Emergency services called to the shopping centre car park in Hope Island found a man with life-threatening injuries
A 25-year-old man has been taken into custody in relation to a fatal assault in a Gold Coast shopping centre car park.
Emergency services were called to the car park along Santa Barbara Road in the suburb of Hope Island on Monday afternoon after reports a man had been seriously assaulted.
Continue reading...Passengers on flight to Auckland describe ‘mid-air drop’ with people thrown from their seats
Fifty people have been treated by ambulance crews and 13 people are in hospital after an in-bound aircraft to Auckland experienced a “strong movement” mid-flight that reportedly saw passengers suddenly thrown about the plane.
In a statement, Hato Hone St John Ambulance said the organisation responded to an incident at Auckland International airport involving an inbound aircraft after a call at 3.58pm local time on Monday.
Continue reading...Cinema Nova spokesperson says group of four men and one woman were ‘vocalising hate speech to create a scene inside the auditorium’
Police are investigating reports that a group of patrons performed Nazi salutes and made racist comments during a screening of an Oscar-winning Holocaust film at a Melbourne cinema on Saturday night.
The patrons were attending a screening of The Zone of Interest, a German-language adaptation of the Martin Amis novel, a fictionalised account of the real-life Nazi commandant, Rudolf Höss, and his family, who lived in a villa at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
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Outer suburban drivers overtake inner-city drivers in EV uptake
New data from the Electric Vehicle Council shows that outer suburban drivers have overtaken inner-city drivers in their EV uptake.
I think some tired stereotypes about EVs in Australia will need to be updated.
What this data tells us is that the average EV buyer lives in the suburbs and might well be keen to use the new car to take the kids camping on the weekend. They might even be thinking about towing a boat.
Continue reading...Donald Day Jr, linked to fatal shooting of two Queensland police officers, claims his right to guns for self-defence has been violated
A US man linked to the fatal shooting of two Queensland police officers has claimed that his right to own guns for self-defence has been violated by charges of alleged firearms possession while a convicted felon.
Donald Day Jr, 58, was arrested in December 2023 by the FBI in Arizona on two counts of “interstate threats” 12 months after the fatal shootings at rural Wieambilla, west of Brisbane.
Continue reading...William ‘Little Pebble’ Kamm and Sandra Costellia expected to be charged following six-month NSW police investigation
Cult leader William Kamm and his partner have been arrested in Sydney over allegations they groomed a 19-year-old woman for sex from the age of six.
Kamm, 73, who refers to himself as “Little Pebble”, allegedly sent the girl letters and homemade gifts and called her on the phone.
Continue reading...Extreme heat forecast to continue across Victoria, Tasmania, SA and NSW for several days, as record temperatures cause cancellation of long weekend events
Hobart residents sweated through the city’s hottest night in 112 years as a severe heatwave continues to affect large parts of south-east Australia.
Extreme heat is forecast to continue across South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania and southern New South Wales for several days, the Bureau of Meteorology said on Sunday after record temperatures caused the cancellation of long weekend events.
Continue reading...Liberal Jeremy Rockliff commits $12m and says ‘chocolate experience’ at Claremont would be ‘the greatest thing to happen to tourism since Mona’
Dubai is home to the world’s tallest skyscraper, Burj Khalifa. Nepal boasts Mount Everest. Soon, if Jeremy Rockliff gets his way, Tasmania could be home to the world’s largest chocolate fountain.
The Tasmanian premier on Sunday appeared to take inspiration from Willy Wonka by pitching himself to voters as the dreamer of dreams during a visit to the Cadbury chocolate factory – the largest in the southern hemisphere – near Hobart.
Continue reading...Former Socceroo says he made a mistake and is ‘very pleased to be able to learn’ that ‘racism can only be perpetrated against a marginalised person or group’
Former Socceroo Craig Foster has apologised to Sam Kerr for criticising the Matildas captain after it was revealed she allegedly called a police officer in the UK a “stupid white bastard”.
Foster in a lengthy explanation on X stated he had been mistaken in thinking that any “discriminatory, demeaning or hostile” comment made referring to “any colour” was racism.
