Former NSW police officer has pleaded not guilty to the February 2024 murders of Jesse Baird and Luke Davies in Sydney
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Marks made by a gun at close proximity were found on Jesse Baird after his decomposing body was discovered, a jury has heard.
Former police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon has pleaded not guilty to the February 2024 murders of Baird, his ex-partner, and the TV presenter’s new partner, Luke Davies.
Continue reading...Exclusive: Revelation comes after executive told parliamentary inquiry he did not believe AI had been used to write message, but was ‘happy to go and confirm’
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OpenAI used AI to help write the email to the Australian government advising that its AI agent had hacked into key departmental websites, Guardian Australia can reveal.
On Tuesday, one of the company’s executives told a parliamentary inquiry that he didn’t believe that its own technology had been used to create the email, but said the company needed to confirm this.
Continue reading...The number of pharmacies stocking the MS-2 Step medication increased from 2,228 to 4,107 after rules relaxed in 2023
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The number of Australian pharmacies stocking an abortion pill increased by almost 50% when prescribing restrictions were relaxed, with researchers saying the findings suggest deregulation of abortion promotes safer and faster healthcare.
A study published in the medical journal JAMA Network Open on Thursday examined the impact of changes by the Therapeutic Goods Administration in 2023 which meant the medication, MS-2 Step, could be prescribed by any GP.
Continue reading...Researchers found the shift from open woodland to dense forest after 1788 led to more intense fires, consistent with loss of cultural burning practices
The drastic land use changes wreaked by colonisation created a “catastrophic wildfire loop” that rendered south-east Australia more susceptible to climate-fuelled bushfires, experts say.
A team of researchers, working with the Gunaikurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation, an organisation that represents traditional owners, reconstructed 1,000 years of vegetation and fire history at Purghagoolah, a lake surrounded by forest in Croajingolong national park in Gippsland, Victoria.
Continue reading...Lamarre-Condon has pleaded not guilty to murdering Jesse Baird and Luke Davies in Sydney in February 2024
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A detective has broken down in court while describing the moment she found the bodies of two men allegedly murdered by former police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon.
Jesse Baird, 26, and his new boyfriend Luke Davies, 29, were shot dead in a Sydney terrace in February 2024.
Continue reading...Lamarre-Condon has pleaded not guilty to murdering Jesse Baird and Luke Davies in Sydney in February 2024
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A detective has broken down in court while describing the moment she found the bodies of two men allegedly murdered by former police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon.
Jesse Baird, 26, and his new boyfriend Luke Davies, 29, were shot dead in a Sydney terrace in February 2024.
Continue reading...Uneeb Ullah, 28, from Ipswich, has been remanded in custody after his arrest on Tuesday evening for the alleged murder of the child
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A Queensland man has been charged with the murder of his three-month-old baby son, after the boy died in hospital this week.
The infant, from the Ipswich area west of Brisbane, died almost a week after being taken to hospital with “significant internal injuries”. The boy had been on life support.
This story was amended on 7 October 2026. A previous version incorrectly stated Uneeb Ullah was from Logan
Continue reading...Christopher Alan Saunders becomes highest-ranked Catholic in Australia convicted of sexual abuse over his time as member of clergy
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A former high-ranking Catholic known for hosting boozy parties will spend at least four and a half years behind bars for sexually abusing two young Aboriginal men.
The ex-bishop of Broome Christopher Alan Saunders, 76, was found guilty of 13 sex offences after a jury trial in the West Australian district court.
Continue reading...Police say body found by trail bike riders at remote farm in Terragon is badly decomposed, sparking search of missing persons records
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A partially submerged body believed to be a woman has been discovered in a remote stockyard, with the death being treated as suspicious.
Officers were called to a property in Terragon, near Murwillumbah in northern NSW, at about 11.20am on Monday after reports of a dead body.
Continue reading...Key indicator dropped about 20% after the Reserve Bank last month announced the highest interest rates since 2011
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Australian households are the most persistently pessimistic they have been since the early-1990s recession, after a fourth rate rise this year.
Confidence among Australian consumers has plunged about 20% since the Reserve Bank of Australia lifted interest rates to the highest levels since 2011, according to the Westpac–Melbourne Institute consumer sentiment index.
