Harris, 23, was travelling in a car driven by her fiancé, Luke Hunt, 28, in Narraweena on Sydney’s Northern Beaches, when it collided with Kenneth Lay’s car, which then slammed into a tree. Mr Lay, a grandfather of 16 and father of seven, died in hospital. The court heard that Hunt had been speeding in […]

“Funding for the National Plan to Prevent Domestic Violence is being cut by $7.4 million over forward estimates,” Senator Waters said on Wednesday. “Domestic violence is a national crisis and needs to be dealt with urgently with properly resourced action, not funding cuts.” Liberal Senator, and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Women, Michaelia Cash, […]

Treasurer Joe Hockey announced the cuts and introduced taxes in one of the most feared budget speeches in decades. Mothers will feel the weight of these announcements, as they, along with the entire nation, will be charged $7 as a Medicare co-payment each time they and their children visit the doctor from July 2015. School […]

Tonight treasurer Joe Hockey stood in federal parliament and handed down the Abbott Government’s first budget. Wearing a blue tie, Hockey delivered a tough budget with “heavy lifting” measures that he says will reduce the national deficit to $10.6 billion by 2016-17. However, political pundits are already anticipating that these deep cuts will savagely impact […]

More specifically, is the budget as painful as we were led to believe? And has the government broken any election promises? PAIN FOR WHOM? It was tipped to be the toughest budget since 1996, and news.com.au has bought into the narrative, leading the site with ‘The Hockey Horror Show: It’s time to Budget for pain’. […]

Professor Phelps, a GP and the former head of the Australian Medical Association, said that while there is talk that the Australian National Preventive Health Agency will be axed, prevention is a crucial pillar of the health budget. “With a growing ageing population, we have to focus on prevention,” she said. The health budget is […]

Sydney couple Renee Young and Simon Howie always knew the birth of their conjoined twins would be special, but welcoming them just in time of Mother’s Day made their miracle birth all the more exciting.

Sydney couple Renee Young and Simon Howie always knew the birth of their conjoined twins would be special, but welcoming them just in time of Mother’s Day made their miracle birth all the more exciting. Although the couple wasn’t expecting their daughters to be born for another six weeks, Renee gave birth by an emergency […]

Mrs Rinehart, the heiress to Lang Hancock’s iron ore mining fortune and estimated to be worth $18.5 billion, gave Hope Rinehart Welker, 30, the money on the condition that she sign over the voting rights to shares in Hancock Prospecting held on her behalf by the trust. Christopher Withers, representing Gina Rinehart’s son John Hancock […]

Today newspapers revealed that not only are tax payers to be hit with a so-called “deficit levy” for those on higher incomes – a budget option that has raised the ire not only of the public but also of many backbenchers who fear an electoral backlash – but also that the government is seriously considering slugging […]