Photo: AFP A Victorian woman has been jailed for three years for defrauding the Australian Tax Office of $452,000. The woman, who was not identified by Australian Federal Police (AFP), was sentenced on Wednesday (November 20) to three years and six months’ imprisonment, with a non-parole period of 20 months. The AFP said she had…
Photo: UNRWA/Ashraf Amra Vetoes by Russia and US of United Nations draft calls for a ceasefire in Sudan and Gaza have triggered outrage and debate among member states. A US decision to veto a draft call for a ceasefire in Gaza was only the fourth time it had used that. The BBC reports that 14…
One of the new boats that are being rolled out across NSW. Picture: FRNSW THE NSW Government is rolling out 19 new HAZMAT boats worth $1.58 million to Fire and Rescue NSW units across the state. The hazardous materials (HAZMAT) boats are to contain oil, diesel and other pollutant spills in rivers and lakes. Each…
Picture: NSW RFS/Flickr NSW homeowners are reminded to check their insurance policies as the bushfire and flood season approaches amid soaring living costs. The reminder came from Legal Aid NSW which says Australian Bureau of Statistics data reveals that home and car insurance costs rose by 16 per cent in the past year. Legal Aid…
Picture: stock South Australia’s newest port, and Australia’s first to be named after the traditional land and sea custodians, has just opened for business. The Port of Narungga is near the existing Wallaroo Port and can process up to 500,000 tonnes of grain annually, the SA government says. Wallaroo Harbour has now been divided into…
Border and fisheries officials board one of the boats. Picture: AFMA Border and fisheries officials have boarded and seized catches from 14 Indonesian fishing boats in just four days. The Australian Border Force (ABF) says there were 113 crew aboard all of the boats which were caught in northern Australian waters. The operation was carried…
Photo: stock A cutter built nearly 130 years ago and lovingly restored will be at the heart of the 2025 Australian Wooden Boat Festival in Tasmania. The state’s Events Minister, Nick Duigan says the festival at Hobart’s waterfront will run from February 7-10 with the theme already decided. “The 2025 festival theme is ‘The Pacific’…
A soldier of Ukraine’s 66th Mechanised Brigade seen with a drone. Photo: Ukraine Ministry of Defence Russian President Vladimir Putin has stepped up threats of a nuclear response after Ukraine attacked a military base with US-made long-range missiles. According to US media outlet Bloomberg, Donald Trump’s impending return to the White House in January is…
Flashback … the NSW Waratahs take on their Fijian rivals during the 2022 SRW grand final in Melbourne. Photo: Sarah Friend/DFAT A historic trans-Tasman clash will round out the 2025 Super Rugby Women’s (SRW) season after the draw was released today. The winner of the SRW competition will be crowned on April 12 at North…
This 2015 picture shows one of the cables being laid to the bottom of the Baltic Sea. Picture: stock European officials are blaming Russia after two submarine internet cables in the Baltic Sea were suddenly disrupted in what is seen as apparent sabotage. The action follows a recent US warning that Moscow was likely to target critical…