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Emergency services were called to a beach off Boneo Road at 9.45am and carried out a search of the ocean. The Victoria Police Air Wing found a man unresponsive in the water. The man, who has not been publicly identified, was brought back to shore but could not be revived. A report will be prepared for the information of the coroner. The stretch of Victorian coastline is notoriously dangerous and has been the site of several tragic deaths in the last decade. It is understood the 53-year-old woman was among a group of three people washed off shore by a ... Read more

Paramedics were called to the BlueScope facility at 10.20am and called an air ambulance to the scene. A Country Fire Authority spokesperson confirmed an industrial accident had occurred but did not have further details. BlueScope operates a painted, coated and uncoated steel processing facility at Hastings on Western Port Bay. Hastings is a town on the Mornington Peninsula about, 58km south-east of Melbourne’s CBD. WorkSafe is investigating. Source link

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence Richard Marles has described the moment he walked in the footsteps of his grandfather, Percy Pearce, who fought in the Battle of Pozières in 1916. Marles told Today about a trip he took to Pozières in 2022, when a local historian took him to the site where his grandfather won his Military Cross for exemplary gallantry. “At first I thought it was a joke… but as he started talking through the battle I thought, ‘Oh my god, this is really it’,” Marles said. Deputy Prime Minister of Australia Richard Marles (centre) during the ... Read more

The mother of a NSW woman who died of cervical cancer has told how her daughter spent more than a year trying to get doctors to listen to her concerns. Amanda Ne’Roi is speaking out about her daughter Jaime’s devastating case as three peak research organisations – the Australian New Zealand Gynaecological Oncology Group, Ovarian Cancer Australia and the Ovarian Cancer Research Foundation – join forces to call on the government to commit $100 million in funding towards gynaecological cancer. Around 19 Australian women a day are diagnosed with a gynaecological cancer, according to December 2024 statistics from the Australian ... Read more

A man and a woman are in hospital in critical conditions after their car crashed during a police pursuit in Sydney’s south-west last night. Police attempted to stop an unregistered Ford Falcon about 7.20pm yesterday on McBurney Road in Cabramatta. Police attempted to stop the car, but the driver allegedly kept driving. Police pursued the car onto Railway Parade at Canley Vale, where the Ford crashed into a power pole. The driver, a 33-year-old woman, and a 35-year-old male passenger were treated by paramedics at the scene then both rushed to Liverpool Hospital in a critical condition. A crime scene ... Read more

Police said the 53-year-old was found unresponsive about 4.50pm yesterday in a cell at western Sydney’s Silverwater Correctional Complex. Corrective Services personnel and paramedics were unable to revive him. Audrey Griffin, 19, was found half-submerged in Erina Creek, Erina on the Central Coast at 3.45pm on March 24. (9News) Griffin’s death was initially labelled a drowning by police after her partially submerged body was discovered in Erina Creek on the NSW Central Coast on the afternoon of March 24. After initially not finding any suspicious circumstances surrounding her death, a homicide investigation was launched following a tip-off from the public. ... Read more

Two women are recovering in hospital this morning after they were struck by lightning in separate incidents in south-east Queenslandovernight. One woman was struck at Yandina on the Sunshine Coast and another at Burpengary as the region was hit with thunderstorms and intense rainfall overnight and into this morning. West Woombye on the Sunshine Coast recorded 151mm in just three hours overnight. The rain radar over south-east Queensland at 10am on Friday. (Bureau of Meteorology) Nearby Nambour recorded 136 mm. One driver became caught in flash flooding in the intense rain around 3am and was taken to hospital in a ... Read more

Reaction continues today to calls by the wealthiest Australian, Gina Rinehart, for a massive increase in defence spending to 5 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP). The mining mogul made a sudden intervention into the debate over military spending late yesterday at a sunset vigil before Anzac Day outside the Sydney Opera House. It came after Opposition Leader Peter Dutton pledged this week that if the Coalition won government in next month’s federal election, it would spend an extra $21 billion on strengthening defence – reaching 2.5 per cent of GDP by 2030. Australian billionaire Gina Rinehart has called ... Read more

People from across Australia and around the world have gathered to remember those who gave their lives during Anzac Day services. Source link

Pope Francis‘ doctor has recounted the pontiff’s final moments in a pair of newspaper interviews, saying the pontiff had his eyes open and was breathing with oxygen, but unresponsive after being stricken by illness early Monday morning. “He died without suffering, at home,” the doctor said. Professor and surgeon Sergio Alfieri, who headed the team who treated Pope Francis during his hospitalisation, talks during an interview with the Associated Press at the Gemelli polyclinic hospital in Rome, Saturday, March 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) Alfieri was alerted at 5.30am on Monday by Francis’ health care assistant, Massimiliano Strappetti, that Francis ... Read more