Victorian Greens co-deputy leader Sam Hibbins will quit the state party room after revealing he had a “consensual relationship” with a staff member in his office. Hibbins, the member for Prahran, released a statement on Friday morning, saying the relationship ended “sometime ago” but it was a breach of the party room rules. He will…
Striking Boeing workers will vote on an improved contract offer on Monday, which includes a 38% pay rise over four years and a bigger signing bonus, their union said on Thursday. More than 30,000 factory workers who produce Boeing’s strongest-selling 737 Max commercial jet and other planes have been on strike since 13 September and…
Two former police officers who confessed to the murder of Rio city councillor Marielle Franco have been sentenced to decades in prison for their part in a crime that shook Brazil and cast a harsh spotlight on the links between politics and organised crime. Ronnie Lessa admitted to firing 14 shots in the 2018 drive-by…
Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Amanda Meade New Radio National Breakfast host is Sally Sara Seasoned foreign correspondent Sally Sara will take over as Radio National Breakfast host next year. The presenter of ABC Radio’s The World Today since 2020, Sara has reported from more than…
It has been almost two decades since Nicholas Ferguson, a grand figure in the private equity business, caused a storm by talking out loud about his industry’s dirty little secret. It could not be right, he said, that highly remunerated private equity executives could pay less tax than a cleaner or other low-paid workers. Things…
An EU citizen caught up in a Home Office backlog of applications for post-Brexit residency status is set to be deported by Border Force officials in Scotland. Greek Cypriot Costa Koushiappis, 39, has been told to show up at Edinburgh airport at 7am on Friday to be forcibly put on a flight to Amsterdam just…
The Scottish government has scrapped a pilot of jury-less trials for rape cases, which aimed to tackle endemic low conviction rates for sexual assault prosecution, after a backlash from the highest levels of the legal profession. Campaigners against sexual violence expressed disappointment that the proposal, which would have made Scotland the first part of the…
At least 140 people have died in Spain after torrential rains triggered the country’s deadliest floods in decades, unleashing a deluge of muddy water that turned village streets into rivers, destroyed homes and swept away bridges, railways tracks and cars. An unknown number of people remain missing, while thousands of others are without electricity or…
More than 70 police officers in Northern Ireland have been disciplined after they accessed bodycam footage of a drugs arrest for “entertainment and amusement”. During the incident an officer made an error administering a criminal caution, “causing a colleague to laugh out loud”. The arrest, captured on the body-mounted camera, then appears to have been…
A tax that has reduced plastic bag consumption in Sweden by more than three-quarters in four years is being abolished on Friday, despite warnings that the move could lead to usage rising back towards previous levels. Since the introduction of the 3 kroner (£0.21) tax in May 2020, plastic bag usage in the country has…
