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Growing up in Yuendumu in the 1960s, Bess Nungarrayi Price recalls a childhood surrounded by family, connected to the bush, far from the threats of alcohol and drugs. The former Northern Territory government minister believes that sense of safety is no longer present in the remote and urban Aboriginal communities of Central Australia. “Our families…
Lawyers for the state government have admitted a police officer battered former Greens candidate Hannah Thomas at a pro-Palestinian protest in Sydney’s south-west last year, court documents have revealed. Ms Thomas brought a civil claim against the officer and the state government after she was hospitalised and required a number of surgeries as a result…
A Supreme Court judge has been asked to overturn a suppression order preventing a high-profile Queensland man at the centre of an extortion allegation from being unmasked. The Cairns Magistrates Court has heard a man charged with extortion — who cannot be named — threatened to reveal information about his former partner and a married…
On a chilly Canberra night, Molonglo Juggernauts football players have taken to the field for their weekly training session. It’s about six degrees Celsius, and inside the change rooms, a small heater is attempting to keep the room warm. But the cold is the least of the football club’s problems — rats and mice have…
Australia’s medicines regulator has launched a crackdown on unregulated peptides, saying an increase in advertising, imports and supply of the unlawful drugs is posing a risk to consumer safety. The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has moved to include unapproved peptides in its priority focus areas, alongside products like weight loss medications, vapes and sunscreens. There…
Police have released body-worn camera footage of the dramatic arrest of fugitive bikie Brandt Graham after the 44-year-old jumped the dock at the Darwin Local Court last week, sparking a five-day, city-wide manhunt. A Northern Territory Police spokesperson said Mr Graham was arrested by members of the dog squad yesterday afternoon and had now been…
Four military intelligence officers have been sentenced to up to three years in jail, after they threw sulphuric acid over a human rights activist in a brazen attack in Central Jakarta. Warning: This story contains details of an assault. CCTV captured the assault on Andrie Yunus, 27, with two of the officers throwing acid on…
A public outcry has erupted over Bunnings’s decision to shut up shop in Western Australia’s second-largest city and move down the road to a neighbouring shire. The hardware giant plans to vacate its site at a retail centre in Bunbury, south of Perth, and shift to Dalyellup, 10 kilometres away in the neighbouring Shire of…
Former chancellor of the Australian National University (ANU) Julie Bishop said actions by the university regulator “grievously constrained” her ability to do her role, in a withering resignation letter that has now been tabled in federal parliament. In her resignation letter to the ANU, which was tabled in parliament yesterday, Ms Bishop alleged the Tertiary…
The United States Navy has used a drone boat in a maritime rescue mission for the first time. The remotely-piloted 7.3-metre Saronic Corsair was deployed near the Strait of Hormuz after an Army AH-64 Apache attack helicopter went down, a spokesman for US Central Command said. Two crew members had been patrolling off the coast…