Author: Editorial Team

‘I Haven’t Done the Wrong Thing’: Ben Roberts-Smith Breaks His Silence and Reclaims His SAS Call Sign for a Business Venture While Facing Five War Crimes Murder Charges and Years-Long Wait for Trial Australia’s most decorated living soldier, now 47, faces five counts of war crimes murder over alleged killings of unarmed Afghan detainees, and he could wait five to seven years on bail before his trial begins. The Victoria Cross recipient has relaunched his old military radio call sign as a commercial brand, EPIC 1 TWO, saying the media made millions from his name while employers abandoned him. He…

Sydney Music Scene Reels as Beloved Camperdown Pub The Lady Hampshire Goes Dark ‘Indefinitely’ After Violent Storm Damage, With Site Quietly Sold and Receivers Appointed One of Sydney’s best-known grassroots live music pubs, The Lady Hampshire in Camperdown, has shut its doors with no reopening date after being battered by recent storms. Property records show the site was sold in early September, and a Colliers listing confirms that receivers have been appointed. Bands and DJs are cancelling gigs and saying public farewells, with one act calling it yet another venue lost to the city. The closure has renewed alarm about…

‘She Is a Fighter’: Indi MP Helen Haines Pulls Through the Worst After Losing Both Legs in Alleged Deliberate Attack Outside Her Wangaratta Office, as Shaken Nation Asks Whether Any Politician Is Truly Safe Independent MP Helen Haines, 65, has been upgraded from critical to serious but stable at Melbourne’s Alfred Hospital after more than four days fighting for her life. Surgeons amputated both of her legs after she was crushed between vehicles outside her electorate office in Wangaratta on Monday. A 43-year-old Tarrawingee man, Brendan Nugent, has been charged over what police allege was a deliberate act. Almost $1…

‘It Was About to Pop’: Sonny Bill Williams Reveals Hidden Heart Defect That Could Have Killed Him at Any Moment, and the Terrifying Night He Feared He Would Not Survive Cross-code icon Sonny Bill Williams has undergone open-heart surgery after a routine checkup uncovered a heart defect he had carried since birth. Doctors described the discovery as a ‘miracle’, warning his enlarged heart had reached 7.5cm and that he fitted the profile of a fit-looking person who suddenly drops dead. The 41-year-old described five hours of hallucinations, delirium and pain alone in hospital, saying he did not know if he…

‘We Will Use Every Power Available’: Owner of Dogs That Savaged Man in Brisbane Bushland Faces Two Years in Jail as Police Probe Whether Second Man Found Dead Nearby Was Also Mauled A 37-year-old man was rushed to hospital with horrific arm injuries after two dogs tore into him in parkland at Chermside, in Brisbane’s north. Two days later, the body of a 48-year-old man was found in the same patch of bushland, and police are working to establish whether the same animals were responsible. Brisbane City Council has scrapped a destruction order and is pursuing the owner under state…