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Australia’s oldest department store collapsed into voluntary administration last week after years of steep losses David Jones is set to shutter half its department store network, triggering mass job losses under a sweeping restructure, receivers FTI Consulting said on Wednesday. David Jones employs more than 6,000 staff across 38 stores. Continue reading...

Jillian Segal suggested ‘transferring’ powers in updated report released a fortnight ago but government sources note media regulator already exists Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast The Albanese government won’t follow a suggestion by the antisemitism envoy to scrap the ABC and SBS ombudsmen and replace them with an external oversight body. In a list of updated prioriti…

Dave Grohl tells Sydney crowd Russell, whose death was announced this week, was a ‘big’ hero of his Todd Russell, Beaconsfield mine collapse survivor, dies aged 54 due to illness Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast A solemn moment has broken up an otherwise raucous Foo Fighters Australian concert as the band’s frontman made a lengthy on-stage tribute to Beaconsfield survi…

NSW premier Chris Minns warned council would be complicit in any ‘illegal activities that occur at these protests’ Get our daily political email , free app or daily news podcast Newcastle council – home to the world’s largest coal port – has banned a climate group from holding any events on its land after consulting the New South Wales premier, Chris Minns, who warned the council would be complic…

Three others critically injured and taken to hospitals as reports say car crashed into food stand in North Hollywood A vehicle plowed into a group of pedestrians ⁠in the ⁠North ​Hollywood district of Los Angeles on Tuesday, ⁠killing three people and leaving at least three others ⁠critically injured, the city ​fire department reported. The ‌three injured ‌people were taken to ‌area hospitals for t…

Former CFMEU official Paul Tzimas tells inquiry he suffered fractured ankle and a colleague was left with major injuries and severe PTSD A former union official has told a royal commission that underworld figure Mick Gatto attended a meeting that was called after the official and a colleague were seriously assaulted at a construction site. Paul Tzimas is the first witness associated with the Cons…

Women are reportedly upstairs neighbors of three Black students, including one who uploaded video to TikTok Two white students at the University of Mississippi were captured making offensive monkey gestures in a widely panned Ring video that has prompted a school investigation . On Saturday, freshman Jakiyra Metcalf uploaded the surveillance clip from her apartment door to TikTok, showing one wom…

The US actor died in Poland on Tuesday, ‘after a long and difficult battle with a serious heart condition and heart failure’, his wife said Stacy Keach, one of America’s finest stage actors who became best known for playing scruffy private eye Mike Hammer on TV and whose career was nearly derailed after he was imprisoned in 1984 for trying to smuggle cocaine into Britain, has died aged 85. Keach …

Tech consultant convicted of second-degree murder in 2023 stabbing death of Cash App founder Nima Momeni, the man convicted of murdering Cash App founder Bob Lee, has been sentenced to 16 years to life. Momeni, 42, has been in San Francisco’s county jail since late-April of 2023, after he was arrested in connection with the stabbing death of Lee, who had created the mobile payment service and was…

Trump-appointed judge Jeffrey T Kuntz partially denies British broadcaster’s motion to dismiss over edit Federal judge Jeffrey T Kuntz ruled on Tuesday that Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the BBC can proceed, denying in part the British broadcaster’s motion to dismiss the case. The president’s $10bn defamation lawsuit stems from the BBC’s splicing together of disparate comments he made before the…

Head of major review into adult social care will say that governments have been ‘asleep at the wheel’ of vital system Successive governments in England have been “asleep at the wheel” on social care, leaving the system to grow as a chaotic patchwork of local services with no clear vision, Louise Casey, the head of the social care commission, is to warn. Lady Casey, who is preparing proposals for …

Ombudsman’s report says delays have profound consequences and limit users’ ability to lead independent lives Disabled people are having to wait up to two years to get a wheelchair because of delays involving NHS bodies and private firms that make them. The situation is revealed in a report by the parliamentary and health service ombudsman for England, Paula Sussex, who said hold-ups were having p…

Thinktank Niesr says timid rate rise last week likely to make inflation more persistent feature of UK economy The Bank of England is risking higher interest rates for longer after a hesitant response to rising inflation , according to leading thinktank. In a searing critique of the central bank’s tactics, the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (Niesr) said a timid increase in inte…

New indictment claims Mohammad Dawood al-Saadi, a dual Iranian and Iraqi national, plotted while in US custody US federal prosecutors have said that an Iranian operative jailed in New York was responsible for the foiled attack on a UK air force base where American B-1 bombers were stationed. A new indictment alleged that Mohammad Dawood al-Saadi, a dual Iranian and Iraqi national, plotted while i…

Former military chief Gadi Eisenkot has mandate to try to form a government – with Netanyahu waiting if he fails Opposition lawmakers have wasted no time after Israel’s new Knesset was sworn in, deploying their majority to seize control of the legislature from Benjamin Netanyhau and his allies. Although they are still too divided to form a government, the opposition requested a vote for a new spe…