Federal Attorney-General Christian Porter has demanded an investigation after fresh sexual harassment allegations were made against former High Court judge Dyson Heydon. The Sydney Morning Herald yesterday reported claims Mr Heydon inappropriately touched a colleague when he was the royal commissioner investigating trade unions. The newspaper did not name the woman but said she worked at the commission as an administrative …

The last time I wrote about Qantas for The New Daily was back in August 2014, when everyone was calling for embattled CEO Alan Joyce to be sacked six tumultuous years after he was announced as the successor to Geoff Dixon in 2008. Another six years later and Joyce is still ruthlessly running Qantas. However, he now has so much respect from shareholders and directors alike, …

The driver who ploughed his car into a crowded hijab shop in Western Sydney lied about his medical history to obtain a licence, a court has heard. Sabry Moustafa Nassar, 51, was denied bail for a third time when he appeared in prison greens on screen today at the NSW Supreme Court from a cell at Silverwater jail. The painter …

The Arbery case triggered a national outcry after mobile phone video of the shooting was leaked on social media early in May. Thursday’s hearing followed more than a week of protests across the US over the May 25 death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd, also a black American. Four officers have been charged in that case. Mr Dial …

NSW Police are treating the deaths of two 22-year-olds at a Western Sydney home on Saturday afternoon as a murder-suicide. Just before 12:45pm, emergency services were called to a home in Tongariro Terrace in Bidwill after reports of a stabbing. NSW Police found the woman outside the house with stab wounds from a knife to her chest, sides and back. …

Protesters have marched, stopped traffic and in some cases lashed out violently at law enforcement, while Louisville police have apologised for firing pepper bullets at a news crew as protests erupted in dozens of US cities following the death of unarmed African-American man George Floyd in Minnesota. Footage of Mr Floyd’s death on Monday (local time) went viral. It showed …

Four police officers have been tragically killed after a horror crash sparked chaos and blocked all lanes of a busy Melbourne freeway on Wednesday night. Dozens of emergency crews remain at the scene of the collision on the Eastern Freeway near Burke Road in the inner-city suburb of Kew. Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton confirmed a female senior constable and three male …

Cardinal George Pell will be released from prison after the country’s highest court quashed his child sexual abuse convictions. The decision has been handed down less than a month after the High Court of Australia heard two days of intense legal arguments from the Cardinal’s lawyers and Victorian prosecutors. The full bench’s ruling was handed down by Chief Justice Susan Kiefel …

A 21-year-old has been charged after an alleged COVID-19 ‘prank’ on a police officer on the NSW mid-north coast. Police allege a man entered Coffs Harbour Police Station and approached a 71-year-old female general station officer about 2.30pm on Tuesday. The man is accused of deliberately coughing on the woman while pretending to be infected with COVID-19. Police allege his friend …

The global outbreak alert for coronavirus has been raised to its highest level amid increasing fears of a pandemic and new cases confirmed in six countries. Mexico announced its first two cases of the deadly respiratory illness as coronavirus took hold in the highly populated Latin American region and officials confirmed a growing number of discharged patients testing positive again …