Government’s special envoy returns to the witness box again today; three victims found in burned-out house in Wiley Park. Follow updates live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast One of the 19 Closing the Gap targets has officially been reached after early childhood education enrolment for First Nations children hit 95% across the country. Released by the Productivity Commission today, the annual data compilation report showed an increase from 61.3% enrolments in 2016 (th
Boom in hummingbird hawk-moth sightings put down to hot weather, strong winds and food scarcity in Europe He had just sat down to dinner in the garden when a speedy visitor whizzed by – a “grey lump with orange wings”, recalled Luke Burstow, from Sussex. It was a hummingbird hawk-moth , a flying insect that migrates to the UK from continental Europe and north Africa. “I was like: ‘Wow!’,” said the software project manager. “I didn’t even know they existed.” Continue reading...
A member of a group of young conservative Liberal power brokers being investigated for allegedly soliciting illegal donations has compared their factional work to Mel Gibson’s Braveheart – and said they “didn’t think the law applied to us” when it came to political funding. The Independent Commission Against Corruption (Icac) on Thursday heard from Robert Assaf, the first witness from the conservative right Liberal factional group the Reformers to give evidence. Icac is investigating whether Lib
It marks a change of tone for his administration, which has taken a more hands-off approach to the technology.
A man was sentenced on Wednesday to six months and a week behind bars for ramming his car into the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters in January, damaging some of the a side-entrance door. Dan Sohail, 36, of New Jersey, was sentenced in Brooklyn federal court, where he was also ordered to pay $20,000 in restitution. The sentence will allow Sohail, who has already spent six months in custody, to be released in about a week. Sohail was charged with intentionally damaging religious property, and h
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Shell more than doubled its profit in its second quarter of the year, as Europe’s biggest oil and gas company reaped the benefits from the jump in oil and gas prices triggered by war in the Middle East. The FTSE 100 company’s net profit hit $9.84bn (£7.4bn) in the three months ended in June, more than double compared with the same period last year. The surge in profit comes as wholesale energy prices have soared because of the conflict in the Middle East, boosting profit margins and activity on
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An Italian friar has unearthed a document from the pharmacy archives of an ancient convent in Florence describing a medicinal potion made from Bolivian coca leaves and kola nuts, prompting suggestions it could have been a precursor to the famous US soft drink, Coca-Cola. Father Manuel Russo, rector of the San Marco convent, said he stumbled across the yellowed document, a sort-of promotional flyer, while sorting out the archives. The flyer details the recipe for an elixir vinoso ricostituente, o
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A new fan experience opening soon in Los Angeles lets fans tour the original home from “The Brady Bunch,” replicated to include many details from the show.
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The death toll from the major earthquake that hit Japan on Tuesday has risen to 17, as the search for trapped survivors inside a badly damaged shopping mall and collapsed houses in the country’s south-west continues. The magnitude 6.8 earthquake that struck the Kumamoto prefecture on the island of Kyushu has injured at least 62, the prefectural government said. That number has steadily grown, fanning fears it will rise. Almost 5,000 Self-Defence Forces personnel deployed to the region will be ch
