2 September 2026
Maiden: Slagging off One Nation voters won’t stop the orange wave adelaidenow. com. au
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3 September 2026
A man aged in his 20s is in a critical condition in hospital after what police suspect was a targeted firebombing in Melton went wrong and he was engulfed in flames.
3 September 2026
Pauline Hanson's $750/hr lawyer copies news editor in 'victory' email mediaweek. com. au
3 September 2026
Using socks as sanitary pads, wearing tampons for more than two days and stealing products from supermarkets are some of the lengths women and girls are going to in order to manage their periods.
3 September 2026
Federal agents face off with protesters in a Minneapolis neighborhood after a federal agent shot a man from Venezuela while attempting to detain him in January. Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images Over the “strongest possible” objections from the federal prosecutor handling the case, leaders at the Department of Justice in Washington, D. C. , quashed plans to bring civil rights charges against an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent accused of shooting a Venezuelan immigrant and then lying about it.
3 September 2026
The Tokelau community is mourning Neil Walter, a New Zealand career diplomat, who served multiple times as the administrator to Tokelau.
3 September 2026
It comes as Taiwan's Foreign Minister told Australian media in Palau he - or another minister - is keen to attend the New Zealand meeting.
3 September 2026
Southland's regional council will cut a channel to the sea after weeks of unusually high water levels at the lagoon.
