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Queensland News
- Bureau declares El Niño alert, signalling higher chance of warm, dry weather
The odds of a warm, dry winter and spring have shortened after the Bureau of Meteorology took its El Niño warning to a new level. - Tue, 06 Jun 2023 15:04:00 +1000 - Rates rise smashes business owner already working two jobs
Mia De Rauch says she has "no more time to give" as she runs a video production business and works hospitality shifts to keep up with increasing mortgage repayments and bills. - Tue, 06 Jun 2023 14:56:51 +1000 - All eyes turn to sheep as facial recognition trial arrives in Australia
An artificial intelligence tool is being launched to help Australian sheep farmers identify the best breeders in their flocks. - Tue, 06 Jun 2023 13:12:59 +1000 - Wild dolphin feeding programs can be pretty divisive. These are the arguments for and against them
The handfeeding of wild dolphins is a lucrative ecotourism industry in parts of Australia, but the impact of the practice has researchers divided. So, why are experts split on the issue, and what does the science say? - Tue, 06 Jun 2023 12:17:29 +1000 - New owners of former Longreach Pastoral College land have been big plans
Tourism, the re-creation of historical Chinese gardens on the Thomson River, and the expansion of sheep, cattle and goat production will be among the uses by the new owners. - Tue, 06 Jun 2023 11:59:59 +1000
New South Wales News
- Witness claims Chris Dawson warned him to 'stay away' from 16-year-old student
The former teacher has pleaded not guilty to one count of carnal knowledge of a girl aged over 10 and under 17. - Tue, 06 Jun 2023 19:27:12 +1000 - Investigation into NSW Mid North Coast train derailment finds flood risks not properly identified
The Australian Transport and Safety Bureau has delivered its findings into a major derailment at Nana Glen in 2021. - Tue, 06 Jun 2023 19:04:09 +1000 - Risk of recession 'very high' following RBA's decision
AMP's Deputy Chief Economist Diana Mousina has warned the risk of recession is very high in Australia following RBA's decision to lift cash rates. - Tue, 06 Jun 2023 18:07:29 +1000 - Whitehaven pushes for nine-year extension to coal mine David Pocock protested
The mine where former Wallaby David Pocock chained himself to plant equipment when construction started nearly a decade ago wants to extend its operations. - Tue, 06 Jun 2023 18:05:33 +1000 - 'Should never have happened': Controversial merger of NSW high schools to be undone, minister confirms
The Griffith and Wade High Schools will be re-established after they were merged in 2019, as parents label the lack of consultation around the decision to demerge as "disappointing". - Tue, 06 Jun 2023 16:44:43 +1000
Victoria News
- Bureau declares El Niño alert, signalling higher chance of warm, dry weather
The odds of a warm, dry winter and spring have shortened after the Bureau of Meteorology took its El Niño warning to a new level. - Tue, 06 Jun 2023 15:04:00 +1000 - Rates rise smashes business owner already working two jobs
Mia De Rauch says she has "no more time to give" as she runs a video production business and works hospitality shifts to keep up with increasing mortgage repayments and bills. - Tue, 06 Jun 2023 14:56:51 +1000 - Serial rapist sentenced for 'horrendous' Melbourne attack
Joel Russo, who was only months out of prison when he repeatedly raped a female jogger on the banks of Melbourne's Merri Creek in 2019, has been jailed for more than 20 years. - Tue, 06 Jun 2023 14:28:26 +1000 - All eyes turn to sheep as facial recognition trial arrives in Australia
An artificial intelligence tool is being launched to help Australian sheep farmers identify the best breeders in their flocks. - Tue, 06 Jun 2023 13:12:59 +1000 - Serial rapist jailed for 'horrendous' attack on female jogger along Melbourne creek
Joel Russo, who was only months out of prison when he repeatedly raped a female jogger on the banks of Melbourne's Merri Creek is jailed for more than 20 years. - Tue, 06 Jun 2023 12:05:11 +1000
Western Australia News
- 'This was all about him': WA's newest MP fined for family violence restraining order breaches
Western Australia's newest MP is fined and avoids jail over emails he sent to a protected person, but he says his only mistake was pleading guilty. - Tue, 06 Jun 2023 17:08:25 +0800 - Bureau declares El Niño alert, signalling higher chance of warm, dry weather
The odds of a warm, dry winter and spring have shortened after the Bureau of Meteorology took its El Niño warning to a new level. - Tue, 06 Jun 2023 13:04:00 +0800 - Rates rise smashes business owner already working two jobs
Mia De Rauch says she has "no more time to give" as she runs a video production business and works hospitality shifts to keep up with increasing mortgage repayments and bills. - Tue, 06 Jun 2023 12:56:51 +0800 - Senior Aboriginal Legal Service lawyer acquitted of perverting course of justice
Paul Xavier Tobin was accused of pressuring the victim of a domestic violence case in 2019. - Tue, 06 Jun 2023 12:22:06 +0800 - Police warn of travelling thieves after high-end resort burglary
Tourists heading to WA's South West are reminded not to relax too much during their long weekend getaways after thieves break into a luxury hotel room. - Tue, 06 Jun 2023 11:24:25 +0800
South Australia News
- Inquest told 'death by misadventure' should be considered in police shooting of man
