Kate Row and Emily Smith are the two extraordinary Aussie young women who are today pinching themselves with disbelief having been named as winners of The Queen’s Young Leaders Award. This is an inspirational new initiative established by The Queen Elizabeth  Diamond Jubilee Trust to find and mentor the Commonwealth’s most promising young leaders. Each […]

Farmer Geoff Hunt shot his wife and three children dead before turning his gun on himself after years of stress in dealing with his wife’s brain injuries, an inquest is expected to hear. In a murder-suicide case that shocked the nation, the 44-year-old killed his wife Kim, son Fletcher, 10, and daughters Mia, 8, and […]

Children, women and elderly people who couldn’t run away fast enough when Islamist extremists stormed their town were among an estimated 2,000 killed in a bloody massacre that went almost unreported last week. Hundreds of bodies are reportedly still lying in the bush in the wake of what Amnesty International is describing as “the deadliest […]

Conservationists are angry after an Icelandic micro-brewery announced its new beer will be made from smoked whale testicles.

A call to help make mittens for koalas injured in recent bushfires in South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales has received an overwhelming response, with organisers now asking donors to make joey pouches instead. The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) put out the call last week for people to sew the cotton mittens, […]

Supporters of terror group Daesh, formerly referred to as ISIS, IS or ISIL, hacked into the US Central Command’s Twitter and YouTube accounts this morning, posting taunts and threats to soldiers, their wives and children. The hackers said their so-called CyberCaliphate [online Islamic state] was “already here, we are in your PCs, in each military […]

World leaders put aside their differences to link arms defiantly and lead a march of millions of people through Paris in an extraordinary display of unity against terrorism yesterday.

The winners of the Golden Globes will be announced today – and Australia once again has some serious skin in the game.

A permanent memorial to the victims of the Sydney siege is to be erected in Martin Place using the hundreds of floral tributes that were laid out.

Tatiana Tauaifaga was playing in the backyard of her home in Constitution Hill when a driver ploughed through the fence in an allegedly stolen black Audi, with police not far behind.