Alex McDonald

Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton personally cut millions in grant funding from organisations that were strongly recommended by his department to improve community safety, and used the funds to support his own handpicked list.

A former commissioner of the New South Wales Police watchdog believes a police officer captured on camera sweeping the legs out from a 16-year-old Indigenous boy may have acted unlawfully.

Homeowners are holding off selling their properties, with fewer new listings than at any time in the past 12 years.

Disability pensioner Lytha Owlstara is suing NSW Police after dashcam footage showed her being manhandled by an officer who drew his gun and pepper sprayed her dog after she was pursued for 2 kilometres for driving an unregistered vehicle.

Frontman Colin Hay says the meaning of his song Down Under is lost on Cory Bernardi, suggesting the South Australian senator dabble in some "light hallucinogens", wander into a field and reconsider his own importance.

The co-founder of Tasmania's second largest salmon farming company breaks industry ranks to warn of a looming environmental disaster if fish stocks in Macquarie Harbour are not reduced.