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Sydney’s oldest suburban passenger trains have been temporarily taken off the tracks due to cabin break-ins and vandalism. K-sets, which have operated on the city’s network for almost 45 years, were abruptly withdrawn from service this week. Sydney Trains chief executive Matt Longland said there had been several recent “issues” on the trains, mainly involving…
A Top End man with a “lengthy and considerable history” of domestic violence has been sentenced to life behind bars for the “protracted and highly brutal murder” of his young wife. Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this article contains the name of an Indigenous person who has died. It also…
SA Health has paused birthing services at two Mid North hospitals due to a workforce shortage, less than two months after doing the same at Kapunda. Until July 31, pregnant women who expected to give birth at the Crystal Brook and Jamestown hospitals will be redirected to the Port Pirie Regional Health Service, between 25…
Michael Tate was an academic, a politician, a diplomat and, for the past 26 years, a Catholic priest. “It would be easy to stand here and simply recite that record … it reads almost like four different lives,” his friend Jeffrey McGee told the hundreds gathered for Father Tate’s funeral in Hobart on Tuesday. “But…
The Queensland government will invest $250 million to establish an agency aimed at improving the protection of children from sexual abuse, in response to a review that found multiple opportunities were missed to stop one of Australia’s most notorious paedophiles. A report by the Child Death Review Board found there were more than 18 points…
Townsville Mayor Nick Dametto says he does not expect to be charged with assault as Queensland police investigate his involvement in an alleged altercation at Magnetic Island. After six days of offering “no comment” to media organisations, the mayor addressed the matter at a press conference today. “What I’ve read has been one of the…
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The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) has officially declared El Niño active, and modelling tips it could become the strongest ever event in the modern era. El Niño refers to an extended period of warmer than normal waters in the central tropical Pacific. It is a state that can linger for up to 12 months and…
A man has allegedly assaulted four police officers and woman known to him in Port Augusta earlier today. SA Police said two officers were called to a home about 9:30am to address a “domestic disturbance” but when officers arrived and attempted to arrest the man, he assaulted them. “When police arrived, they attempted to arrest…
Queensland captain Cameron Munster is confident prop Tino Fa’asuamaleaui will do his late father Fereti proud in tomorrow night’s State of Origin II at the MCG. Fa’asuamaleaui left the Maroons’ training camp on the Sunshine Coast last week after his father died following a battle with cancer. Maroons rally around mourning Tino Tino Fa’asuamaleaui indicates…