Pro-Palestine activists are turning up at University of Melbourne classrooms and photographing students after asking   for a show of hands to indicate who agrees with their views on the Israel-Gaza war. 

A teenager has been charged after allegedly attacking an Assyrian Christian bishop during a livestreamed service at a church in Sydney’s southwest after days in hospital. 

Police say the Australian boss of a transnational organised crime syndicate was living in Brisbane’s suburbia as he masterminded a series of huge drug shipments including a “botched” 900kg cocaine import where bricks of the drugs washed ashore. 

Owners of short-term accommodation, such as Airbnb and Stayz properties, will be slugged hundreds more in rates, under a proposal by Adelaide City Council.