A local council has stumbled upon a horrifying horse slaughter house on a remote property, with more than 500 carcasses found at the scene. Wagga Wagga City Council confirmed on Wednesday it had discovered the carcasses and said it believed the slaughter operation had been going on for a “longContinue Reading
Queensland and NSW government agencies will work together as authorities piece together the circumstances surrounding the horror Bondi Junction stabbing, which has claimed six lives and left 12 people hospitalised. Their focus will be on Queensland man Joel Cauchi, 40, who has been identified as the lone attacker, responsible forContinue Reading
Chris Minns has said it was the “right call” for NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb not to appoint a former Channel 7 journalist to a highly paid position. Veteran journalist and former Spotlight producer Steve Jackson was hired by NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb on March 18 as her chiefContinue Reading
The coroner who led a wide-ranging two-year inquiry into NSW’s horror Black Summer bushfires that took 25 lives and burned more than 5.5 million hectares of land has delivered a stern warning of “intensifying” risk. State Coroner Magistrate Teresa O’Sullivan delivered 28 recommendations for better bushfire management on Wednesday, whileContinue Reading
“I don’t even recognise this life I’m leading sometimes,” says Jane Maidment through quiet tears, “I never thought I’d be so isolated from my community – that my whole life would be shrunk down so small.” Jane, who lives with a rare connective tissue disorder called Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, asContinue Reading
For Sydney dad-of-two Daniel Mazzotta, the first telltale signs something wasn’t quite right were his sudden difficulty with everyday movements like using his knife and fork and doing up his shirt buttons. After seven months of tests, MRI scans, consults with neurologists, Mr Mazzotta, 51, and his wife Felicia, 45,Continue Reading
NSW Finance Minister Courtney Houssos has come under fire over concerns from the state’s corruption watchdog that the government’s pledge to source goods and services from local providers could lead to “unnecessary” lobbying and conflicts of interest. In a submission made to a parliamentary inquiry into local procurement, the IndependentContinue Reading
The NSW government will convene an expert roundtable after more than a dozen people drowned at the state’s beaches in a horror summer. 36 people have drowned at coastal locations since July 1, 2023, with 14 deaths in the last summer alone. This follows two years of heightened rates ofContinue Reading
A 48-year-old man who is in a relationship with his grandfather’s 104-year-old widow is being questioned by officials as he fights to stay in Australia. Mart Soeson, an Estonian lawyer, is trying to remain in Sydney by proving his relationship with Elfriedie Riit is genuine after his permanent residency visaContinue Reading
NSW’s workplace health and safety regulator has been referred to the anti-corruption watchdog over “significant flaws” in the procurement of inaccurate monitoring devices meant to detect toxic silica particles which were meant to protect workers using engineered stone. In a scathing report handed down by the NSW auditor-general Margaret CrawfordContinue Reading