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Rates for Gold Coast residents will rise but a 10 per cent discount for early payments will remain, following the delivery of a budget the mayor has described as “compassionate”. Councillors met this morning to adopt the $2.7 billion budget, which contained an average general rate increase of 4.7 per cent, up from 2.7 per…
A woman allegedly told a former partner that “insulin is the perfect murder weapon” 16 years before injecting both her parents with a fatal dose, a court has heard. Raelene Polymiadis, 65, of Craigmore, is standing trial in South Australia’s Supreme Court accused of murdering her parents Brenda and Lynton Anderson — both 94 —…
Howard Hendrick will forever be remembered by his family and community for his service and generosity to others. Mr Hendrick died aged 102 last week after a period of deteriorating health. The proud Order of Australia and Distinguished Flying Cross recipient was one of the Royal Australian Air Force’s last surviving World War II Lancaster…
Note: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this article contains the name of an Indigenous person who has died, used with the permission of their family. An inquest into the death of an Aboriginal man while he was being restrained by police officers in an Alice Springs supermarket last year will examine…
A man from the far south coast is under house arrest after being granted bail to fight charges over his alleged access to $5.7 million worth of bitcoin gained from illegal activity on the dark web. Jamie Lawrence Powrie was arrested on May 27, 2025 and charged with dealing with property of the proceeds of…
A Cairns man accused of exposing the identity of a Queensland public figure at the centre of a mysterious extortion case has been charged by police with allegedly disobeying a suppression order. The 35-year-old spent most of his weekend locked up in the watch house after he was arrested on Friday night and ordered to…
A 21-year-old man found dead by the side of a road after a night out in Broome 16 years ago was likely bashed to death, a coroner has found. Exactly who killed Josh Warneke has remained an enduring mystery since the man jailed for his killing, Gene Gibson, was acquitted on appeal. While coroner Ros…
A man accused of starting a fire at a famous lake precinct in South Australia’s south-east in October last year has had one of the charges against him dismissed. Travis Bruce Doel, 37, appeared in the Mount Gambier Magistrates Court today, where his lawyer applied to have a charge of causing a bushfire at the…
Labor’s proposal to overhaul negative gearing and the capital gains tax has some design flaws but is better than the current system, according to several leading economists who appeared before a parliamentary inquiry on Monday. The first day of hearings was shaped by warring contributions from elated progressive groups, who argued the tax package would…
The stepson of Norway’s Crown Prince Haakon has been found guilty of two counts of rape and other crimes. He has been sentenced to four years in prison. An Oslo court made the ruling ruling on Monday. Marius Borg Høiby, 29, who joined the royal family when his mother Mette-Marit married Haakon in 2001, has…