A man has died and a woman has been injured after being washed off the rocks by powerful waves at Bondi Beach. Emergency services were called to Mermaid Rocks after reports of two people in distress in the water around 5:30pm. The man, aged in his 40s, was pulled to shore with the help of bystanders but couldn’t be revived …

Back in October, the nation’s often-warring media companies joined forces in a rare display of unity. As part of the “Right to Know” campaign, newspaper front pages were blacked out and TV ads ran across the networks. It was an attempt to harness “people power” behind the cause of press freedom. The rival bosses of News Corp, the ABC and …

A massive bushfire on the NSW South Coast that destroyed homes and claimed the lives of several people has been declared extinguished after this weekend’s heavy rain. The NSW Rural Fire Service last night said the Currowan Fire in the Shoalhaven had been officially set to ‘out’. For 74 days the fire burnt out 499,621 hectares, destroying 312 homes in …

A man has been arrested after driving erratically with multiple roads in Melbourne’s CBD put into lockdown but police say the incident wasn’t terror-related. A man arrested after driving erratically down Melbourne’s busy Flinders Street caused a lockdown and revived horrific memories for the city. The 26-year-old was arrested without incident and no one was hurt, in stark contrast to …

The mother of the three Abdallah children says she has forgiven the alleged drunk driver who killed her three children in Sydney’s north-west. Just before 8pm on Saturday, Anthony, Angelina and Sienna Abdallah were walking with four other children along a footpath on Bettington Road, Oatlands, when police allege Samuel Davidson’s Mitsubishi Triton mounted the kerb and hit the group. The three …

The father of three children killed by an alleged drink-driver last night has bravely spoken of his loss. Seven children were struck by the 4WD on Bettington Road in Oatlands, in Sydney’s north-west, just before 8pm yesterday. The group were riding their bikes to get ice cream when they were hit. Three of Danny Abdallah’s six children were killed: Anthony, …

Four children have been killed and three others have been hospitalised following a pedestrian crash in Sydney’s north-west. Just before 8:00pm, emergency services were called to Bettington Road, Oatlands, near Parramatta, where police believe the children had been hit by a 4WD while riding their bikes. Acting superintendent for Police NSW Danielle Emerton said the families of the children were …

Australia has upgraded its travel advice in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak to include all of mainland China to level four, “do not travel”, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has advised Australians not to travel to China due to the “escalating threat” of the virus, while asking those who have …

Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has accused a “toxic, climate-denying alliance of right-wing politics”, the Murdoch media and the coal industry of hijacking Australia’s climate debate. In a damning essay written for US publication Time magazine, Mr Turnbull said that while climate change was a simple matter of physics, Australian politics had made it a matter of ideology. “In Australia, as in the US, this …

The man responsible for the nation’s borders has defended a plan to quarantine Australians evacuated from China on Christmas Island. Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton was grilled on Thursday about the plan to fly up to 600 Australians from China’s coronavirus-plagued Hubei province to Christmas Island. They will remain on the isolated Australian island for up to 14 days. Mr Dutton said …