Continue reading...Victoria police say death is suspicious and alleged offender ‘may have fled overseas’
Police are investigating the death of a woman whose body was reportedly found in a wheelie bin in Victoria’s south-west.
Her body was discovered on Mount Pollock Road in the town of Buckley, about 25km from Geelong, at midday on Saturday.
Continue reading...Digital ads for 8XBet inserted into matches played by clubs that rejected money from gambling companies
An offshore gambling company that breached Australian law and was forced to withdraw from the country has paid the national football league to promote it overseas.
The Australian Professional Leagues has digitally imposed ads for the gambling company, 8XBet, on to international broadcasts of A-Leagues matches. The company’s logo can be seen in 10 locations simultaneously during some games.
Continue reading...Nationals’ Bridget McKenzie and Andrew Willcox top list with more than $20,000 spent each on nights away from home
A handful of federal politicians are spending more than two-thirds of their time on the road and in hotels, with one Nationals MP billing taxpayers for accommodation nearly every night over a four-month period, latest travel expenses data shows.
Andrew Willcox, the first-time member for Dawson, spent 113 days travelling over a 116-day period between August and December 2022, according to the most recent independent parliamentary expense authority’s (Ipea) data.
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Continue reading...Proceeds from sale – which is believed to be below $5 million – will be used to pay back some of the money stolen from investors
Conwoman Melissa Caddick’s luxury Sydney penthouse is finally off the market and the proceeds will be used to pay back some of the money stolen from dozens of investors, many of whom were her close friends and family.
The apartment atop the Eastpoint Tower at Edgecliff in Sydney’s eastern suburbs was listed for auction on 10 October for an estimated $5.5m.
Continue reading...Police say they ‘acted appropriately’ when they shot a 26-year-old woman who fatally stabbed her 53-year-old mother
A Victorian woman shot and killed by police officers on Friday evening was caught in the process of stabbing her mother, police say.
Police revealed details about the incident on Saturday, saying that an officer was called to a home in Melbourne’s north-east at about 6.30pm after neighbours mistakenly reported that a young woman was trying to set her mother on fire.
Continue reading...Bus mounted a kerb and pinned the 18-year-old against wall near one of the city’s busiest intersections during peak hour
Authorities have pledged to find answers after an 18-year-old woman died when she was pinned between a bus and a building in Brisbane’s city centre on Friday evening.
And authorities have said the bus involved in the crash underwent routine testing last month, and will now undergo an engineering investigation to ensure there were no mechanical failures.
Continue reading...Pitch music and arts festival attenders urged to delay arrival, with those already on site advised to head home
Festivalgoers at a music festival in Victoria’s Grampians have been advised to leave amid the extreme heat and fire danger, while Melbourne’s iconic Moomba Parade has been cancelled due to soaring temperatures.
Residents across four states have been experiencing stifling conditions, with high temperatures forecast over the long weekend in many parts of the country.
Continue reading...Thirty-year-old arrested over death of three-month-old child in September 2011
A woman has been charged with the murder of a baby girl more than 12 years ago in Queensland.
The charge comes after police went to a home in Redland Bay, 35km south-east of Brisbane, on 2 September 2011 and found a three-month-old child who was not breathing.
Continue reading...The 39-year-old has also been charged with improperly interfering with a corpse or human remains
A man has been charged with murder after the body of a 60-year-old woman was discovered in the boot of a car in northern New South Wales.
The woman’s body was found by emergency services on Friday morning after they were called to a unit in Evans Head.
Continue reading...PropTrack report finds availability at its lowest in 17 years, with only 39% of properties affordable for median income households
The affordability of rental properties has reached its worst level since records began, a report has found.
The latest PropTrack Rental Affordability report found households on the median income of $110,000 a year could only afford 39% of available properties to rent.
Continue reading...Road crash deaths are the leading cause of death for children aged 1 to 13 in Australia and experts say many could be prevented with better restraints
Leading child safety experts are calling for regulations around child car restraints to be brought into line with the medical evidence and similar countries worldwide, saying that “a large proportion” of Australian children are being put in danger of life-altering traumatic injuries or death every day due to inappropriate use of car and booster seats.
The calls come as the state and federal ministers for transport undertake a review of Australia’s child restraint rules, which have been condemned as out of step with safe practice guidelines.
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