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SMOKING GUNS

The nation’s largest independent petrol station chain has had stores raided across the country - and some of them shut down - after a major investigation into the alleged supply and distribution of illegal tobacco, with industry experts warning the...

KYLE’S COMEBACK CHAOS

Kyle Sandilands’ much-hyped return to broadcasting descended into chaos when technical glitches and on air profanities marred his new podcast’s debut. Sandilands returned to the microphone yesterday with a $99 subscriber-only breakfast show, Kyle...

SWITCH OFF SCREENS AND GET IT WRITE

Parents, teachers and education experts are backing efforts to reduce screens and devices in classrooms to lift literacy standards, amid growing concerns over the impact of AI and excessive screen time on children’s education. St Joseph’s Primary...

POPE & GLORY

NSW Premier Chris Minns has opened fire on his West Australian counterpart over plans to poach the 2028 NRL grand final from Sydney. As a date conflict looms between the premiership decider and a visit by Pope Leo XIV, Mr Minns stared down the threat...

SEX & OUT

The ex-wife of Australian cricket vice-captain Ashleigh Gardner says she should be stripped of her leadership role after it was revealed she was having an affair with a junior teammate. Monica Wright has spoken publicly for the first time.

BELLISSIMO! JAMES WEDS WIFE NO.3

Billionaire James Packer has married his partner Kylie Lim in a private ceremony on an unspoilt Italian island. A spokesman for the Aussie businessman confirmed the marriage to news.com.au on Thursday. Mr Packer and Ms Lim were married on the north...

CHRIS BOEING

Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen slugged taxpayers more than $345,000 flying around the world to spruik net zero, only to avoid mentioning the signature policy in a major speech yesterday.

HURT LOCKERS

Jetstar passengers will soon have to pay to store carry-on bags in overhead lockers, in a move that has failed to fly with the “low-cost’’ airline’s customers. A minimum charge of $25 on domestic flights and up to $52 for international flights — on...

JOCK SHOCK

A former promising athlete has told a court Alan Jones kissed him on the mouth in a “chomping” action that covered his face from his nose to his chin and on another occasion grabbed him on the penis while he was driving the radio king to his Southern...

OUR NEW BATTLE

Jai Arrow’s wife Berina Colakovic was suspended by her employer on the day she was due to return from maternity leave, just weeks before her ex-NRL star partner was diagnosed with motor neurone disease. The young mum is suing her employer StackAdapt,...

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HAMMER TIME ON SKILLS

Almost three quarters of businesses in NSW are struggling with a chronic shortage of skilled workers with some warning they may be forced to shut down unless the government steps in. A survey of 545 businesses in NSW found 74 per cent were facing...

DIRTY DEEDS DONE DIRT CHEAP

Two separate Sydney gangland shootings are suspected to have followed the alleged leaking of underworld figures’ names and addresses by a corrective services officer. The woman allegedly charged just $500 for information she accessed on the personal...

DALEY QUITS AMID HEALTH SCARE

Whatever Adam Doueihi said to his teammates on Tuesday morning, it clearly hit the mark. Doueihi, only days removed from sitting out the Wests Tigers’ loss to Canberra because he wasn’t in the right head space, has been given the opportunity to...

‘HE’S MY BOY’

Fugitive developer Jean Nassif referred to former premier Dominic Perrottet as his “boy” while boasting he had his “hand on the state government” in expletive-riddled phone taps played on an explosive first day of hearings at the ICAC. Mr Perrottet is...

PUMPING UP THE PAIN

Fuel prices are set to surge above $2 per litre for unleaded within weeks, with Labor’s excise cut now all but certain to be scrapped at the end of this week.

I DON’T MISS JACKIE

Kyle Sandilands doesn’t miss Jackie “O” Henderson. He says he’ll always love her, wants the best for her and hopes the long-time breakfast radio duo can still be friends after the fallout that shocked the country – but when asked if he misses her, he...

Crushed but not broken

Kyle Sandilands says he didn’t curl up in a ball and cry when his $100 million KIIS contract collapsed and his partnership with Jackie ‘O’ Henderson came to an end. But he was crushed. In his first tell-all interview since the February 20 on-air...

I WON’T DOUEIHI THAT

Wests Tigers star Adam Doueihi has sensationally withdrawn from the clash against Canberra on Saturday following a heated argument with coach Benji Marshall at training on Thursday. Doueihi walked out of the club’s Concord headquarters immediately...

