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A Mount Gambier man who has previously admitted going naked in two local food businesses has now pleaded guilty to another similar charge of indecent behaviour. Darrin Kingsley Brown, 54, had previously pleaded guilty to two indecent behaviour charges relating to being nude while at a Subway restaurant in Mount Gambier on April 27 and…

Moira Deeming’s political career as a Liberal is over after the party’s state executive voted to revoke the MP’s candidacy for the November state election. The Liberal Party disendorsed Mrs Deeming on Friday night in an emphatic vote against her. She had alleged her partyroom colleague Matthew Guy had assaulted her at a community event…

The construction of 12,000 homes will be fast-tracked as part of a controversial housing development on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. The state government green-lit the Aura South project at Halls Creek south of Caloundra on Friday, declaring it a priority development area (PDA). The declaration will see planning and development powers transfer from the Sunshine Coast…

Fourth position on the NRL ladder goes on the line as Cronulla-Sutherland welcomes Newcastle to Shark Park, with the hosts looking to build on last week’s mauling of the Dolphins. Later, the Melbourne Storm will be without some big names as they travel north to face the Sydney Roosters. Tune in to ABC Sport’s live…

Melbourne is the world’s most expensive city for cigarettes and beer, with Sydney following in second place, a new report has found. The Mapping the World’s Prices report, published by Deutsche Bank, compares cost-of-living data in 69 cities across six continents, with Sydney and Melbourne being the two Australian cities included on the list. It…

New Zealand has detected the first H5N1 bird flu infection in a native bird, days after the country recorded its first case of the disease. New Zealand reports first H5N1 bird flu case The deadly virus was detected in a brown skua seabird near Wellington. A swamp harrier hawk, known locally as a kahu and…

A retired South Australian teacher says some educators are inflating the grades of year 12 students, which she says is making the marks “unfair”. But the South Australian Certificate of Education (SACE) Board, which ensures teachers give out the correct marks, says there is no evidence of the system being exploited. The Independent Education Union…

Shiv Sena (UBT)’s Chaturvedi urges Centre to ‘ease out’ education minister (Image source: PTI on right, ANI on left) NEW DELHI: Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Priyanka Chaturvedi on Friday urged the Centre to remove the Union education minister, saying it was the “right thing” for the government to do and that students deserved credit for…

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the nationwide release of the animated film Mahaprabhu Jagannath on or after July 28, after the conclusion of Lord Jagannath Rath Yatra festivities.A bench of Justices BV Nagarathna and R Mahadevan noted that the film is based on a web series that has already been released on…

A NSW woman has been arrested in Victoria’s north-east today as part of an investigation into who helped Dezi Freeman remain out-of-sight after the fatal shooting of two police officers in Porepunkah. In a short statement released this afternoon, Victoria Police confirmed the arrest as part of a wider probe into the movements of the…