An Alice Springs anti-crime campaigner has called out his town’s ongoing “crisis” after a group of youths allegedly broke into his home over the weekend as he slept. Darren Clark, who founded the crime awareness group Action for Alice, revealed five youths allegedly invaded his home on Sunday night andContinue Reading
More apprentices and trainees can get a $10,000 cash boost to study certain jobs as the government looks to fill skills shortages. A further 19 occupations were added to the Australian Apprenticeship Priority List for 2024, including flight attendants, ambulance officers and pharmacy technicians. The list now includes 130 occupations,Continue Reading
The fight between NSW Ambulance paramedics and the state government will go before the Industrial Relations Commission (IRC) on Monday. Negotiations with the Health Services Union (HSU) stalled on Friday when the union rejected an average 19 per cent increase to take home pay — including base pay, penalties, andContinue Reading
A new sobering up centre in Melbourne’s inner northeast is facing delays as the premier defends the state’s new public drunkenness laws, set to kick in next week. The new 20-bed clinic, being established at 3 Cambridge St in Collingwood, is weeks behind schedule, with the decriminalisation of public intoxicationContinue Reading
Moments before a man was told he would face a murder charge over the death of his girlfriend’s son he denied harming him, saying “I tried to save him”. Video of the moment Brendan Pallant, 36, was informed he would be charged with murder was played to the Victorian SupremeContinue Reading
West Australian ambulance officers will trial body-worn cameras and slash-proof clothing in a bid to keep paramedics safe from those they’re trying to help. It follows projections St John Ambulance will record 270 violent incidents against ambulance crews this financial year – a figure on par with previous years, showingContinue Reading
The mother who abandoned her newborn baby in a Sydney backyard has been officially identified by police, with new information shining a light on the circumstances involved. In April, the hours-old baby girl was found naked and covered in birth fluids on the wicker chair of a Blacktown home inContinue Reading
The police officer who was charged with the assault of a 95 year old great grandmother in her care home, who later died, allegedly uttered three words before he discharged his Taser. Clare Nowland died in Cooma Hospital, in southern New South Wales, on Wednesday. Her death came after anContinue Reading
A newly unearthed ambulance report has contradicted Daniel Andrews’ long-held claims about a 2013 car accident on the Mornington Peninsula that nearly killed a teenage cyclist. Mr Andrews, then Victorian opposition leader, was in the family Ford Territory being driven by his wife Catherine when it and a bike beingContinue Reading
Byron Bay’s council is considering rolling out a harsh new fine for a common “hipster” habit that left a local with horrifying injuries. In February this year, resident and former pro surfer Mathew Cassidy “nearly bled out on the beach” and almost lost his arm after another surfer dropped inContinue Reading