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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

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 War, the US and its allies launched Operation Babylift to fly the children, many just babies, to safety. By April 1975, thousands of them had been brought to the city of Saigon, now known as Ho Chi Minh City, with many of them in need of medical help that wasn’t available. RAAF pilots and crew members feed babies on the runway of Saigon airport in ... Read more

As dawn breaks across the country, millions of people will pause to mark Anzac Day in tribute to the men and women who have served in Australia’s defence forces. Solemn dawn services will be held from suburban parks to the Australian War Memorial in Canberra, and overseas from the shores of Gallipoli to the fields of Villers-Brettoneux in France. The rest of the day will be marked by parades and wreath-laying events, followed by the usual long-weekend celebrations. The last post is played as the Dawn Service is held at the Australian War Memorial on April 25, 2024 in Canberra, ... Read more

“I am not happy with the Russian strikes on KYIV. Not necessary, and very bad timing. Vladimir, STOP! 5000 soldiers a week are dying,” Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform yesterday (overnight AEST).  US President Donald Trump speaks with reporters after signing executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, April 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) “Lets get the Peace Deal DONE!” Trump’s frustration is growing as a US-led effort to get a peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia has not made progress. Zelenskyy has repeated many times during the war ... Read more