Floral tributes and messages of condolence are gathering outside a home east of Brisbane after a blaze killed an eight-year-old girl and her babysitter. Raven Contini and 31-year-old Stephanie Ryan, were found dead in the Thorneside home after a fire ripped through the townhouse on Sunday morning. Child protection officers and the homicide squad are…

The weapons supervisor in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin on the set of the Western film Rust pleaded guilty Monday to a separate criminal charge of carrying a gun into a licensed liquor establishment. Movie armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed agreed to change her plea to guilty on the charge in exchange for…

Dutton condemns PM for including calls for ceasefire and de-escalation in motion Peter Dutton then condemns the prime minister and Labor for putting forward a motion which also recognised Palestinians and blames him for the Coalition not coming to a bipartisan agreement on the motion. This is actually quite extraordinary, even for the Australian parliament.…

A curious koala has been captured wandering perilously close to a Sydney train line before the native animal was corralled to safety into nearby bushland. The marsupial was caught on video crawling beneath a fence on to a platform at Casula train station, in the city’s south-west, shortly after 4am on Friday. It then wandered…

An ex-police officer charged with the alleged domestic violence-related murders of two men in Sydney will soon lodge a plea to the charges levelled against him. Beaumont Lamarre-Condon, 29, has been accused of fatally shooting the Qantas flight attendant Luke Davies, 29, and former TV presenter Jesse Baird, 26, while he was off-duty. Police allege…

White House warns supreme court has allowed Texas to deny women abortions in emergencies At the ongoing White House press briefing, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said that the supreme court has effectively allowed Texas to deny women abortions even in emergencies, by refusing to take up a Biden administration lawsuit against the state today. “Today…

The first person charged with performing the Nazi salute in Victoria has been found guilty of the offence. Jacob Hersant, 25, stared straight ahead as a magistrate, Brett Sonnet, handed down his decision on Tuesday morning. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Hersant pleaded not guilty to performing the salute on 27 October…

A Dutch museum has recovered an artwork that looks like two empty beer cans after a staff member accidentally threw it in the rubbish bin thinking it was trash. The work, entitled All The Good Times We Spent Together by French artist Alexandre Lavet, appears on first glance to be two discarded and dented beer…

Severe Covid infections can drive inflammation in the brain’s “control centre”, researchers say, leading to damage that may explain the long-term breathlessness, fatigue and anxiety some patients experience. High-resolution MRI scans of 30 people hospitalised with Covid early in the pandemic, before the introduction of vaccines, found signs of inflammation in the brainstem, a small…