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Pauline Hanson claims Australia is on track for another million migrants under Albanese government

Pauline Hanson claims Australia is on track for another million migrants under Albanese government

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has accused the Albanese government of repeatedly missing its own migration targets, claiming Labor is on track to bring another one million migrants to Australia over the next four years.

On Monday, Hanson argued that Home Affairs and Immigration Minister Tony Burke's upcoming migration announcement would maintain Australia's high migration intake rather than reduce it.

'Tony Burke isn't cutting migration. He is doubling down on bringing in another million people over the next four years,' Hanson said.

'This weak government has never once hit a migration target it set. Not once, in four years.'

Hanson pointed to a series of migration forecasts she claims Labor has exceeded.

She noted the government originally forecast net overseas migration of 235,000 in October 2022, but said the figure later rose to 538,000.

She also cited Labor's May 2023 forecast of 315,000, claiming net overseas migration ultimately reached 429,000.

The One Nation leader further claimed Labor forecast net overseas migration of 260,000 in May 2024, but that figure later increased to 306,000.

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Peta Credlin unloads at Albo for billing taxpayers to fly his family to Canberra... after Daily Mail exposed out-of-touch act amid cost-of-living crisis

Peta Credlin unloads at Albo for billing taxpayers to fly his family to Canberra... after Daily Mail exposed out-of-touch act amid cost-of-living crisis

Peta Credlin has taken aim at Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for billing taxpayers to fly his wife and adult son to Canberra for Budget night, insisting they should have paid their own way.

Appearing on News24 on Thursday, Credlin said she was stunned by the Daily Mail's revelation that Albanese used a parliamentary family reunion allowance to fund flights for his wife Jodie Haydon and their son Nathan from Sydney for the May Budget.

Both Albanese and Treasurer Jim Chalmers are under fire after taxpayers were charged more than $4,200 to fly family members to Canberra for Budget night, even though their relatives hold well-paid professional jobs.

Expense records show Albanese claimed $2,591.32 for return flights for Ms Haydon and his 25-year-old son between Sydney and Canberra, covering travel from May 12 to May 14.

Each one-way fare was $647.83, with the public covering both outbound and return trips.

Nathan Albanese works in the institutional banking division of Commonwealth Bank, while Ms Haydon was a senior executive at Teachers Mutual Bank as

GP who lives in $12M Bellevue Hill mansion is accused of despicable acts against female patients at his Waterloo bulk-billing practice spanning decades - as allegations widen

GP who lives in $12M Bellevue Hill mansion is accused of despicable acts against female patients at his Waterloo bulk-billing practice spanning decades - as allegations widen

A doctor who lives in a $12million mansion in Sydney's eastern suburbs has been hit with more indecency and sexual assault charges relating to female patients at his longtime bulk-billing practice.

The GP, who has been operating the no-fee medical centre in Australia's densest public housing suburb, Waterloo, for four decades, is now charged with assaulting or sexually touching eight female patients, including one from the age of 15.

Dr Andrew Small was initially released from police custody in May, when the general practitioner was held overnight in police cells after being charged with five offences against four female patients.

NSW Police re-arrested him, took him to Mascot Police Station, and laid five further charges, including alleged offences against the patient who was 15 years old. 

The offences include three charges of aggravated sexual touching of another person and one of aggravated sexual intercourse with a person aged 14 to 16.

He is also charged with one count of aggravated indecency with a person aged 16 and under authority. 

Dr Small has practised at Waterloo Medical Centre since 1987 and lives in a luxury home with a swimming

Mom slit her three children's throats in a frenzied attack before sending their dad a chilling video, police say

Mom slit her three children's throats in a frenzied attack before sending their dad a chilling video, police say

A North Dakota mother slit her three children's throats in a frenzied attack before sending a chilling five-word text message to their father, police say. 

Kailey Erhart, 22, allegedly stabbed her daughters Morgan, three, and Ava, five months, to death at her Mandan home on Thursday evening, according to an affidavit obtained by KVLY.

She also allegedly knifed her one-year-old son, Colton, but the little boy survived the attack after undergoing extensive surgery. Police say he sustained serious injuries.

Erhart carried out the 'horrific' attack after waving a gun at her estranged husband, Cameron, and chasing him and the children's grandmother out of the house with a knife, the affidavit said.

When police responded at the home, they said they found Erhart covered in blood and holding a kitchen knife to her own throat.

Officers found the three children lying on the floor after following a trail of blood to a nearby bedroom, the filing said. They were unresponsive and had wounds on their necks, per the document.

Before the attack, Erhart texted a video to Cameron warning him to 'say goodbye to your kids,' the affidavit said. 

Survivor of boat capsize in New York harbor shares harrowing details about the tragedy as mom who was killed alongside her baby is identified

Survivor of boat capsize in New York harbor shares harrowing details about the tragedy as mom who was killed alongside her baby is identified

The 14 passengers onboard a motorboat that capsized in the New York harbor on Saturday night were celebrating a surprise birthday party.

