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A Sydney psychiatrist found guilty of sexually assaulting a drunk colleague has been allowed to continue to practice despite the state’s health regulator trying to have him struck off. Gopi Ilawala was found guilty of two offences of sexually touch another person without consent in Sydney’s Downing Centre in June 2024. Findings published by the…
One Nation Leader Pauline Hanson told a community forum in Perth “politicians and bureaucrats” have driven Australia “into the ground”, as she condemned Labor’s federal budget. “This government has brought in the worst budget we have ever seen,” Hanson said to general applause. “This is about socialism. This is about communism, and dividing the wealthy…
A company that owned a network of petrol stations around Australia has struck a deal to repay a fraction of its debts for environmental contamination of a site earmarked for a local hospital, after its directors were accused of selling off the company’s properties in the lead-up to its collapse. The liquidator of Zoya Investments…
A bungle by Australia’s biggest bank, which led to the largest ever corporate fine in Australia, will be front and centre in the High Court in Canberra today, as a group of shareholders pursue the bank for damages over inflated share prices. The Commonwealth Bank paid $700 million after it was fined by financial intelligence…
Donald Trump wouldn’t have a clue — and if he did — he almost certainly couldn’t care less about the state of the ACT’s budget. Yet the US President, arguably more than the territory’s own Treasurer Chris Steel, is very directly adding to the heavy weight dragging on public finances in the nation’s capital. In…
When Melita Parker was 21, she was resuscitated by the side of a road in central Victoria. It was 1992, and she had been in a serious crash after the vehicle she was a passenger in hit a tree at 140 kilometres an hour. She was not expected to survive the air ambulance journey to…
Police have charged four men after a series of alleged drive-by attacks using handmade slingshots on members of the public across Brisbane’s western suburbs. It is alleged that the group used the slingshots to fire metal objects at people from a vehicle on multiple nights between May 27 and May 31. Police said a 22-year-old…
All Victorian children will get two extra visits with maternal and child health nurses as the state prepares to launch its Thriving Kids program for those to be shifted off the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Minister for Children Lizzie Blandthorn said the state would also review the existing 10 visits available for children from…
The next “butks” stop. Eating a “banns bc a”. It’s “mi longer shiny sync”. The above gobbledegook is what my phone dished up the other day when I was texting the words “bus”, “banana”, and “no longer sensible”, admittedly in a hurry and on an aging operating system. But if internet chatter is to be…
A North Adelaide business owner who has been targeted by counterfeiters about a dozen times is warning others to be vigilant, as South Australia police warn the number of incidents has increased across the state. Tony Greven has owned Bakery on O’Connell for 23 years, which operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week….