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A federal police investigation into a Sydney childcare worker who allegedly abused 136 children has expanded to a remote Indigenous community in South Australia as authorities search for an anonymous overseas individual who was allegedly sent abuse material. Hamish Tait is facing 329 charges related to the alleged abuse of the children over a 16-year…
A controversial golf course redevelopment will continue in North Adelaide despite a 13,500-strong petition triggering an inquiry into the project. The Adelaide Park Lands Association yesterday announced the Stop the Chop petition, which was formed in response to the removal of 585 trees from the Parklands protected zone, had attracted 13,500 signatures on paper. South…
Former ACT Attorney-General Gordon Ramsay has been committed to stand trial for allegedly grooming a teenage boy between 2022 and 2025. Sexual assault support lines: Mr Ramsay was arrested in October last year, charged with grooming a young person. Last month, prosecutors flagged seven other offences, including committing acts of indecency on a person under special…
A home in Melbourne’s north-west has been sprayed with bullets in the second drive-by shooting at the property in less than a week. The shooter opened fire on the Rowan Drive house in Kealba at about 5:15am from inside a vehicle. No-one was inside at the time. This morning’s shooting comes six days after the…
A man seeking voluntary assisted dying under the ACT’s new laws remains ineligible for the scheme, despite a tribunal finding he had the mental capacity to make the decision. The case is one of the first to test how unsuccessful applicants can challenge a rejection under the new scheme. The man, who cannot be named…
A five-year-old boy has died after being hit by a four-wheel drive outside a park in suburban Perth. Police say a Toyota LandCruiser hit two pedestrians near Miles Park on Belgravia Street in Cloverdale in Perth’s south-east about 4.25pm yesterday. The boy was taken to Perth Children’s Hospital but died from his injuries. A 48-year-old…
Police in Timor-Leste say they have uncovered a major international scam operation, arresting hundreds of mainly Chinese and Indonesian nationals in raids across the capital, Dili. Timor-Leste police raided three heavily secured call centre compounds over the past five days, arresting 253 workers in a highly visible crackdown against what experts say is a growing…
Australian swimming superstar Mollie O’Callaghan has revealed she fought through stress fractures and bone bruising in her back to compete at the Commonwealth Games. Just over a week before the start of the program in Glasgow the five-time Commonwealth and five-time Olympic Games gold medallist dropped the bombshell on social media. “Last month I was…
Brigitte Szabo was watering her garden at her Townsville home when some movement caught her eye. “A pair of sunbirds were flying around and chirping and carrying on as they do and then all of a sudden this great big green frog launched itself,” Ms Szabo said. It was an unexpectedly brutal display of a…
When in the trenches of motherhood, your child’s journey towards adulthood can at times feel slow and exhausting. So, when they grow up and decide to leave the nest, it should feel like a victory, because you raised them right … right? But the experience of becoming an empty nester and recalibrating who you are…