Laos charges distillery owner over methanol deaths
A distillery owner faces up to four years' jail over the methanol deaths of Bianca Jones, Holly Bowles and four others. Canberra summoned Laos' ambassador.
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Page 3 of 4Telstra ignored years of warnings before outage
Telstra was first warned in November 2020 about the fault behind the July 8 outage, a Senate inquiry heard. Triple-zero calls failed for hours.
Patient records taken in cyberattack on 21 GP clinics
Partnered Health says data was taken from 16 of 21 named clinics, including Medicare numbers and consultation notes. Patients learned by SMS 22 days on.
Police release unseen Falconio photos 25 years on
NT Police marked 25 years since Peter Falconio's murder with unseen images and a renewed $500,000 reward to locate his remains.
Digital arrival card to replace the orange form
A $56.1 million digital declaration is replacing the orange arrival card, starting at Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane airports.
H5 bird flu reaches a native Australian seabird
A greater crested tern found dead at Robe in South Australia is the first native Australian seabird confirmed with H5 bird flu. Every previous case was a migratory bird from the sub-Antarctic. There are now 13 confirmed detections nationally and none in poultry.
Telstra faces ACMA probe over Triple Zero failures
Telstra ran 639 welfare checks on people who could not reach Triple Zero during this week's outage. The regulator is now investigating the company that both broke the network and operates the emergency line.
Derryn Hinch, broadcaster and senator, dies at 82
Derryn Hinch, who went to prison rather than pay a fine for naming a killer's criminal history, and who turned that record into a Senate seat, has died aged 82.
Dementia now Australia's biggest killer, AIHW says
Dementia has overtaken heart disease as Australia's leading cause of death, the AIHW reports, as national health spending reaches $270.5 billion.
Telstra outage hits triple-zero calls, halts trains
A software defect took down Telstra's mobile network for most of Wednesday, blocking 333 triple-zero calls and suspending Victoria's regional trains. The regulator is investigating.
Space agency traces beach spheres to foreign rocket
The Australian Space Agency says six spheres found on a north Queensland beach appear to be pressure vessels from a foreign rocket that re-entered from orbit.
Ram raid and fire damage 10 shops in inner Melbourne
A vehicle was driven into a Victoria Street shop about 4.15am Monday before the building was set alight. Around 80 firefighters brought the blaze under control by 6am, with about 10 shops damaged and no injuries.
