CANBERRA, ACT, Jan. 15 -- The Prime Minister of Australia issued the following media release: KELLY VEA VEA, MAYOR OF ISAAC REGIONAL COUNCIL: Thank you everyone for being here, but the biggest thank you obviously goes to our guests today. I'd like to thank you all for making the time for coming out here. What's happened out in our region is significant. And from the event that's happened here in Clermont this week, not only will we recover, but we will grow stronger for that. And we'll grow str...
CANBERRA, ACT, Jan. 12 -- The Prime Minister of Australia issued the following media release: Federal Parliament will be recalled to deal with important national security legislation in the wake of the Bondi terrorist attack. The Prime Minister will write to the Speaker asking for the House of Representatives to sit on Monday 19 January and Tuesday 20 January. Senator Wong as Leader of the Government in the Senate will be writing in similar terms to the President. The first order of business ...
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 ...