Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has delivered a blunt assessment of Pauline Hanson, labelling her 'divisive' and the One Nation voter base as 'frustrated' during a rapid-fire interview.
In a short exchange, interviewer Sam Weir put a series of questions to the PM and asked for one-word answers. Albanese's description of One Nation voters seemed an acknowledgement that many Australians feel let down by the current government.
Yesterday, education secretary Jenny Gilruth stood up in parliament to announce that the SNP government will, after all, grant a public inquiry into grooming gangs.
That’s a welcome U-turn and the very least that Scottish survivors and victims’ support groups deserve. They, and the Scottish Conservatives, have been calling for this for months, but the SNP had – for reasons that still seem bewildering – fought against it tooth and nail.
A finance worker who felt forced to quit her job after bosses read her WhatsApp messages and discovered she was listening to 'steamy dragon porn' fantasy audiobooks has won £8,000 from an employment tribunal.
Kirsty Coleman resigned last year after her boss at Thermoelectric Conversion Systems, a Clydebank-based research and development company, went through 30 pages of her personal conversations.
Criminals are working off community sentences by sticking fake diamonds on greeting cards, Justice Secretary Angela Constance was warned yesterday.
The shock claim emerged as members of the Scottish Police Federation quizzed MSPs at an election hustings in Edinburgh.
Two men arrested in connection with the alleged kidnapping and death of Sydney grandfather Chris Baghsarian have now been charged with murder.
Gerard Andrews, 29, and Daniel Stevens, 24, were handcuffed in the early hours of Wednesday morning after tactical police swarmed two properties in Sydney's north-west.
A grooming gangs inquiry is to be launched in a bid to protect children from the ‘horrendous harm of sexual abuse and exploitation’.
Professor Alexis Jay will chair a statutory probe to examine Scotland’s response to the problem – after months of delay by SNP ministers over whether to order one. The inquiry will focus on the prevalence of ‘group-based’ sexual abuse now and in the ‘recent past’, and leave ‘no stone unturned in the pursuit of justice for survivors’.
It was a soft summer’s day in 1993 and in the village of Scadabay, on the east coast of Harris, Mrs MacLeod was just thinking of getting her man’s tea on when she noticed a couple splashing up from the shore, their small but elegant yacht having dropped anchor.
Neighbours of a £6million unfinished 'super-mosque' say the empty shell of a building is an 'eyesore' that looks more like a multistorey car park than a place of worship.
Residents in Gillingham, Kent, said they have had enough of looking at the building site, which was meant to boast a 92-foot high minaret, saying it is a blot on the town centre.
The intended target of an alleged $50million kidnapping plot that saw an innocent elderly man mistakenly abducted is a wealthy property developer who has been pictured living the high life in Las Vegas and Monaco, wearing $7,000 tracksuits.
New York City's socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani is planning to spend $70 million on a 'feasibility study' into launching government-owned grocery stores, reports say.
The mayor, 34, has cried poverty since taking office as he threatens to raise taxes across the Big Apple to fund his projects, claiming he was left with a huge $5.4 billion financial black hole by his predecessor Eric Adams.
Apartment owners in a ritzy Sydney suburb have conquered their body corporate in a legal battle over who should repair their timber deck balconies.
Mosman residents Annette Barnett, Laura Lillas, Tony Clarkson and Kandiah Theivendren finally defeated their apartment block strata after the long-running saga was resolved in the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal.
