HE WAS labelled “non-stick” for his ability to emerge from legal scrapes unscathed.

Australia’s Foreign Minister says the Australian Defence Force is “ready” to help Australians stranded on New Caledonia amid the exploding political unrest.

Outrage is building after Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek approved three new coal mine extensions - one fellow MP calling the decision “despicable”.

THE bodies of a man and woman have been found inside a house at the centre of an Anzac Day shooting tragedy.

A SYDNEY couple is looking for answers after a major hospital accidentally sent their stillborn daughter to be cremated.

A Victorian man coerced girls into sending him explicit photos and videos, then blackmailed them into sending more by threatening to post the material on the internet.

FINALLY, in the sporting arena, New South Wales has got one over its Queensland rivals.

THE behaviour of some of Karen Ristevski’s closest family members has raised eyebrows from the moment she went missing in June last year to the discovery of her badly decomposed body in Victorian bushland on Monday.

YACQUB Khayre was a violent criminal, a terribly-behaved prisoner, and a one-time terror suspect with known links to extremists.

Funding for defence projects will undergo a major shake-up following a landmark report that found the Defence Force was not “fit for purpose”.

TREASURER Scott Morrison has not given up pursuing the remainder of the government’s 10-year business tax plan and will present the next phase to the Senate when the government believes it will pass.

A WOMAN, who had stopped for a coffee before work, is in a critical condition after a car struck the footpath and slammed into her on Friday morning.

Offenders accused of serious domestic violence charges will be electronically monitored or be kept on remand under a raft of proposed reforms revealed today.

KAREN Ristevski’s husband Borce is the chief suspect in his wife’s murder, his own lawyer conceded on Wednesday.

BY all accounts, Sarah Ristevski was incredibly close to her mother Karen and the pain of loss is written all over the young woman’s face.