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Unionised maintenance workers at BHP’s port operations in WA’s Pilbara have voted to go on strike, marking the start of what could be the mining industry’s most significant industrial action this century. The Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU) confirmed 90 per cent of its members at the mining giant’s operations in Port Hedland, 1,600km north…
Tasmanian Premier Jeremy Rockliff has given his strongest indication yet that government MP Madeleine Ogilvie is being investigated by the Integrity Commission, pointing to comments made by its chief commissioner. Ms Ogilvie resigned from cabinet amid allegations she had misled parliament over her Supreme Court action. Government ministers spent last week’s budget estimates hearings stonewalling…
When Graeme Easterby referred allegations of Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU) interference at Queensland’s building regulator to the Crime and Corruption Commission (CCC) he expected a rigorous investigation. Instead, he said politics prevented the matter from progressing. “I clearly remember they [CCC officials] said they didn’t see it going anywhere while the [Labor]…
An Adelaide defence lawyer has pleaded not guilty to three sexual offences and has been ordered to stand trial. Andrew Robert Graham, 41, appeared in the Adelaide Magistrates Court on Thursday, where he entered not guilty pleas to two counts of engaging in sexual intercourse without consent and one charge of compelling a person to…
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this article contains the name and image of an Indigenous person who has died, used with the permission of their family. It also contains references to self-harm. A 36-year-old man who fatally stabbed his niece through the heart in Darwin’s northern suburbs two years ago has…
Welcome back to your weekly federal politics update, where Courtney Gould gets you up to speed on the happenings from Parliament House. As Anthony Albanese stood in front of a Medicare banner and Pauline Hanson put her hand out for donations, voters could be forgiven for thinking the election was two months, not two years,…
A NSW coroner has recommended medical staff who failed to treat, transfer or monitor a newly arrested prisoner for alcohol withdrawal should have their conduct reviewed by professional councils. Dictor Dongrin and his brother were arrested in June 2022 after a violent and drunken incident at the family home in Coffs Harbour, in which their…
A federal prosecutor has told jurors in the US that 30-year-old Jonathan Rinderknecht was feeling lonely and dejected over a break-up when he allegedly lit a wildfire in January 2025 that grew into one of the deadliest and most destructive in Los Angeles history. The lawyer representing the former Uber driver countered that the hilltop…
Anti-immigration figures are using social media to exploit anger at the horrific stabbing of a man in Northern Ireland. The attack on Stephen Ogilvie in Belfast, allegedly at the hands of a Sudanese migrant, has led to rioting in the city, with cars and homes destroyed by mobs of people wearing black clothing. While the…
Nagi Maehashi, the founder of RecipeTin Eats, has hired her new “chief taste tester”, a golden retriever named Jaffle. Earlier this year Maehashi announced the passing of her beloved golden retriever Dozer, a fixture of the Recipe Tin Eats brand and a devoted companion to its founder. Nagi took time off to be with almost…