Hillsong accused of misusing church funds to pay for private jets, luxury retreats

Tasmanian independent MP Andrew Wilkie has used leaked documents to allege Hillsong Church broke financial laws in Australia and around the world, while accusing founder Brian Houston of spending lavishly on private jets, luxury retreats, designer goods and custom skateboards. Wilkie used parliamentary privilege on Thursday to make the allegations regarding the church’s finances, which […]

Advocates call for mature conversation around city injecting room

Almost 80 organisations have teamed up in an emotional plea for Premier Daniel Andrews to follow through with his promise to open a second safe-injecting room in Melbourne’s CBD. Concerned with delays in opening the facility, 78 chief executives and leaders from community health organisations, churches, the drug and alcohol sector, housing and legal services […]

Raquel Leviss Called Out for 'Sweet Innocent Act' on Vanderpump Rules

Leviss was criticized for making a move on Tom Schwartz, before going after Garcelle Beauvais' possibly-married son Oliver. The ongoing season of “Vanderpump Rules” hits a little different now that the affair between Raquel Leviss and Tom Sandoval has been exposed. According to reports, the two started hooking up last summer, around the same time […]

Teals split as Coalition revives 2019 election franking credits debate

Teal MPs have split on a $600 million plan to tighten up rules around dividend imputation that the Coalition argues is a broken promise by the government, reviving the debate over franking credits that contributed to Labor’s 2019 election loss. The Senate’s economics committee will investigate proposed changes to limit franking credits linked to company […]

Paulina Porizkova claps back after being criticized for lingerie photo

Paulina Porizkova claps back at online trolls who told her she ‘didn’t age gracefully’ and is ‘obsessed with her looks’ after she posted a lingerie photo to show what ‘almost 58 looks like’ Porizkova shared a photo of herself modeling a knit sweater and lingerie Monday The post was a celebration of her age, but […]

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: BBC risks own goal over Lineker scandal

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: BBC risks own goal over Lineker scandal The arrangement is meant to be straightforward. The BBC receives £3.7billion a year from the licence fee and, in return, it is obliged by charter to be scrupulously neutral. However, the question of who calls the shots when it comes to the state broadcaster’s impartiality […]

HARDCASTLE: Why didn't Boris leave task of knighting father to Rishi?

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Why didn’t Boris Johnson leave the task of knighting his father Stanley to Rishi Sunak? With no confirmation that Boris has knighted his dad, constitutional boffins wonder why he didn’t leave the task to Rishi Sunak.  Previous PMs have left it to their successors to look after the family. Johnson arranged Philip May’s […]