Alysia Thomas-Sam is a producer for the ABC's 7.30 program. Her email is [email protected]
Senator Jacqui Lambie is calling on the One Nation candidate and creator of the party's 'Please Explain' cartoons to drop out of the race for an upper house seat in next month's Victorian election.
Warren Pickering's public reckoning with his past has raised a broader question for One Nation: How is the party vetting candidates it puts before the electorate?
Exclusive video obtained by 7.30 highlights shocking scenes of aggressive behaviour towards retail workers, including a customer armed with a hammer and a security guard being thrown into a check-out machine.
Victorian retail and fast-food workers say the rise of physical and verbal attacks is out of control and they want urgent action by the state government to curb the crisis.
Toxic, illicit vodka laced with a chemical used in paint stripper has been found in a Melbourne bottle shop. The discovery has prompted urgent calls from alcohol experts for the randomised testing of alcohol.
Australia's bootleg booze market is booming and an alarming new discovery from a bottle of vodka sold in Melbourne reveals it is turning into a major health problem.
Criminal syndicates are targeting vulnerable children with no criminal history, low IQ and intellectual disabilities to carry out their dirty work through encrypted apps.
Crime syndicates in Melbourne are getting teenagers with learning disabilities to carry out arson attacks and home invasions.
Married at First Sight UK could be axed as its broadcaster, Channel 4, awaits an external review into the program and serious rape allegations before "deciding what happens next".
Married At First Sight UK has become the centre of rape allegations. Now former MAFS Australia contestants and producers are speaking out about being coerced into intimacy.
An investigation into how AI chatbots respond to violent requests produces "deeply disturbing" results, as OpenAI denies ChatGPT encourages crime.
Melbourne is in the grip of a crime wave. But this time it's different and pub and club owners say they are scared as 'The Cartel' issues threats they do not understand.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are on a four-day whirlwind visit to Australia this week. They say they're here to spotlight mental health, but critics argue it's all for money.
Tasked with training AI systems to perform jobs traditionally done by humans, former PwC employee Donald King says he faced a moral dilemma.
Tech giants Amazon and Meta are slashing jobs as they pivot to artificial intelligence.
Ater "Elia" Good was gunned down last month and police allege it was a gang-related killing. But his parents say their son was not a gang member.
As the FBI continues searching for kidnapped 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie in the United States, a former FBI negotiator says they will be focusing on the grandmother's social circle and family.
Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke says he believes tobacco kingpin Kaz Hamad thought he was "out of reach" of authorities before his arrest in Iraq.
Around Australia, many farming communities are objecting to the construction of new electricity transmission lines as part of renewable energy projects.
Some of the coloured sand found to contain asbestos has been traced to a quarry in China, according to the ACCC.
Emmaly and David Gridley were shocked to learn their rural property had been mistakenly valued at $2.3 million, leaving them with a heavily inflated land tax bill.
Rising land taxes are putting pressure on Victorian manufacturers, with one considering closing its doors after more than 40 years.
Prince Andrew is a "hypocrite" who believes he is above the law, according to author Andrew Lownie, who has written an unauthorised biography on the under siege royal.
Virginia Roberts Giuffre's brothers are calling for the Epstein files, which they believe include videotapes, to be released. One says he knew for years about her allegation against their father.
Virginia Giuffre was one of Jeffrey Epstein's most high-profile victims. Her posthumous memoir reveals her story in her own words
