A childcare provider in Victoria has become the first to be stripped of Commonwealth funding since the government legislated new safety standards for the sector last year. Laugh & Learn Family Day Care Education & Training operates nine family day cares in Melbourne and was found to have seriously breached safety standards at two of them,…

A man who allegedly set his father on fire and left him to die outside a home in Sydney’s west has been charged with murder. Emergency services extinguished a small fire at a property on Wargon Crescent in Glenmore Park just before 1am on Thursday, with the body of a man discovered at the scene….

British couple Joanne Lees and Peter Falconio were ambushed by a gunman near Barrow Creek while on a road trip around Australia in 2001.(Reuters) They were a couple in their twenties embarking on a trip that is a rite of passage for so many young Brits.  But a chance encounter with a stranger in the…