The Latest Breaking News from Ian MacDonald

There’s a big difference between seeming to be sorry and actually being sorry. Which side do you think the former prime minister falls on?

Erosion on Sydney's beaches is nearing a dangerous tipping point, an expert warns, with up to 30 metres stripped off some beaches and another La Niña event expected later this year.

Two people died when helicopter crashed into field

Ian Macdonald, 66, and German exchange student Admarsu Birhan, 16, died in the crash in the village of Burton in Lonsdale, North Yorkshire.

Ian MacDonald, 66, was trying to land his 2016 Guiumbal Cabri G2 at his home at the edge of the Yorkshire Dales just before midday when it crashed - the passenger was described as a 16-year old German national

Ian Macdonald and ex-union boss John Maitland will face a judge-alone retrial after successfully appealing their convictions over a NSW mine licence.

The Crown has yet to say whether it will oppose the application for the trial, which relates to a Hunter Valley mining licence.

Former NSW Labor minister Ian Macdonald and union boss John Maitland want their criminal retrial to be heard by a judge and not a jury.

While fossicking through the Australian War Memorial archives, I recently stumbled upon a fetching photo of Digger, a dark brown and white stray bulldog that attached himself to soldiers training in 1914 and eventually went "over the top" of the trenches in World War I 16 times.