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An elderly couple are fighting for their lives after a home invasion in Torrington, NSW, during which the alleged attacker was shot.
Brought to you by BULLS N’ BEARSAndrew ToddJune 4, 2026 — 3:35pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAArdea Resources has received another official government nod for its Kalgoorlie nickel project’s (KNP) Goongarrie Hub, this time at the State level, after being awarded Lead Agency Status by the Western Australian government to streamline project approvals.The status, granted by the Department of Energy and Economic Diversification (DEED), formally recognises the strategic importance of the Goongarrie Hub to WA’s critical minerals and battery materials ambitions.Drilling underway at Ardea Resources’ massive Goongarrie Hub nickel…
SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAOne of basketball’s most recognisable faces, Caitlin Clark, could appear in a game in Australia.NBA deputy commissioner and chief operating officer Mark Tatum told world media this week of the potential of a WNBA game on Australian shores, citing the success of the NBA pre-season games in Melbourne last October and the nation’s love of basketball.Indiana Fever superstar Caitlin Clark.Getty ImagesInterest in the WNBA has exploded in recent years, with superstars such as Clark, Angel Reese and Sabrina Ionescu driving the league’s maximum salary…
Updated June 4, 2026 — 5:25pm,first published 3:12pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAA senior Coalition frontbencher has defended her decision to allow a senior adviser to write a newspaper article urging Australians not to “walk away” from Ben Roberts-Smith, exposing tensions inside the opposition over how to respond to the Victoria Cross recipient’s looming war crimes trial.The article by former West Australian editor Brett McCarthy, now a senior adviser to shadow attorney-general Michaelia Cash, praised Roberts-Smith’s battlefield heroism and called on Australians to continue supporting the decorated soldier despite…
SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAA Melbourne family accused of buying a teen slave captured by Islamic State for $10,000 knew she was being purchased for sex and housework in a home where guns and terror flags were put on display, police say.ISIS bride Zeinab Ahmad, 31, appeared in Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, a month after returning to Australia for the first time in more than a decade, after travelling to Syria with family, including mother Kawsar Abbas, 54, and father Mohammed Ahmad.Zeinab Ahmad, one of two women…
Alex WickhamUpdated June 4, 2026 — 12:48pm,first published June 4, 2026 — 7:11amSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAALondon: Australia and its Five Eyes intelligence partners have issued what they said was an unprecedented joint notice warning about attempts by Chinese spies to use fake profiles and job offers on websites such as LinkedIn to recruit assets.“China’s military intelligence services are using an increasingly wide array of professional networking sites and online job platforms to target Five Eyes government and military personnel – and anyone with access to classified or…
SaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAA Melbourne-based content creator and self-described comedian has been sacked after a video in which she stereotypes Indigenous people sparked outrage online.Lisa Jane Spencer said she was dismissed from Peninsula Hot Springs on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula on Wednesday after she posted a 36-second video to various social media accounts “satirising” an episode of the SBS program Insight, including its logo.Lisa Jane Spencer (left) as she appears in the video and (right) Brooke Blurton, who responded with her own message.Art by Matt WillisThe video sparked…
The stars have aligned for Adelaide’s mid-season recruit Hugo Hall-Kahan, who will finally make his AFL debut on Thursday night against Geelong.The Crows picked Hall-Kahan in last week’s rookie draft. The 22-year-old defender had previously been on Sydney’s list, also recruited by them in the 2022 mid-season draft.Adelaide debutant Hugo Hall-Kahan being presented his jumper by Bruce Linder.AFL Photos via Getty ImagesAdelaide did not expect Hall-Kahan to play in the AFL so soon, but Isaac Cumming’s hamstring injury at training on Monday night has paved the way.Crows football boss Adam Kelly said Hall-Kahan had made an immediate impression at the…
June 4, 2026 — 3:55pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAAThe history of stuff-ups, miscalculations and underachievement at Penfolds owner Treasury Wine Estates could fill a book. Its capacity to disappoint is legendary.Now the company has bravely come up with a new master plan, hoping this one will hit the mark.Treasury Wine has become the corporate equivalent of a widow maker for those who take up the challenge to lead the company. Over the past decade and a half, investors have watched as each new management regime’s plan to restructure,…
Updated June 4, 2026 — 6:14pm,first published 12:30pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAALabor’s budget agenda faces a fortnight in limbo as the Coalition, Greens and crossbench weigh Senate tactics and negotiate over how they can force longer inquiries to scrutinise the government’s tax changes and NDIS reforms.The government passed its budget tax package through the House of Representatives on Thursday, combining into one bill the $250 income tax offset and $1000 instant deduction for workers, as well as curbs on negative gearing and capital gains tax concessions.Treasurer Dr Jim…