Homeowners could yet face another interest rate hike with RBA boss Philip Lowe leaving the door open on “further tightening”. An 11-year-old Queensland girl has died with the flu. Oodie founder cops backlash after showing off his new multi-million dollar Adelaide farm. South Australian workers can expect a national decision to ban caps on working from home days will flow on to state workplaces. Acting QLD Premier Steven Miles has defended the delay of some building code changes due to come in October.

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As the nation heads toward a dry summer the looming threat of bushfires will put new emergency response systems to the test. Dozens of SA pedestrian crossings were found to fail meeting safety standards. Two Queensland teenagers found guilty of murdering Angus Beaumont could walk free. FIFA officials were warned repeatedly that covering up the name plaques of Australian sporting legends at Allianz Stadium would provoke a storm of protest. Melbourne cocaine dealers have been warned not to cut their prices amid deadly underworld warfare interstate.

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Producers are concerned the phase out of caged eggs will be brought forward by 10 years, stoking fears the price of eggs could rise. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced a defence export deal with Germany. A tax on petrol cars could be imposed in Sydney’s CBD. South Australian politicians and Parliament House staff have been issued new safety advice. Victorians will be slugged with a 43 per cent increase to Domestic Building Insurance. 

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The young sailor rescued from treacherous conditions off the coast of Kangaroo Island says it wasn’t the wild weather that brought his attempt at a world record undone.

A bridge and a railway underpass will have to be demolished or bypassed – at a cost of upwards of $340 million – to give trucks transporting massive wind turbines access to new renewable energy zones (REZ) in country NSW. 

Queensland is a national leader in road side births with hundreds of women a year having babies on highways in “pulled over” cars or ambulances. 

Victorians are paying more property tax than anyone else in Australia – and it’s going to get worse. 

A regional South Australian council was willing to issue warnings or expiation notices or even prosecute anyone older than four who entered public toilets of the opposite gender.

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A Gold Coast sailor stranded in wild seas in the Great Australian Bight is headed back to dry land after a dramatic rescue in heaving, 10m swells and cyclonic winds. 

For the first time, Queensland drivers will be tested for cocaine in random roadside drug tests. 

A secret report has laid bare the super-sized pay of Victoria’s leading public sector road and rail executives, including one who earned more than $814,000 last year. 

Troublemakers face bans from Adelaide’s most popular areas, and random police searches, under an unprecedented legal bid to crush the CBD’s mounting crime wave crisis.

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Champion jockey Jamie Kah has been charged by racing stewards but is determined to get back in the saddle after images surfaced of her on social media with a white substance. 
 

Restaurateurs say South Australia’s hospitality industry is at “rock bottom” and the Covid-19 pandemic was a “dream” compared to the current economical landscape. 
 

The cowboy developers who illegally demolished a historic Melbourne pub seven years ago will be blocked by the local council from obtaining a planning permit to rebuild the site. 

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The AFL nude photo scandal was sparked by an email sent to one club whose highest-profile player was among the explicit images. 

A mother-of-three was allegedly bashed to death by her estranged husband when the pair met to discuss their divorce settlement, in a tragic domestic dispute. 

A blanket ban on mobile phones and smartwatches from the first to last bell in all Queensland state schools will come into effect next year. 

Huge demand for soap powder donated to a charity has triggered concerns homeless people may be using it for drug use. 

A 12-year-old girl was prescribed the contraceptive pill by a doctor after being told the child was “sexually active” by her mother, who was secretly abusing the girl along with her partner. 

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The AFL has launched an ­investigation into a shocking collection of nude and graphic images of more than 45 past and present players, which is being widely shared across ­social media. 

Residents living near Allianz Stadium and the SCG could suffer mental health impacts from “increased exposure to noise” if an archaic concert cap is increased and should be given cheap or free tickets as compensation. 

A Queensland magistrate has been slammed by a senior judge for her “total misunderstanding of the nature of domestic violence” after fining a man just $500 despite his repeated harassment of his ex-partner in shocking displays of coercive control. 

A wannabe influencer and her girlfriends allegedly held a man at knifepoint and demanded $100,000 in a bizarre kidnapping. 

Brave victims of a specialist breast surgeon who covertly recorded patients without permission – using a phone hidden in a tissue box with a corner cut off – have confronted him in court. 

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The former World No 1 tennis star posted a pic of her little sleeping bundle of joy, Hayden, wrapped in a swaddle and wearing a grey beanie, on Tuesday night. 

The Reserve Bank has offered millions of Australian mortgage holders a brief reprieve, deciding to leave the cash rate at 4.1 per cent for the time being, sparking warnings further hikes could be needed soon. 

A magistrate has granted bail to set free a teenage boy who was part of a gang that allegedly stabbed and robbed three people in random attacks in the heart of Brisbane’s nightclub strip in the early hours of Sunday morning.  

Melbourne rents are growing the fastest of any capital city in the nation and our most affordable homes are being hit the hardest. 

A grandmother has told how she was left frightened after a crazed man on bail allegedly assaulted her in an unprovoked attack on one of Adelaide’s most popular shopping strips. 

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The NRL is demanding Suncorp Stadium not be overlooked for funding ahead of the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games, warning it will have passed its ­useful life by then. 

A new study has found Aussie workers rank in the top five in the world for life-work balance. 

The University of Melbourne claims it has been forced to pay more than $50,000 to comply with court orders as a defamation spat between two of its top scholars rages 

Supervising youth workers in Adelaide have alleged girls as young as 11 in state care are selling their bodies for money, drugs, cigarettes and vapes. 

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