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The NSW premier will today argue that Australia needs to shift away from health orders and towards personal responsibility, companies face data culls following the Optus hack and the Queen’s cause of death has been revealed.

Police have said the 15-year-old had been on bail for three other robbery charges when she allegedly wrenched on the pregnant woman’s hair, causing her to fall, before stealing her car keys.

Despite record crowds, the number of farm animals competing is drastically low as some farmers say the 174-year-old event has lost its agricultural significance.

A joyride across Brisbane in an allegedly stolen ute has ended in a citizen's arrest.

Victoria’s health minister didn’t speak to the state’s chief public health official ahead of Friday’s major decision by Australia’s political leaders to scrap mandatory COVID-19 isolation.

The 26-year-old woman who was driving the car was flung from the Commodore’s window on impact.

A Melbourne grandfather is taking on the banks after falling victim to a sophisticated invoice scam.

Damning report into Mackay Base Hospital made public

New warning for Optus customers as government flags tougher data breach fines.

Caddick's husband Anthony Koletti has accepted she was a conwoman.

The senior NSW minister has announced he will retire from politics at next year’s state election, joining a growing list of departing Coalition MPs.

A 34-year-old man has been shot dead at a Gnangara workshop in what police say was a “targeted attack”.

Grappling with a bipolar diagnosis, a writer turns to one of his musical touchstones – Kanye West – for insight and understanding.

Musicians Danny and Sam Noonan are determined to stop global warming. But unlike most protesters willing to sit down in traffic, they’re both blind.

A heartbroken aunt has told a court of her attempts to help her niece in the years before her “gruesome death”, when she was found upside down and submerged in a wheelie bin.

Friday’s decision should not surprise - Australia is following the rest of the world on pandemic rules.

More than 170 women came forward to speak to investigators probing obstetric and gynaecology services in the central Queensland hospital, and broader public health unit.

Energex had to shut down the network after a crew was called to the incident in Browns Plains.

The husband of missing fraudster Melissa Caddick has told a coronial inquest that he was deceived into believing she was an honest and diligent financial adviser.