Neo-Nazis who loudly booed during a Melbourne Anzac Day dawn service have been found guilty of offensive behaviour. The group disrupted proceedings at the Shrine of Remembrance in 2025 when Indigenous elder Mark Brown took to the stage to conduct a Welcome to Country. On Thursday, Magistrate James FitzGerald found Jacob Hersant, Nathan Bull, Michael…
Notorious paedophile and former magistrate Peter Liddy has taken his first steps of freedom after serving a 25-year prison term for sexually abusing four children. Liddy was jailed in 2001 for sexual offending against four children between 1983 and 1986 while he was volunteering at the Brighton Surf Life Saving Club. He has been placed…
The owner and head instructor of a Melbourne boxing gym has been temporarily suspended by Boxing Victoria pending further investigation after the governing body learned that neo-Nazi leader Thomas Sewell was training at the facility. Sewell’s organisation, National Socialist Network, was formally listed as a hate group by the federal government last month. ABC NEWS…
Almost $400 billion of transitional costs, plus somewhere in the neighbourhood of $25 billion to $50 billion in annual costs. That was Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s early estimate of the price tag facing her province should it separate from Canada. “I think it’s responsible for us to be very forthright about the cost associated with…
A crash on an unpaved road in rural central Alberta that left four people dead and four more injured has renewed ongoing calls for the street to be made safer. The collision happened Friday on a stretch of Township Road 42-5A in Clearwater County that is also known as O’Chiese Road. The road is the…
Olivia Custer doesn’t want violence to define Pelican Narrows. She spoke at a virtual news conference Wednesday to address Monday’s fatal shooting and recent violence in Pelican Narrows, which she represents as a councillor with Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation. “What happened on Monday is not who we are. This is being done to us by…
The Australian bee industry is warning of crop failures and a potential food crisis as the bee-killing parasite varroa mite wipes out at least 60 per cent of hives. The spread of the parasite through eastern states and South Australia since 2022 has devastated many beekeeping businesses. A new Pollination Security Status Report 2026, released…
An 80-year-old woman is expected to plead guilty to culpable driving causing death over a crash at a Canberra shopping centre that killed a four-year-old boy. Maureen Brew has been charged with culpable driving causing death and a backup charge of negligent driving causing death over the incident in January. Police allege the woman was…
When general managers of the four PWHL expansion teams begin signing players later this week, they’ll have plenty of high-profile names to choose from. The league began a complicated, six-phase process of filling out four new expansion teams earlier this week, the first step in what promises to be a franchise-altering off-season for all of…
Former Australian detainees taken to Nauru are facing threats of physical violence by officers who have recently gained new powers to use force, according to allegations revealed under parliamentary privilege. Members of the NZYQ cohort have allegedly been labelled “absolute f***ing pieces of s**t” and threatened with violence upon their arrival by the officers tasked…