Slater + Gordon was told within half an hour of becoming the victim of a malicious email attack that the culprit might be its former payroll manager, Bridgett Maddox, a convicted fraudster, according to documents filed in a lawsuit against the firm.
The Queensland senator has been described by colleagues as the ‘consensus candidate’ after winning the leadership vote at a party meeting in Melbourne.
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Victorian Treasurer defends land tax hikes that has left a Dandenong sandblasting business reeling after its land tax bill spiralled from $8700 to more than $203,000.
A child protection worker has told the Supreme Court that Erin Patterson said she followed a RecipeTin Eats beef Wellington recipe to prepare a ‘new and special’ meal for her guests, three of whom died after the lunch.
Marissa Sabino was allegedly behind the wheel of a stolen car that crashed and killed a passenger who was in the boot. She was on bail for historical assault and vehicle charges.
When Timothy McVeigh was executed, relatives of his 196 victims watched the execution on closed circuit television. But while a nation wished fervently for justice, the result rang a little hollow.
Carlton great and Australian Football Hall of Famer, Robert Walls, has passed away, aged 74, choosing voluntary assisted dying over a second gruelling cancer fight.
Coeliac disease cases defying scientific explanation or treatment have been demystified using an adapted form of cancer science, changing the prospects for patients.
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We do need more women in the party, but quotas are not the answer. We need to attract more women at branch membership level if we want more women on the frontbench.
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Our northern neighbour will be one of the world’s top five economies by 2040. This thriving nation is a sure thing in a time of great economic turbulence and uncertainty.
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The accusation about ‘Chinese spies’ was unfortunate, but in truth Chinese-Australians are not as easily offended as the Chinese Communist Party would have you believe.
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Nihilist online networks such as 764 and No Lives Matter rely on a grab bag of extremist ideologies that include Nazism and the occult to persuade young people to stream depraved and self-harming acts.
The ASX is poised for a seventh consecutive day of gains following April’s 89,000 jobs bounce and expectations the Reserve Bank will cut interest rates on Tuesday. Also, find out why one rare earth minnow’s share price has rocketed 150 per cent. And CBA’s valuation conundrum continues as it tracks second-best close.
Despite Elon Musk urging staff to hold onto their shares, his Australian chair has sold about $310m worth of shares in the past six months. But those close to her say it’s a regular strategy.
It’s a little hard to bear. NRL’s return to WA is causing headaches for a long-established Perth social club catering to the gay community which is at pains to distance itself from the franchise.
The latest deal is IAG’s biggest since its $855m acquisition of Royal Automobile Club of Queensland last year.
Australia’s biggest telco says it’s months away from launching direct-to-smartphone text messages with Elon Musk’s Starlink, upping the ante in a coverage war with rivals Optus and Vodafone owner TPG.
A former Victoria Police custody officer who brutally assaulted a woman on Christmas Day has avoided jail, receiving 350 hours of community service.
Police are on the hunt for a man who stabbed and assaulted two Border Force employees inside a van while he was being transported from a detention centre.
Billions of dollars in missing ‘Gonski funding’ will flow into public schools from next year as the Albanese government fast-tracks education spending and embraces Noel Pearson’s explicit teaching reforms.
Members of Greens believe Lidia Thorpe and an outspoken Greens First Nations faction are meddling in the minor party’s policies and upcoming leadership battle.
Superannuants have discovered a ‘hidden trap’ in Labor’s planned unrealised capital gains tax, with Miles Hampton saying he faces a hit on the recovering value of assets that booked losses before July 1, when the tax is to begin.
In a podcast recorded on the day Sussan Ley pipped Angus Taylor for the party leadership, Hastie outlined his vision to connect with younger voters and focus on the four enterprise institutions of family, the home, education and small business.
The former chief executive of a NDIS firm that is now at the centre of a federal investigation has released messages she sent to then-minister Bill Shorten alerting him to serious concerns in 2023.
Former Howard government minister Gary Hardgrave has severed ties with a troubled NDIS provider that he has long been associated with, following more than a week of revelations about the company’s operations.
Co-founded by a big-talking former bankrupt at the centre of prior consumer warnings, Zaffar Khan’s Cocoon SDA Care is everything the public does not need associated with the $48.5bn-a-year scheme.
NDIS provider Cocoon SDA Care offered staff secret extra bonuses for signing up clients with significant disabilities, in a program condemned for creating an incentive to pressure those needing support to act against their own best interests.
Australian researchers say they’ve found convergent evidence babies born with vitamin D deficiency are at a higher risk of developing ADHD, schizophrenia, and autism.
Scientists understand for the first time which genes and brain regions are linked to OCD, after a watershed study put millions of brains under the microscope.
Seven in 10 people will have neck pain at some time in their lives. But there are ways you can relieve it.
Using dumbbells can transform the body and you can do it at home. But how much should you lift? And how often? Here’s what the experts say.
NSW’s most ‘dynamic’ paramedics are set to be diverted to mental health interventions, despite union protests.
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The pontiff’s inauguration provides the opportunity for the Ukrainian leader to repair relations with the US after his Oval Office row with the Vice President.
Benjamin Netanyahu may be worried that there’s a growing rift between himself and Trump into which the Arab states are trying to insert themselves.
