A controversial plan to end a ban on fracking in South Australia's South East two years earlier than planned, appears to be all but dead, with the Liberals and One Nation vowing to oppose legislation.
Former chief governance officer Alyssa White admitted to the NSW corruption watchdog that she influenced recruitment processes to help friends and former colleagues. She agreed her actions made processes "unfair and opaque" and that she "placed her finger on the scales" for preferred candidates.
A truck lost its load of two 15-tonne concrete slabs on the North-South Motorway near Bolivar, Australia, striking parked cars and injuring two pedestrians. One pedestrian was hospitalized with a suspected broken arm, while others sustained minor injuries. Investigations are ongoing.
Derryn Hinch, a prominent Australian broadcaster, journalist, and former senator, has died at 87. Remembered as provocative yet courageous, Hinch had a career spanning over five decades in media and politics.
A 16-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with the death of 13-year-old Layla Jeffery, whose body was discovered in bushland in Donald, regional Victoria. Police are treating the death as suspicious and are continuing their investigation.
Alexander James Macdonald Terry, 69, was sentenced to nine years in prison for 13 offences including rape and sexual assault. A judge called him a "sexual predator" who "used and abused" vulnerable victims, some from overseas, between 2017 and 2023.
Telstra CEO Vicki Brady apologized for a national outage caused by a software fault affecting trains, transactions, and emergency calls. In sports, France advanced to the World Cup semi-finals. Australian politics features a Labor mayor's push for pokies reform.
