With winter in full swing, a cosy night with friends or family at home around a fire can be a great way to enjoy the colder weather. But there are some rules when it comes to using fire pits and things to be cautious about, including open-air fires being a nuisance to your neighbours. We…

The grandparent of missing four-year-old Gus Lamont has been fined $10,500 for possession of a gun silencer at the family’s Oak Park Station, in the South Australia’s far north. Josie Rachelle Murray, 75, was charged in February just a short time after police declared her grandson’s disappearance a major crime. Police previously said the firearms…

A man’s body has been found after a shed fire in southern Tasmania, which police say appears to have been deliberately lit. Emergency services were called to the shed on Prossers Road, Richmond about 6.25am on Friday. “Tasmania Fire Service crews extinguished the fire which was within a 6-metre by 9-metre steel shed adjacent to…

A man has been charged after police allegedly found multiple firearms, imitation firearms, drugs and a machete at a property in Melbourne’s west. Victoria Police said members of the illicit firearms squad, along with the Viper taskforce, arrested the 51-year-old man after searching the home in Sunshine on Thursday. They allegedly seized a number of…

Tasmanian Premier Jeremy Rockliff’s answers to questions about former minister Madeleine Ogilvie’s legal fees matter “paint a far worse picture of this shameful saga and his role in it”, the Greens say.  Mr Rockliff has provided a response to the Greens and three independents who had threatened to escalate the matter in parliament next week…

Thailand’s Princess Bajrakitiyabha Narendira Debyavati, the eldest child of Thai King Maha Vajiralongkorn, has died at 47, the royal palace says, after multiple health problems and three and a half years in a coma. The princess was hospitalised in December 2022 after a sudden loss of consciousness caused by a heart condition ‌while visiting the…