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South Australian MP Sarah Game has abandoned the political party she founded to join the conservative Family First brand, marking the third time she has changed parties in less than two years. Ms Game was elected as the state’s first One Nation MP when she won her upper house seat at the 2022 state election….
Tasmanian Premier Jeremy Rockliff has confirmed in parliament that the half a million dollars in taxpayer-funded legal fees racked up by former ministers Madeleine Ogilvie and Jane Howlett are due to them fighting the Integrity Commission. Ms Ogilvie and Ms Howlett recently resigned to the backbench over accusations they misled parliament. Jane Howlett resigned from…
As Donald Trump flew over the French Alps towards the G7 summit this week, the postcard-like sun-drenched scene around him may have disguised a brewing storm. The stream of world leaders rushing to the Oval Office to praise Trump and shower him with gifts is so last year. In Évian-les-Bains this week, the US president…
Mining magnate Gina Rinehart’s flagship iron ore mining company has confirmed jobs will be cut from its Pilbara operations, but has declined to say how many people will be affected. In a statement to the ABC, Hancock Iron Ore would not say how many jobs would go, but multiple reports from industry sources put the…
Investigators were knocking on the door of a disgraced Sydney childcare worker within a week of him posting images of children on the darknet after identifying the user through metadata and CCTV, court documents have revealed. David William James, who is awaiting sentence next month, has told a judge in a handwritten letter that he…
The High Court has slashed an award for exemplary damages for four former inmates from Darwin’s notorious Don Dale Youth Detention Centre who were affected by a tear gas incident in 2014. The High Court ruled in 2020 that the use of the gas, which was deployed against another inmate, did entitle the group to…
Fenway Park, Boston. It is a humid Sunday night, about 9pm local time, and things on the field are not going well. The Red Sox are trailing by three going into the seventh, in an all-too-familiar scenario this season for fans at baseball’s iconic old lady. “A few weeks ago, fans came to watch with…
A Tasmanian devil that sparked a two week-long search across the Gold Coast has been found and recaptured. The marsupial, named Mary, escaped from her enclosure at Paradise Country on June 2 by making what staff described as an “abnormally large leap”. Wildlife staff and specialists had spent the past fortnight searching for the two-year-old…
Unions and Japanese gas company Inpex have reached a deal after months of tough negotiations and weeks of strikes, with all industrial action at the Ichthys operation to cease today. Workers have been walking off the job since early June after negotiations broke down, threatening gas exports to Asia amid the global fuel crisis. However,…
The Australian government has downgraded travel advice for key Middle Eastern hubs but is warning the region remains volatile and unpredictable. Bahrain, Israel, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates have all been lowered from Level 4 “Do Not Travel” to Level 3 “Reconsider your need to travel”. The travel industry welcomed the downgrade to…