Victorians have until midnight August 31 to apply for the current $250 Power Saving Bonus payment from the state government. The new round of the payment was an election promise and was confirmed after the Andrews government’s success at the November 2022 state election. The $250 payment has been available to any household that compares … Read more
A projectile has been shot through a window of an aged care home in Sydney’s south, sparking a police appeal for information. About 11.20pm on Tuesday, police were called Estia Health Bexley on Eddystone Rd after staff found a hole in the window of the first-floor meal room. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Shot fired into … Read more
Motorists on their way to a dress up party this weekend may need to plan for a carpark costume change upon arrival because driving in some outfits is technically an offence. Oversized clown shoes or sky-high Barbie stilettos, a Scream mask or some zombie eye contacts, anything that restricts a motorist’s movement or vision can … Read more
Students have again heeded the call of their peers to skip school as they turned out to block streets in Australian cities in support of Palestine. Hundreds of students showed up outside Melbourne’s Flinders Street Station on Thursday to demand Israel end the siege in Gaza, release all Palestinian political prisoners and end its occupation … Read more
Down and out from a decade in Australian immigration detention, Khaled El Ali’s heart sank even further when he learned his first cousin and his young family had been killed in Gaza. Mr El Ali, 37, is a stateless Palestinian man born in Lebanon to Palestinian refugees who were never granted Lebanese citizenship and only … Read more
Australian health insurance company HCF has announced it is giving back an additional $40 million in health insurance claims savings to its members. Private health insurer HCF has already given back a total of $536 million since the start of the pandemic to its 1.8 million Australian customers as part of their pandemic-related savings support … Read more
Two men have escaped from a north Queensland correctional facility. Vaughn Michael James Hunter and Fabien Brian Galigan fled the Townsville Correctional Centre on Sunday. Hunter is serving 10 months for serious assault and Galigan two years and six months for wounding. Watch the latest news and stream for free on 7plus >> “If you … Read more
A Labor MP has apologised for labelling attendees at a Queensland victims of crime rally a “rent-a-crowd”. The comment was made when government backbencher Aaron Harper accused local Liberal National Party members of hijacking the Townsville protest on Sunday after losing his cool. Harper was heckled when he was the only Labor MP to front … Read more
Trainee police officers will be paid to study as part of a push to fix chronic shortages of recruits in NSW. Student police officers will be paid while completing a 16-week course at the Goulburn Police Academy from March. They will receive a total salary of about $30,984, which is about $1360 per week plus … Read more
Australians are being warned to prepare for a heatwave that is expected to grip many parts of the country for days. Much of NSW and parts of Queensland, South Australia, West Australia, the Northern Territory and ACT are predicted to cop soaring temperatures until Friday. NSW residents are in for a sweltering period with a … Read more
