#theguardian.com. Victorian police officer who allegedly performed Nazi salutes won’t be charged with making banned gesture. Sergeant was suspended and commissioner apologised after gesture was allegedly made at police academy on consecutive days
#Jan.08.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. Brisbane traffic congestion ranked 10th worst in world but experts question ‘black box’ analysis. Academics say traffic scorecard uses ‘rogue metric’ which may make Brisbane’s congestion appear as bad as Los Angeles and Jakarta
#Jan.08.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. Foreign tourists among three dead after Rottnest Island seaplane crash. Privately owned Cessna 208 Caravan 675 plane was carrying seven people when it crashed off Western Australia coast
#Jan.08.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. Man accused of setting fire to Caulfield racecourse grandstand also broke into Jewish centre, court hears. Alleged arsonist Travis Bird, 51, charged with nine offences over Tuesday’s blaze and another three grassfires at nearby Attenborough park
#Jan.08.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. ‘Trolling free-for-all’: experts back Australian concerns over Meta ditching factchecking on US platforms. Mark Zuckerberg says ‘time to get back to our roots around free expression’ as he announces overhaul
#Jan.08.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. November inflation rises to 2.3% amid speculation over pre-election interest rate cut from RBA. Economists had predicted a November annual CPI inflation figure within the Reserve Bank of Australia’s preferred 2% to 3% target range
#Jan.08.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. Cockney influences found in Scotland, Australia and New Zealand, says expert. Linguistics professor says London dialect is most likely to be spoken in Essex, but aspects have traversed the globe
#Jan.07.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. Number of children under 14 in adult watch houses in Queensland rises 50% in 12 months. ‘It just makes me want to cry, seeing the increase in damning statistics’, youth advocate says
#Jan.07.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. Australia’s housing market ‘buckling’ under widening gap between income and home values, report finds. Housing prices fell by 0.1% in December but dip likely to be ‘shallow and short-lived’, according to CoreLogic
#Jan.07.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. Three missing after private plane crashes off Rottnest Island in WA. Four pulled from the water – three with serious injuries – but the search goes on for three other people on board
#Jan.07.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. Male mosquitoes to be genetically engineered to poison females with semen in Australian research. Approach could be used to limit outbreaks of mosquito-borne diseases, such as dengue fever, which results in 390m cases annually worldwide
#Jan.07.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. Record-breaking Sydney funnel-web spider dubbed ‘Hemsworth’ to be milked for venom. Step aside, Colossus. Be gone, Hercules. The Australian Reptile Park has recorded its largest male specimen so far
#Jan.07.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. ‘Blessings’ scam: con artists allegedly swindle elderly Melbourne victims by claiming to rid them of evil spirits. Women targeted on streets of Box Hill have lost more than $200,000 to scammers, police say
#Jan.07.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. ‘Everyone owns the beach’: Australian PM throws shade in cabana debate. Anthony Albanese says beachgoers using shade structures to reserve patch of sand are going against Australia’s spirit of equality
#Jan.07.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. Man accused of Chloe Mason’s Caboolture shooting murder was defending home and family, lawyer says. Solicitor claims Kaine Thomson-Gleeson was acting in self-defence when 23-year-old was fatally shot
#Jan.07.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. Hadi Nazari's camera and campfire found as search continues for hiker missing in Kosciuszko national park. NSW police ‘hopeful’ of finding 23-year-old Hadi Nazari alive in remote national park as they track movements since he was last seen on Boxing Day
#Jan.07.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. ‘Extensive’ inquiry after police shoot and kill man in Adelaide during mental health incident. South Australian police commissioner says officers allegedly threatened by man took ‘action necessary to protect themselves’
#Jan.07.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. Caulfield Racecourse fire: suspicious blaze engulfs grandstand in Melbourne’s south-east. Victoria police said nobody was injured and a crime scene was established after the early morning fire at the racecourse in Melbourne’s south-east
#Jan.06.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. Why is Canada’s Justin Trudeau stepping down as prime minister?. Fifty-three-year-old has been under pressure to quit for some time amid economic malaise and political scandal
#Jan.06.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. Queensland attorney general orders prosecutors to appeal two ‘manifestly inadequate’ sentences. Deb Frecklington says sentences, including one for a man who wrapped a rope around a woman’s neck and forced her into a car, ‘fail to meet community expectations’
#Jan.06.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. Fijian man accused of raping Virgin Australia flight attendant in Nadi denied bail. Ilaisa Tanoa Degei charged with sexually assaulting a 21-year-old crew member in early hours of new year
#Jan.06.2025 ×
#theguardian.com. Infants ‘ate food scraps off the floor’ of Wagga Wagga childcare centre, court told. NSW centre to remain closed after serious issues aired, though operators dispute many of the allegations and plan to contest tribunal’s finding
#Jan.06.2025 ×
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