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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….
A FIFA Peace Prize, astronomical ticket prices, hiked train fares, threatened boycotts and a consumer complaint. The build-up to the 2026 World Cup has been overshadowed by sociopolitical issues, which will continue to loom over the tournament. A lot of the headlines have been generated by US President Donald Trump, who has made various threats…
In the expanse of his restaurant’s kitchen, Les Palmer fixes a trained eye on the grill. It’s midday, and he’s overseeing the lunchtime service, as he’s done so many times over more than two decades as a chef and business owner in the hospitality game. “Collectively, in hospitality, I’ve been there for 26 years now,”…
The once-quashed plan to block Hobart property owners from converting their entire home into a short-stay accommodation has been resurrected by the local council. At its planning committee meeting on Wednesday, the Hobart City Council (HCC) tabled a fresh proposal to restrict the creation of short-stay accommodation in the city. The tweak to planning rules…
When Peter Taylor’s nephew took his own life three years ago, the Portland resident knew he needed to change the way he thought about mental health. Portland is in Glenelg Shire, in the far south-west of Victoria, a region where the suicide rate between 2020 and 2024 was 45 per cent higher than the state…
Hundreds of thousands of new homes are currently being built in priority development areas across south-east Queensland, but residents say there is one crucial thing missing in these outer suburbs: adequate public transport. Disability pensioner Maria Feige lives on the outskirts of Logan at Flagstone, soon to be home to 50,000 new dwellings and 138,000…
As tens of thousands of Australians line up to buy shares in Elon Musk’s SpaceX blockbuster public offering, Australian government officials are privately flagging the risks of the country’s growing reliance on its satellite internet service, Starlink. These concerns were made explicit in a little-noticed official spy agency notice describing satellite internet providers as a…