Australia's hopes of hitting its housing targets to address skyrocketing rents and property prices appear to be fading before they've even begun, after the number of homes approved for construction declined last month.New data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics showed just 13,078 dwellings were given the green light in April, a 0.3 per cent drop...

Lisa Wilkinson's successful defence of Bruce Lehrmann's defamation case came at a price, with the prominent journalist spending up to $8000 a day on her top silk.The Federal Court was told that former The Project star Wilkinson spent just over $1.8 million in defending the case and was hoping to foist the vast amount of the sum on Lehrmann after his...

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An international law enforcement team has arrested a Chinese national and disrupted a major botnet that officials said he ran for nearly a decade, amassing at least $US99 million ($149 million) in profits by reselling access to criminals who used it for identity theft, child exploitation, and financial fraud, including pandemic relief scams.The US Department...

A $16 million strike team has been established in South Australia to combat the escalating black market trade in nicotine-laced vapes and illegal tobacco."If you are breaking the law with impunity, selling chop chop, selling illegal cigarettes, tobacco, vapes, we are coming after you," Premier Peter Malinauskas said."This will be the most comprehensive...

Four Jetstar cabin crew members have been taken to hospital after reports of an "unusual smell" on a flight from the Gold Coast to Cairns.The plane had landed in Cairns and passengers had disembarked when a crew member, aged in her 40s, began to feel faint at about 9.30am.A second crew member supported her so she wouldn't fall, the airline said.READ...