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NSW police deputy commissioner says more than 400 police were involved in the raids Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastSeven juveniles have been arrested as part of extensive counter-terrorism raids across south-western Sydney, with police alleging they adhere to a “religiously motivated violent extremist ideology”.New South Wales police said...

Outside court in Sydney, John Walford says he is ‘not sure’ how his client will plead to alleged murders of Jesse Baird and Luke DaviesFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe lawyer for former police officer and accused double murderer Beau Lamarre has suggested the charges could be defended on...

Batoul Sleibi El Dirani sped into home of Robyn Oxley, throwing her out of bed and through her back window, court hearsGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA woman was in a “highly disordered mental state” when fleeing the scene of an accident after her speeding SUV slammed into a western Sydney home, killing the occupant, a court...

Government vows to fight legal challenges over content removal orders as assistant treasurer calls platform a ‘factory for trolls and misinformation’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAnthony Albanese has said he finds it “extraordinary” Elon Musk’s X is planning to fight content removal orders related to the video of a...

Anthony Albanese says vigil was to honour victims and ‘mourn for all the years of joy they should have known’Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastHundreds of people attended a candlelit vigil at Bondi Beach on Sunday evening to remember the victims of Australia’s worst mass killings in years with speeches, music, and a minute’s silence.Six people were...

This blog is now closed.Seven CEO James Warburton departs networkAustralia needs a plan for war to ‘focus the national mind’, Michael Pezzullo saysGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastMarles continues breakfast rounds to discuss defence spendingThe defence minister, Richard Marles, has been making the rounds this morning and has also spoken to ABC RN about yesterday’s defence announcement.The...

Dani Mansour, 19, charged after allegedly filming himself damaging two police vehicles amid anger over stabbing of bishop Mar Mari EmmanuelFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe first person arrested and charged for taking part in the Wakeley riots was granted bail after appearing at Blacktown local court on Thursday....

This blog is now closedSydney church stabbing: police treating as terrorist attack the alleged stabbing of bishop during livestreamed massGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe prime minister, Anthony Albanese, says he has been briefed by the Australian federal police following an alleged stabbing at a Wakeley church overnight.Albanese wrote on X:I have been briefed by the AFP...

NSW premier says a ‘major and serious criminal investigation’ is under way after incident at Assyrian Christ the Good Shepherd church in Wakeley was deemed terrorism attackFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastPolitical and religious leaders are pleading for calm amid a “combustible situation” set off by a stabbing at...

The Pakistani citizen – who fled religious persecution to settle in Australia – was working his first day shift as a security guard at Westfield Shopping CentreGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastSecurity guard Faraz Tahir has been remembered as a tireless charity volunteer after his death in a mass stabbing at Bondi Junction on Saturday prompted a...

This blog is now closed.Bondi Junction stabbings: Killer Joel Cauchi may have targeted women and children, NSW police sayGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAlbanese on Bondi attacker’s motive: ‘The gender breakdown is of course concerning’I just wanted to go back to the PM’s appearance on ABC radio earlier, where he was asked what he thought of the...

Police believe 40-year-old Queensland man suffered from mental health problems and had only moved to Sydney a month agoGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe family of Bondi Junction attacker Joel Cauchi have described his actions as “truly horrific”, offered condolences to the loved ones of the victims and expressed support for the police officer who ended the...

Police say 40-year-old was an itinerant who moved to NSW last month and had a history of mental illnessJoel Cauchi named as Bondi Westfield attacker who stabbed shoppersAustralia stabbing live updates: seven dead in Sydney attack at Westfield Bondi Junction shopping centreQueensland man Joel Cauchi has been named as the man who killed five women and one man at the Bondi Junction shopping centre...

Ash Good, who died in shopping centre stabbing spree after handing over infant for treatment, hailed as an ‘incredible mother’Australia stabbing live updates: seven dead in Sydney attack at Westfield Bondi Junction shopping centreSydney stabbing: seven people dead, including attacker shot by police at Bondi Junction shopping centreWoman killed in Sydney attacks was trying to save her babyA woman who died after attempting to...

Police in Australia say multiple victims hospitalised in critical condition, including a baby, and they do not believe there is a second attackerWhat we know so farAttacker had ‘big blade’, witness tells 9 NewsJason, a shopper evacuated from the centre, told 9 News he saw the alleged attacker with a “nice big blade”. Continue reading...

Authorities are warning people to avoid the Westfield in Bondi Junction with more than a dozen emergency vehicles on the sceneAuthorities are warning people to avoid Sydney’s Westfield in Bondi Junction following reports of a man armed with a knife in the shopping centre in a “major incident”.On Saturday afternoon, tens of emergency vehicles including ambulances responded to the incident, with shoppers fleeing the...

Byelection in the south Sydney seat expected to be won by Liberal candidate Simon Kennedy as AEC warns voter turnout could be lowGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe Liberal party will be hoping to the exorcise the ghost of Scott Morrison on Saturday as voters in Sydney’s south go to the polls to elect his replacement.The byelection...

Inner West council in Sydney says it needs more information before agreeing to trial as T3 train line due to close for 12-14 months from JulyFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA Sydney council is demanding more details about the government’s plan to accommodate the 60,000 daily commuters who will...

Hardest hit areas were Illawarra, Nepean and Hawkesbury and premier says 29 homes were completely inundatedFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastResidents in flood-ravaged parts of New South Wales are returning to their properties after some areas were evacuated over the weekend and several homes were destroyed.The NSW SES received...

Police allege the accused dumped an injured man on a street in Melonba and left him to dieA man will face court accused of murder following a pre-arranged fight after which he allegedly dumped his opponent in a western Sydney street and left him to die.Emergency services were called to Georgina Crescent in Melonba about 8.45pm on Friday after reports a man had been...

East was found critically injured on Fletcher Street in beachside Tamarama about 4am on Sunday morning and pronounced dead at the sceneGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA man will face court after allegedly hitting a young lawyer with his car and leaving him to die on a Sydney street.The 63-year-old man was charged on Friday following the...

A man in his 50s and another in his 30s have been taken to hospital after being hit by an SUV at a Sydney shopping centreGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastTwo people are in hospital after being struck by a display car at a busy shopping centre in Sydney.A teenager was sitting in the SUV when it...

Foot traffic near Melbourne’s town hall recorded at highest since 2015, as Eras tour concert coincides with busiest day of 2024Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastThe pre-pandemic hustle and bustle of the central business districts of Sydney and Melbourne is returning, and in Melbourne’s case it’s busier than it’s been for nearly a decade.But the weekend crowds...

It was only two weeks ago that the founder of Timor-Leste’s own pride march learned he and 10 others were coming to AustraliaLive news: Minns to become first NSW premier to join Sydney Mardi Gras parade‘It feels like we lost brothers’: Sydney Mardi Gras preparations take on sombre tone after alleged murdersNatalino Guterres likens getting the chance to march down Oxford Street in pure...