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Taking the pissCommentsLUNATIC fisherman slammed for act near giant croc

A British expat has lost it over an Australian fisherman’s ‘f*****g stupidity’ just metres from a deadly saltwater crocodile.

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Devastating Qld fire which killed six ‘suspicious’

UPDATED: Police are now reportedly treating a house fire in which a father and his five young children died as suspicious.

Melissa Meehan and Kathryn Magann

‘bloody fantastic job’PremiumPICTURED: Heroic Sea World pilot who saved WA passenger

The Sea World Helicopter pilot who survived the horror crash on the Gold Coast — and saved the life of all onboard including a West Aussie passenger — has undergone surgery but is yet to speak to investigators.

‘odd unit’PremiumNeighbour claims QLD cop shooters were ‘all on ice’

A neighbour of the murderous trio who executed two young constables in cold-blood at a rural Queensland property has told of a bizarre encounter with one of the killers at a local supermarket.

‘Cold-blooded murder’PremiumHow the deadly police shooting in Queensland unfolded

Tributes have come from the Prime Minister to the Queensland Premier for the two police officers killed at an isolated Queensland property while new details have emerged about the shooter.

Shannon Hampton

‘He’s going to kill me’PremiumWitness shares dramatic details of alleged mine site bashing

A WA man at the heart of a top true crime podcast centered around the murder of his Queensland girlfriend Shandee Blackburn has gone on trial in Perth accused a bashing a co-worker at a Pilbara mine site.

Sarah Steger

Notorious case PremiumMan acquitted over Qld murder in court over WA mine assault

The man found by a coroner to be responsible for the murder of his girlfriend Shandee Blackburn is strongly denying allegations he committed a violent assault in WA’s mining town of Newman.

Sarah Steger

EXCLUSIVEPremiumPerth man ‘gutted’ by false rape claim

A Perth man who was falsely accused of the gang rape of a teenage girl on the Gold Coast was left “gutted” by the allegations that left him and two friends locked up in Hakea Prison.

Rourke Walsh and Tim Clarke