The counsel assisting an inquest into the death of 20-year-old Adelaide man Kobee Huddy, has asked the state's deputy coroner to not consider his death as a "suicide by cop" but a "death by misadventure". - Tue, 06 Jun 2023 16:35:58 +0930 - Rates rise smashes business owner already working two jobs
Mia De Rauch says she has "no more time to give" as she runs a video production business and works hospitality shifts to keep up with increasing mortgage repayments and bills. - Tue, 06 Jun 2023 14:26:51 +0930 - All eyes turn to sheep as facial recognition trial arrives in Australia
An artificial intelligence tool is being launched to help Australian sheep farmers identify the best breeders in their flocks. - Tue, 06 Jun 2023 12:42:59 +0930 - Unreliable access taxis 'compromise safety' of people with disabilities, advocate says
A disability advocate's call for all Adelaide taxis to be made fully accessible is being considered by the SA government — but it says a solution will not be in next week's state budget. - Tue, 06 Jun 2023 11:56:16 +0930 - Regenerative patch burns in grassy woodland areas prove a blooming success
Authorities are thinking of expanding a program involving burning for grass seedling regeneration after encouraging results at South Australian reserves using techniques that have been used for thousands of years by traditional owners. - Tue, 06 Jun 2023 11:41:10 +0930
Tasmania News
- Convicted paedophile tells bankruptcy hearing cancer diagnosis prompted asset shed
A court hears paedophile John Wayne Millwood transferred more than $800,000 to his former partner and daughter the same day he was sentenced for sexually abusing a person who is now in a legal fight to claim a $6 million compensation payout. - Tue, 06 Jun 2023 15:24:09 +1000 - Bureau declares El Niño alert, signalling higher chance of warm, dry weather
The odds of a warm, dry winter and spring have shortened after the Bureau of Meteorology took its El Niño warning to a new level. - Tue, 06 Jun 2023 15:04:00 +1000 - Rates rise smashes business owner already working two jobs
Mia De Rauch says she has "no more time to give" as she runs a video production business and works hospitality shifts to keep up with increasing mortgage repayments and bills. - Tue, 06 Jun 2023 14:56:51 +1000 - All eyes turn to sheep as facial recognition trial arrives in Australia
An artificial intelligence tool is being launched to help Australian sheep farmers identify the best breeders in their flocks. - Tue, 06 Jun 2023 13:12:59 +1000 - Man uses employer's fuel card to unlawfully buy more than $20k of petrol
A Tasmanian man who used a company fuel card to buy more than $24,000 worth of fuel, some of which he onsold to friends, avoids prison — the court acknowledging his marriage breakdown caused "great upheaval" for him before the offending started. - Tue, 06 Jun 2023 11:51:42 +1000
Australian Capital Territory News
- 'Veteran of brothels' who raped and choked Canberra sex worker walks free
A "veteran of brothels" convicted of raping, choking and spitting in the mouth of a sex worker at a Canberra brothel, has walked free from court after being sentenced in the ACT Supreme Court today. - Tue, 06 Jun 2023 17:11:41 +1000 - 'Rate rise not because of the budget': Jim Chalmers
Treasurer Jim Chalmers responds after the Reserve Bank lifted its official interest rate to 4.1 per cent, a level not seen since early 2012. - Tue, 06 Jun 2023 15:19:16 +1000 - Bureau declares El Niño alert, signalling higher chance of warm, dry weather
The odds of a warm, dry winter and spring have shortened after the Bureau of Meteorology took its El Niño warning to a new level. - Tue, 06 Jun 2023 15:04:00 +1000 - Rates rise smashes business owner already working two jobs
Mia De Rauch says she has "no more time to give" as she runs a video production business and works hospitality shifts to keep up with increasing mortgage repayments and bills. - Tue, 06 Jun 2023 14:56:51 +1000 - Army officer tells Orroral Valley fire inquiry he forgot to turn off the searchlight that sparked blaze
An army officer who was on board the Defence helicopter that started the devastating January 2020 Orroral Valley fire near Canberra tells a coronial inquest he had forgotten to turn off the searchlight that sparked the blaze. - Tue, 06 Jun 2023 13:43:13 +1000
Northern Territory News
- Bureau declares El Niño alert, signalling higher chance of warm, dry weather
The odds of a warm, dry winter and spring have shortened after the Bureau of Meteorology took its El Niño warning to a new level. - Tue, 06 Jun 2023 14:34:00 +0930 - Rates rise smashes business owner already working two jobs
Mia De Rauch says she has "no more time to give" as she runs a video production business and works hospitality shifts to keep up with increasing mortgage repayments and bills. - Tue, 06 Jun 2023 14:26:51 +0930 - All eyes turn to sheep as facial recognition trial arrives in Australia
An artificial intelligence tool is being launched to help Australian sheep farmers identify the best breeders in their flocks. - Tue, 06 Jun 2023 12:42:59 +0930 - NT Children's Commissioner calls for government to formally ban spit hoods in watch houses
Northern Territory Police last year implemented an internal ban on the devices, but calls are now growing for the ban on spit hoods to be enshrined in law. - Tue, 06 Jun 2023 11:48:35 +0930 - NT government to permit additional pokies in Alice Springs while lowering territory cap
The Northern Territory has lowered its cap on pokies to 1,659, but applications for 20 additional gaming machines at two of Iris Capital's Alice Springs venues "remain in train". - Tue, 06 Jun 2023 09:50:30 +0930
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