Former NSW premier Mike Baird has told a Sydney court that the alleged co-conspirator of a businesswoman accused of defrauding the National Australia Bank organised a luxury holiday for him and his family at the Wolgan Valley resort. Baird, who joined NAB shortly after quitting politics in January 2017, worked as the bank’s chief customer […]

LIZ Truss has been told to focus on the levelling up agenda to ensure the north-south divide narrows, northern Tory MPs say. The PM will face the electoral consequences if she doesn’t double down on the pledges made by Boris Johnson to spread opportunity more equally across the country. The calls come on the eve […]

Princess of Wales is dashing the hopes of a generation of photographers by taking her own pictures of the royal children rather than letting someone else ‘make their name’ doing it, snapper moans A royal photographer has criticised Kate for portraits she takes of her children John Swannell said she is denying others the opportunity […]

A royal mystery: The Queen died of old age at 3:10pm. So, asks REBECCA ENGLISH, why did it take more than three hours to tell Prince Harry? The Queen died at Balmoral of ‘old age’, it was revealed yesterday – the first time a monarch’s death certificate is believed to have been made public. But […]

Senior Apple exec is fired after TikTok emerges of him joking about fondling ‘big-breasted women’ for a living as he gets out of his $500,000 Mercedes supercar Tony Blevins, a high ranking vice president at Apple, was fired after a viral TikTok showed him joking about fondling ‘big-breasted women’ for a living The video, centered […]

Bulk orders for COVID-19 tests are on the rise as companies brace for a winter surge, said iPromo CEO Leo Friedman. He told Yahoo Finance that there's been a surge in orders for the two types of tests his company sells, with sales up 80% since the end of August compared to the summer months. […]

Michael Barrymore’s amazing cover, jamming with students and singing with fake middle-aged backing dancers: Coolio fans this side of the Atlantic remember some of the more unlikely TV highlights featuring the star who has died aged 59 Clip was taken from 2013 gig at a student house in Preston, Lancashire  The rapper was performed singing […]

‘People become complacent, saying it’s not going to hit us…this one did’: Florida sheriff says thousands of local residents IGNORED evacuation orders ahead of Hurricane Ian, with hundreds now feared dead Residents of Charlotte County, Florida in evacuation zones were given at least 48 hours of warning to leave their homes before Ian hit About […]

Medicare beneficiaries are getting back some of the premium increases they had to swallow this year. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that 2023 monthly Part B premiums will decrease to $164.90 from $170.10, the first decline in a decade that only partially offsets the double-digit percentage increase in the 2022 premium. The […]

Students at the “most important school in the state” in Banksia Hill Detention Centre are struggling to complete their education effectively due to staffing pressures and a lack of resources, according to the Perth Children’s Court president. Judge Hylton Quail said young offenders were left without access to education because they were kept locked in […]