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Red paint was thrown onto Dutton’s office on Dawson Parade in Arana Hills, Moreton Bay, sometime overnight. Images of Dutton with his family, pictured on the front of the building, are covered in red paint.  Red paint was thrown onto Dutton’s office on Dawson Parade in Arana Hills, Moreton Bay, sometime overnight. (9News) Queensland Police say they were called to nearby Wye Street in Mitchelton after reports of four people acting suspicious in a red sedan at 2.30am. Police dogs then tracked a woman to Leslie Patrick Park, where officers found the allegedly vandalised office. An 18-year-old woman was ... Read more

Anti-nuclear protesters have derailed Peter Dutton’s announcement of funding to upgrade a sport field in Sanctuary Point, in the seat Gilmore. The Opposition Leaders was joined at Francis Ryan Sports Field, home of local football club the St George Basin Dragons, with a group of young players to announce the upgrade. He had been presented a jersey, and had just chatted to a friendly member of the public who approached him during the event, when the nuclear protesters arrived. The trio pretended to be scouting for the location of “Australia’s first nuclear reactor”, as the sounds of a geiger counter ... Read more

A Set small text size A Set the default text size A Set large text size When Rajasthan Royals announced they had signed a 13-year-old for the Indian Premier League there was plenty of scepticism. It looked, at best, like the start of a long-term plan to lay claim to and develop a promising youngster, at worst a gimmick. No one is sceptical now. In his third match the now-14 years old Vaibhav Suryavanshi has smashed the second fastest century in the IPL’s 18 seasons, a blistering 35-ball display of pyrotechnics that carried his team to a thumping eight-wicket victory ... Read more

Two young men have died and another is fighting for life after a crash between a truck and a car in south-west Sydney late yesterday. Emergency services were called to King Georges Road at Wiley Park about 8.45pm where three men were found trapped inside a BMW sedan. Two of those, aged 22 and 23, died at the scene, while the 20-year-old driver suffered significant injuries and was taken to hospital in critical condition. Two men died and a third is fighting for his life after a road crash in south-west Sydney on April 28, 2025. (Nine) The truck driver, ... Read more

Former Virgin Australia boss Jayne Hrdlicka has announced she will be the new chief executive of liquor, gaming and pubs retailer Endeavour Group at the start of next year. Ms Hrdlicka stepped down from Virgin Australia earlier this year, after a near four-year stint in the job. During her time she helped navigate the airline – owned by Bain Capital following its collapse during the Covid-19 pandemic – into a major deal with Qatar airways. Ms Hrdlicka will start on January 1 2026, with the company searching for a new boss since Steve Donohue left late last year, with executive ... Read more

Bapcor, home to automotive brands such as Autobarn and Midas, is cutting dozens of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems from its technology estate. CEO and executive chair Angus McKay told a strategy briefing yesterday that the company had “eliminated or consolidated from 42 ERPs down to 19” at the end of fiscal year 2024. It will reduce the number of ERPs in use across the group from 19 to 17 this fiscal year and then to 15 by the end of fiscal year 2026. “Now don’t get me wrong – 15 is still too many,” McKay said. “The process to ... Read more

German police have launched a murder investigation after a bestselling novelist was found dead on her houseboat in Hamburg. Alexandra Fröhlich was discovered dead by relatives onboard her houseboat in the Moorfleet district of the German city, according to a statement that Hamburg Police shared with CNN. “After a 58-year-old woman was found dead on her houseboat in Hamburg’s Moorfleet district on Tuesday morning, the police and public prosecutor’s office are now assuming a homicide and are asking for information from the public,” the statement said. Alexandra Fröhlich was a journalist before turning to writing novels. (Penguin) It added that ... Read more

Former prime minister Tony Abbott has said that what happened on January 26, 1788 was “wonderful” in an interview denouncing welcome to country ceremonies. Mr Abbott shared that he has a “fundamental problem” with welcome to country ceremonies and acknowledgements of country in an interview with Ben Fordham on 2GB radio, and believes they are an “exercise in virtue signalling” akin to wearing masks during the Covid pandemic. “It’s become a badge of political correctness,” he said. “It’s become a political statement – a bit like wearing masks became a political statement during the pandemic.” The former prime minister said ... Read more

Telstra said today it is continuing to monitor an outage that impacted thousands of customers. Problems began about 2 pm AEST yesterday when the telco’s Bigpond and Webmail services struck problems around email logins and some apps. Early today, Telstra said on social media that Telstra Mail was back up and running, but some customers using a third-party app may continue to experience troubles. Telstra is continuing to monitor an outage that impacted some of its customers. (AAP) “We’ve seen that some customers are still facing issues accessing Telstra Mail. Our team’s continuing to monitor and investigate,” it said in ... Read more

The University of the Sunshine Coast (UniSC) is launching a major digital transformation initiative beginning with a large-scale migration to Microsoft Azure. The Queensland-based university plans to start moving its core infrastructure workloads out of two on-premises data centres by the second half of 2025. The initial phase will involve a lift-and-shift migration, followed by a broader system rearchitecture focused on cloud-native, serverless and platform-oriented service models, the university said. “This will modernise infrastructure and transform capabilities, service delivery, and digital culture at UniSC,” CIO Niranjan Prabhu said. “A robust architectural framework governs each migration phase to ensure alignment with ... Read more