A search for a missing Brisbane woman who has Down Syndrome has entered its second night, police say. The search for Jade Briskey, 31, will continue through the night in suburbs around Holland Park, in the city’s south. She slipped out of her house in Estate Place about 9am (AEST) on Thursday morning when her […]
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Boat with 3 intercepted in Torres Strait
Authorities have intercepted a boat carrying three suspected asylum seekers off the North Australian coast. Customs and Border Protection and the Department of Immigration and Citizenship detected a suspected entry boat at Boigu Island in the Torres Strait on Friday. The passengers will be transferred to the temporary processing centre on Horn Island, where they […]
Two men charged over Kings Cross assault
Two 32-year-old men have been charged over a savage assault of three men in Kings Cross. Police say the three men, aged in their 20s, suffered a range of injuries during the fracas about 3.50am (AEST) last Saturday on Ward Street, including a broken nose, broken jaw and severe facial lacerations. The 32-year-old men were […]
Connors River Dam axed
SunWater has shelved the Connors River Dam project because of insufficient demand for the water from the mining sector in central Queensland. The $1.3 billion dam and pipelines would have delivered reliable water supplies to the booming Bowen and Galilee coal basins and to the townships of Nebo, Moranbah and Alpha. It already had state […]
Another call to extend WA coal ban
– The West Australian government’s effective ban on coal mining in the Margaret River region should be extended to projects in the northwest, the Conservation Council of WA says. The call by CCWA director Piers Verstegen echoes comments by the Wilderness Society this week. Mr Verstegen said the ban was the result of a broad […]
Vic, NSW cave on NDIS trial benchmark
The NSW and Victorian Liberal governments have bowed to public pressure and agreed to meet federal funding benchmarks to host trial sites for the multi-billion dollar National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Premiers Barry O’Farrell and Ted Baillieu faced a backlash from carers and disabled people who turned to digital media, talkback radio and other forums […]
Man to face Qld court over murder charge
The son of a woman who disappeared in southern Queensland says news that a man has been charged with her murder is a weight off his shoulders. A 58-year-old man was charged on Friday with murdering Gail Lynch, 55, who disappeared from Warwick on July 3. When asked on Friday if Ms Lynch’s former partner […]
Help shoppers buy Aussie: Greens say
Food labelling laws should be overhauled so shoppers can easily choose Australian-grown fruit and vegetables and other local produce, the Greens say. Australian Greens leader Christine Milne says she plans to introduce a private member’s bill in the Senate to make it easier for shoppers to buy food that is actually grown and made in […]
Rayneys went on Bali holiday with Rinehart
Prominent Perth barrister Lloyd Rayney went on a working holiday in Bali with his wife Corryn and mining billionaire Gina Rinehart four months before he allegedly murdered his wife, a court has been told. Rayney has pleaded not guilty in the Supreme Court of Western Australia to the wilful murder of his 44-year-old wife. The […]
Vic book shop clerk basher ‘not rational’
The husband of a Melbourne bookstore owner found brutally bashed and lying in a pool of blood says whoever attacked his wife was not a rational human being. Jill Brookes, 61, remains in intensive care with severe head injuries a week after being bashed in her small Altona bookshop on the afternoon of July 23. […]
Morotcyclist dies in crash south of Perth
A 55-year-old man has died after his motorcycle and a car collided south of Perth. Police say the incident happened about 11.20am (WST) on Friday on Rowley Road in Hammond Park when the red Ducati collided with a Ford Fiesta hatchback that was turning onto the northbound Kwinana Freeway on-ramp. The motorcycle rider died at […]
Woodside wounds Brown by canning meeting
Woodside Petroleum has left Bob Brown feeling wounded after the oil and gas giant cancelled a planned meeting with the former Greens leader about the James Price Point gas hub. Dr Brown and fellow activists are currently on the Sea Shepherd ship “Steve Irwin”, making their way to Broome in Western Australia’s Kimberley region to […]
SA cyclist charged with drunk driving
A cyclist has been charged with drink driving after police allege he was weaving all over an Adelaide road. South Australian police say the man was barely able to control his bike when they saw him weaving “all over” a road in north-west suburban Ethelton about 10:30pm CST on Thursday. “He nearly collapsed on the […]
COAG useless on NDIS rollout: O’Farrell
NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell says not a single minute of this week’s Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting was devoted to funding the full rollout of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) The funding of trials was the issue at COAG. “A trial is a first stage,” Mr O’Farrell told Fairfax Radio. “We have to […]
Singer, actor Darryl Cotton dies
Pop star, actor and TV host Darryl Cotton has lost his battle with liver cancer. Cotton, 62, died in the early hours of Friday after being diagnosed in May. Friend and former manager Jeff Joseph says the singer fought his condition bravely. “He was philosophical from the outset when told of his condition, but was […]
Caltex closure out of my hands: O’Farrell
There is nothing the NSW government can do about the loss of jobs at Caltex’s Sydney oil refinery, state premier Barry O’Farrell says. He said the loss of jobs, which could be as high as 600, was bad for NSW. Caltex Australia announced on Thursday it would close its Kurnell refinery in southern Sydney in […]
O’Farrell confirms NDIS levy offer
NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell says he “can’t deny” state and territory heads expressed support for a national levy to fund a new National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). “I can’t deny it,” Mr O’Farrell told Sky News on Friday. “What was clear was that there was bipartisanship and goodwill by state and territory leaders across the […]
Watchdog to probe NSW police shooting
Statements to the media by NSW police will be scrutinised as part of an official probe into the shooting by an officer of a mentally ill man. Adam Salter, a 36-year-old web designer and enthusiastic rock climber, was shot in the back by Sergeant Sherree Bissett at close range as he stabbed himself in the […]
Qld search for disabled woman ramped up
The parents of a missing Brisbane woman who has Down syndrome are extremely worried, police say. The search for Jade Briskey, 31, has entered its second day with volunteers, police on trail bikes and a helicopter called in to scour bushland in the city’s south. Officers say she may appear younger than her age. She […]
Remember Australian action in El Alamein
Australians are being urged to remember the diggers who fought in one of World War II’s great allied victories. July marks seven decades since the first Battle of El Alamein, one of a series of actions in North Africa that culminated in the final Battle of El Alamein in October and November 1942. The clash, […]