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The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has charged a National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA) employee over an alleged plot to steal $5 million from the National Disability Insurance Service (NDIS) and a disability services provider. Officers from the AFP, SA Police and other agencies executed a search warrant at the woman’s home in the northern Adelaide…

Oil and gas giant Inpex has launched proceedings with the Fair Work Commission seeking urgent orders to stop strike action at its Ichthys LNG facility in Darwin, citing significant disruptions. Earlier in the week, the Offshore Alliance — a union comprising the Australian Workers’ Union and the Maritime Union of Australia — flagged on social…

Hong Kong authorities have charged seven people and two companies with offences including manslaughter following the city’s deadliest fire in decades.  The massive blaze engulfed seven apartment buildings and killed 168 people in November.  Former residents and relatives of the dead have been waiting for answers for months after the fire shattered the close-knit community…

The Gold Coast mayor says the state government will have to guarantee more affordable homes to make up for the 550 lost from a new development. The Labor opposition has called out Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie’s move to write to developers last month and request the removal of an affordable housing component from applications for…

A well-known Melbourne socialite has faced a regional Victorian court charged with spiking a drink at a party at the Mount Buller ski resort. Amy Tossoun, 34, faced the Mansfield Magistrates’ Court today over offences related to an alleged drink spiking in July last year. She did not enter a plea regarding charges of possessing…

Western Australia has recorded its fourth crocodile attack this year after a man trod on a saltwater crocodile at a popular Kimberley fishing spot. The 35-year-old was fishing in waist-deep water at Barred Creek, about 40 kilometres north of Broome, when he was bitten late last month. He was taken to Broome Hospital for treatment…

After weeks of build-up, the full details of the ACT’s budget have been revealed. And after dealing Canberrans a tough set of cards in his first budget, Treasurer Chris Steel’s second has far fewer surprises. Let’s take a look at the key takeaways from the 2026-27 ACT budget. 1. Rates going up for most, but…

At least 12 people have been killed and nine injured after gunmen opened fire at an informal settlement near Johannesburg, South African authorities say. Police said in a statement that they had launched a manhunt for more than 10 suspects following the late-night attack at the Jumpers informal settlement in the suburb of Cleveland. The…

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…