Edited by Nelly T. The Turnbull government has unlocked the earmarked federal funding for Victoria’s East West Link. Part of the $1.5 billion will go to widening the Monash Freeway, which the state government will cooperatively fund the Prime Minister hopes. A list of alternative projects that could be funded with the money allocated for the dumped East West Link ...

Edited by Nelly T. A Newspoll published The Australian on Monday night shows Labor leading the coalition for the first time since Malcolm Turnbull took office. The poll shows Labor ahead by 51 per cent to 49 per cent in two-party preferred terms. The poll, ahead of a possible double-dissolution election on July 2, shows the government’s primary vote down ...

Edited by Nelly T. Australia will soon sell uranium to Ukraine in exchange for power generation.   It was on Wednesday that Foreign Minister Julie Bishop arrived in the United States to take part in the global nuclear security summit, Bishop is also expected to attend a dinner meeting hosted by President Barack Obama at the White House.   At ...

Edited by Nelly T. Marcus Stanford has pleaded guilty to being an accessory to the murder of Leeton schoolteacher Stephanie Scott, 26. Her burnt body was found 70 kilometres away from Leeton in the Cocoparra National Park in April last year. Stanford is the twin brother of Vincent Stanford, a 25-year-old cleaner at Leeton High School, who was arrested four ...

Edited by Nelly Tawil Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has confirmed he is working to rectify Tony Abbott’s grievous hospital funding cuts. Although he wouldn’t confirm any dollar figure, reports imply it’ll cost $5 billion. Mr. Turnbull is expected to meet state premiers and territory chief ministers in Canberra later this week to give a proposal to maintain activity-based funding and ...

Edited by Nelly Tawil NSW Liberals have been denied access to over $4 million by authorities pending proof that the hundreds of thousands in donations received before the 2011 election were legal. The donation supplied by the controversial Free Enterprise Foundation was the reason for its rise to power.   A total of $4.3 million of state election and annual ...

Edited by Nelly Tawil (AME Media) Malcolm Turnbull, while continuously fighting the label of being a idle prime minister has confirmed that there will be “important changes to tax,” in an interview with ABC Tuesday morning. Doubtful that changes to GST and negative gearing were an option, ABC pressed Mr. Turnbull for more details on whether there was anything left to introduce to ...

Peter Williams, the father of the man responsible for shooting another at a business in Sydney’s south-west , has been released on bail after he was charged with discharging a firearm. Mr Williams, 52, was arrested at the sign-making business, after son Wayne Williams, 33, shot three brothers – one fatally – over what is believed to have been an ...

Thousands of people — costumed and glittered — are lining the streets of Sydney tonight for the 38th annual Mardi Gras parade. more than 12,000 people are marching down Oxford and Flinders Street with 175 floats including Muslims Against Homophobia, the People’s Republic of Mardi Gras and the NRL.Both Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten are in ...

The Antarctic ship the Aurora Australis is expected to sail P&O operations manager Shaun Deshommes commended the crew “for their efforts and professionalism which they have demonstrated through this situation”. The task now is to check the hull which was damaged when the ship broke its harbour mooring and was stranded on rocks near Mawson Station. Mr Deshommes said underwater ...