Man charged over transmitting child-abuse material
A 50-year-old Barton man is facing court after allegedly using an instant messaging application to share child-abuse material.
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Australia has been invited to a meeting in the US where major economies will discuss the next steps for a $1.2 billion critical minerals stockpile.
Ex-Tropical Cyclone Koji barrelled across the east coast, but forecasters are warning residents to brace for more rain and possible devastating floods.
Radical preachers using unlicensed premises to brainwash and radicalise mostly young men are on notice with councils enlisted to shut them down.
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Meta slams social media ban as it blocks child accounts
Social media giant Meta has criticised the federal government's world-first social media ban as it releases data into how many accounts it wiped in one week.
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Residents ‘smashed’ as cyclone barrels towards coast
Communities are on alert as category one cyclone Koji inches towards far north Queensland with up to 200mm of rain recorded overnight
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‘Not through the worst’: millions for bushfire victims
People affected by devastating bushfires ravaging a state will have access to financial support under an assistance package worth millions of dollars.
The weight-loss journey for a growing number of Australians using "miracle" medications must include exercise or risk long-term health problems, experts warn.
Police are seeking to identify a man and a woman following theft at a retail store in Gungahlin.
Three people missing in Victoria's bushfires are safe and well, although dozens of properties have been destroyed at multiple fire scenes.
As bushfires rage in Victoria, other parts of Australia's southeast are sweltering amid extreme heat ahead of an expected cooler change.
A 25-year-old Hughes man, who was on parole, has been charged after allegedly kicking, biting and strangling his partner.
The ACT has recorded its first road fatality for the year following a two-vehicle collision on the Monaro Highway on Friday morning.
More than 140 drivers were charged with drink or drug driving during a targeted impaired driving operation conducted across the ACT last month.
Polling shows the coalition and One Nation are neck and neck in the popularity stakes in the first public nationwide survey since the Bondi massacre.
The southeast of Australia is enduring some of its hottest temperatures in nearly a decade as a brutal mix of heat and wind prompts alarm from authorities.
Residents of the saturated far north are preparing for another round of severe weather as a dangerous system approaches the Queensland coast.
A 45-year-old man is facing court after allegedly stalking his former partner and repeatedly breaching a family violence order.
Greens Leader Shane Rattenbury says failing to address the health impacts of climate change will leave more Canberrans exposed to harm from extreme weather and place further strain on public services.
