By: Kevin Nguyen and Jonathan Hair Devastated business owners in Sydney’s CBD say they were blindsided by a NSW government announcement that their buildings would be forcibly acquired to make way for two train stations. The decision to build stations for the Sydney Metro West line in Pyrmont and Hunter Street was announced at 8:00am yesterday. But the ABC filmed Sydney Metro representatives going ...

  By: James Glenday NSW Liberal senator Jim Molan has announced he is going on sick leave leave after being diagnosed with “an aggressive form of cancer”. Over the next week, the 70-year-old will undergo a series of medical tests to confirm his prognosis and begin treatment. In a message to colleagues, Senator Molan said the diagnosis last week had come as ...

Daniel Andrews says he’s making steady progress in his recovery from a serious back injury and is now walking about 18 minutes a day. Victoria’s premier suffered broken ribs and a fractured T7 vertebra after slipping on wet stairs at a holiday home on the Mornington Peninsula on 9 March. The 48-year-old, who is recovering at home, said the past few weeks ...

By: Mostafa Rachwani Australians are being urged to secure their social media accounts after the details of more than 500 million global Facebook users were found online in a massive data breach. The details published freely online included names, phone numbers, email addresses, account IDs and bios. In a statement, Facebook said the leaked information was old, and came from a ...

By: Olivana Lathouris Prime Minister Scott Morrison has denied criticising the European Union over Australia’s shortfall of COVID-19 vaccines but maintained the government was expecting an extra 3.1 million doses it never received. “Any suggestion that I, in any way, made any criticism of the European Union yesterday would be completely incorrect,” Mr Morrison told reporters this morning. “I simply stated a fact – that 3.1 million ...

By: Jade Macmillan and Nour Haydar The head of the Prime Minister’s department has paused his investigation into who within Scott Morrison’s office knew about a rape allegation at Parliament House, and when. Former Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins alleges she was raped by a male colleague inside a ministerial office in 2019. Mr Morrison asked the secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, ...

Australians will have to wait until next month to find out when they can fly to New Zealand again without quarantining, after Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said more time was needed to set up a new trans-Tasman travel bubble. Ms Ardern told a press conference in New Zealand today that she would reveal a date for the start of quarantine-free ...

By: Jamie McKinnel Former NRL player Jarryd Hayne has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a woman on the night of the 2018 NRL grand final. A retrial in the NSW District Court heard he met the then-26-year-old at her house on the way back to Sydney from a buck’s weekend in Newcastle. The Crown alleged Hayne sexually assaulted the woman in ...

By: Tiffanie Turnbull The NSW Upper House has again voted to refer premier Gladys Berejiklian to the state’s corruption watchdog over her former partner’s dealings. A motion moved by Labor and supported by the crossbench claimed the premier failed to declared a conflict of interest when dealing with road upgrades affecting former Wagga Wagga MP Daryl Maguire. Ms Berejiklian revealed ...

By: Rachel Clun Australia is working to give one million doses of the internationally-produced AstraZeneca vaccines originally destined for Australia to Papua New Guinea, as the country battles a widespread outbreak of COVID-19. Prime Minister Scott Morrison also announced Australia will send 8000 locally-produced AstraZeneca vaccines to PNG to help immunise health workers, as the local health system struggles to contain the ...