Family and friends had chartered a 2019 21-foot white Yamaha AR210 from Zeus Luxury for Paula Rivera's surprise 41st birthday party, her daughter, Sara Raez, told the New York Post. 

The group then boarded the boat, which Raez described as 'kind of like a yacht' at around 7pm. They then passed by the Statue of Liberty and were heading back to shore when tragedy struck at around 10.30pm.

'The water got into the boat,' Raez recounted. 'The boat went up, and when it went down, it was, in seconds, it flipped over.'

All of the passengers were then left stuck underneath the vessel, she said, before crews rescued them and pulled them from the water.

'We were just trying to get out. Then, when finally everyone got out, everyone was screaming.'

Sara Sanchez, 27, and her five-month-old daughter, Antonella Garcia, were ultimately airlifted to NYU Langone Hospital in Brooklyn in critical condition and were later pronounced dead.

A dozen others were also transported to

Revealed: The £1million family home of Stone Roses legend Gary 'Mani' Mounfield put on market nine months after musician's death

Revealed: The £1million family home of Stone Roses legend Gary 'Mani' Mounfield put on market nine months after musician's death

The family home of Stone Roses legend Gary 'Mani' Mounfield has been placed on the market nine months after the musician's death – with a £1.05million asking price.

The much-loved bassist died at the property near Stockport, Greater Manchester, last November aged 63.

His death came almost two years after his beloved wife Imelda died from cancer at the age of 52, tragically leaving the couple's twin teenage sons orphaned.

Now, the family's imposing five-bedroom period residence has been listed for sale with a seven-figure guide price.

The substantial semi-detached Victorian house, situated in the sought-after suburb of Heaton Moor, is described by estate agents as 'oozing charm and character'.

Pictures taken inside the property reveal unmistakable traces of Mani's celebrated life in music, with guitars, framed mementoes and memorabilia connected to his beloved Manchester United still visible.

Its four floors include five double bedrooms, three bedrooms and cellar rooms that appear to have been used by Mani as his own retreat, with piles of records, a guitar rested on an armchair and a portrait of former United striker Eric Cantona.

Local estate agents John Mellor described the property as 'a stunning

The Costa Geriatrica! UK pensioners swap £6,000-a-month care homes for assisted living in the Spanish sun with gardens, pools and 24-hour on-call doctors at a fraction of the price

The Costa Geriatrica! UK pensioners swap £6,000-a-month care homes for assisted living in the Spanish sun with gardens, pools and 24-hour on-call doctors at a fraction of the price

Older Brits are ditching expensive retirement flats at home for cut-price Spanish ones abroad - where the pound goes further and the facilities are top-notch.

Expats say they'd rather live on the Costa Blanca than pour their money into so-called assisted living complexes in the UK, which have been exposed as money pits that many people struggle to sell.

Rather than buying a flat that threatens to swallow their cash, British retirees are investing in cheap retirement-ready property that comes with a swimming pool, libraries, transport and 24-hour on-call medical aid.

One such community is Ciudad Patricia, a 24-acre retirement community of landscaped parkland in the hills above Benidorm, where residents can buy a flat for around £200,000.

Sheila Morris, 87, moved with her partner Howard, 85, into the complex in 2018, paying around 320,000 Euros - £274,000 at current exchange rates - for a flat.

Some flats start from as little as 240,000 Euros (£205k) for a 65-year-old but the upfront purchase price falls by 3,500 Euros (£3k) for every year up to 80, for a maximum discount of £45,000.

On top of this, the couple pay a service charge of just over

Hundreds of families thought they were buying their slice of the American dream... but now they claim surprise 'eyesore' has cost them THOUSANDS of dollars and ruined their lives: 'We're trapped'

Hundreds of families thought they were buying their slice of the American dream... but now they claim surprise 'eyesore' has cost them THOUSANDS of dollars and ruined their lives: 'We're trapped'

Terry Smith and her sister, Sherry, have lived at the end of the cul-de-sac on Little Mountain Drive for the last five years. 

Smith describes her Virginian neighborhood as friendly, a place where everyone talks to each other, and most importantly, it's quiet. It was their prized slice of the American dream. 

But that's all about to change, as city officials have proposed building a 900-megawatt data center at Summit View Business Park, which is a mere one-fourth of a mile from Smith's home in Rocky Mount, near Roanoke. 

'It's literally in my backyard,' Smith, 53, told the Daily Mail. 'It's in a quiet neighborhood. You never hear any kind of a disturbance.

'It's unfathomable that these people aren't considering the impact on the people in the immediate area.' 

She and the 100 or so households in her section of the neighborhood are worried the proximity of the data center will destroy their home values and their sanity.

