Queensland Drug-Driving Penalties to Rise From December, With Fines Up to $4,835
Queensland has passed a major package of road-law changes that will sharply increase penalties for drug driving from 1 December, introduce stronger consequences for combined drink-and-drug offences…
Qantas Takes Ground Crew Strike Dispute to Fair Work Commission Ahead of School Holidays
Qantas is asking the Fair Work Commission to stop planned industrial action by ground workers next week, setting up a workplace-relations showdown that could affect freight movements…
WA Court Rejects Government Appeal Bid With Nearly 200 Similar Abuse Compensation Claims in View
Western Australia’s Court of Appeal has rejected the state government’s attempt to use child sexual abuse survivor Dion Barber’s concluded compensation case to obtain legal guidance that…
Queensland 18-Year-Old Faces Dozens of Charges After FBI Tip-Off Over Alleged Extremist Social Media Activity
A Queensland 18-year-old remains in custody over a large group of alleged online extremist and child-abuse-material offences after an investigation that police say began with information supplied…
SA Ombudsman Finds Housing Trust’s Four-Year Black-Mould Delay Unreasonable
South Australia’s Housing Trust has apologised to a public-housing tenant after the state Ombudsman found the authority took an unreasonable four years to properly address repeated reports…
ABC Traces AI-Australian Political Channel to Brazil; One Nation Says It Has No Association
An ABC NEWS Verify investigation has traced the presenter used by a popular Australian political commentary channel to Brazil and found that artificial intelligence was used to…
Nearly Half of Victoria’s State Roads Rated Poor or Very Poor as Pothole Backlog Grows
Nearly half of Victoria’s state-managed roads were rated poor or very poor in 2024, according to data released by the Victorian Auditor-General’s Office, while thousands of reported…
Free COVID-19 Vaccines Narrow From 1 October — Who Will Still Qualify?
Australia’s COVID-19 vaccination program will change significantly from 1 October, when vaccines move from the stand-alone National COVID-19 Vaccine Program into the National Immunisation Program and free…
Fewer Than 2% of Hotel Rooms in Major Queensland Cities Meet Accessibility Criteria, Report Finds
A new accessibility audit has found that only a small share of hotel rooms in Brisbane, Cairns and the Gold Coast met the study’s accessibility criteria, raising…
Two Teenagers Charged With Murder Over Alleged Mistaken-Identity Shooting of Sydney Student
Two teenage boys, aged 14 and 16, have been charged with murder over the alleged mistaken-identity shooting of 23-year-old university student Marco Tapia in Sydney’s south-west. Police…