| | The NSW corruption watchdog has played several tapped several calls between former premier Gladys Berejiklian and her ex-boyfriend Daryl Maguire. Here are three it highlighted. | | | The WA detective tasked with finding missing four-year-old Cleo Smith says investigators are reviewing reports of past approaches to children in the area where she disappeared from her family's tent a fortnight ago. | | | Why are Australian petrol prices hitting record highs? Part of the reason has to do with a government decision made in the 1970s. | | | Melbourne counts down to the 6pm lifting of restrictions when retail, cinemas and gyms can reopen and Melburnians can head to regional Victoria, as tomorrow marks the end of daily COVID-19 updates. | | | Get up to speed on all the coronavirus news from across Australia. Follow live. | | | The Reserve Bank again fails to defend its 0.1 per cent bond yield target and that means official interest rates, as well as variable mortgage rates, could be rising sooner than previously expected. | | | A complex low, front and extended trough are expected to bring supercell storms to northern NSW and southern Queensland today, after SA and Victoria got a battering yesterday and overnight. | | | A corruption hearing hears former NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian telling her secret MP boyfriend Daryl Maguire that a public servant's "head would be gone" but only after he "fixed" a grant proposal in his electorate. | | | Ben Owen had gone to check on his neighbours in the Dandenongs this morning when his wife rang and told him an enormous pine tree had come crashing down on their home. | | | Japan experiences a sharp decline in coronavirus cases after the Olympic host country suffers its most severe outbreak of the pandemic. Health experts say public compliance, mask wearing and vaccine uptake have helped flatten the curve. | | | | | | Download the ABC News app | Available on Android and Apple devices | | The ABC NEWS app makes it easier for you to stay up to date with the latest news and information from Australia's most trusted news source. | | | | The ABC sent this message to wwwhindimen.australia@blogger.com these details are included to help provide assurance that this is a genuine email from ABC. Any personal details and data acquired by the ABC from your participation in any ABC Online Services will be used only in accordance with the ABC's Privacy Policy. This service may include material from Agence France-Presse (AFP), APTN, Reuters, AAP, CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced. | | | | |