Sarah Keoghan

The number of women behind bars in Australia is increasing at a rate that’s eclipsing the rise in male criminals, and a surprising culprit could be behind the trend.

A UNSW optometry PhD student who allegedly had 25,000 files of child abuse on his phone told police he saved the material because he wanted to report it to the authorities, a court has heard.

A bitter family feud over the ownership of a real estate business in Sydney’s eastern suburbs has broken out in the NSW Supreme Court, with the daughter claiming she worked unpaid at the agency on the promise she would be given the business when her father retired.

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Young Aussies doing away with the smashed avocado and scraping together pennies for their first home should be “pissed off” by the Reserve Bank’s decision to cut the cash rate again. That’s the message from experts who agree that house prices could rise by up to 10 per cent in the coming months as a result of the decision.

A Gold Coast man who was acquitted of the high-rise murder of his Tinder date has been banned from the Star casino after a security guard allegedly found him “over the top” of a woman fighting her while her dress was “up over her hips” in a hotel room.

It was a quiet Good Friday for the Prime Minister, a slightly busier one for the Opposition Leader, but the Greens leader is gearing up for a dance party.

Dwindling supplies of Ozempic are fuelling an “exploding” black market for the drug across Australia, as the medical industry is forced to assess which patients need the popular medication the most.

A pro-Trump owner who shut down his cafe after making a series of offensive comments online, including homophobic slurs, has asked for “forgiveness” from the community ahead of the opening of his new cafe in Sydney’s inner west.

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