Police investigating Hamish Tait – who faces 329 child abuse charges – have released list of 55 locations where he worked or attended Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast A federal police investigation into an accused paedophile facing more than 300 child abuse charges has expanded to a remote community in South Australia. Hamish Tait, 35, faces 329 charges of child abuse between 2009 and 2025 while working across 62 centres. Continue reading...
Divine Playhouse promoter and founder says venue faces significant operational, legal and financial challenges Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast A former church turned arts venue at the centre of a culture war is exploring legal action after receiving a notice from its landlord that forced its organisers to close the space and cancel planned events. Divine Playhouse is facing possible eviction, with its landlord ordering the venue’s organisers, Heaps Gay Events, to sto
Trump drops a 24-hour-old vow to charge cargo ships for using the Strait as the US continues its battle to break Iran's hold on the waterway.
A zoning technicality is being used to lock Americans out of court when the government chills their First Amendment rights . The Supreme Court should put a stop to it. When the government threatens you for exercising a constitutional right, can it force you to run a bureaucratic gauntlet before a federal court will even hear your case? On June 30, 2026, the Supreme Court agreed to answer that question in its next term in Grand v. City of University Heights. It should answer no. A prayer group an
Labour should ditch the triple-lock pensions promise to help tackle the UK’s straitened public finances, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development has urged. In its latest survey of the UK economy, the Paris-based club of industrialised nations added its voice to those calling for an end to the pledge, which uprates the state pension each year by whichever is the highest of wage growth, inflation or 2.5%. In a special chapter on pensions policy, the OECD’s experts say the triple
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Jay Clayton, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, speaks in New York City on June 3.
Fox News · Oct 8
This week, the House will vote on the Take Care of America’s Veterans Act . This legislation includes nearly 60 bills, including several bipartisan priorities that we have authored and fought to advance as the top Democrats on the Senate and House Veterans’ Affairs Committees — most notably the Major Richard Star Act . Unfortunately, Republicans have chosen a partisan path to advance this legislation, and we have a serious problem with how they are proposing to pay for it. To cover the costs of
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"Maybe I lack imagination, but I didn’t expect that performing this service was going to put me in the position of explaining to my children what a bulletproof vest was and why I had to wear one," Justice Amy Coney Barrett told Congress on Monday. Justice Barrett was explaining in vivid terms why the Supreme Court had requested an additional $14.6 million, as part of its $228 million budget request, for enhanced security. SUPREME COURT JUSTICES HEAD TO CAPITOL HILL FOR FIRST CONGRESSIONAL APPEAR
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AI is a fast-growing business expense. Some companies are cutting costs by switching to cheaper Chinese AI models. (Image credit: Imen Ben Youssef/Hans Lucas)
