Woman airlifted to hospital after workplace accident in Victoria
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 More...
Defence minister recalls walking in footsteps of veteran grandfather
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 More...
Mum’s warning as survival rates for gynaecological cancers stagnate
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 More...
Two people critically injured after car hits pole during police chase
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 More...
Adrian Torrens, the man accused of murdering the Central Coast teen, found dead in jail cell
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 More...
Two women struck by lightning in soggy start to Anzac Day for south-east Queensland
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 More...
Billionaire Gina Rinehart pushes for massive hike in defence budget
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 More...
How Australians are marking Anzac Day
People from across Australia and around the world have gathered to remember those who gave their lives during Anzac Day services. Source link More...
Pope’s doctor says pontiff died ‘without suffering, at home’
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 More...
The Australian pilots who rescued infants from war zone in Operation Babylift
This year’s Anzac Day falls 50 years after Australian air force crews took part in a perilous rescue mission of thousands of young orphans from a conflict zone. During the final days of the Vietnam More...
