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A 19-year-old has been charged with scamming more than $50,000 from hundreds of donors by lying about battling pancreatic cancer and having a tumour “the size of a football,” police said.US woman Madison “Maddie” Russo was arrested on…

One of Australia’s major airlines has won a legal battle with a flight attendant who was accused of stealing food and sleeping at work, and who had argued she’d been unfairly dismissed. In July 2021, DeVania Blackburn received news she’d…

On the surface, Vageesh Potnis was an unassuming postman.But the Australia Post delivery driver led a double life in which he preyed financially on society’s most vulnerable.Court documents reveal a conniving scheme which saw the Indian…

A self-proclaimed “sovereign citizen” wrote a series of chilling letters while behind bars on remand for bomb threat charges. The letters, penned by Matthew James Evans, targeted several country Queensland courthouses, claiming the courts…

The ex-girlfriend of disgraced crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried and a co-founder of FTX pleaded guilty to fraud charges in the collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange and are both co-operating with federal prosecutors.Caroline Ellison, the…

A building company that collapsed suddenly leaving $10 billion worth of government projects up in the air was owed $350 million by its parent company, which could be hard to recover, according to administrators.Perth-based Clough Group went…

More than a hundred protesters have gathered outside court as a climate activist who blocked the Sydney Harbour Bridge is set to fight her prison sentence.Earlier this month Deanna “Violet” Coco was sent to prison for a minimum of eight…

For years Adriana Benhamou Weiss was a fixture on Sydney’s social scene, with the glamorous interior designer travelling the world, attending high-profile events and rubbing shoulders with elite clients.She decorated the mansions of…

An urgent hearing has been set down to seek a resolution between Health New Zealand and parents who have refused to allow blood from vaccinated people to be used in a lifesaving operation for their baby boy’s surgery.Justice Layne Harvey…

The husband of an Aussie activewear fashion empire co-founder has admitted to carrying drugs during a night out in Sydney. On Tuesday, Timothy Tregoning, husband of PE Nation co-founder Claire Tregoning, pleaded guilty to one count of…