'I just feel the Board of Supervisors is not considering the lifelong impact of the environment,' she said. 'And I don't feel like they're considering the people who are affected immediately, like myself and the cul-de-sac.'

Smith estimated up to

Labor keeps saying the economy is strong. These damning numbers reveal why Aussies aren't buying it - and it'll only fuel Pauline's rise: PVO

Labor keeps saying the economy is strong. These damning numbers reveal why Aussies aren't buying it - and it'll only fuel Pauline's rise: PVO

Labor and its all-too-blind apologists are forever instructing Australians to respect lived experience. There is one striking exception these days: economic hardship.

When Australians say they can't afford their mortgage, rent, groceries or electricity bills, the PM and Treasurer reach for the talking points. Unemployment is low. GDP is growing. National wealth is high. Australia retains its triple-A credit rating.

Therefore, apparently, the distress is imagined, exaggerated or incompatible with the official story. It sometimes feels like the Morrison years are ongoing.

The old line about 'lies, damned lies and statistics' has endured because data points can mislead without being false. The most effective statistical misdirection doesn't require fabricating data, it merely requires selecting the figure that answers the question you wish you'd been asked.

Australians aren't angry because they have failed to understand the statistics. They're angry because mainstream politicians keep using statistics to misunderstand them. To excuse failures.

Labor ministers have made this sort of macroeconomic roll call a standard feature of their spin. To be fair, both sides of politics do it. The Coalition for years while in government relied on positive-sounding data points rather than enacting necessary economic reforms.

The reforming legacy of

My brothers ignored our dying mum for years. When she entered palliative care, they started asking about her money

My brothers ignored our dying mum for years. When she entered palliative care, they started asking about her money

Dear Vanessa,

My mum has always been the one who held our family together - but two years ago she was diagnosed with cancer

Since then, I've been the one taking her to specialist appointments, managing her medications, buying her groceries, paying her bills and helping her stay in her own home. 

As her health declined, she asked me to help with her banking and day-to-day finances because it all became too overwhelming for her.

I never thought twice about it. She's my mum.

My two brothers, however, have been largely absent. One lives interstate and says work makes it difficult to visit. The other lives just half an hour away but somehow always has an excuse.

Three weeks ago, Mum was admitted to palliative care.

Money educator Vanessa Stoykov (pictured) helps a woman who is in conflict with her brothers about her mum's finances

Money educator Vanessa Stoykov (pictured) helps a woman who is in conflict with her brothers about her mum's finances 

Almost overnight, both of

Green trans Scottish politician sparks outrage by saying rape is 'on a spectrum' and rapists should not be 'demonised'

Green trans Scottish politician sparks outrage by saying rape is 'on a spectrum' and rapists should not be 'demonised'

A Scottish Greens politician has sparked outrage after saying that rape exists 'on a spectrum' and rapists should not be 'demonised'.

MSP Q Manivannan, who also described the idea of 'monster rapists' as a 'myth', made the comments during a podcast recording with Dr Sindhu Rajasekaran for The Subjective Space in February 2025.

Manivannan, who is trans non-binary and currently in Scotland on a student visa, was elected as an MSP for the Edinburgh and Lothian East region in this year's local elections.

They are currently in the process of applying for a graduate visa and 'global talent visa' – one of which they must secure if they are to serve a full-term in Holyrood.

The global talent visa would enable Manivannan to live and work in the UK for the entire five-year parliamentary term and beyond.

A student visa includes a series of restrictions such as only being able to work part-time during term time for a maximum of 20 hours a week, and not being able to fill a permanent vacancy. 

Asked by Dr Rajasekaran about compassion in forgiving acts of violence such as rape, Manivannan said:

The Melbourne party boy who became an addiction coach... and is now accused of running an Amazon-style drug operation

The Melbourne party boy who became an addiction coach... and is now accused of running an Amazon-style drug operation

A Melbourne party boy and 'addiction recovery coach' was caught in an alleged Amazon-style drug distribution racket. 

Heavily-tattooed Adam Avignone-Green, also known as 'Adam Antony', fronted the Melbourne County Court on Thursday charged with trafficking simpliciter - a legal term for the standard offence of trafficking in a drug of dependence.

Avignone-Green, a well-known supplement promoter within the city's fitness and party scene, appeared in court after allegations he was caught trafficking drugs in St Kilda in March 2023.

The accused, who once bragged online about completing the gruelling 75 Hard challenge, a 75-day fitness and self-discipline program, was set to be arraigned on the trafficking charge but it was adjourned so that he could make an application to have his matter heard in the drug court rather than the regular criminal division. 

The court heard that Avignone-Green was the 'principal' in the alleged racket where drugs were advertised from a website and then distributed from a St Kilda warehouse.

'We have him as a principal, he is integrally involved in the operation,' prosecutor Peter Pickering said. 

'Whether that is sitting in front of the computer and putting stuff on the

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