September 28, 2023
An Australian court is ordering a man who staged his own kidnapping to compensate police for the hassle of investigating the fake crime. Paul Iera, 35, messaged his girlfriend on New Year’s Eve 2022 from his own phone, pretending to be a group of Middle Eastern kidnappers. The man from Wollongong, New South Wales, was
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Receive free Wine updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Wine news every morning. The equivalent of 859 Olympic-sized swimming pools of wine sloshing around Australia is testimony to a brutal period for the country’s wine growers. Two billion litres of Shiraz, Cabernet Sauvignon and other varieties have accumulated
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A group of Australian researchers say they’ve discovered when the biggest bull sharks are most active, and it’s not when most people think. Currently, official Australian advice recommends that water-goers avoid swimming and surfing at dawn, dusk and night, saying these are times when “sharks can see you but you can’t see them”. The advice
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Aussie Taylor Swift fans have sounded the alarm about a worrying scam in which hackers use stolen identities to swindle hopeful Swifties. The ruthless scammers are taking advantage of rampant demand for tickets to the Australian leg of Swift’s Eras tour, selling fake tickets and robbing Aussies of their hard-earned cash. First, the scammer hacks
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SYDNEY, Sept 25, 2023 (AFP) – Qantas pilots called Tuesday on the Australian carrier’s chairman Richard Goyder to resign for presiding over “woeful decisions” that have battered morale and the airline’s reputation. The call comes after former chief executive Alan Joyce took early retirement on September 5 as Qantas battled criticism over high prices, mass
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Former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott has been nominated to the board of the Fox News Corporation. The board is undergoing a reshuffle after Fox and News Corp Chair Rupert Murdoch announced he will be stepping back and transitioning to Chairman Emeritus. With two vacancies now on the board, Fox Corp CEO Lachlan Murdoch has
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Melanie Dinjaski is an experienced sports journalist at the Canberra Times with a genuine love of all sports. She’s covered every code from NRL to NFL, and has experience in print, digital, podcasting, TV and video journalism, having spent time working in newsrooms at Nine, Fox Sports and Seven before moving to the capital. Melanie
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Melanie Dinjaski is an experienced sports journalist at the Canberra Times with a genuine love of all sports. She’s covered every code from NRL to NFL, and has experience in print, digital, podcasting, TV and video journalism, having spent time working in newsrooms at Nine, Fox Sports and Seven before moving to the capital. Melanie
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The number of women being diagnosed with endometriosis in Australia is rising, new data shows. Endometriosis is a painful disease that occurs when tissue similar to that which lines the uterus grows outside the uterus – usually in areas like the ovaries and fallopian tubes as well as on organs such as the bladder, bowel,
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‘Snakes are obviously cold-blooded animals, and while they can swim, reptiles generally avoid water.’ As if sharks were not already enough to worry about, an Australian surfer has been seen paddling out with a python coiled around his neck. The intrepid surfer caused a stir on Australia’s Gold Coast after footage emerged of him carving
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