Workers ‘failed’ by compensation scheme
Workplace health and safety laws are failing to prevent psychological injuries or to treat sufferers quickly, a state government has claimed.
Politics
Top cop speaks out after shock exit
An embattled top cop says she “knew when the time was right” to step aside after a controversial three years at the helm.
Huge change as ‘scourge’ costs Aussies $2bn
One state is set to bring in new laws to combat a “scourge” of cybercrime after Aussies lost more than $2bn last year alone.
Liberal candidate’s shock health update
A Liberal candidate has conceded defeat in his seat, slamming the party for their failed messaging while revealing a shock health update.
Liberal’s fresh truck drama caught on video
A second instance of truck trouble has struck the Liberal Party just a week after another campaign truck crashed into the site of an early voting centre.
‘Immediately’: Brutal response to voting pic
The mum of a Independent candidate has been expelled from the Liberal Party after they went sent a photograph of the elderly woman helping her son at a polling venue.
NSW candidate slams voters: ‘Dumbest f***ks’
A local councillor running for federal parliament has defended a social media outburst in which he labelled voters ‘the dumbest f***s walking on this planet’.
PM calls for respect after pre-polling chaos
Anthony Albanese has spoken out after a man was allegedly seen tearing up corflutes while a teenager has been charged with assault at pre-polling centres.
Albo’s $1.2bn pledge amid tariff threat
The Albanese government will invest $1.2bn into Australia’s critical minerals supply, which will likely play a major role in negotiating a tariff carveout from the Trump administration.
Key trait Dutton ‘tries to hide’
Opposition leader Peter Dutton has revealed the key trait that he “unfortunately” inherited from his father, which he’s spent years trying to “hide”.
‘Not welcome’: Price’s awkward event
Liberal MP Jacinta Price was met by Aboriginal protesters on a visit to Bunbury in WA’s South West where she talked about the failed Voice referendum.
‘Strain’: Troubled hospital’s admission
The operator of a troubled hospital that faces a parliamentary inquiry after a two-year-old boy died has made a concession to the state government.
‘So wrong’: Libs sued by own party members
NSW Liberal Party devotees say it pains them to sue their party over a paperwork bugle that left council candidates off tickets.
‘Enough is enough’: Striking doctors’ plea
Thousands of doctors have again walked off the job as a major strike posing a “risk” to patient care enters its second day.
‘Can’t do that’: Doctors start three-day strike
Doctors are walking off the job for three days in Australia’s biggest city, angry that they are the poor cousins of medicos in other states.
How to watch crucial People’s Forum debate
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton will go head-to-head in tonight’s Sky News showdown. Here’s how you can watch it.
Dutton’s cryptic message over dumped Lib
The Opposition Leader said there were unpublicised reasons for the immediate dumping of a Liberal candidate who claimed women should not serve in combat roles.
‘Take a hit’: Trump trade war to shake growth
US President Donald Trump’s trade war has not immediately affected the Australian federal budget, the latest update shows, but the economy could take a hit.
‘Vile’: Nazi poster targets Dutton, Rinehart
The Riverina MP has lashed the display as “vile” and “disgraceful” as the artist has defended the posters as intending to provide a “different point of view”.
Big changes after 2yo boy dies in hospital
The parents of a two-year-old who died after a routine visit to a Sydney hospital say the change is a reset of the ‘moral compass’ of the state’s health system.
New details in ex-MPs child sex assault case
A former Liberal MP allegedly twice sexually assaulted a 13-year-old schoolboy in the bathroom of an underground carpark, court documents allege.
‘Nonsense’: Albo slams Greens over salmon
The prime minister has gone after the Greens in Question Time over salmon farming in Tasmania.
Dire warning rail strikes back in ‘weeks’
Millions of commuters could be forced to endure more transport headaches amid a fresh warning train strikes which threw Sydney’s rail network into disarray could be back on “within weeks”.
Dutton uses anti-gay term to describe Albo
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has been criticised for using an ‘extremely offensive’ term while attacking the Prime Minister’s response to China.
Shock support for controversial koala park
A controversial project that could transform swathes of one Australian state forever has “overwhelming support”, new polling has revealed.
Outrage over growing pile in ritzy suburb
Locals in an affluent suburb are battling it out with the council over an enormous pile of hard rubbish, which they say has been growing for almost six years.
‘Finished’: Judge done with Lehrmann battle
Justice Micheal Lee has emphatically declared; ‘I’m not having any more to do with it,’ after Network 10 and Lisa Wilkinson’s cost dispute returned to court.
‘Line in the sand’ over train strikes
A “line in the sand” was drawn when the rail unions were forced into a “cooling off period” after months of industrial brinkmanship, a court has been told.
Why 4-day Aussie work week long way off
Corporations are getting good results with four-day work weeks, but the prospect of such a change Australia-wide seems unlikely.
Grim record as hospitals smashed
Hospital emergency departments in one Australian state have been smashed by record ambulance activity as authorities curb “ramping”.
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