ROBOFINE BLITZ

Mobile phone and seatbelt cameras have delivered a $400m fine bonanza for NSW and bureaucrats are now exploring how artificial intelligence could help decide who gets fined, under a drastic “robofine” proposal. The Daily Telegraph can reveal Transport...

AGENT ORANGE

Pauline Hanson has doubled down on support for Donald Trump’s hardline ICE-agent deportation blitz, declaring the President’s mass removal of illegal migrants is “a great way to do it” and Australia should follow suit. Ms Hanson also stood by her...

BRAVE SMILE IS IN HIS GENES

James endured 17 surgeries before he was two - now he wants to fight for others

UP FOR SALE

Penrith fans, brace yourself for the unimaginable. I’m going to offer you a gentle yet sobering warning – Nathan Cleary could well be leaving. I want Cleary to become a one-club Immortal but I fear the NSW star will quit the champion club he has...

BRING THEM HOME

Mourning her sister who was allegedly murdered by her husband in their home in the United States, NSW woman Madisson Bowler is preparing to fly to Florida in a bid to secure custody of her baby nephews. The young boys were at home when their mother was...

CHICK, CHICK, BOOM

An average of three men a day in NSW have spent just $73 to change gender to female on their birth certificates since new laws were introduced less than a year ago. A total of 1035 men have swapped gender under the new equality laws that were drafted...

WAS HE LEFT TO KILL?

A man accused of brutally murdering a grandfather on a Sydney street had been released from a mental health hospital months earlier, as an urgent review is launched into his care.

UP US FOR THE RENT

Sydneysiders have been warned to brace for bigger weekly rent hikes on top of landlords already increasing rents by as much as $175 in the wake of the federal government’s tax reforms. Sydney’s median rent has soared to $850 a week, with a string of...

HEALTH GOES UP IN SMOKE

A century of health warnings about the dangers of nicotine are being undone as exploding sales of cheap illicit tobacco fuel a nationwide surge in smoking. NSW Health Minister Ryan Park is raising the alarm, fearing for a “next generation of young...

Well played, Sam

The entertainment industry is in shock following the sudden death yesterday of celebrated actor Sam Neill, at age 78, just weeks after he made multiple public appearances in Sydney. Months after revealing he was cancer free, the star died in St...

JAI’S BIG BIRTHDAY PRESENT

Tears flowed almost as freely as the tries at Accor Stadium yesterday as Jai Arrow was given a birthday to remember by South Sydney fans - and his Rabbitohs teammates. A crowd of more than 30,000, including Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, turned out...

I’M SCARED I’LL BE A WIDOW BY 40

Berina Colakovic has moments where it all seems too much. As her husband, former NRL star Jai Arrow, battles motor neurone disease, Colakovic is waging her own fight within. A challenging fight on multiple fronts for the Canadian native, who moved to...

‘WE’RE NEXT’

Pauline Hanson has warned Australia is only “years behind Britain” unless politicians confront “the growing threat of radical Islam”, declaring it had become the biggest issue facing the UK. After touring the UK for the past week, Ms Hanson called for...

RETURN OF THE KINGS

Nathan Cleary hugged his coach, thanked his girlfriend and gave rugby league fans a giant glimmer of hope when he returned to Sydney yesterday after a dominant Origin victory. Cleary said he was “not too sick of winning yet” and that reigning supreme...

SUNCORPSE

The NSW Blues thumped a humiliated Maroons team at Queensland’s treasured Suncorp Stadium last night to win the State of Origin series in a classic blockbuster. Man of the match Nathan Cleary silenced his critics, scoring two tries and ending the...

MISSION IS CLEARY

His Origin legacy is on the line, but Nathan Cleary is ready for it. Of all the unknowns heading into what could be a historic State of Origin decider on Wednesday night, it’s the one certainty for NSW captain Isaah Yeo. “I just know that come...

CHINA GOES BALLISTIC

Ellen Ransley & Nathan Schmidt China has launched a nuclear-capable, long-range missile with a dummy warhead from a submarine in the Pacific Ocean just hours after Australia signed a landmark defence treaty with Fiji to box out Beijing.

CLEAR AND PEZET DANGER

Pezball prevailed over Fozball when Parramatta’s Jonah Pezet let his feet do the talking to help the Eels to a 23-14 win over Manly at CommBank Stadium yesterday. The Brisbane-bound Pezet — back after a lengthy stint on the sidelines — produced a...

