Jess Scully

1 week ago | abc.net.au | Emily Doak |Jess Scully

A regional GP tells a parliamentary committee that 95 per cent of women she sees for reproductive care are choosing abortions so they don't breach visa conditions. The inquiry hears that many PALM scheme workers live in substandard housing. The committee chair has written to the Attorney-General seeking labour hire reform. An obstetrician has told a parliamentary inquiry that hundreds of migrant women seek abortions with her each year to avoid breaching their visa conditions.

2 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Jess Scully |Andrew Mangelsdorf

NSW Police say a man has died after being shot during an altercation at Wagga Wagga, in the state's south. The state command's homicide squad is investigating. Police have urged anyone with information, dashcam or CCTV footage to contact Crime Stoppers. Police in New South Wales say a man has died after being shot during an altercation in Wagga Wagga. Emergency services were called to Connorton Avenue in the suburb of Ashmont at about 3:00am.

1 month ago | abc.net.au | Andrew Mangelsdorf |Jess Scully

On May 21, 1945, Geoffrey Partridge and 25 other soldiers died in Australia's worst training accident just months before the end of World War II. The army engineers, known as sappers, were training in a bunker at the Kapooka Army Base near Wagga Wagga when an explosion killed all but one. Eighty years on, Sapper Partridge's only sister Shirley Booth remembers it like it was yesterday. "My father turned up [at my school] in tears and I had never seen my father cry," she said.

1 month ago | abc.net.au | Jess Scully |Rachel Holdsworth

Senior Nationals members say their party deserves a greater role in the Coalition after it fared better than the Liberals overall in the election. Nationals MPs retained all of their seats in the House of Representatives and achieved a swing towards the party in Bendigo. The party has so far secured 14 lower house seats, including five from the Queensland-based Liberal National Party (LNP). The Liberals had secured 39 seats but were ahead in a further three.

1 month ago | abc.net.au | Lucy Cooper |Jess Scully

A Solomon Islands man who was found dead on a roadside in southern New South Wales early this week may have been walking to work, police say. Argen Kuni, 34, was found in Griffith with multiple injuries just before 4:30am on Monday. NSW Police believe Mr Kuni may have been the victim of a hit-and-run incident. Mr Kuni's older brother, Kenneth Kuni, said the 34-year-old often walked to work in the early hours of the morning.