Tasmania's Ashley Youth Detention Centre has a culture of brutality towards children, allowed alleged sexual abusers to continue working and has breached United Nations torture conventions, an inquiry has been told.A former detainee, known as Warren, said he was raped at least 20 times by one guard and sexually assaulted more than 50 times by other staff who withheld his ADHD medication until they abused him.
Oil and gas company Santos has rejected fears of an east coast gas shortage and warns that customers from Asia are spooked by the prospect of Australian export controls."There hasn't been a shortfall in the last six years," Santos chief executive Kevin Gallagher said on an investor call on Wednesday.
Stories abound at the Broken Hill cemetery, the final resting place for legendary artists, miners, and victims of historic epidemics.Now people serving sentences for minor crimes are finding stories of their own, as they clean up the vast NSW outback cemetery left scarred by the drought and heavy rain.
Travelling 30km inland, this seal isn't finished just yet. Find out the latest regarding its wild ride.
Paying teachers more as they progress up the ladder will keep them from walking away from what is now a lonely profession of freelancers, a NSW parliamentary inquiry has heard.An upper house committee is investigating how to combat the shrinking supply of school teachers, a problem felt across the country that has now drawn the federal government's focus.
A Tasmanian woman who ran a "relatively sophisticated" cannabis growing operation with her son and sold oil-infused gummy lollies initially made the illegal confectionary to help her sick dog.Anya Cooper, 48, and Toby Cooper-McLeod, 21, were sprung when cryovac-sealed gummy lollies were discovered by police during a raid of a mail centre in Burnie in November 2020.
Convinced her friend Colin Hastie was a pedophile, Danielle Sheryl Erica Beutel brutally assaulted the 63-year-old for days in order to gain a confession.After Mr Hastie died in April 2019, audio of 13 "interrogations" found on Beutel's phone indicated he was struck almost 250 times.
Aldi shoppers have been warned about a new scam currently circulating on Facebook. Here's what you need to know.
Workers saw the highest annual rate of wage growth in eight years last quarter, but the increase will do little to ease the soaring cost of living.6 per cent boost to their pay packets in the year to June, with inflation sitting at 6.
Authorities have eased restrictions on some NSW beekeepers, giving cause for optimism that a deadly parasite can be contained.For the first time since the varroa mite was detected near Newcastle in June, the 50-kilometre notification zones - situated outside the emergency surveillance and eradication zones - have been lifted.
The NSW government has released a conservation plan it says will fast-track development in western Sydney while protecting koala habitats.Planning Minister Anthony Roberts on Wednesday unveiled the Cumberland Plain Conservation Plan covering Sydney's Western Parkland City.
UnsplashAs the cut-off for the government’s consultation on a National Cultural Policy (NCP) approaches, thousands in the sector are putting the finishing touches to their three-page submissions. These are directed around “five pillars” drawn from Creative Australia, the national cultural policy announced in the last months of the Gillard regime, but ignored by the Abbott, Turnbull and Morrison governments thereafter. Coalition arts ministers showed little interest in cultural policy. Over the l
Coles has announced it will trial a major change to its fresh produce aisle. Find out how the initiative will affect you.
Former PM Scott Morrison has defended secretly appointing himself to additional portfolios. Source: ABC News
Rural medical clinics say doctors are leaving to work in urban areas or asking for more money to stay in the bush since the Labor government increased the number of workforce priority areas.Health Minister Mark Butler last month said the government was making it easier to recruit GPs, with 700 areas across Australia now recognised as Distribution Priority Areas.
Universal PicturesJordan Peele has only made three films, over a five-year period, but in that time he has emerged as a master of a new kind of genre: high-concept black horror-thrillers with a social edge and bitingly satirical takes on race, class and gender. Peele began his career as a comedian in the sketch series Key & Peele alongside Keegan-Michael Key, spoofing horror classics like The Exorcist (1973). But it was his directorial debut in 2017 – Get Out - that catapulted him to fame. Get O
The man shared images of the facial lesions taken over a three-week period, saying his goal was not to "gross people out" but to educate them. See the photos.
South Australia must have a minister dedicated solely to child protection in the wake of a series of tragic and distressing incidents, the state opposition says.Opposition child protection spokesman Josh Teague said SA is facing a child protection crisis.
Her family feared the worst when she was last seen going on a date. Find out what happened.
It was immediately clear to a midwife that Annie O'Brien had more than gastro when the pregnant mum was rushed from one Melbourne hospital to another.The lawyer and mother-of-one had taken herself to Holmesglen Private Hospital's emergency department with severe gastro symptoms on August 14, 2017.
