National News
Woman ‘stabs fiance to death’
Lia Harris and Keely McDonough JUST a month after getting engaged, young dad David Walsh is dead and his fiancee has been charged with his murder.
Woman killed in brutal attack
A WOMAN has died after being stabbed in the chest at a home in Sydney’s west.
The $7m push to get girls active
FEMALE footballers, rockclimbers and water polo players will feature in a new advertising blitz designed to inspire more Australian girls to take up sport.
‘More savage than Pearl Harbor’
IT’S been 75 years since 188 Japanese planes bombed Darwin in the first of almost 100 air raids, drawing the top end of Australia into World War II.
Turnbull an ‘Aussie gold digger’: Kiwi MP
A POPULIST Kiwi MP has savaged Malcolm Turnbull online, souring the Prime Minister’s otherwise perfectly lovely whirlwind tour of New Zealand.
This drug can kill in one touch
QUEENSLAND authorities have intercepted a package in the mail, of a substance 10,000 times as potent as morphine.
Battered Hail, damaging storm rocks Sydney
THREE sisters relaxing on a park bench were struck by lightning and tennis ball sized hail stones caused large amounts of damage as a super storm battered Sydney yesterday.
Fatal attack Woman dies after brutal stabbing
A WOMAN has died after being stabbed in the chest in a home Sydney’s west last night. A man known to the woman in her 30s is being questioned by police.
Adelaide Fringe Adelaide treated to big, bold parade
BIG, bold and luminous – that was the brief which 1500 artists brought to life in a pyrotechnics-blasting, flame-throwing, mirror-shimmering spectacular for Saturday night’s opening weekend Fringe Parade.
Beauty pageant Wheelchair beauty‘s big desire for crown
JUSTINE Clark is about to make history as Australia’s first contestant in a wheelchair to enter the Miss World contest.
Victoria
CEO named RACV honcho to head North East Link
AN expert engineer has been appointed to head the state government agency building the multi-billion dollar North East Link.
Meeting stopped Evicted park residents battle developer
A DEVELOPER who has offered no compensation for kicking out residents of a suburban caravan park has now forbid them from holding a meeting at the park.
Hard lesson Nicholls: sorry for Newman years
OPPOSITION Leader Tim Nicholls has apologised to voters wronged by the Newman government, admitting “we didn’t do well enough”.
Weapons found Banned teacher a loose cannon
THE head of a special education unit has been barred from teaching for 12 months after 190kg of ammunition and a loaded gun was found in his southeast Queensland home.
Exclusive MAFS' twin spotted with Premier's son
MARRIED at First Sight twin Michelle Marsh has been spending time with the son of Premier Colin Barnett since wrapping up the main filming for the reality show.
Child sex abuse 'As a leader in the church I am ashamed'
A WA Anglican Bishop believes it will take a generation before trust in the church is restored in the wake of the child sex abuse scandal.
Back together Iconic Aussie rockers to play in Hobart
MIDNIGHT Oil are coming to Hobart with the Aussie rockers to play at the Derwent Entertainment Centre on the back end of a 54-date world tour.
Redevelopment Asbestos scare for RHH workers
AN administrative error has been blamed for a missed positive sample of asbestos at the Royal Hobart Hospital redevelopment site.
Territory remembers The day bloody hell rained down
One of the last surviving World War II veterans to witness the Darwin bombings says the diggers involved never got the recognition they deserved
Real Estate Rural area homes are unique as Humpty Doo
HOME-HUNTERS looking to buy in the rural areas are snapping up quirky properties, according to local real estate agents
‘Excessive’ tree lopping upsets residents
THE mass removal of trees from an old school site has sparked fresh environmental fears with one resident deeming the cull excessive.
Surfer rescues man from drifting to sea
BRUCE McPadden was surfing at The Spit when he heard desperate cries for help: a man had fallen off a jetski around 4.20pm and emergency services were yet to arrive on scene.
What killed huge six-metre python
RUSSELL thought he could smell something when he opened the front door. It wasn’t until he stepped out the next day that he was confronted with the remains of a massive python — and what killed it. WARNING: Graphic photos
Teen says sorry for crash
A TEENAGER who crashed a utility, leaving one of his mates paralysed and the other badly injured, says he regrets the incident daily.
