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The Member for Fairfax said in Parliament on Monday, “Why should Australian citizens and businesses be taxed, and working women discriminated against, just so that the prime minister’s chief of staff can receive a massive benefit when she gets pregnant?” The remarks were followed by a chorus of criticism from MPs on both sides of […]

Yesterday’s evidence began with a dramatic twist when prosecutor Sasha Wass, QC, introduced television footage from a 1978 TV games show that showed Harris competing in a celebrity competition held in Cambridge. Just last week, responding to allegations that he had groped the breasts of a 14 year old girl in Cambridge in about 1975 […]

The Kiis 1065 breakfast show ran runner-up to Australian Radio Network rivals Brendan “Jonesy” Jones and Amanda Keller after the ARN show picked up 1.8 points to receive a 10.0 audience share and land the number one spot. “Honestly, I am stunned,” Jones told the Daily Telegraph. “It’s like the great white whale.” Amanda Keller […]

Ms Pitt suffered burns to 64 per cent of her body and life-threatening injuries in September 2011 when she became trapped by a fire in West Australia’s Kimberley region while she was running in a marathon organised by Racing the Planet. Ms Pitt, 26, had four fingers from her left hand and her right thumb […]

What do Wayne Swan and Greg Combet have in common with Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor? Yes, they all played prominent roles in the Gillard minority Labor government and announced their various departures following Julia Gillard’s knifing last year. But like the former Prime Minister herself, each of these men are penning their own accounts […]

It was those words, and 13-year-old Jordan’s determined self-sacrifice, that saved his younger brother Blake’s life. Now, his father John Tyson is campaigning to make sure that both Jordan’s memory and bravery are formally recognised with the posthumous award of Australia’s highest civilian honour, the Cross of Valour. “Jordan couldn’t swim,” John wrote on website […]

But like so many others, Richelle was battling mental illness – and tragically after years of depression, she took her own life on March 9. The Weekly‘s story on Jessica Marais and her battle with bipolar, was all too familiar for Richelle’s younger sister, Hayley, 24, who says there are striking similarities between the actress […]

Michael Dean, the US Navy’s director of ocean engineering, told CNN overnight that the acoustic noises which prompted a narrowing of the broad search patterns to a smaller, specific area of the southern Indian Ocean in early April instead came from “man-made sources”, most likely either the device used to locate the sounds or the […]

Speaking at a Senate Estimates hearing on Wednesday, ABC managing director Mark Scott suggested popular children’s programming like Peppa Pig could be among cuts to the national broadcaster’s slate under proposed cuts in the Federal budget. But The Weekly asks whether it is fair to drag an unsuspecting cartoon heroine into an argument about funding […]

The author of 10 books and former model spoke on the ABC program about the “toxic ­silence” surrounding sexual abuse. “We need to get a lot better at talking about it and one of the reasons is because the silence protects the predators,” Moss said. “It also shames the victims. It also robs us as […]