1 hour ago Dreyfus warned he’ll be axed in factional power play, PM faces pressure to save him

Dreyfus phoned colleagues over the past two days to solidify his position and ensure he had enough votes to cling on, but his fate is in doubt.

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1 hour ago Mark Dreyfus warned he’ll be axed in factional power play, PM faces pressure to save him

Mark Dreyfus phoned colleagues over the past two days to solidify his position and ensure he had enough votes to cling on, but his fate is in doubt.

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3 h. ago Security guard pleaded for help as Bondi killer struck. He got no answer

The guard wept as he recounted the Bondi Junction attack, which left one colleague dead and another injured.

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4 h. ago Three children dead after ‘suspicious’ house fire, mum expected to survive

Their mother, who escaped the home with other children and her partner, remains in hospital under police guard, as homicide officers investigate.

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5 h. ago A Soviet space probe will crash back to Earth. It could land in Australia

It’s the final countdown for a spacecraft that was en route to Venus in 1972 – until a rocket malfunction left it stranded in orbit and slowly spiralling back towards Earth.

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8 h. ago Brisbane news live: Queensland politicians get a pay rise | Three dead after house fire, as two more children lose fight for life

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8 h. ago Three dead after house fire, as two more children lose fight for life

A woman who escaped the home with other children and a man remains in hospital under police guard, as homicide officers investigate.

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11 h. ago Once the pinnacle of luxury, these 10 hotels now sit abandoned

The great and the good were once lured to these dead five-stars, but now they are eerily derelict – though some could yet be reborn.

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20 h. ago Boy dead, woman under police guard after suspicious house fire

A nine-year-old boy is dead and a woman is under police guard after a suspicious house fire in Toowoomba, Queensland. 

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21 h. ago Netanyahu’s move to seize Gaza won’t save the hostages, and he knows it

Absent of any realistic post-conflict plan, Israel’s forces will end up occupying Gaza or sections of it without any foreseeable strategic outcome.

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21 h. ago ‘Better scared than dead’: Doctor’s urgent warning to accused mushroom killer

When Erin Patterson mentioned her children had eaten leftover beef Wellington, a doctor warned against her reluctance to have them checked out.

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24 h. ago Bondi Junction killer spoke with cops a year before mass stabbing

Police body cam footage shows officers speaking to Joel Cauchi about his knife collection just over a year before the Bondi Junction stabbings.

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24 h. ago The short, difficult lives of boys allegedly murdered by their grandmother

The brothers, aged six and seven, were found dead in their home on the outskirts of Coonabarabran. Police are investigating their deaths as a double homicide.

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30 h. ago House fire that killed young boy ‘suspicious’ as six remain in hospital

A 36-year-old woman is under police guard in hospital after Wednesday’s blaze in Toowoomba.

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30 h. ago Brisbane news live: Child dead in house fire; Homeless to be moved on for Paniyiri; Chandler

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31 h. ago Brisbane news live: Child feared dead in house fire; Homeless to be moved on for Paniyiri; Chandler

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32 h. ago Brisbane news live: Child feared dead in house fire | Qld police ‘failed to get Bondi Junction killer help’ before stabbing spree

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46 h. ago Qld police failed to get Bondi Junction killer help before stabbing spree, inquest told

A NSW coroner is likely to recommend systemic changes after an overworked police force failed to connect a mass killer to the mental health system before his attack.

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48 h. ago Four whales dead, one saved after mass stranding on WA coast

Parks and Wildlife officers are asking people not to “self-deploy” to the incident unfolding near the tourist town of Bremer Bay.

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49 h. ago Search for answers as town comes to terms with alleged murder of young boys

The boys aged 6 and 7 – one of whom lived with cancer – were found dead at a Coonabarabran home. Their grandmother is accused of killing them.

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