Police are trolling though more than 52,000 photos and 7,500 videos stored on the phone of a teen accused of carrying out a terrorist attack at a Sydney church, a court has heard. The 16-year-old boy appeared before Parramatta Childrens Court on Friday charged with committing a terrorist act followingContinue Reading
A cross-dressing drug dealer who supplied “extremely vulnerable” teenage girls with meth, then raped them at his home, has been sentenced to 13 years in prison. Jason Andrew Green faced a lengthy trial in the West Australian District Court after he pleaded not guilty to charges of aggravated sexual penetrationContinue Reading
A judge has expressed shock after lawyers acting for a man who stole $6m from a cryptocurrency platform flagged a fresh twist. Jatinder Singh, 38, was due to face a pre-sentence hearing in the Victorian County Court on Friday for sentencing submissions. But his barrister Martin Kozlowski instead said theContinue Reading
The country’s disability ministers will not provide their response to the landmark royal commission report until at least next month – seven months after the commissioners handed down their findings. The shocking report, published last September, was the culmination of 4.5 years of investigation and nearly 10,000 testimonies and exposedContinue Reading
A disability care provider has been taken to court by the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission after a Queensland man was killed by a car while in its care. The NDIS Commission commenced civil penalty proceedings in the Federal Court on Friday against Aurora Community Care Pty Ltd after theContinue Reading
Trigger warning: Contains themes of suicide I was in primary school when I told my mother for the first time that I wanted to die. At age 12, tortured by tiny noises in my head, I had my first nervous breakdown. At 16, when my father died from a long,Continue Reading
Australian companies at the forefront of driving the nation’s progress have been recognised in Telstra’s annual Best of Business Awards. Selected from more than 22,000 nominations of small businesses nationwide, state winners have been lauded for their significant contributions to the Australian economy and society. SCROLL DOWN TO FIND OUTContinue Reading
A child has been killed in a horror accident at a Sydney school for children with disabilities. Emergency services were called to St Lucy’s School on Cleveland Street in Wahroonga at 2pm following reports a child was trapped. “Officers attached to Kuring-Gai Police Area Command arrived to find a 10-year-oldContinue Reading
A shocking report has detailed widespread rates of abuse and neglect facing millions of Australians living with disability and made a bombshell call to phase out special schools and group homes nationwide. On Friday, findings from a four-and-a-half-year-long investigation into Australia’s disability care sector was released to the public. TheContinue Reading
A long-awaited report on the disability royal commission will contain “disturbing” findings. The government is set to hand down findings from a four-and-a-half year-long investigation into violence and abuse against people with disabilities in Australia on Friday. Since it began in 2019, the $599m inquiry has heard harrowing accounts ofContinue Reading