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Senator Lidia Thorpe has introduced a bill to prohibit the practice in Australian prisons that advocates say violates the human rights of both mother and child Get our new political email , free app or daily news podcast “She was pregnant with twins,” Tahlia Isaac says. “She was meant to be released in 10 days, but she went into labour early.” Isaac says officers handcuffed her fellow prisoner in the back of a van and took her away. Continue reading...

Council staff have recommended a Hunter council reject the application.

Prime ministers of Australia and Iceland discuss effects on their countries even as some shy away in face of war and inflation World political leaders are descending on New York for the UN general assembly and some of them are putting the climate crisis on the agenda as they spoke on Monday at the start of the city’s annual Climate Week. This year’s Climate Week – which runs alongside UNGA – comes after months of extreme heat in large parts of the world including Europe and the US, wildfires in Africa, flash flooding in Asia and a record-breaking El Niño . Continue reading...

Neil Shepherd is known to frequent the Kiama area.

Seventh intergenerational report also outlines how Australia is on the brink of an uncertain age of artificial intelligence Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our new political email , free app or daily news podcast There will be more Australians dying than being born in 40 years’ time, according to the government’s latest intergenerational report, which lays bare the fundamental challenges of managing an ageing population at a time of rapid change and lower economic growth. The country’s seventh IGR also outlines how Australia is on the brink of a new and uncertain…

Want to get this in your inbox every weekday? Sign up for the Morning Mail here , and finish your day with our Politics, really newsletter . Morning everyone. Anthony Albanese has called on world leaders at the United Nations to meet the problem of climate change “head on” as new figures revealed the “jaw-dropping” intensity of the El Niño building in the Pacific. In the first part of a special series this week, the Guardian follows five ordinary Palestinians as they go about their lives – starting with a pregnant woman, Alaa. Two large stick insects have been discovered in Queensland, Nick…

A petition calling for tougher sentencing for hit-and-run crimes will be debated on Thursday.

Staff have labelled the consultation process as 'dreadful'.

New rules also include a ban near schools and childcare centres and require them to source their own renewable energy Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Datacentres in Victoria will be banned in residential areas and required to use renewable energy and contribute to the community, under new state government rules. On Tuesday, the premier, Ben Carroll, will release the government’s sustainable datacentre action plan, after it was approved by cabinet on Monday. Continue reading...

Check out all the gorgeous looks in the first of our 2026 Year 12 end-of-school galleries.

Newcastle Knights fans answer the NRL call - and quickly.

Seven house fires strike Illawarra in 72 hours leaving families homeless.

For the past eight weeks, ABC teams have been talking to thousands of people across the country about what matters to them, and there is a consistent message.

She ultimately confessed to paying her boyfriend to murder her father.

Before United Nations meeting, prime minister says Australians knows the impact of global heating as well as anyone Australia understands the dangers of global warming and the urgency of climate action as much as any other country, Anthony Albanese has said in a keynote speech shortly before the United Nations general assembly. Speaking at the opening of the Climate Week event at the UN in New York on Monday, the prime minister said Australians had experienced the impact of climate breakdown up close with a series of disastrous bushfires and floods in the past decades. Continue reading...

Salmon companies operating in Tasmanian marine areas deployed almost 1,800 explosives in first half of 2026, government figures reveal Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast More than 150,000 underwater explosives have been used to deter seals at Tasmanian salmon farms since 2016, according to new government data. Department of Natural Resources and Environment (NRE Tas) data released last week revealed salmon companies directed almost 1,800 underwater explosives at seals at fish farms in the first half of 2026. Continue reading...

The cut would mean the council will have to consider axing projects.

City of Newcastle maintains no employees will lose their jobs.

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This blog is now closed Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Dan Tehan says fuel excise cut when oil price high a ‘sensible’ plan Dan Tehan , the shadow minister for energy, said Gallagher’s criticism of the Coalition’s fuel plan wasn’t fair. [What] I would say to Anthony Albanese and the Labor party is get out amongst the people and see what’s happening in your electorates because people are hurting because of cost of living … We have the discipline to be able to do the policy work to make sure we can offset policies like this so it won’t be inflationary and it will…

'I feel we've reached the tipping point where the risk is just too big.'

'It's a clever design for a non-conventional space; it's quite narrow.'

Drugs, spiralling mental health, institutionalisation and weapons.

A ute pulling a horse float rolled, killing one motorbike rider and injuring another.

A triple zero call led police and paramedics to a garden in the CBD.

Newcastle are 80 minutes away from a GF for just the sixth time.

The circa $7m off-market deal is the highest price for a non-coastal home in Newcastle.

New premises and big plans for Buckaroo after five decades in Bellambi.

The next general consul to New York chairs Australia Post and is a former News Corp executive Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The former News Corp executive Siobhan McKenna will be Australia’s next consul general to New York in a surprise appointment given her background as a key strategist and trusted “right hand” to Lachlan Murdoch, a vocal Labor critic. The diplomatic posting in Donald Trump’s home town places one of Australia’s most influential media insiders and corporate leaders into a city where trade and conservative political networks intersect. Continue…

And the NSW government should pay for it.

Twenty bids were exchanged during the highly competitive auction.

The fire began shortly before 12.45pm on Monday

He also followed a woman home and was found hiding in his car.

For some reason, the editor thought the Jacksons' holiday was worth reporting.

PHILLIP O'NEILL | The way to avoid a welfare-dependency scenario in mining towns is clear

Illawarra Mercury sports blog for the month of September is live.

It was 30 degrees in Newcastle about 11am. Here's what's coming next.

Jono and his parents have survived more cancer fights than most.

Tyler Chapman explains why he is putting his speech pathology career on hold ... indefinitely.

'People have died by being clipped on the bottom of the jaw.'