Police chief Grant Stevens named SA's next governor
SA Police Commissioner Grant Stevens will be sworn in as governor in December, four months after the police union passed a no-confidence vote in him.
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High Court coal ruling puts miners on edge beyond NSW
Queensland and WA resource groups warned investors could be spooked by the Mount Pleasant decision. Ministers and premiers say it turns on NSW law alone.
Indigenous workers paid 84 cents in the dollar: study
A UTS and IBA study finds Indigenous workers earn 16 per cent less an hour, with 70 per cent of the gap unexplained by job or hours worked.
Senators call youth crime wave a false narrative
A Senate committee wants national youth justice standards. Detention costs $3,625 a day per child, and most young people supervised are unsentenced.
Prison numbers pass 50,000 as remand share climbs
Australian prisons held an average of 50,164 people a day in the June quarter, ABS figures show, and 43 per cent of prisoners had not been sentenced. Victoria's prison count rose 15 per cent in a year.
Death rate nine times higher on income support
An AIHW report published Thursday links a decade of Centrelink records to death registrations. Working-age Australians on income support died at 610 per 100,000 person-years against 67 for everyone else, and the gap widened across the period.
White Cliffs solar station joins heritage register
The solar thermal station the Australian National University built at White Cliffs in 1981, which ran the far western NSW opal town's hospital, school, post office and 12 houses day and night off 14 mirrored dishes and a bank of batteries, has been added to the State Heritage Register.
NSW to hit gang murder plots with life sentences
NSW will create life-sentence offences for arranging a gang murder, let courts restrict suspects before a full Supreme Court hearing, try more children as adults and spend $15 million cracking encrypted phones, Premier Chris Minns said on Monday. No bill has yet been introduced.
Theft and robbery fall as car theft hits 17-year high
Police recorded fewer theft and robbery victims in 2025 for the first time since the COVID lockdowns, the ABS says, but motor vehicle theft rose to 66,625 victims, the most since 2008, driven almost entirely by Victoria.
Fire guts Tungatinah power station in Tasmania
Hydro Tasmania's 142-megawatt Tungatinah station at Tarraleah will be out of service for an extended period after an overnight fire. Nobody was hurt and the cause is unknown.
WA police drop 5,700 AI camera seatbelt fines
About 5,700 seatbelt fines issued by Western Australia's AI-assisted road safety cameras have been withdrawn, each carrying a $550 penalty and four demerit points.
538 diphtheria cases in Australia's largest outbreak
Australia has recorded 538 diphtheria cases in 2026, the most since national reporting began in 1991. About one in five people diagnosed has been hospitalised.
