Senior police are revamping recruiting strategies as the resourcing crisis deepens, with attrition now double the number of new officers being employed.
AN Adelaide asbestos company has been slapped with a $150,000 fine after a worker plunged to his death from a residential veranda.
Military mop-ups after fires, floods and Covid has left the Australian Defence Force at its lowest state of readiness for decades, at a time when the nation faces its greatest challenges since Federation.

Rescue teams have begun winding down the search for survivors as the focus switches to tackling a dire humanitarian disaster caused by the earthquake that has left more than 35,000 dead in Turkey and Syria