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The matriarch of a prominent AFL family whose properties have been twice raided by police has detailed the long friendship she shared with police killer Dezi Freeman, which included organising travel for his wife to come to Australia and later storing his guns. In an exclusive interview with the ABC, Kay Reid, the mother of…
To its supporters, a $10 billion artificial intelligence factory proposed for South Australia will provide much-needed regional jobs, but in the nation’s driest state, critics say the draw on the River Murray to cool the machines could be too great. From the country to the city, AI data centre developments are accelerating. Industry figures show…
If your social media algorithms have been even slightly infiltrated by US politics, you may have heard chatter about “the primaries”. It’s a big year for stateside voters, and these races are just the beginning. Primary elections are the first step in electing who represents voters across the country in the House of Representatives and…
Today’s news quiz is heating up like El Niño. Will you strut like an internet-famous duck or get schooled like Prince George? Seven days, 10 questions, one result. Good luck. Loading Where to find all the ABC’s quizzes Want to test yourself even further? Take a squiz at the ABC’s New Quiz topic page and…
A global telco that failed to stop more than 1,000 scam text messages from reaching Australians has faced no consequences, the ABC can reveal. HSBC bank customers were defrauded out of tens of millions of dollars in a long-running bank impersonation scam after they were duped by fake SMS messages. The lack of action by…
Christian McGowan and Alison Baker fell in love with a building that was never intended to be a home. A 1930s brick industrial building in the NSW Hunter Valley’s Dungog served as the region’s water pumping station for about five decades. It was a stark, graffiti-covered, warehouse-like structure when they came across it in 2022;…
A three-year-old boy is in a critical condition after being injured in a crocodile enclosure at a popular British zoo west of London. In a statement, Cambridgeshire Police said they had arrested a 30-year-old man on suspicion of attempted murder following the incident. They were called to Johnson’s of Old Hurst, otherwise known as Johnson’s…
A quick refresher. In the opening game of the tournament, South Africa went down 2-0 to Mexico and had two players sent off. Fair to say things didn’t quite go to plan for Bafana Bafana. A few hours later, Czechia lost 2-1 to South Korea in a really entertaining match. Czechia actually took the lead…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said heavy drone attacks on Russia were retaliation for a strike that damaged a historic monastery in Kyiv this week. Mr Zelenskyy said “if Ukraine burns, your Moscow will burn” as attacks continue. Scores of drones targeted Moscow overnight in what was Ukraine’s largest attack on the Russian capital, hitting an…
Crows legend Tony Modra has been seriously injured in a truck crash. In a statement, SA Police said a 57-year-old man from Waitpinga was taken to hospital on Thursday evening after he crashed his truck into a tree at Back Valley, about 10 kilometres west of Victor Harbor. Loading