Topic: Australia — Neutral reports only
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[2026-04-19 19:45 UTC+10:00] [National / NSW] [Factuality: 95]
Source: The Age
Snippet: More than 8000 students abandoned advanced mathematics in last year’s Higher School Certificate, with a third of students across the state dropping the course between year 11 and 12.
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[2026-04-19 19:36 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Auto news: Public electric car charging cables cut and stolen at shopping centre
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[2026-04-19 19:32 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Snippet: Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian released a lengthy statement on Sunday, distributed by the semi-official Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA), that addressed a number of topics, including the Iranian athletes who were offered asylum in Australia in March.
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[2026-04-19 18:43 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Property News: Australia's most popular suburbs in every capital city.
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[2026-04-19 18:39 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Property News: Australia's most expensive streets, and how much it costs to live in them.
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[2026-04-19 18:35 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-04-19 18:23 UTC+10:00] [Melbourne] [Factuality: 100]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: Werribee man, 33, was charged with dangerous driving causing death and culpable driving after a man was struck and killed at Comic Con event
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[2026-04-19 18:17 UTC+10:00] [Sport / AFL] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: A match-saving tackle on Lions’ star Will Ashcroft from Melbourne champion Max Gawn has enabled Melbourne to remain unbeaten at the MCG in 2026 as they hung on to a two-point win over the Lions in Lachie Neale’s 300th match.
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[2026-04-19 17:39 UTC+10:00] [National / Victoria] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: At Moe Plaza shopping centre, locals can get their mobile phone fixed, their nails done or buy some sushi.
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[2026-04-19 17:16 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: A seven-year-old boy has died after being hit by a car while riding a scooter outside his home in Melbourne.The man behind the wheel was a neighbour who stopped at the scene in Melton and was left traumatised by Saad Masud's death.Another neighbour, Mohammed Chowdhury, said he came out and saw the child lying on the street.READ MORE: Unlicenced driver charged after 'hitting and killing man outside comic con'A seven-year-old boy has died after being hit by a car while
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[2026-04-19 17:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Women make up 90 per cent of Filipino marriage migrants, moving mainly to the US, Canada, Japan and Australia
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[2026-04-19 17:00 UTC+10:00] [Georgia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Women make up 90 per cent of Filipino marriage migrants, moving mainly to the US, Canada, Japan and Australia
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[2026-04-19 16:55 UTC+10:00] [National / Queensland] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: More than 20 people have been arrested at protests in Brisbane over the weekend, with pro-Palestine groups calling on the Crisafulli government to repeal its contentious hate-speech laws.
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[2026-04-19 16:41 UTC+10:00] [Sport / Athletics] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: The dramatic rise of Australian sprinting shows no sign of slowing down after powerhouse runner Eddie Osei-Nketia ran a staggering time of 9.84 seconds for the 100m in a college athletics race in the USA.
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[2026-04-19 16:18 UTC+10:00] [Sport / AFL] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Cam Zurhaar has shone in a new role across halfback as North Melbourne franked their best start to an AFL season in a decade with a 75-point thumping of injury-hit bottom side Richmond.
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[2026-04-19 16:09 UTC+10:00] [Australia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Hong Kong will host some of the world’s best women’s teams in two-week WXV Challenger tournament in September
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[2026-04-19 15:49 UTC+10:00] [Sport] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Products & ServicesOpen Products & Services section
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[2026-04-19 15:13 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: El jardinero Ramón Laureano festeja con su compañero Fernando Tatis Jr. y Jackson Merrill de los Padres de San Diego tras vencer a los Angelinos de Los Ángeles el sábado 18 de abril del 2026. (AP Foto/Caroline Brehman)
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[2026-04-19 15:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: BBC News
Snippet: Australia's most decorated living soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith, has publicly denied all allegations against him in his first statement after being charged with five counts of the war crime of murder last week.
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[2026-04-19 15:07 UTC+10:00] [Ben Roberts-Smith] [Factuality: 90]
Source: Guardian Australia
Snippet: The Victoria Cross recipient faces five charges of war crime murder over allegations he killed unarmed civilians during his service with the Australian SAS in Afghanistan
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[2026-04-19 15:00 UTC+10:00] [National / WA] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Western Australia’s response to the illegal tobacco and vape scourge has improved but it still lags well behind national leader Queensland, an Australian Council on Smoking and Health investigation has found.
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[2026-04-19 14:56 UTC+10:00] [National / WA] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Free bus and train services on Sundays and for children making their way to and from school will become permanent after a trial saw a ‘significant jump’ in the number of people using public transport, the state government says.
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[2026-04-19 14:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Eddie Nketia switched his allegiance from New Zealand to Australia in December. (Getty Images: Isaac Wasserman/NCAA Photos, file photo)
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[2026-04-19 14:14 UTC+10:00] [National / NSW] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: A man allegedly murdered his mother with a household knife near Newcastle overnight while another man was allegedly stabbed to death by a group of masked intruders in a nearby suburb.
