An Australian woman paralysed after extreme turbulence on an international flight last month found out about the airline’s compensation offer by Facebook, her husband says. The incident happened on Singapore Airlines flight SQ321 from London to Singapore in May that made an emergency landing in Bangkok. The plane was forcedContinue Reading
An emergency “Code Yellow” has been declared in one state’s public hospital system as a new Covid and flu wave smashes health staffing numbers and generates a surge in new patient presentations. South Australia Health chief executive Robyn Lawrence triggered the emergency on Thursday and at a press conference onContinue Reading
Hundreds of people have been charged during a four-day police blitz targeting some of NSW’s alleged most dangerous domestic and family violence offenders. The NSW Police-run Operation Amarok VI drew in officers from every police area command and district in the state during the blitz, which ran from Wednesday toContinue Reading
A legendary Australian rocker has died after a six-year-battle with cancer. Gavin Webb, a founding member of The Masters Apprentices, died aged 77 in the Royal Adelaide Hospital on Tuesday afternoon, the band confirmed. “It is with immense sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved bassist and foundingContinue Reading
A McDonald’s worker in Adelaide knew something was wrong with her health when she began dropping things at work. What she couldn’t have imagined was that her seeming clumsiness was actually a sign of something far worse – brain cancer. But worse than that, it’s taken five years from herContinue Reading
An Italian travel blogger who allegedly caused the death of three members of the same family in a horror triple fatal car crash last year must wait another month before confronting his final charges, with the case pushed back as prosecutors review crucial crash reconstruction reports. Gabriele Cairo, 28, appearedContinue Reading
A young man has died in a horror alleged stabbing attack on Tuesday morning, just weeks after a real estate agent was allegedly stabbed to death in the same city in broad daylight. Emergency services raced to the Henry St address at Paralowie, in Adelaide’s outer north, just before 7amContinue Reading
Emergency services have responded to a serious collision between a car and a bike that shut down an Adelaide intersection. Police have warned drivers to avoid the area, with major traffic diversions in place. SA Police were called to Greenhill Rd and Fullarton Rd in Eastwood, a suburb in inner-southContinue Reading
A man has been hospitalised following a possible shark attack in South Australia on Tuesday afternoon. It has been reported a 64-year-old Elliston man was bitten on his leg by a shark at about 3.15pm, but managed to paddle back into shore at Blackspoint, near Elliston. The man is believedContinue Reading
When Rohan Dennis shared a Christmas wish “from our family to yours”, alongside wife Melissa Hoskins and their two children on December 25 to social media, nobody could have predicted the tragedy that would follow just five days later. Dennis and Ms Hoskins were a golden couple of Australian cycling.Continue Reading