Amy Roulston

1 month ago | skynews.com.au | Amy Roulston |Bryant Hevesi

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has warned the government is “preparing for the worst” as Tropical Cyclone Alfred continues to crawl towards the south-east Queensland Coast, with the natural disaster expected to cause "billions of dollars" of damage. Alfred is set to cross the coast between Brisbane and the Gold Coast sometime late Friday or early Saturday and will bring potentially destructive wind gusts of up to 155km/h. The cyclone is lingering in the Coral Sea longer than anticipated.

2 months ago | skynews.com.au | Bryant Hevesi |Amy Roulston

Thousands of Victorian public servants will soon be out of a job after the Allan government ordered an independent review into state spending amid soaring debt. A day after a damning report revealed major projects had blown out by more than $11 billion in the last year, Premier Jacinta Allan told reporters on Thursday the government needed to have a "laser focus on every dollar of expenditure".

2 months ago | skynews.com.au | Amy Roulston |Adriana Mageros

Queensland teenager Charlize Zmuda's dad has revealed the moment he heard sirens and knew his 17-year-old daughter was killed in a shark attack on Monday. Charlize was swimming off Woorim Beach near Rickman Parade on Monday when she was attacked by a shark about 4.45pm, suffering critical injuries to her upper body. Paramedics and the fire service rushed to the scene and desperately tried to save the teenager but she died at the scene.

2 months ago | skynews.com.au | Amy Roulston |Sumaiya Chowdhure

New South Wales Police have doubled investigative resources to tackle the rising antisemitic crisis in Sydney, with Premier Chris Minns urging that governments need to take proactive steps to combat hate crime and cannot put the country on “autopilot” and hope for the best. Officers have increased their proactive patrols of schools, places of worship and communities across the city in the wake of multiple attacks.

2 months ago | skynews.com.au | Amy Roulston

Victorians are expected to swelter through a severe heatwave over the next three days, the Bureau of Meteorology has warned, with temperatures expected to soar to 40°C. Extreme to severe heatwave warnings have been put in place for parts of west and south Gippsland in Victoria, with severe to low warnings for most remaining parts of the state, including Melbourne.