BLUES’ SECRET WEAPON

The Queensland crowd at Suncorp Stadium notoriously hates anyone from NSW, with the bus holding the Blues players previously pelted with cans of beer on the way to the game. But woe betide any Maroons fan who’s mean to this young mum and...

HOUSE OF PAIN

Young homeowners who were enticed into borrowing big under Anthony Albanese’s expanded firsthome scheme have a blunt message for the PM as plunging property prices leave many fearing they now owe more than their homes are worth. “Pull your head in,”...

10-minute window to nab ‘killer’

Thai police only had a 10minute window to nab suspected killer Simon Carman before he passed through immigration at Bangkok airport and out of their jurisdiction. Fast acting police detained the Australian, 45, at the international airport when he was...

ICAC PROBE INTO LIBS, CHURCH

The boss of Catholic Schools NSW has been dragged into a bombshell ICAC inquiry alongside wanted property developer Jean Nassif over explosive allegations of illegal political donations to the Liberal Party.

WE’VE BEEN MUGGED

Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ “tiny tax cut” is on the brink of being wiped out by yet another a looming rate rise, as the Coalition blames Labor’s spending for stoking inflation.

COP A LOAD OF THIS

The chairman of the Albanese government’s Climate Change Authority, Matt Kean, has been accused of using taxpayer-funded travel to the COP30 summit in Brazil to advance the interests of the wealthy private firm he works for.

JIM THE HOME WRECKER

Real estate agents are telling sellers “no one will be turning up’’ at their auctions as panicked homebuyers abandon Sydney’s property market in the wake of Jim Chalmers’ budget changes. Auction clearance rates have fallen to levels last seen during...

JOY AFTER HEARTACHE

The death of their son Joe changed NSW forever. Now the Massa family believes he’s had a hand in bringing them their beautiful new blessing – baby Annie

BAD AID

Millions of Aussie taxpayer dollars going to a UN agency in Gaza that has sacked 70 workers after the US government found some staff are linked to Hamas “cannot be tolerated”, Australia’s top Jewish body says. The United Nations Relief and Works...

RIPPED OFF AT THE PUMP

Nearly one in 20 fuel pumps is short-changing motorists by delivering less fuel than what is being paid for, while a third of retailers are failing to fully comply with measurement regulations, a national audit has found. About 3000 pumps were tested...

BREAKING UP WITH TODAY

Karl Stefanovic’s Channel 9 career was in the balance last night as network executives met to discuss his controversial podcast interview with British far-right activist Tommy Robinson, with some suggesting his time as Today host is over.

OUR FIGHT TO SAVE DYING MUM

Three police officers who raced to Coogee Beach after a young mother was mauled by a 4mlong great white shark formed a human supply chain, applying lifesaving compression bandages and relaying medical supplies across the sand to stem the catastrophic...

ONE NATION STATE

One Nation is set to up-end state politics in NSW at next year’s election, with new polling predicting the party will surge past the Coalition to become the official opposition. Pauline Hanson’s juggernaut is also expected to steal votes off Labor.

MOTHERLODE

The largest cocaine seizure in Australian history has been made in Sydney’s west, with 2.7 tonnes of the drug found hidden in sophisticated bunkers on a rural property. AFP officers allege the drugs came to shore in Queensland after being transferred...

BLEEDING BLUE

Liberal branch members are quitting and defecting to One Nation, prompting federal president and former prime minister Tony Abbott to hit the phones to convince them to stay, while party officials fasttrack cut-price memberships.

RED ALERT

Pauline Hanson has made an extraordinary plea to federal authorities and the Prime Minister for highlevel police protection, amid One Nation claims the senator is being targeted by violent extremists. The Saturday Telegraph has seen and heard a stream...

TIME TO RUIN THE AMERICAN DREAM

Socceroos defender Kai Trewin has declared he’s “never wanted to win a game more” as Australia looks to claim another scalp in the enduring Australia and USA sporting rivalry. While Socceroos and US players have shown plenty of respect for each other...

PAULINE UNLEASHED

In a blistering sermon outlining her vision for Australia, One Nation leader Pauline Hanson declared the country should be “monocultural”, denounced net zero and said radical Islam had turned Britain into a “s...hole”. Police are also investigating how...

BONDED DUO HAS LICENCE TO THRILL

Two Sydney westies who forged an unbreakable bond in London’s swanky Kensington will be out to land the knockout blow against Queensland on Wednesday night. Parramatta’s Mitch Moses and Penrith’s Nathan Cleary will unite in NSW’s halves for State of...

