The new Anzac Station, located beneath St Kilda Road, has four entrances. Image: Victorian Government Melbourne’s Metro Tunnel is on track to open this year a full year ahead of schedule as rail trials operate in a 10-day blitz mode. Trains ran an extra 35,000 kilometres and completed more than 2600 trips in 10 days…
A boy sits in the rubble of a UN Relief and Works Agency school in Nuseirat refugee camp, Gaza. Photo: UNRWA News of a ceasefire and hostage deal in Gaza has been welcomed by Australian PM Anthony Albanese, other world leaders and aid organisations. The deal is expected to take effect from Sunday, January 19…
Sydney drivers need to learn more about claiming for toll relief. Photo: stock Western Sydney drivers are benefitting the most from toll relief after 12 months of the NSW Government’s $60 weekly toll cap. Even so, drivers are still failing to make full use of the relief with only $75m paid out of a possible…
One of Parramatta’s new trams. Photo: Transdev THE NSW Government has unveiled plans to rezone a 42-hectare site in North Parramatta for 2500 new houses and a university campus. The government says a new campus could attract up to 25,000 students as part of the Westmead Health and Innovation District (WHID) precinct. Government says the…
RAAF Bristol Beauforts on patrol in 1945. Picture: Department of Defence An Australian WW2 bomber found on the seabed off Darwin is to remain where it lies undisturbed for the time being. The twin-engine Beaufort light bomber was a surprise discovery during a routine survey by a team from the defence force’s Australian Hydrographic Office.…
The newly-named Atrax christenseni funnel-web (or ‘Big Boy) which can be found in Newcastle. Photo: supplied/Kane Christensen. Sydney’s famous funnel-web spider has long been thought of as a single species but there may actually be three, new research has found. An international team has revised the classification of the spider in research published in the…
Disaster response teams after touching down in Port Vila just after the earthquake. Photo: Department of Defence Australia is to give another $10m in aid to Vanuatu after that country’s recent earthquake which killed 14 and affected 80,000 people. The $10m package will focus on education, health and transport and delivered through local partners, the…
Patients may seek care from elsewhere if the crisis is not solved quickly, says RANZCP. Photo: stock More than 200 senior psychiatrists are to quit NSW public service, reportedly by January 21 over staffing and pay levels, prompting calls for urgent talks. The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (or RANZCP) is imploring…
This fishing boat was intercepted off Cobourg Peninsula on January 4. Photo: ABF The Australian Border Force (ABF) have seized six tonnes of sea cucumber and intercepted 12 fishing poaching boats in Northern Territory waters in just a month. ABF acting Commander Tracie Griffin says the results show their Operation Lunar is having an immediate impact…
FLASHBACK … UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres (left) meets with Joseph Aoun in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic. Photo: UN / Eskinder Debebe. New Lebanese leader Joseph Aoun has been congratulated by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on his election to the presidency. The army commander’s election ends a two-year absence in the presidency of a country…