Thousands of jet-setting Australians will be affected today as hundreds of Qantas employees walk off their jobs for 24 hours and demand better pay. An estimated 300 Qantas engineers will strike at all major Australian airports on Wednesday as workers continue to fight for better wages.
Six pro-Palestinian protesters have escaped conviction after being found guilty of disrupting Sydney's Mardi Gras parade by storming the route and clashing with police. On 2 March, shortly after 9.30pm, a group of protesters clashed with police after they entered the cordoned-off parade route through downtown Sydney.
The NSW Liberal Party has scored a blatant own goal by failing to field candidates in a number of local elections. Officials confirmed that the party had missed Wednesday's noon deadline to nominate some candidates; the country's director blamed a lack of resources for the error.
Australian Capital Territory police have charged a 16-year-old boy with multiple offences after he and two other teenagers allegedly drove at police in a stolen car and later performed burnouts outside two schools. On Friday 9 August, at around 1.10pm, police observed a stolen white BMW hatchback driving dangerously on Mugga Lane.
World number one Jannik Sinner and his rivals will have to wait anxiously for the action to resume at the Canadian Open in Montreal after all matches had to be cancelled on Friday due to rain.
Following an accident in the east of Perth on Thursday, a freight train crashed into a car on tracks before two men were taken to hospital. Police received reports of a collision between two cars in Herne Hill, near the level crossing on the corner of Oakover Road and Railway Parade, at around 4.45pm.