They came for cash and retail vouchers but one shopper caught in a dangerous balloon-drop crowd crush at a Sydney shopping centre — where shoppers were injured and even Santa was knocked down — said what they actually won was not worth the chaos.
Two men have been arrested after police allegedly found more than $1.3m of cash in a Sydney unit during an investigation into a suspected international money laundering syndicate.
Pressure is mounting on the Prime Minister to call a royal commission into veteran suicide before the end of the year as another family of a lost ADF veteran come forward with claims he was “abandoned by Defence.”
Lani Daniel has spent all 17 months of her short life in hospital after being born severely premature at 24 weeks and no bigger than a tub of butter but now in a Christmas miracle, her mum Emma has taken her home.
Shock and despair has ripped through a tight-knit western Sydney fire brigade, as firefighters and members of the public came out to mourn the loss of their ‘brothers’ — two RFS volunteers killed when a burning gum that fireys call a ‘widow maker,’ fell into the path of their tanker last night.
As many make their final preparations for holiday road trips, traffic authorities have issued warnings to stay away from a multiple roads and highways, as bushfires continue to burn.
The fire threat is so severe that Premier Gladys Berejiklian has declared a seven-day state of emergency for NSW — and has urged holiday-makers to reassess their travel plans. Yesterday was a horror day for firefighters, but experts warn that Saturday will be even worse.
Toxic bushfire smoke continues to choke Sydney, with Thursday’s thick haze sparking health warnings as a record heatwave fanned unprecedented bushfires raging across the region.
A Sydney teenager has been confirmed as the final person missing in the White Island volcano tragedy, as wild weather forced New Zealand police to abandon their search for two lost bodies.
Australia’s most decorated soldier has rubbished Nine newspapers over “untrue and defamatory” claims about him, saying it is time they produced evidence of war crimes or “admit they have none” after a series of reports in the past week.
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