Investigations are continuing into the deaths of two rock fishermen who died in the New South Wales (NSW) Illawarra, with police and lifesavers praised for saving a third man. The fishermen were swept off of rocks near Port Kembla south of Sydney. Police said the alarm was raised by members of the public when three…
Lockout Laws to Be Scrapped in Kings Cross
The last of Sydney’s controversial lockout laws, introduced six years ago to quell alcohol-fuelled violence, will be scrapped from Kings Cross next month. The decision comes into effect from March 8 as part of a NSW government bid to revive the area’s night-time economy, which was hit hard by the pandemic. The laws shutting down…
AFP Seizes $15.8M Assets From Fraudster
Assets worth nearly $16 million have been seized by AFP (Australian Federal Police) from a man who is serving seven years in jail over a mammoth fraud on the Commonwealth. Six properties, three vehicles, luxury items like watches, multiple bank accounts, investment accounts and shareholdings worth $15.8m are now in the government’s hands. Simon Anquetil…
AFP Seizes $15.8 Million Assets From Fraudster
Assets worth nearly $16 million have been seized by AFP (Australian Federal Police) from a man who is serving seven years in jail over a mammoth fraud on the Commonwealth. Six properties, three vehicles, luxury items like watches, multiple bank accounts, investment accounts and shareholdings worth $15.8 million are now in the government’s hands. Simon…
Pelvic Mesh Implant Appeal Begins in Sydney
A Sydney court will begin hearing a multinational pharmaceutical giant’s challenge to a landmark ruling that pelvic mesh implants caused debilitating injuries to hundreds of Australian women. The November 2019 ruling found three companies in the Johnson & Johnson group had acted negligently and concealed the true extent of complications from the pelvic implants. More…
More Australian States Ease COVID-19 Border Restrictions
Queensland and Western Australia will further ease border restrictions for visitors from Monday, according to updates from decisions made on Sunday morning. Over the Christmas period, Australia’s states and territories reintroduced various travel restrictions in response to a CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus outbreak in the suburbs of Sydney’s Northern Beaches, followed by, in Brisbane,…
More Testing Needed in New South Wales: Premier
New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian wants more local residents to be tested for COVID-19, the disease caused by the CCP virus, before she eases restrictions. The state has recorded zero new locally acquired cases for the third day in a row while the northern beaches and Berala clusters have appeared to have been all…
Jacinta Price Calls for Forgiveness and Healing on Australia Day
A Sydney MP’s request for a minute’s silence for Indigenous Australians on Australia Day has been countered by Alice Springs councillor Jacinta Price, who suggested that the day could instead provide a time for forgiveness and healing. “Why don’t we use the morning of Australia Day to … forgive?” Price told 2GB radio on Tuesday. “Why…
More COVID-19 Alerts in Sydney’s West
New South Wales (NSW) Premier Gladys Berejiklian is due to make an announcement following new COVID-19 public health alerts in western Sydney. The new public health alerts have been issued for a western Sydney venue and additional public transport routes following confirmed cases of COVID-19. Anyone who attended Centrelink in Auburn on Jan. 14 in…
Australian Terror Extremist Back in Jail 2 Weeks After Release
A 25-year-old Sydney man is back in jail—less than two weeks after he was released—for allegedly breaching a court order by access online material about beheadings and torture. Radwan Dakkak—an ISIS supporter—was arrested by Australian Federal Police (AFP) in the Sydney suburb of Denistone this morning. According to police, he has an “extremist ideology aligned to…
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