CANBERRA, ACT, Jan. 11 -- The Prime Minister of Australia issued the following media release: The Allan and Albanese Labor Governments are standing with Victorians who have been affected by the devastating fires that have torn through so much of the state. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Premier Jacinta Allan visited emergency services on the ground in Central Victoria today to announce an initial $19.5 million support package for bushfire affected Victorians - jointly funded under the Com...
CANBERRA, ACT, Jan. 10 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release: This is a joint release between Australian Federal Police, Western Australia Police, Australian Border Force, Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission and AUSTRAC A Perth man charged over his alleged role in a plot to import and distribute more than 525kg of cocaine is expected to appear in Perth Magistrates Court today (Saturday, 10 January, 2026). The Western Australia Joint Organised Crime Taskforce ...
CANBERRA, ACT, Jan. 9 -- The Prime Minister of Australia issued the following media release: DAVID WOIWOD, HOST:Yesterday, the Federal Government announced it would open a Commonwealth Royal Commission into antisemitism, bowing to weeks of mounting pressure. And the Prime Minister joins us live now in Canberra. Good morning to you, Prime Minister. ANTHONY ALBANESE, PRIME MINISTER:Good morning, good to be with you. WOIWOD: We've had Jewish leaders on Sunrise just this morning saying that this ...
CANBERRA, ACT, Jan. 9 -- The Prime Minister of Australia issued the following media release: ALISON PIOTROWSKI, HOST:Well, it's taken three weeks, but the Prime Minister has finally announced a Royal Commission into antisemitism following the Bondi terror attack. JOEL DRY, HOST:It comes 26 days on from the deadliest mass shooting in Australia since Port Arthur. Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, joins us now from Canberra. Prime Minister, why did you take so long to call the Royal Commission? D...
Belconnen, ACT, Jan. 9 -- ACT Policing issued the following media release: The ACT has recorded its first road fatality for 2026 following atwo-vehiclecollisionon the Monaro Highway this morning. About 11:30amtoday(Friday, 9 January 2026) police and emergency services received reportsof a collision between a car and atruck near the intersection of the Monaro HighwayandRoyallaDrive. The driver of the car, a 25-year-old man, wastreated at the scene by ACT Ambulance Service paramedics before bei...
Belconnen, ACT, Jan. 9 -- ACT Policing issued the following media release: ACTPolicing has charged more than 140 drivers with drink or drug driving following a targeted impaired driving operation last month. December (2025) saw officers from all areas of ACT Policing focus on impaired driving with almost 23,000 tests conductedduring the 31 days of the month. 64people were caught drink driving and80were caught driving with drugs in their system.For the year (2025)609people were charged with dr...
Belconnen, ACT, Jan. 9 -- ACT Policing issued the following media release: A45-year-old man has been charged with stalkinghis ex-partnerand breaching a family violence order. Police will allege the man breached a family violence order prohibiting him from contacting his ex-partner by sending her multiple emailsbetween December and January. The incidents were reported to police andon Wednesday (7 January 2026), the manwaslocatedina carpark in Gungahlin. When policeattemptedto arrest the man, ...
Belconnen, ACT, Jan. 9 -- ACT Policing issued the following media release: A30-year-old man will face court after allegedly sexually assaulting a woman known to him at a party last year. Police will allege inJune (2025), the man attended a partyin Moncrieffand sexually assaulted the woman while she was asleep. The incident was reported to police and yesterday (Thursday,8 January 2026), a search warrant was executed on the man's vehicle. Hewill face the ACT Magistrates court today (Friday, 9 ...
CANBERRA, ACT, Jan. 8 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release: A Kenya-born man has faced Brisbane Magistrates Court today (8 January, 2026) charged with failing to comply with his visa-mandated curfew conditions. The AFP charged the man on 7 January, 2026, after he was located in Brisbane, Queensland. It will be alleged the man breached a condition of his Commonwealth visa by failing to observe his residential curfew obligations. The man, 28, has been charged with...
BRISBANE, Queensland, Jan. 8 -- Queensland Police Service issued the following media release: Police are reminding Queenslanders not to put their lives at risk by driving through flood waters, with more heavy rainfall expected across large parts of the north in the coming week. Authorities are currently monitoring a Tropical Low sitting off Queensland's eastern coastline which has potential to bring more widespread heavy rain. Acting Chief Superintendent Townsville District, Dean Cavanaghurge...