PRAY FOR LEAH

A “devoted mother” attacked by a great white shark at Coogee on Saturday has had her arm amputated in a series of surgeries on severe and life-threatening injuries all over her body. Teacher Leah Stewart’s family are “shocked and devastated” by the...

THE FUGITIVES

Josh Hanrahan, Mark Morri and Rory Williams They are alleged gang bosses, drug importers or killers – and together, these nine men form NSW Police’s most wanted. All nine are believed to be living overseas in countries including Lebanon, Vietnam,...

SHARK HORROR

SHOCK STRIKE BETWEEN THE FLAGS WHAT’S DRIVING WAVE OF ATTACKS NO NETS OR DRONES PROTECTING BEACH A morning swim turned to terror when a suspected great white shark attacked a 35-year-old woman just metres from shore at Coogee Beach yesterday, leaving...

BAN FROM SNOWY RIVER

A whistleblower who claims he was involved in a previous aerial brumby culling operation has described the program as “inhumane” and “distressing”. Animal welfare groups have also detailed confronting accounts of finding horses with “horrific...

CASH FOR VOTES SCAM

It’s the story that no one in politics wants us to write, reinforcing the great Australian phrase, “it’s only a rort if you’re not in on it”. In the last three years, political parties have received more than $210m in taxpayer handouts through a series...

GUNS, BOMBS AND KIDS

Organised criminals terrorising Sydney are making a mockery of Premier Chris Minns’ recent crackdown on the underworld, with the latest explosion in violence including an attempted hit on a man in the middle of school pick-up. Just days after the NSW...

BEGGING FOR A FIGHT

The Labor Party is begging supporters to donate $27 to “prevent One Nation turning polling momentum into seats” as Anthony Albanese concedes the rise of Pauling Hanson’s party is all about the economy.

GOODBYE, WITH LOVE

Professor Richard Scolyer 1966-2026 Legendary researcher and former Australian of the Year, Professor Richard Scolyer, died yesterday after his heroic and agonising battle with brain cancer. The acclaimed melanoma expert penned an incredible letter to...

AUSTRALIA SEEING RED

Pauline Hanson has thrown off criticism of her age, saying it’s the X factor driving her success, as she warned “we’re going to end up a third world nation” if Labor wins another election. Thirty years after she burst onto the national stage by...

LET’S NOT TALK ABOUT SEX

Activist teachers in NSW are encouraging students to take part in activities such as “pass the pronouns” and “Alphabet Soup” as part of new gender and sexuality classroom materials, which tell children as young as 12 that gender is fluid. The Saturday...

AHMED ASSAULT

Bondi hero Ahmed Al Ahmed has been charged after allegedly putting his father in a headlock. Al Ahmed, who disarmed terrorist Sajid Akram during the December terror attack at Bondi Beach, has been charged with common assault and stalking or...

GAME BREAKERS

INFLATION GETS A RAISE

A higher-than-expected pay boost for workers on the minimum wage will pave the way for a further two rate rises this year, with Australia’s lagging productivity and already high inflation to blame, economists say. Business leaders now fear a “tsunami...

BUSH MATTERS

The largest conversation between the bush and the nation’s powerbrokers starts today, as News Corp Australia launches its 2026 Bush Summit campaign. Regional Australians can have their say on issues that matter most in a new poll, which will help frame...

PLEASE, FIND MY BOY

The mother of murdered British backpacker Peter Falconio has made a rare public plea to Australians to help find her son’s body and finally give her family closure. In an exclusive interview with The Daily Telegraph ahead of the 25th anniversary of...

DEATH CULT DIARIES

The ISIS bride barred from returning to Australia has tried to paint herself as a victim, claiming she was a “normal teenager” who “enjoyed music and having fun” but was tricked and trafficked – and now just wants to return here to finish her education...

STRANGER THINGS

The area was prepped and turfed, with footy posts made from PVC pipes and floodlights so games could continue long into the night. This homemade footy field, in a humble backyard on a semirural property in Tumbi Umbi on the NSW Central Coast, is now...

JIM’S HOUSE OF CARDS

Labor’s negative gearing and capital gains tax changes will push rents up by as much as $477 a year by the end of the decade, according to new modelling which also predicts the contentious reforms will exacerbate the nation’s housing crisis. It comes...

BACK FROM THE TED

NSW fullback James Tedesco scored an epic final minute try to give NSW a dramatic and famous win over a 12-man Queensland at Accor Stadium on Wednesday night. Behind 20-0 in the first half, NSW mustered the biggest comeback in State of Origin history...