A man sentenced to jail for grooming a nine-year-old girl has been using a fake name to run children’s tennis tournaments in Sydney’s south. Alex Gollan, a former assistant principal at Homebush Public School, called his young student “cutie”, “beautiful” and “Ms naked” while chatting to her on Facebook. The former teacher asked her to […]

Opposition leader Luke Foley is apologising for his “white flight” comments, saying he doesn’t want to “offend anyone”. The state’s labor leader used the term to describe how “Anglo families” are moving away from suburbs like Fairfield because local resources are struggling to cope with an influx of refugees from Syria and Iraq. Now, he’s apologising […]

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson says energy prices should take priority over the government’s proposed company tax cuts. After agreeing to back the government’s corporate cuts months ago, Senator Hanson has pulled her support and dealt the Coalition a major blow. Ms Hanson tells Ross Greenwood the government should focus on power prices and their […]

Labor MP Linda Burney is in hot water after her office was caught out omitting lines from an interview transcript. In an interview with Sky News, Ms Burney backed a time limit on how long refugees can be held in off-shore detention, a position directly contradicting Labor’s policy. Whole paragraphs of the interview were then left […]

Peter Dutton has taken a sledgehammer to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT), saying it “does not reflect the views of the Australian people”. The Home Affairs Minister has overruled an AAT decision to grant a Palestinian terrorist a visa to live in Australia with his partner. Mr Dutton tells Ray Hadley the tribunal has again […]