Breakfast radio host Ben Fordham has put NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb on blast after she cancelled a scheduled interview on his show. Ms Webb has been at the centre of public scrutiny for the last month after a series of public blunders. “Morale in the police force is tanking,Continue Reading
The NSW Attorney-General has conceded there’s “no easy fix” on addressing the causes of the youth crime wave largely engulfing regional communities. Michael Daley faced a grilling over increased rates of youth crime, especially in regional and rural communities, with NSW Premier Chris Minns convening a working group to targetContinue Reading
Alice Springs baker Darren Clark has been left speechless after being awarded a $10,000 cash prize by 2GB radio host Ben Fordham. Fordham phoned Mr Clark on Friday morning to inform him he was being given the prize for “news tip of 2023”. The outspoken community activist, who runs theContinue Reading
Illegal tobacconists selling black market cigarettes and vapes are raking in up to $40,000 a week, fuelling an increasingly violent turf war — and the industry says it has been warning the government about this exact outcome for years. Around 30 tobacco stores across Victoria have been targeted by arsonistsContinue Reading
The Indigenous Voice to Parliament proposal has been resoundingly defeated in Saturday’s referendum in a major blow to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. It took less than 90 minutes of counting after polls closed in the east for the result to be called by election watchers as a massive defeat forContinue Reading
It was 8.30pm in the city of Medan, Indonesia one day last month and Giwang Ramadan, a 20-year-old student, was doing something he did regularly – picking up his younger brother from an after-school religious studies class at the local mosque. It was only a five-minute drive by motorbike fromContinue Reading
A Brisbane cafe owner has blasted Annastacia Palasczcuk on morning television, telling the Queensland Premier to “grow a set”. Sunrise hosts Natt Barr and Matt Shirvington seemed taken aback when Mark Ingham, who was being interviewed on the youth crime wave gripping Brisbane, said the Premier should “stop gallivanting around,Continue Reading
Shocking social media posts have revealed the anger of a Queensland neighbourhood plagued by crime. More than 100 people rocked up to Central Park in North Rockhampton on Sunday afternoon following impassioned calls from a local figure to end the local crime wave. The chaotic scenes were first sparked afterContinue Reading
A San Francisco Target store has been putting all of its products on lockdown amid a shoplifting crisis that has crippled retailers in the Golden Gate City. Footage of the shop’s interior posted to TikTok shows aisle after aisle of toiletries and cosmetics under lock and key in the megachain.Continue Reading
Northern Territory senator Malarndirri McCarthy has called on Peter Dutton to stop using Alice Springs as a “political football” during the Voice campaign. For months Alice Springs has been in the headlines after a crime wave swept through the town following the lapse of alcohol restrictions. Restrictions have since beenContinue Reading