Housing waitlist cancellations a 'systems level problem', advocates say
ABC News Australiaby James C Taylor9d ago
Colin Betts dons his Santa suit, collects his vibrant signs painted with positive messages, and walks barefoot out to the roadside.
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top 96%Mother felt 'completely abandoned' during traumatic birth at NSW hospital
ABC News Australiaby Lily Nothling9d ago
In short: A woman whose daughter was born in critical distress after a traumatic labour is demanding answers from the Queanbeyan Hospital.
Talks to reopen popular Sydney cream puff venue amid $1m tax debt
ABC News Australiaby Emily Baker9d ago
In short: Emperor's Garden has been closed since August amid ATO scrutiny, with the business now agreeing to repay more than $1 million to the tax office.
The AFLW is speeding up and these numbers prove it
ABC News Australiaby Gemma Bastiani9d ago
Ask a regular punter down the street what they think of AFLW and there's a good chance you'll get some version of "it's improving every year".
'What are they hiding?': Advocate calls on SA premier to release child death review
ABC News Australiaby Stephanie Richards9d ago
In short: A freedom of information request from the ABC for a copy of an almost four-year-old report into SA's child protection system has been refused by the state government.
Relevance of judge's social media posts disputed in appeal hearing
ABC News Australiaby Scout Wallen9d ago
In short: Hobart man Stephen Fane Noga is appealing against a Supreme Court decision, after he was found liable for sexually abusing his student in the 1980s.
Nepal's dire warning to the rest of the world
ABC News Australiaby Som Patidar and Lachlan Bennett9d ago
In short: Nepal is facing another wave of natural disasters just one month after flash floods killed more than 1,400 people.
Mysterious outback disappearances of four men to be probed by WA coroner
ABC News Australiaby Erin Parke9d ago
In short: The WA coroner will hold a joint inquest into the "disappearance and suspected deaths" of four men who went missing over a two-year period.
Nathan Cleary has no worlds left to conquer after Dally M win
ABC News Australiaby Nick Campton9d ago
Fri, 11 Sept, 7:50 pm, Final score, Rabbitohs 10, Knights 20 As Nathan Cleary sat on his couch, in between surgeries with his first Dally M medal around his neck on Wednesday night, the secret of...
Sexual harassment prompts Queensland runner to tackle safety concerns herself
ABC News Australiaby Lottie Twyford10d ago
In short: Queensland woman Kate was harassed and stalked while on a run, but ultimately withdrew her complaint. Police say they investigate all incidents with the evidence available to them.
What is and isn't changing today as Thriving Kids begins
ABC News Australiaby Nas Campanella and Evan Young10d ago
The first phase of the $4 billion National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) alternative for kids under nine with developmental delay or autism who have "low to moderate" support needs begins...
Slower au pair visa approvals hit Australian families
ABC News Australiaby Natasya Salim10d ago
Johanna Paulina Gorek postponed university for a year and turned down a job at home in Germany to become an au pair in Australia.
'Friends won't be there': Fighting to save Pasifika youth from lives of crime
ABC News Australiaby Fiona Willan10d ago
Sydney's gangland war has become a political issue, after a string of mistaken identity attacks against innocent people — allegedly committed by young, inexperienced criminals.
Calls from mortgage-stressed home owners double as pressures pile up
ABC News Australia10d ago
A free Victorian service that helps home owners facing mortgage stress has been forced to temporarily close its books as the number of calls for assistance doubles.
Push for big tech to pay for Australian-made AI
ABC News Australiaby Holly Tregenza10d ago
In short: Big tech companies wanting to build data centres in Australia would pay a levy to fund the local AI industry under a plan from researchers and unions.
'US-style medicine model' as big pharma dispensing of GLP-1s condemned
ABC News Australiaby Stephanie Dalzell and Paige Cockburn10d ago
In short: Eli Lilly's new online platform LillyDirect will dispense certain medicines, starting with Mounjaro, directly to a patient's door.
More cost-of-living relief risks making Labor's long-term challenge harder
ABC News Australiaby David Speers10d ago
On the morning after last year's landslide Labor election win, Jim Chalmers declared a shift in priorities for the government's second term.
Shoebridge to woo same angry voters as One Nation — but from the left
ABC News Australiaby Patricia Karvelas10d ago
The elevation of NSW Senator David Shoebridge to the Greens top job is the clearest indication the party is prepared to swing further to the populist left and fight harder to demolish Labor...
Tom Cruise goes full clown in Digger. It might be his best work yet
ABC News Australiaby Silvi Vann-Wall10d ago
Digger Rockwell (Tom Cruise) is having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. His beloved cat Maggie is sick with one or two paws already over death's threshold.
Credit card surcharges end today but customers will pay in other ways
ABC News Australiaby Amy Sheehan10d ago
From October 1, those small surcharges we pay on debit, prepaid and credit cards will be scrapped under reforms by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), saving customers about $1.6 billion each...