The meeting between the US and Syrian president, who is still designated by Washington as a terrorist, was the first of its kind in 25 years.
The warm comments underscore the notable improvement in the diplomatic relationship since 2022, but a heartfelt plea from the imprisoned Dr Yang Hengjun reveal ongoing troubles.
Israel’s attempted assassination of Hamas leader Mohammed Sinwar marks a dramatic attempt to reboot its stalled military campaign in Gaza.
Reimagined from a former 18th-century palazzo, this extraordinary property epitomises everything that we love about Italy’s famous coastal holiday hub.
This buzzing capital is awash with cutting-edge architecture and art from the past and present. Here’s where to find it.
New Zealand has a lot of long, steep and gruelling hikes. This four-day outing is not one of them, but that doesn’t mean it’s without challenges.
New Zealand is known for its breathtaking lodges but a remade urban hotel makes a case for staying in the city.
As the pendulum of global economics continues to swing, one Vogue editor predicts we’re poised to see wild fashion that reflects our wild world.
The faces of Australian design united for one evening during Australian Fashion Week.
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Denim is a saturated category, but there’s still room for innovation say these Australian designers.
Arkaba used to be a sheep station. The new owners have turned it into a conservatory, meaning it’s being returned to a place where natural sounds of the Australian bush can thrive.
Bill Henson, one of Australia’s most decorated living artists, says we’ve forgotten about beauty in art, in favour of ‘ticking boxes about this or that … post-colonial pushback, DEI, BLM, LGBTQ’.
Christina Baehr runs an off-grid hostel in the Huon Valley while raising (and homeschooling) her huge family. She’s not famous, and she’s not rich, but in her first year of publishing she doubled her household income.
When this wealthy 79-year-old British expat and his model girlfriend were abducted for ransom in Ecuador, suspicion fell on her. But the truth was even stranger.
As a teen I suffered from the trap of perfectionism – it was a prison and I was so hard on myself. I never want to return to that former life.
‘I’ll get ‘em next time,’ a smiling Robert Walls said after we had coffee on Saturday, MIKE SHEAHAN writes. He knew there would be no next time, but that morning was as uplifting as his remarkable life.
From his early days in go-karting, Oscar Piastri had the same mentality he’s used to become Formula 1’s stone-cold killer. His friends from those early days pull back the curtain on the Australian.
The son of a Maroons legend and twin brother of a current Broncos star has been charged by police following an alleged off-field attack on a rival Queensland Cup player.
Alexis Ohanian, the husband of tennis icon Serena Williams, has bought a major stake in Chelsea Women FC.
Animal activist group PETA has called on the Broncos to change the club’s name and logo in a bid to end the legacy of Brisbane’s most iconic sporting mascot. It hasn’t gone down well.
Sam Goodman had just closed on a new house when his million-dollar payday went up in smokes. It left him scrambling to make ends meet.
Australia’s best private companies are pushing all the right boundaries.
Cobblestone streets, iconic landmarks, and breathtaking fjords await. Don’t miss this incredible opportunity to win an unforgettable journey for two.
Comeback kid Tim Wilson shows central office why Liberals must be bolder – and unapologetic about it.
The first American Pope faces enormous challenges, not least the deep divisions within the church. But make no mistake – in style, probably in substance, this Pope is a serious course correction from the chaos of the Francis years.
The biggest airline operating between the US and Australia is reducing the number of seats on its new Boeing 787s in a bold bid to attract more premium customers with privacy doors, ottomans and playing cards.
The International Civil Aviation Organisation said claims brought by Australia and the Netherlands over the shooting down of Flight MH17 in 2014 were ‘well founded in fact and in law.’
As the Albanese government looks to limit international student visas, newly tabled annual reports reveal how many universities cashed in on foreign student fees last year – and which vice-chancellor took a pay cut.
Jewish groups have accused Melbourne’s top universities of ‘whitewashing’ anti-Semitism on campus, slamming Melbourne and Monash’s latest annual reports as ‘evasive platitudes’.
Alan Jones has been granted a delay on a trial set to be the fight of his life, excoriating his ‘blatantly contradictory’ accusers and asking prosecutors to think twice about their case against him.
What now for Zoe Daniel, the journalist turned teal who is refusing to accept that she has lost her seat of Goldstein to Liberal MP Tim Wilson?
Australian real estate is coming up trumps for lenders, with private capital also shaking up the market.
Property developer apt.Residential is looking to make a big splash with a build-to-rent project in inner Sydney.
Australia’s biggest telco is setting up an AI hub in America’s Silicon Valley as part of a $700m investment to tackle soaring customer complaints and accelerate its transformation.
A little known company is becoming one of the ASX’s hottest tech stocks as it generates record revenue from its location sharing app that allows families to keep tabs on one another.
The long-running saga over salmon farming in Tasmania’s Macquarie Harbour was triggered by green groups on ‘questionable’ and ‘thin’ evidence, a new report finds.
There is a 99.7 per cent certainty that the world has at least one gas in its atmosphere that, on Earth, is produced by living things.
Every Middle Eastern household will have a version of this, and there’s never really any hard and fast rules besides one, very non-Italian rule: it should be heavily spiced.
The char, which gives these beans a lovely smoky flavour.
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