The prime suspect in Victoria’s mushroom poisoning case has been charged with three counts of murder and five of attempted murder. Australia’s most wanted man Hakan Ayik has been arrested in Turkey. A teenage girl has been charged over a number of suspicious fires on the Gold Coast. South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas says he’ll hold the federal government to account over its commitment to construct Hunter-class frigates in Adelaide.

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Former NSW Minister Andrew Constance is in line to replace outgoing Senator Marise Payne. Bealemania hit a snag overnight in Brisbane as fans found themselves caught in a human traffic jam. Hospitals across Victoria are being told to slash costs by millions of dollars. Port Adelaide has officially started the first steps towards dumping the SANFL.

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Legal experts are warning that a proposed bill to regulate misinformation on the internet could see Australians having fewer protections. Anthony Albanese will today launch a $10m teacher recruitment campaign in conjunction with all states and territories. South Australian Police and emergency services return to waters off the Eyre Peninsula this morning after a 55-year-old man was fatally mauled by a great white shark. Figures in wagering, the law and sport in Victoria are trapped in a massive Ponzi scandal.

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Regulating and taxing nicotine vapes could inject billions into the federal budget’s bottom line. Queensland faces a day of reckoning with its fire threat, as a nightmare cocktail of high winds and temperatures in the upper 30s. A new tax on Victorian GPs has been thrown into chaos. NSW Police recruits are in for a major payday. More South Australians are dying than usual with the highest rates of death in country towns.

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Co-stars have led an outpouring of tributes for Matthew Perry, the actor beloved by millions of TV fans for playing Chandler Bing in Friends. 

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has again failed to appear at a rally against youth crime happening outside a building she was in, this time sending a Labor backbencher who proceeded to mock protesters as a “rent a crowd” and “bloody LNP”. 

Anti-Israel graffiti has been painted  on the wall of a warehouse owned by a prominent South Australian family and visible from one of Adelaide’s busiest roads. 

Eddie Jones has dropped a bombshell on Australian rugby, announcing his resignation as Wallabies coach. 

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Former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann has been charged with two counts of rape in relation to an incident alleged to have occurred after a night out in Queensland in October, 2021.  

The ex-boyfriend of a young water polo coach found beaten to death at one of Sydney’s top high school rang triple-0 himself and told them where to find her, four hours after police believe she was killed. 

Annastacia Palaszczuk is no longer Queensland’s preferred premier for the first time, and her performance rating is worse than Anna Bligh and Campbell Newman. 

Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock says that record levels of immigration driving a surge in rental prices is adding to inflation as the central bank remains tight lipped on whether to deliver another rate hike next month. 

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Firefighters in regional Queensland are bracing for gusty and dry winds on Thursday as they battle out-of-control bushfires fuelled by the “worst conditions in 40 years” that have already claimed two lives and multiple homes. 

Legal expects are warning Australians accused of spreading misinformation online will have fewer protections against self-incrimination than suspected murderers, arsonists and other serious criminals under a proposed bill to regulate the internet. 

A court has ruled the cruise ship company at the centre of a major Covid outbreak should have cancelled the Ruby Princess trip that led to 28 deaths. 

New research out of Melbourne shows women who do shift work or work long hours while pregnant significantly increase their risk of premature birth 

Public school teachers in South Australia have warned they may strike again next month in a bid to pressure the state government to make a better offer on pay and conditions. 

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It’s been revealed police were warned Sydney’s Palestinian community had been “incensed” by Premier Chris Minns’ decision to light up the Opera House in the colours of the Israeli flag just hours before a rowdy protest descended upon the steps of the iconic landmark. 

An Australian businessman has successfully challenged a $45,000 American Express drinks bill in Vietnam – including 1400 tequila shots – after it was ruled two bars took his credit card and ripped him off by $42,000. 

The Albanese government is not planning to offer the US more money to guarantee our nuclear submarine purchase but will overhaul Australia’s export rules to win America’s trust to share defence technology. 

And the coach of the Melbourne Demons has saved a man’s life in Bali. 

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Despite NSW’s overwhelming no vote, City of Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore will forge ahead with plans for her own “Indigenous voice to council”. 

Tech giant Microsoft will inject $7.9 billion into its Australian operations over the next two years, training 300,000 people in artificial intelligence and cloud computing while fighting online threats alongside Australia’s cyber spy agency. 

Scores of foreigners kidnapped by Hamas terrorists remain unaccounted for after they were snatched at gunpoint and taken to Gaza more than two weeks ago. 

A popular Adelaide nightclub that offered a range of free drinks to patrons in exchange for their bras has been fined over their online promotion. 

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An anonymous group of Indigenous Yes supporters have attacked No voters, the media, Coalition MPs and conservative think tanks, accusing them of fuelling a “racist” campaign against the Voice.

Two Lord Howe Island men have been barred from the tropical paradise after being charged with sexually assaulting two different women in separate alleged attacks.

Melbourne Trains will be stopped in their tracks during testing on the $14bn Metro Tunnel if nearby hospital patients need urgent access to lifesaving equipment.

Queensland has seen a disturbing 400 per cent increase in eating disorder hospital admissions since the introduction of social media more than 20 years ago, new data shows.

South Australian winemakers may regain sales to China’s lucrative  market within months amid hopes costly import taxes could be dropped.

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