Dr Google but worse: How AI is playing fast and loose with our health problems Move over Dr Google — Dr AI is creating a dangerous new wave of cyberchondriacs Evening Standard · Mar 5
‘It was terrifying’: Australia faces reckoning over brutal police crackdown on pro-Palestine protests IN FOCUS: Police in Sydney are being investigated by a state watchdog over their response to protests of Israel president Isaac Herzog’s visit. Namita Singh talks to witnesses and rights groups about an incident that shocked Australia The Independent UK · Feb 17
Not a real doctor: AI struggles to treat human patients Tasked with identifying common medical conditions and recommending treatment, artificial intelligence can deliver deadly advice. AAP · Feb 9
Mushroom murderer Erin Patterson to appeal convictions Triple-murderer Erin Patterson has formally indicated she will appeal her convictions after she was found guilty of serving a deadly mushroom lunch. AAP · Oct 2, 2025
Jail time slashed for woman who killed abusive husband A woman who killed her husband after a decade of "intolerable" abuse may be released from jail in about three years after appealing her murder sentence. AAP · Nov 20, 2024
Why Alien Life on "Triassic Worlds" Might be Easiest to Spot Worlds that look like Earth in the Triassic period, with its higher levels of oxygen, might be prime targets for astrobiology. Inverse · Nov 11, 2023
Rebecca Payne sentenced to 16 years' jail for murdering husband with drug-laced biscuits A Supreme Court justice concludes Rebecca Payne suffered more than a decade of "abhorrent" abuse from her husband but there was "no legal justification" for the killing. ABC News · Jun 1, 2023
Rebecca Payne faces pre-sentence hearing for murdering her husband with drug-laced biscuits at Walpeup A court has heard Walpeup man Noel Payne was violent and abusive towards his wife and another woman who lived at his property before he was murdered in 2020. His wife Rebecca Payne is to be sentenced for his murder. ABC News · May 22, 2023
Mercy plea after woman killed violent, abusive husband A Victorian woman subjected to reprehensible violence at the hands of the husband she later killed should be shown mercy, her lawyer has argued. AAP · May 22, 2023
Woman found guilty of abusive husband's murder A Victorian woman who fed her abusive husband sleeping pills hidden inside homemade biscuits and stuffed him in a freezer has been found guilty of murder. AAP · Mar 15, 2023
Supreme Court jury finds Rebecca Payne guilty of murdering husband Noel Payne The jury took two days to reach the verdict. During the trial, the Supreme Court heard Payne had fed her husband biscuits laced with temazepam. ABC News · Mar 15, 2023
Supreme Court murder trial of woman accused of killing husband continues in Mildura A man whose body was found after he was drugged with temazepam in 2020 had physically abused a live-in sexual partner as well as his wife, the Victorian Supreme Court has heard. ABC News · Mar 2, 2023
Court hears Noel Payne abused wife, sons and live-in sexual partner before alleged murder The Supreme Court has heard that Noel Payne abused his wife, sons and live-in sexual partner before he died in 2020. Rebecca Payne has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is on trial for murder. ABC News · Feb 28, 2023
Supreme Court murder trial of woman whose drugged spouse was found in freezer underway Rebecca Payne, whose partner's body was found in a freezer in 2020, has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is being tried for murder in the Victorian Supreme Court. ABC News · Feb 21, 2023
AAP · Feb 21, 2023 Wife fed husband laced biscuits, stuffed him in freezer A woman has faced the first day of a murder trial where prosecutors allege she drugged her husband, wrapped him in a blanket and stuffed him into a freezer.