Footage of a freak motorbike crash that left an unlicensed rider with 14 broken bones and a punctured lung has been released two years after the incident. The rider’s motorbike collided with a car on Torrens Road in the Adelaide suburb of Woodville North in 2021. Dashcam and CCTV footage was only released today by a South Australian court as ...
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Two charged on the Gold Coast in alleged $12 million drug bust
Two people have been charged on the Gold Coast following a mammoth 18-month-long drug importation investigation. Detectives began investigating in September 2021, looking into the alleged supply and importation of meth and cocaine into NSW. It was sparked by the discovery of two separate batches that were intercepted in the USA by the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and US ...
Read More »Nearly half of workers in one industry are being paid less than minimum wage
Almost half of Australia’s gig economy workers earn less than minimum wage, with the majority of workers using more than one delivery app to make enough money to live. A landmark report into the gig economy by the McKell Institute – which captured the opinions of more than 1000 rideshare drivers, parcel deliverers and food delivery workers – found more ...
Read More »Inflation rose 6.8 per cent in year to February, well below high rate in previous months
Inflation rose 6.8 per cent in the 12 months to February, suggesting Australia’s economy is on the track to normalisation. It’s the second consecutive month of lower annual inflation after the 8.4 per cent peak in December and the 7.4 per cent rise in the 12 months to January – but the figure is still well above the Reserve Bank’s ...
Read More »teams Round 5: SuperCoach analysis, word of warning on Nicho Hynes
There are two types of SuperCoaches right now. Those who don’t own Hynes and those tortuously annoying people who own him and bring it up at every opportunity. Hynes produced one of the all-time great SuperCoach scores in notching 180 against the Dragons. Perhaps the most stunning part was he did it without a try, instead relying on four try ...
Read More »NRL Transfer News 2023: Dolphins, Tigers, Eels eye Jack Wighton after transfer bombshell
The Dolphins, Wests Tigers and Parramatta have emerged as the most potent threat to Canberra’s hopes of keeping Jack Wighton. The former Dally M winner has dropped a bombshell on the Raiders by informing the club he is placing himself on the open market for the first time in 14 years. Fox Sports’ James Hooper revealed Wighton has already spoken ...
Read More »Liberals talk a ‘big game’ but they ‘never, ever deliver’: Albanese
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says the Liberal Party “talk a big game, but they never, ever deliver” after claiming inflation was at its highest when they were in power. “The peak of inflation in terms of the largest ever jump in any quarter this century, was in March 2022 and the jump was 2.1 per cent,” he said. “The Abbott, ...
Read More »Hanson: it’s time for net-zero immigration: Australia is full – and so are our hospitals and schools
One Nation founder Pauline Hanson says ‘Australia is bursting at the seams’ as she slammed the Albanese government over Australia’s soaring immigration intake. In a scathing takedown posted on Twitter, Senator Hanson claimed that ‘Labor’s record high immigration is literally forcing Australian families to live on the streets – and winter is coming.’ Senator Hanson referred to an article in ...
Read More »Morrison pipes up during question time to hit back at Albanese
Courtney Gould A wisecrack over Scott Morrison’s secret ministries saga had the former prime minister duking it out with Anthony Albanese on the floor of the house. Mr Morrison took a place on the opposition backbenches next to his right hand man Alex Hawke, following his bruising election defeat last May. The back-and-forth between the former sparring partners began when ...
Read More »NRL grand final battle: Queensland ready to launch fresh bid to win showpiecae
The Queensland government is ready to launch a fresh bid for the NRL grand final as doubt surrounds its future in Sydney heading into next week’s NSW state election. The Courier-Mail can reveal Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk’s government is open to bringing a second NRL grand final to Suncorp Stadium on the back of the 2021 showpiece’s success. Queensland saved the ...
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