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A billionaire tech investor accused of assaulting his former partner as well as stealing and damaging expensive gifts he had bought her has had his bail varied to allow him to visit his mother in Sydney. Perth-based Laurence Emmanuel Escalante, 44, made his fortune through his Virtual Gaming Worlds company which offers virtual slot machines,…
A court has been told an alleged cult leader told a young girl they would go on a cruise to circumvent consent laws and carry out “God’s mission” of her becoming his queen and repopulating a post-apocalyptic world. William Kamm, known as “Little Pebble”, and his co-accused Sandra Susan Mathison, are fighting allegations in a…
An Australian artist who won a $20,000 prize for a painting copied from another artist is being accused of a second case of imitation. Lennox Head artist Jane Allan was a finalist in the Darling Portrait Prize in 2022 and won the $2,000 Art Handler’s award. Her work for prize, titled Weight of the Mind’s…
Queensland detectives have released video as they investigate a group that set a Townsville supplement store on fire before firing bullets into a popular nearby gym earlier this year. Police were called to the fire and the shooting in the early morning of February 9. Police attended the gym that was fired upon in February….
It was always a matter of when, not if, bird flu would arrive on mainland Australia. Australia was free of H5N1 bird flu until two seabirds confirmed to have the virus were discovered in Western Australia last week. Since then, a third bird infected with the virus has been detected in South Australia. But while…
A dedicated NSW registry will be established to track the diagnosis, location and occupations of those with motor neurone disease (MND). Health Minister Ryan Park today announced the MND — an incurable and progressive neurological condition that can affect a person’s ability to move, speak, breathe and swallow — would become a ‘notifiable disease’ in…
Two houses, three break-ins, violent attacks and more than $100,000 stashed away. Those circumstances led to the brutal killing of 72-year-old grandmother Irma Palasics. It was one of Canberra’s longest-running cold cases, until a DNA match brought down the attackers. In 1999, two masked men broke into this Canberra house. The couple who lived there,…
Bills for one of South East Queensland’s biggest water retailers will go up by a greater amount next year than this year, despite the state’s freeze on bulk water charges. The move has been slammed by Water Minister Ann Leahy, who has called on Urban Utilities to abandon their price hike. She has also warned…
Did neoliberals create the conditions for right-wing populist parties to thrive in recent years? That’s an argument we’re hearing from some analysts, such as Allan Patience, an honorary fellow at the University of Melbourne in the School of Social and Political Sciences, and a graduate of Monash University and the London School of Economics. “Over…
The US Senate approved a war powers resolution seeking to block military action against Iran on Tuesday, local time. While the measure is considered largely symbolic, it reflects the growing concerns among Republican politicians over the war. Here’s what to know. What just happened? The Senate backed a resolution that directs US President Donald Trump…