Melbourne is the only Australian city where property prices have fallen over the past month, new figures show. Australia clocked its fifteenth month in a row of house price growth, with prices gaining a further 0.6 per cent in April, according to Corelogic’s home value index. While each capital city saw an increase in property … Read more
Iconic Brisbane live music venue The Zoo will close after 32 years, citing “cost of living stress for our patrons” amid a myriad of reasons. Having hosted acts including The Pixies, Silverchair, Powderfinger, Lorde, The Black Keys and Nick Cave, the Fortitude Valley venue has also been a place for thousands of emerging local and … Read more
More young people are set to be locked up in Queensland after Premier Steven Miles vowed to remove the detention as a last resort principle from youth sentencing. Hurtling towards defeat at the October state election, Miles told caucus on Tuesday night he would adopt the same changes to the Youth Justice Act the LNP … Read more
The family of a Queensland police officer killed in an alleged hit-and-run fears they “may come into contact” with a woman charged over the incident after she was released on bail. Senior Constable David Masters died after being struck by a suspected stolen car on the Bruce Highway at Burpengary, north of Brisbane, about 3am … Read more
Australians have taken to the streets to demand an end to gendered violence which advocates warn has reached crisis levels. Thousands of attendees at protests in Sydney, Adelaide and Hobart on Saturday demanded concrete action to break the cycle of violence which has claimed the lives of at least 26 women so far in 2024, … Read more
Australia’s national firearms register is set to be up and running in 2028, allowing law enforcement to access information about guns owned in all states and territories. Some $160 million in funding, announced ahead of the May federal budget, will be spread across four years. The money will be used to establish the register as … Read more
Australians will take to the nation’s streets in their thousands to demand an end to gendered violence which advocates warn has reached crisis levels. About 15 rallies will be held across the nation over the weekend amid calls for concrete action to break the cycle of violence which has claimed the lives of at least … Read more
A 14-year-old boy is accused of stabbing a man while breaking into a unit on the Cairns waterfront. The boy allegedly broke into the Esplanade unit about 5am on Saturday, waking up the 29-year-old man and sparking a “short altercation”, police said. The boy allegedly stabbed the man in the chest before running from the … Read more
A boy wanted over the assault of an elderly man has been caught trying to break into a Queensland police station. The 16-year-old Cairns boy had evaded arrest since the March 18 incident, when he allegedly assaulted the elderly man in Manunda. On Monday, he allegedly jumped the fence of a compound at the Smithfield … Read more
An Australian music festival has been hit by a major data breach, in what is a second blow to the festival after several headline acts pulled out of the lineup, prompting refund demands. The Pandemonium Rocks music festival, which included acts such as Blondie, Alice Cooper and Wolfmother, was made aware of the data breach … Read more
