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Five young Victorian children – including two known to child protection – died from malnutrition and neglect in just 17 months during the pandemic. 

 

A NSW woman has allegedly been murdered by her ex-partner just over a fortnight after he was granted bail after being accused of raping her three times. 

 

Queensland’s youth crime epidemic has been laid bare as a new report reveals the number of young criminals jumped 5.2 per cent to more than 11,000 offenders, with 11 of those charged with murder. 

 

A West Adelaide footballer is in a serious condition in Royal Adelaide Hospital after an incident at a Port Lincoln hotel on Sunday morning. 
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Pro-Palestine activists are turning up at University of Melbourne classrooms and photographing students after asking   for a show of hands to indicate who agrees with their views on the Israel-Gaza war. 

A teenager has been charged after allegedly attacking an Assyrian Christian bishop during a livestreamed service at a church in Sydney’s southwest after days in hospital. 

Police say the Australian boss of a transnational organised crime syndicate was living in Brisbane’s suburbia as he masterminded a series of huge drug shipments including a “botched” 900kg cocaine import where bricks of the drugs washed ashore. 

Owners of short-term accommodation, such as Airbnb and Stayz properties, will be slugged hundreds more in rates, under a proposal by Adelaide City Council. 
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Brittany Higgins will keep the $2.4m compensation payment she received from the government despite Justice Michael Lee finding the basis for her claim, that there had been a political cover up of her assault, was “untrue.” 

 

The family of schoolboy accused of the Sydney church stabbing say the teen was “religious but not a radical” and he is “extremely remorseful”. 

 

Ongoing protest action that continues to plague Victoria has forced at least 10,000 Victoria Police officers off the beat with more than 560 protests staged in Melbourne’s CBD in the past six months alone. 

 

A federal inquiry has failed to find any evidence of the QLD government having completed any real work in preparation for the  2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games, according to key senators leading the probe. 
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has hinted that a brave Frenchman who faced off  with a rampaging knifeman, who stabbed six people to death in Bondi Junction, on Saturday may jump the queue to become an Australian citizen. 

Woolworths CEO Brad Banducci has been threatened with jail time after refusing to answer questions about the supermarket chain’s profitability in a two hour-long standoff with furious senators. 

More than half of Queenslanders have witnessed an accident on the Bruce Highway and a whopping one in three people are dissatisfied or extremely dissatisfied with the nation’s longest route. 

Embattled former player agent Ricky Nixon is facing a slew of fresh criminal charges as he stares down the threat of imminent bankruptcy. 
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After one aborted, then abandoned, criminal trial and two successful out of court settlements Bruce Lehrmann was on Monday found to have raped Brittany Higgins. 

 

The Victorian government is pushing for a “substantial ­increase” for workers on minimum and award wages, well ahead of the “economically ­responsible” lift other states want amid warnings too big a rise may drive up inflation. 

 

A new housing “super portfolio” has been created to focus on fixing the South Australia’s housing crisis – and several other key portfolio responsibilities have been switched – as part of Premier Peter Malinauskas’ first cabinet reshuffle. 

 

Queensland Education Minister Di Farmer has bowed to pressure from the teachers’ unions and home education bodies, announcing homeschooling reforms and proposed changes to student suspensions and expulsions are officially on hold. 
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Drug dealing would be virtually impossible for criminals without social media and apps like Meta-owned WhatsApp, with a new study finding 70 per cent of Australians use them to buy illicit substances. 

 

NSW households face paying at least $20 a year extra on their electricity bills after a blowout in the already massive cost of a new privately owned transmission line to the troubled Snowy Hydro 2.0 project. 

 

A young man who was brutally stabbed to death in a suspected drug deal gone wrong in an industrial street was “polite” and “well mannered” when he sought information from residents less than 12 hours before his unsolved murder. 

 

More than half of Queensland’s most hardcore youth offenders are roaming free on the streets – but the minister says more young criminals are locked up than ever. 
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