The Victorian Environment Protection Authority continues to find asbestos in mulch at more and more Melbourne parks. The asbestos is in its bonded form, not the friable state which causes cancer. The ongoing investigation has now found contamination across on the eastern side of the city, and in most casesContinue Reading
Australia is reeling following the deaths of five women and a security guard at Westfield Bondi Junction Westfield on Saturday afternoon — and one podcast host has pointed out a huge misconception about what happened. Pikria Darchia, Yixuan Cheng, Jade Young, Dawn Singleton and Ashlee Good – and security guardContinue Reading
The case against an aged care home at the centre of a devastating killer Covid wave in 2020 in Victoria has returned to court. Lawyers acting for the home charged after residents died in a Covid cluster have asked for a key hearing to be delayed. St Basil’s Homes ForContinue Reading
A 12-year-old girl had been missing from state care for over two weeks before allegedly stabbing a woman to death in Footscray. The Department of Families, Fairness and Housing initially sought to keep details of the girl’s history secret but a Supreme Court judge ruled against a gagging order. TheContinue Reading
Brittany Higgins has angrily denied “stealing” a Carla Zampatti jacket from the ministerial office she alleged she was raped in, insisting it was “too small” for former defence minister Linda Reynolds and she had been asked to “throw it out”. Ms Higgins was captured on CCTV leaving Parliament House wearingContinue Reading
NEW YORK: Donald Trump has dropped his $500 million lawsuit against Michael Cohen, his former lawyer and fixer who is now a key witness in a criminal case against him, Cohen and a Trump spokesperson has said. But the former president did not waive his right to sue again. TrumpContinue Reading
A notorious sex offender dubbed the “playboy rapist” has been described as a “psychopath” with a compulsion to lie as he fights to have his personal devices given back to him by police. Simon Monteiro was handed a two-year jail sentence in June 2021 after he was convicted of breachingContinue Reading
The US Coast Guard has been tracking a Russian vessel “believed to be an intelligence gathering ship” off the coast of Hawaii in recent weeks. The ship and other foreign-flagged military vessels have been “operating and loitering” in Coast Guard District Fourteen‘s area of response. “As part of our dailyContinue Reading
Brittany Higgins has secured a multi-million dollar taxpayer-funded compensation deal after just a day of mediation talks. News.com.au revealed this month that Ms Higgins’ legal team had entered negotiations over a bombshell multimillion-dollar personal injury claim. The payout had been quietly negotiated since March 2022. The Commonwealth settled the claimContinue Reading
Former Defence Minister Linda Reynolds has confirmed that she was advised on Friday that her former staffer Brittany Higgins intends to file a compensation claim. “I confirm that I was advised in March this year by Blumers, who act for Brittany Higgins, of a civil claim by Ms Higgins againstContinue Reading