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5 days ago | 
thisismoney.co.uk | Steve Jackson
A notorious serial killer who preyed on vulnerable women has died after being transferred from his prison cell to a Sydney hospital. Rodney Francis Cameron, dubbed 'The Lonely Hearts Killer' after he met a woman on a radio matchmaking contest before luring her to her death was pronounced dead in Prince of Wales Hospital, in Sydney's east, about 11.30 on Saturday night. It is understood he had been in a palliative care ward at the Randwick hospital after being diagnosed with terminal cancer.
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1 week ago | 
spokanepublicradio.org | Johanna Bejarano |Doug Nadvornick |Steve Jackson |Owen Henderson
Federal funding cuts cause Head Start suspensionsMore than 400 children in Central Washington are without educational support services after federal funding never arrived. Inspire Development Centers is located in Sunnyside, Washington. The organization offers early childhood education programming to low-income children through various centers in Central Washington. They receive federal funding through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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1 week ago | 
spokanepublicradio.org | Doug Nadvornick |Owen Henderson |Lauren Paterson |Steve Jackson
Striking workers in WA one step closer to benefitsThe Washington House has voted to allow striking workers to receive unemployment benefits. The vote was 52-43, with seven Democrats joining every Republican in voting against. The bill originally called for strikers to qualify for up to 12 weeks of benefits, but that was amended to four weeks. Rep. Jeremie Dufault (R-Yakima) argued people who strike choose to do so and shouldn’t be rewarded.
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2 weeks ago | 
thisismoney.co.uk | Steve Jackson
The inquest into the Westfield Bondi Junction massacre has revealed the critical issues it will focus on as it investigates the circumstances surrounding a deranged killer's fatal stabbing spree at the shopping centre. Joel Cauchi killed six people and injured 10 others after going on a bloody rampage through the Sydney centre with a US military knife at around 3.30pm on April 13 last year.
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2 weeks ago | 
thisismoney.co.uk | Steve Jackson
Convicted conman Peter Foster is suing Today show star Karl Stefanovic and the Nine Network for more than $4million, claiming they colluded with a rogue police officer to have him wrongly incarcerated. The legal challenge comes little more than a month after the 62-year-old serial fraudster successfully NSW Police for false arrest and wrongful imprisonment, receiving a huge six-figure pay out.
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1 month ago | 
thisismoney.co.uk | Steve Jackson
Australian women are proving they really can do it all - except be paid the same amount as their male counterparts. Federal Treasury analysis has revealed the number of women holding down jobs has hit historic highs across the country, even though they continue to shoulder most the responsibility for raising young families and are still viewed as the nation’s ‘natural caregivers’.
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1 month ago | 
thisismoney.co.uk | Steve Jackson
EXCLUSIVEA vicious war of words has erupted between 'wombat woman' Samantha Jo Strable and harding-working Aussie farmers after she accused them of slaughtering the protected species by the thousands. In a fiery three-part rant posted on her Instagram page, Samantha Strable, who fled Australia on Friday, claimed the reaction to her divisive video had been hypocritical given 'the Australian government allows and permits the slaughter of wombats'.
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1 month ago | 
thisismoney.co.uk | Steve Jackson
Cyclone Alfred has hit Queensland's outer islands and is forecast to cross the mainland between Maroochydore and Bribie Island before 12pm (local time). The tropical cyclone - the first to hit south-east Queensland and northern NSW in half a century - has been downgraded to a category one system. It is forecast to weaken below tropical cyclone strength as it makes landfall. It is still predicted to bring gusts of up to 95km/h, heavy rain and life threatening floods.
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1 month ago | 
thisismoney.co.uk | Steve Jackson
EXCLUSIVEA Current Affair reporter Seb Costello has formally resigned from Nine following a three-month investigation into a wild on-camera chase that ended in the ladies lavatories of a upmarket Melbourne hotel. Nine launched the internal probe after the star journalist - who is the son of the network's former chairman and ex-federal Treasurer Peter Costello - was accused of assaulting a finance executive during the wild 'bounce' last November.
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1 month ago | 
thisismoney.co.uk | Steve Jackson
Millions of residents are in their final hours of preparation for Cyclone Alfred as the storm bears down on Australia's east coast. The tropical cyclone - the first to hit south-east Queensland and northern NSW in half a century - is expected to hit the coast in less than 24 hours. Gale force winds, heavy rain and life threatening floods have begun to smash the region, forcing four million residents to either evacuate or hunker down.
