A weekend of record-low temperatures and “giant-sized hail” in parts of the country will surprisingly usher in a “warm start to winter” this week. Bureau of Meteorology meteorologist Sarah Scully said while a “number of May minimum records” were broken around the country, temperatures for most of the country would start to build from Wednesday. […]
Police have confirmed that cadaver dogs will search a vacant Sydney building that exploded into flames as emergency services are still unable to sift through the rubble days after the incident. The vacant heritage-listed building located in Surry Hills erupted into an inferno on Thursday afternoon, with more than 100 firefighters working through the night […]
Embattled consultancy giant PricewaterhouseCoopers has directed nine partners to take immediate leave and apologised to Australians as the fallout from its tax advice scandal continues. PwC Australia’s acting chief executive, Kristin Stubbins, issued an open letter on Monday apologising on behalf of the company for the leaking of confidential information about government tax policy. The […]
Residents in southern Queensland have shivered through brutally cold temperatures over the weekend, with some areas breaking historical records for the coldest May day. A cold front sweeping eastern Australia has left behind a “deep dry, cold air mass” in the northern tropics. This paired with a large high has resulted in warmer days and […]
A state memorial has been held for one of Australia’s best-known and most celebrated landscape painters, John Olsen. The Officer of the Order of Australia and Order of the British Empire died from a stroke on Easter Saturday, April 11, at the age of 95. The service at the Art Gallery of NSW on Monday […]
A young Sydney woman who became the face of Australia’s housing crisis has revealed the “interesting” outcome after she challenged a whopping $1400-per-month rent increase earlier this year. Chantelle Schmidt, 32, who lives in Redfern in inner Sydney, received a notice that her rent would jump by a staggering $350 per week in February, soaring […]
A Melbourne nightclub has been slammed for bringing live reptiles to its relaunch on the weekend, with photos showing influencers holding snakes and baby crocodiles sending Instagram into uproar. Two Wrongs’ Instagram page was flooded with pictures of influencers posing with the reptiles on Saturday night, but any evidence of the event has since vanished […]
The opening of a huge new concourse near Sydney’s Central Station has gone ahead as planned despite its close proximity to the roaring blaze that shut down the area on Thursday. Gates lifted on Monday at 4am to allow pedestrians through the new 140m tunnel that travels north-south beneath Central Station’s train lines. The new […]
David Koch has announced he will leave Sunrise in two weeks, ending months of rumours and speculation about when he might step down. Speaking on the program on Monday morning, Koch, a father-of-four, said he was keen to spend more time with his family and focus on his other business interests in the finance and […]
The opposition is calling for the Vladimir Putin’s private army, the Wagner group, to be listed as a terrorist organisation in Australia. The mercenary group was at the centre of the nine-month battle for the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut and has been accused of war crimes, including executions and rape. The French parliament has recently […]