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8m agoThu 21 Aug 2025 at 10:01pm National CCTV trial in childcare centres expected as ministers meet A national trial of CCTV cameras in hundreds of childcare centres is expected…
A Ukrainian man suspected of coordinating the attacks on the Nord Stream pipelines has been arrested by Italian police. Seen by both Russia and the West as an act of…
Russia has launched one of its biggest aerial attacks of the year on Ukraine, firing 574 drones and 40 ballistic and cruise missiles overnight, the Ukrainian Air Force said. The…
Welcome back to your weekly federal politics update, where Courtney Gould gets you up to speed on the happenings from Parliament House. For a week sold as being about consultation…
Brazil’s federal police said that messages found on the telephone of embattled former President Jair Bolsonaro show that at one point he wanted to flee to Argentina and request political…
A low-pressure system trough is expected to deepen today, bringing the possibility of high rainfall and thunderstorms in south-east Queensland. Forecasters said the Gold Coast, Brisbane, Sunshine Coast and Darling…
In a reminder of how broken housing affordability and access is, new analysis highlights a major mismatch between the size of Australian homes and the number of people living in…
Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz has approved the military’s plan to conquer Gaza City and authorised the call-up of around 60,000 reservists, his ministry has confirmed. When contacted by AFP,…
A patient who waited nearly a year for complex elective surgery, only to have it cancelled the day before it was scheduled, says the ordeal has put her under significant…
Former Liberal MP Daryl Maguire has been handed a 10-month jail sentence for giving misleading evidence to the NSW corruption watchdog. Maguire was a witness at the Independent Commission Against…