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A 72-year-old man arrested over dozens of alleged graffiti and malicious damage offences in Sydney’s inner west has been granted bail, after a judge expressed surprise that he is not being charged under NSW hate speech laws. Brendon Michael Cribbin was arrested at a home in Glebe yesterday after police investigated incidents of “offensive” graffiti…
A Sydney woman who has been in a critical condition in hospital for 12 days after being mauled by a shark has woken from an induced coma and reunited with her young daughter. Leah Stewart has undergone a series of surgeries to amputate her arm and address other “life-threatening” injuries since the attack at Coogee…
For Sarah, the sudden closure of a Chinese language school has disrupted her child’s studies. She has also likely lost hundreds of dollars in tuition fees for a full year. “The school has been there for more than 17 years, and [I] never thought the school, in the middle of the term, could just say,…
Welcome back to your weekly federal politics update, where this week Jake Evans gets you up to speed on the happenings from Parliament House. In February 2025, Pauline Hanson held a press conference about her plan to allow parents to split their income for tax purposes. After a brief speech, the senator asked if there…
The state government has passed legislation to delay South Australia’s council elections until April 2027, after the Electoral Commission raised “very serious concerns” about its ability to administer the poll in November. The change will also see subsequent local government elections held in November 2031, 2035, and 2039 — separate to state election years —…
The former leader of the Mongols outlaw motorcycle gang’s Northern Territory chapter has been sentenced to a decade behind bars for his role in supplying methamphetamine across the territory and making threats to recover drug debts. Martin Burnett, 66, who was the president of the local Mongols chapter between 2021 and 2023, pleaded guilty in…
John Clarke, known to thousands of ABC radio listeners as “Stinker”, has survived a harrowing ordeal in rough seas north of Newcastle. The 77-year-old took his boat, Stinkpot, fishing near Fingal Bay lighthouse late on Wednesday afternoon. The experienced angler was pulling up his anchor when a wave hit the tinnie, causing it to capsize…
Cristian Volpato’s showing in the second half against the United States was both a positive and a potential headache for Socceroos coach Tony Popovic. Stay across the latest news, analysis and features from the 2026 FIFA World Cup here. On the one hand, Volpato showed the class that had people raving about him as a…
A conspiracy theorist podcaster who stabbed his girlfriend to death with a 25-centimetre-long dagger in her suburban Perth home has been sentenced to life in prison with a minimum of 18 years. WARNING: This story contains details some readers may find distressing. Tobias Marcus Nuttall was 32 when he stabbed Alisha Lauren Hendren-Krippner, 30, multiple…
A Far North Queensland mayor says she has “learned a tough lesson” after publicly admitting to misconduct as a councillor by sharing confidential information with a journalist. The Queensland government’s Office of the Independent Assessor (OIA) found Cairns Mayor Amy Eden released “information that the respondent knew, or ought to reasonably have known, was confidential…