Pauline Hanson has said that, in the wake of the murders of Hannah Clarke and her three children, all men should not be demonised “because these things happen”. Hannah and her children Laianah, six, Aaliyah, four, and Trey, three, were killed by Rowan Baxter, their father and her estranged husband, in a horrific car fire. The One Nation leader made …

Motorists in NSW could face hefty fines if they’re caught by hidden cameras using mobile phones when driving from Sunday. A three-month grace period for mobile phone detection cameras was slated to end this weekend – with drivers set to lose five demerit points and a $344 fine, or a $457 fine if caught in a school zone. However, Transport for New …

A 39-year-old woman has died after an elderly driver crashed over a wall and into a table at a Sydney café. Liz Albornoz was with a group of other mums who had dropped their children at North Epping Public School before heading to the Sizac Cafe at North Epping Shopping Village on Malton Road. About 10am, a Holden Commodore careered …

If you were to come up with the concept now, the idea of two people standing toe-to-toe and belting each other in the head until both were senseless and one was flat on the floor would only ever be a metaphor for modern political debate. Yet in a world where we are so determined to eradicate brain trauma that young …

Sometimes, things just keep coming back to haunt you. That’s particularly the case in politics when even the most innocent remark continues to be thrown back in a pollie’s face. As brutally honest as it was, former prime minister Paul Keating’s quip “the recession Australia had to have” is still bandied about almost three decades down the track. Then there …

The world has been given an insight into the cruel reality of a young Indigenous boy with a disability, but Quaden Bayles is not alone in his struggle. A video of the nine-year-old crying after being bullied at school has struck a nerve with the millions who have watched it, and generated an overwhelmingly generous response, with almost $700,000 being donated to …

Neo-Nazis are emerging as one of Australia’s most challenging security threats, according to the country’s top intelligence chief. ASIO director general Mike Burgess says “small cells” of right-wing extremists are regularly gathering to salute Nazi flags, inspect weapons and to disperse their “hateful ideology”. In a rare public address from inside ASIO’s heavily fortified Canberra headquarters, Mr Burgess said foreign …

How on Earth did an abhorrent crime like domestic violence become entangled in Australian cultural wars? It’s hard to pinpoint the exact moment commentators began to talk about the domestic violence “industry” comprised of “feminazis” who complain too much about men, and to imply, without evidence, that hordes of women like to fabricate stories of abuse. But every time we …

A father who murdered his estranged wife and three young children breached a domestic violence order weeks before he committed quadruple murder-suicide. Rowan Baxter was due to face court again on April 8 after a magistrate ruled he was free to walk free in the community during his initial hearing for breaching the order on January 29. On Wednesday morning, Baxter …

The deaths of a Brisbane mother and her three children have prompted an outpouring of anger, sadness and disbelief among family members, politicians, domestic violence advocates and the Australian community. Hannah Clarke, 31, also known as Hannah Baxter, and her children Aaliyah, 6, Laianah, 4, and Trey, 3, died after the family car was set alight on a street in …