New South Wales Police have confirmed the first case of strawberries contaminated with needles bought from a Sydney supermarket. The needles were discovered in three strawberries in a single punnet, which a customer had bought from Coles in Engadine in Sydney’s south. The customer handed the punnet in to Sutherland Area Police Command, where it will undergo forensic testing. Police …

Australian police have charged a man they say was running a multi-million dollar email scam from inside an immigration detention centre in Sydney. The Nigerian man, 43, headed a fraud ring which sent fake messages that claimed to be from trusted companies, according to New South Wales Police. Three other people were charged over the alleged crimes, which included identity …

The five people found dead at a house in Perth’s north-eastern suburbs were twin two-year-old girls, their three-and-a-half-year-old sister, their mother and grandmother, police have revealed. The bodies of the girls and women were discovered at the home in Bedford yesterday after a man, believed to be aged in his 20s, went to a regional WA police station. The man …

Roger Federer has delivered a tennis masterclass to send Nick Kyrgios out of the US Open in New York. The 20-times grand slam champion produced some breathtaking shot-making at times in sweeping past Kyrgios 6-4, 6-1, 7-5 in their much-hyped third-round showdown at Arthur Ashe Stadium. Federer’s emphatic victory set up a last-16 meeting with another Australian, unseeded journeyman John …

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has announced she will strip Katter’s Australian Party of five extra staff positions it was granted last term, after it refused to denounce federal senator Fraser Anning’s contentious maiden speech last month. Senator Anning used his maiden speech in Federal Parliament to call for a complete overhaul of the immigration system, insisting most migrants should be …

The move by two of the big six home lenders, as well as a second-tier outfit, to raise rates was simultaneously expected and unusual. The banks and economic commentators had been warning borrowers for months about rising rates overseas inevitably driving up rates in Australia. Westpac and Suncorp delivered 0.14 and 0.17 percentage point increases respectively within days of each …

Rebels bikie Michael Davey was shot dead in a Sydney driveway two years ago — now two former gangmates, Siar Munshizada and Abuzar Sultani, have been charged with murder. Davey, 30, was shot several times outside a Kingswood home in the early hours of March 30, 2016 and died at the scene. The father-of-one’s demise has been the subject of …

Peter Dutton overruled advice from a senior Australian Border Force (ABF) official when he allowed a French nanny to escape deportation after being lobbied by AFL boss Gillon McLachlan. An email trail leaked by a whistleblower to Labor senator Kimberley Kitching shows Mr Dutton approved the release of 27-year-old Alexandra Deuwel despite being told there was detail “which does not …

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced his new ministry with former defence minister Marise Payne replacing Julie Bishop who announced she would quit as Foreign Affairs Minister. The former deputy Liberal leader said she will stay on as an MP. Mr Morrison’s other challenger for the leadership, Peter Dutton, will keep his job as Home Affairs Minister but it has …

Australia’s Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has announced her resignation from the cabinet. Her move came as new Prime Minister Scott Morrison named his cabinet after winning a bruising leadership contest on Friday. Ms Bishop said she had not yet decided whether to stand at the next general election, due in 2019. She had sought the prime minister’s job after Malcolm …