who dubbed himself “Little Pebble”, and his co-accused Sandra Susan Mathison, faced the first day of…
Kids Helpline has revealed a growing number of Australian children are again hitting a crisis point before reaching out for help. The 2025 Kids Helpline Impact Report showed the youth counselling service was contacted 128,998 times over the year, which was an average of 353 cases a day. Nationwide, 5,190 were classed as “crisis interventions”….
Australian mining company Mastermyne has been fined $310,000 for the death of a worker at a central Queensland mine in 2022. Gavin William Feltwell, 59, was working a night shift on March 25 at the Moranbah North mine in the Bowen Basin and was in a crew of six workers who were assigned to do…
Two people have died in a car crash at Old Beach in Tasmania’s south. Tasmania Police said a Holden Barina hatchback and a Mitsubishi Triton utility vehicle collided on the East Derwent Highway shortly before midday. The two occupants of the Barina died at the scene. The Triton driver was uninjured. “Identification of those two…
Federal politician David Pocock has clashed with a senior Albanese government minister over a whistleblower claim that federal cabinet is considering plans to let AI companies train on Australian copyright material. Industry and Science Minister Tim Ayres accused Mr Pocock in Parliament of “reckless speculation” for airing the claim, while Mr Pocock said Mr Ayres…
Opposition Leader Angus Taylor has refused to say whether or not the Coalition still supports multiculturalism, while also avoiding an endorsement of One Nation’s demand for Australia to become a “monoculture”. Mr Taylor was challenged multiple times on whether the Coalition still supported multiculturalism or whether it would follow One Nation’s push to end multiculturalism….
A video recording of an online conversation involving two former Sydney nurses in which one allegedly made threats of violence against Israelis must be excluded from the cases against the pair, a judge has ruled. Ahmed Rashad Nadir and Sarah Abu Lebdeh were matched with Israeli content creator Max Veifer on the cam chat app…
The Northern Territory opposition leader has defended the culture of her office amid allegations of workplace misconduct against a senior staff member. Selena Uibo has been facing questions about staffer conduct in her office for days, amid a period of instability for her Territory Labor party after the dumping of former deputy Dheran Young last…
A man who sexually assaulted a 76-year-old woman in a NSW aged-care home has been sentenced to 12 years in jail. WARNING: This story contains details of sexual assault that readers may find distressing. During a judge-alone district court trial last December, Hayden Carl Skinner was found guilty of aggravated sexual assault with intent. Skinner…