Perth : Travellers to and from Australia have been left stranded or unable to go on holiday after an erupting volcano forced Indonesia to close five airports on Friday. Jetstar and Virgin cancelled all their flights between Australia and Bali’s Denpasar airport, hitting the school holiday season. It is the second day of flight disruptions […]
Sydney : The former Zimbabwean ambassador to Australia has won $180,000 in a defamation case in Canberra against a journalist who published damaging allegations about her. The journalist, Reason Wafawarova, has been ordered to pay Jacqueline Zwambila $160,000 in general damages and $20,000 in aggravated damages after he falsely claimed she had lost her temper and […]
Sydney : A former financial officer of the Sydney Swans has been given only weeks to live after being diagnosed with a rare strain of mad cow disease. Peter Kogoy, a close friend of 63-year-old Frank Burton, has told the ABC Mr Burton has developed sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), a one-in-a-million chance in Australia.Mr Burton […]
Melbourne : Children as young as seven have been caught helping to deal drugs, police say, following a series of raids in regional New South Wales last month. More than 40 people were arrested in Wagga Wagga last month with police laying more than 140 charges of drug dealing.Superintendent Bob Noble said some children were […]
Melbourne : The shooting of a police officer in Melbourne’s north-west may be linked to an earlier attack on the home of George Williams, the father of slain underworld figure Carl Williams, police say.A 31-year-old policeman was shot in the back of the head after he and his partner tried to pull over a car […]