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[2026-04-19 14:12 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Australia imports all of the 10 billion litres of jet fuel it burns every year. (Pexels: Marcus Ireland)
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[2026-04-19 14:00 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: El alero de los Lakers de Los Ángeles LeBron James pasa el balón frente a Josh Okogie y Jabari Smith Jr. de los Rockets de Houston en el primer juego de la postemporada el sábado 18 de abril del 2026. (AP Foto/Mark J. Terrill)
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[2026-04-19 13:56 UTC+10:00] [Sport / Rugby Union] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Zac Lomax helped the Western Force become the third Australian side to beat the Crusaders this season, but chances of his former Origin teammate Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii helping the Waratahs complete a clean sweep on Friday in New Zealand appear slim.
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[2026-04-19 13:49 UTC+10:00] [National / Victoria] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: The founder of the Supanova comic culture convention says he and his colleagues are gutted after a young man was hit by a car and died outside the annual event in Melbourne’s inner north-west on Saturday evening.
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[2026-04-19 13:49 UTC+10:00] [National / Victoria] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: An unlicensed driver has been charged after a young man was hit by car and died outside the annual Supanova comic culture convention in Melbourne’s inner north-west on Saturday.
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[2026-04-19 13:45 UTC+10:00] [National / NSW] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: A former student is suing the state of NSW after she was allegedly repeatedly sexually assaulted by a teacher while at a public school in Sydney’s inner west.
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[2026-04-19 13:45 UTC+10:00] [Sport / NRL] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: It was a nightmare weekend for NSW Origin coach Laurie Daley, who watched Blues’ contenders Tom Trbojevic, Mitch Kenny and Payne Haas each suffer serious injuries within 48 hours.
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[2026-04-19 13:41 UTC+10:00] [Politics / Federal] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Australia is calling on Iran and the United States to intensify efforts to negotiate an end to their war after the Iranian regime again closed off the Strait of Hormuz and began firing at ships, just a day after reopening the critical waterway.
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[2026-04-19 13:40 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Property News: Australia's most popular suburbs in every capital city.
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[2026-04-19 13:30 UTC+10:00] [National / Victoria] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: A long-awaited shopping centre redevelopment in Melbourne’s south-east has been further delayed after the council rejected the demolition of an unoccupied heritage house nearby.
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[2026-04-19 13:02 UTC+10:00] [National / Queensland] [Factuality: 100]
Source: The Age
Snippet: The Crisafulli government has endorsed former Brisbane City councillor Fiona Hammond as the LNP’s candidate for the inner-north seat of Stafford, days after announcing a snap by-election to be held on May 16.
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[2026-04-19 12:57 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Law, Crime and Justice
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[2026-04-19 12:53 UTC+10:00] [National] [Factuality: 90]
Source: The Age
Snippet: Accused war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith has issued his first public statement since his release from a Sydney jail on bail last week to categorically deny the allegations against him and plead for privacy, hitting out at police over what he described as his “deliberately sensational arrest” at Sydney Airport last week.
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[2026-04-19 12:50 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: North Melbourne and Richmond are first up in Sunday footy, before a big afternoon of milestone matches and heated rivalries.
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[2026-04-19 12:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 90]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: By Victoria Pengilley
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[2026-04-19 12:44 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Property News: Australia's most popular suburbs in every capital city.
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[2026-04-19 12:31 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: New York Post
Snippet: A 35-year-old Australian man has pleaded not guilty to a federal charge after prosecutors say he violently confronted a Transportation Security Administration officer inside Los Angeles International Airport.
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[2026-04-19 12:20 UTC+10:00] [World] [Factuality: 100]
Source: 9News
Snippet: Property News: Australia's most expensive streets, and how much it costs to live in them.
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[2026-04-19 12:00 UTC+10:00] [Australia] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Indonesia is leading a regional push to ban children from social media platforms. Enforcement is another matter, however
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[2026-04-19 11:47 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Hong Kong’s men must wait to see if they get to defend their Melrose Claymores title on last day of action at Kai Tak Stadium
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[2026-04-19 11:47 UTC+10:00] [Ada Li] [Factuality: 100]
Source: South China Morning Post
Snippet: Hong Kong’s men must wait to see if they get to defend their Melrose Claymores title on last day of action at Kai Tak Stadium
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[2026-04-19 11:37 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: NSW Police were called to Windale on Saturday night for a welfare check. (Supplied: Newcastle Camera Crew)
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[2026-04-19 11:25 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: Jalen Brunson de los Knicks de Nueva York dispara sobre CJ McCollum de los Hawks de Atlanta en el juego 1 de la primera ronda de los playoffs el sábado 18 de abril del 2026. (AP Foto/Frank Franklin II)
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[2026-04-19 11:01 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Topic:Federal Government
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[2026-04-19 10:59 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 95]
Source: ABC News
Snippet: Steph and Jonathan Paige make skis in a workshop in Jindabyne. (ABC Landline: Floss Adams)
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[2026-04-19 10:49 UTC+10:00] [General] [Factuality: 100]
Source: AP News
Snippet: El capitán de Legion XIII Jon Rahm en el hoyo 16 de la primera ronda del torneo LIV México el jueves 16 de abril del 2026. (Scott Taetsch/LIV Golf via AP)
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