By: Paul Karp A former boyfriend of the woman who alleged she was raped by Christian Porter told New South Wales police that Porter had boasted to him in the early 1990s that he had had sex with her, Guardian Australia can reveal. It is understood that the Macquarie Bank managing director, James Hooke, a friend of both Porter and his ...

By: Vanessa Brown NSW residents will have an extra month to use their Dine and Discover vouchers, the State Government has announced. Speaking to media on Tuesday, NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and state Treasurer Dominic Perrottet said that residents will have until the end of August to use the vouchers – and will also have the ability to use the ...

By: Jack Derwin As lockdowns sweep four of Australia’s capital cities, government support is leaving some of Australia’s smallest and most vulnerable sole traders out in the cold. This week, the New South Wales government announced grants of $5,000 and $10,000 for small businesses and sole traders hurt by two week of stay-at-home orders in Sydney and wider restrictions applied more broadly ...

  By: Christoper Knaus A 21-year-old producer for YouTube comedian Friendlyjordies has been charged with allegedly stalking and intimidating the New South Wales deputy premier, John Barilaro. Acting on a complaint from Barilaro, detectives from NSW police’s fixated persons unit arrested Kristo Langker at his family home in Dulwich Hill on 4 June and charged him with two offences of “stalk or ...

Australia’s minimum wage will go up by almost $20 a week after the independent umpire decided that the economy had improved dramatically. About 2.5 million workers will get a raise because of the decision, which treads a middle line between the divergent requests of unions that had wanted a bigger rise and business groups that had demanded less. Iain Ross, ...

  By: Katina Curtis The Tamil asylum seeker family from Biloela that has been on Christmas Island for two years has now reunited in Perth, where they will live in the community while the youngest daughter is being treated in hospital and their legal appeals play out. Immigration Minister Alex Hawke made the decision on compassionate grounds to allow the ...

A woman who travelled from Melbourne to the Sunshine Coast while the Victorian capital was in lockdown has tested positive for COVID-19, Queensland’s Health Minister Yvette D’Ath has confirmed. Ms D’Ath said a 44-year-old woman left Victoria on June 1, travelled through New South Wales and crossed the Queensland border on June 5. Victoria’s lockdown had already started by the time the woman ...

Melbourne will take its first small steps out of lockdown on Friday, as the Victorian government resists calls from business for a “snapback” to an open economy sooner. The city’s lockdown will end at 11:59pm on Thursday and Melburnians will be able to leave their house more freely, but must remain within a 25-kilometre radius of their home. Outdoor gatherings ...

By: Sophie Scott, Mary Lloyd and Leonie Thorne One of the biggest overhauls of the Medicare rebate system in decades is set to kick in next month, but doctors say more time is needed to figure out whether some patients will have to pay out-of-pocket costs. More than 900 items on the Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) will be amended, with changes applying to ...

By: Calla Wahlquist and AAP If any resettlement was offered for the Tamil family from Biloela in either the United States or New Zealand it could take up to two years to resolve, during which time they could remain held in detention on Christmas Island, according to the family’s lawyer. While government ministers have canvassed both these options publicly, the Murugappan ...