Continue reading...Unions, employer groups, banks and industry experts will appear at the four-day hearings along with OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and Google
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OpenAI must explain how they will stop their models from inappropriately accessing Australian data, the Labor chair of the parliament’s committee on artificial intelligence has warned, ahead of federal inquiry hearings which will grill the tech company alongside Anthropic, Microsoft and Google.
Independent senator David Pocock is also demanding answers, saying OpenAI “still have a lot they need to answer” about their AI agent accessing Services Australia data on Medicare and the company’s “appalling” tardiness in notifying the federal government about the incident.
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Continue reading...Peak Jewish bodies organise ceremonies on third anniversary of attacks that triggered conflict in which 74,000 Palestinians have been killed
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Jewish Australians will mark the third anniversary of the 7 October attacks on Wednesday as Labor state governments condemn pro-Palestinian vigils to be held the same day.
Peak Jewish bodies have organised commemorations across the capital cities but avoided publicising locations as community members report ongoing fears for their safety since the Bondi terror attack in December.
Continue reading...Officers were responding to reports a car had driven into a tree 84km north of Yass on Sunday
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A man has been shot dead by police in regional New South Wales after allegedly aiming a loaded rifle at officers responding to a car crash.
NSW police officers were responding to reports a car had driven into a tree on a road 84km north of Yass at about 2.50pm on Sunday.
Continue reading...Barnaby Joyce defends move, saying party will lease space off mining billionaire’s company at commercial rates
Barnaby Joyce says there’s no conflict of interest between One Nation and mining billionaire, Gina Rinehart, after it was revealed Australia’s richest woman had bought a new multimillion dollar Brisbane city office for the minor-party to lease.
The One Nation MP said the party’s national head office would pay the market rate to Rinehart’s company to rent the space, claiming there would be no mate’s rates.
Continue reading...Fitness influencer, 46, faces court on Monday after his arrest in Noosa at the weekend
The fitness influencer and reality TV star Sam Wood has been charged in Queensland with domestic violence offences.
The personal trainer and star of the third season of reality TV show The Bachelor was charged on Sunday and spent the weekend in police custody after an alleged incident on Saturday night.
Continue reading...Treasurer says ‘very substantial and intensifying pressure’ on federal budget as he points finger at private sector for driving up inflation amid Middle East conflict
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Jim Chalmers has warned of “very substantial and intensifying” economic pressures on the horizon but insists he’s not planning for a recession, as he prepares to find new ways to cut the budget ahead of its mid-year update.
The treasurer on Sunday called on critics of government spending to name the services that should be cut, as he points the finger at the private sector for driving up inflation in Australia amid the protracted conflict in the Middle East.
Continue reading...Man charged with nine offences after vehicle struck Knights fans attending grand final farewell, leaving 10 injured including three children
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Ten people have been injured, one critically, after a car crashed into a crowd of people in Newcastle waiting to farewell the Knights team bus before the NRL grand final.
New South Wales police said a five-year-old girl remained in a critical but stable condition in an induced coma after the crash on Saturday morning.
Continue reading...The epicentre was at Leongatha, 130km south-east of Melbourne, with residents reporting houses shaking just after 2am
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A magnitude 4.8 earthquake struck Victoria in the early hours of Saturday morning, shaking Melbourne and waking people across the whole region.
Geoscience Australia said it detected an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.8 at 2.01am near Leongatha, 130km south-east of Melbourne, with the tremors felt across the city’s eastern suburbs.
Continue reading...Baird, father of former NSW premier Mike Baird and journalist Julia Baird, helped win the Olympics for Sydney
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Bruce Baird, a former federal Liberal MP and deputy leader of the party’s New South Wales branch, has died aged 84.
Baird, who also served as the NSW transport minister from 1988 to 1995, is the father of former state premier Mike Baird, the ABC journalist Julia Baird, and the marketing executive Steve Baird.
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Continue reading...Attack accessing historical data on bushfires occurred in June but not disclosed by the tech company until Thursday
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Artificial intelligence company OpenAI has disclosed another unauthorised hack on a government department in Australia.
In June, an OpenAI agent hacked into a New South Wales state government department and accessed historical non-public data on bushfires without authorisation.
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