3+ hour, 27+ min ago   (274+ words) A federal public servant will remain behind bars after allegedly choking his disabled 12-year-old daughter. The father is also accused of assaulting a second daughter as she tried to protect her younger, non-verbal sibling. He is not named to protect…...

2+ mon, 1+ day ago   (262+ words) A top Treasury official has been appointed to lead the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, months after Adam Fennessy's surprise termination. Victoria Anderson will begin a five-year term as secretary on December 8. Ms Anderson's most recent public service role…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (332+ words) Around 50 college campuses across the US have been deluged in recent weeks with hoax calls about armed gunmen and other violence, laying bare the challenges of detecting fake threats quickly to prevent mass panic." Students at some schools spent hours…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago   (212+ words) A man who escaped prison on a tractor has been arrested more than 140 kilometres from his facility, hiding in a tropical paradise. The prisoner, 43-year-old Michael Graeme Rennie, has been missing for a month after he absconded from Queensland's Lotus…...

10+ mon, 1+ week ago   (596+ words) Violent tornadoes are ripping through parts of the US, wiping out schools and toppling semitractor-trailers in several states, part of a monster storm that has killed at least 32 people, with more severe weather forecast. The number of fatalities increased after…...