Karen Sweeney
Victoria has 14,020 cases, test closures
Almost one-in-four Victorians getting tested for COVID-19 are returning positive results as the Omicron variant sweeps the state. Numbers hit five figures...
Victoria records 2738 new COVID-19 cases
Victoria has seen a sharp uptick in COVID-19 infections with 2738 cases and four deaths reported on Tuesday. It’s a new single-day...
Emergency warnings for two WA fires
Burning embers are likely to be blown around homes under threat from a bushfire raging in searing temperatures in Western Australia. Authorities...
Victoria reports 1999 new cases and three further deaths
The number of active COVID-19 cases in Victoria has dropped by nearly 1000 but another 1999 have tested positive. There were 57,818...
Boxing Day buying binge: COVID doesn’t stop shoppers storming the stores from Sydney to Subiaco
Australians are indulging in some post-Christmas retail therapy as they hit the Boxing Day sales online and in-store. Masks, rising COVID numbers...
Australian Financial Review hit with $400k defamation judgment
A journalist who wrote that defamation proceedings against him were “sucking up financial resources” better used for investigative reporting has been ordered...
Tasmanian sex abuse victim awarded record $5.3 million in damages
A man sexually abused as a child by disgraced Tasmanian art collector John Wayne Millwood has been awarded more than $5 million...
Court tosses out Daniel Andrews ‘treason’ case
A private prosecution brought by a Victorian man against Premier Daniel Andrews has been struck out by the court. The prosecution brought...
Vic ambulance staff challenge jab sackings
Ambulance Victoria staff are fighting their terminations over a failure to comply with the state’s COVID-19 vaccination mandates. Unvaccinated staff, including 25...
St Basil’s residents ‘neglected, scared’
A woman whose parents-in-law both died from COVID-19 contracted at a Melbourne nursing home says her family is traumatised by the way...