A Coffs Harbour council vehicle was written off and a man thrown into the surf and arrested following an incident in May sparked by an unleashed dog. Video has surfaced showing Coffs council rangers throwing a 44-year-old Sawtell man into the surf at Murrays beach, pinning and arresting him next to the council-owned Ford Ranger 4WD.

Two Sydney neighbours have revealed the “unliveable” conditions of their flats, owned by former Socceroo Jason Culina’s company, that they later discovered were illegally built. Neighbours David Ludowici and Rebecca Kennedy were collectively paying more than $1100 a week in rent for their homes in inner-city Enmore owned by Mr Culina’s company Eighty80.

Thanks to the kindness of strangers, a Newcastle man has managed to raise more than $10,000 in matter of hours to save the life of his sick dog. Cameron Morton found his two-year-old bull Arab Dozer late on Friday night out the front of his home in West Walls End. "He was just laying outside, laying on the driveway.

When hundreds of strangers pitched in to help a Newcastle man with his sick dog the vets responded with a bill to match the contributions almost dollar for dollar. Cameron Morton was at a loss financially and mentally when he took his dog into the Animal Referral and Emergency Centre in Broadmeadow.

With road deaths on the increase in Australia, a new confronting commercial is intended to shock pedestrians into paying attention on our streets. The hard-hitting ad from the Pedestrian Council of Australia shows a young woman walking down the footpath of a suburban street. Engrossed in her phone and wearing headphones, the woman makes the fatal mistake of stepping out on to the street without looking both ways.

The official Facebook account of Liberal Democratic Senator David Leyonhjelm has sent offensive replies to. early-childhood workers' message complaints, calling them "bulls***t artists" and "whingers". A spokesperson for the Senator's office told 7 News Online the account was hijacked when it sent belittling private messages to childcare workers.

Despite being derided for its name and its apparent pro-piracy stance, a large number of Icelanders are likely to vote for the Pirate Party at this weekend's election. With Icelanders enraged by the Panama Papers scandal, for much of the past year the anti-establishment Pirates have been the preferred choice of one in five voters.

There is a good chance that a party often derided as a joke could soon form government in a small, Nordic island nation in the north Atlantic. “Pirate government” might sound like an oxymoron, but a series of events building since the Global Financial Crisis is coming to a head in Iceland that could take the Pirate Party from punchline to office of prime minister.

A Sydney bus driver marched his passengers from his vehicle in the middle of a run so he could take a break only 15 minutes before completing his route. Several passengers – including an elderly woman – were forced off the bus as it sat idle in Marrickville around 8.20pm Thursday night so the driver could have a cigarette.

With the medical marijuana amendment to the drug act passing the Federal Parliament last month, there could be many claims of miracle cures among the real-world applications. Lucy Haslam is one person who led the charge for a change in the law along with her son Dan who died from cancer on February 24 last year.

Two high-profile shock jocks have taken aim at a top NSW university over its guidelines which instruct students that Captain James Cook did not "discover" Australia and that Europeans "invaded" it. Kyle Sandilands and Alan Jones wasted no time launching into tirades against the language changes they described as "rewriting history".

High schools attended by Adelaide women embroiled in a photo-sharing scandal say SA Police have not contacted them over the illegal distribution of nude pictures that were being shared on a US-based website. A cache of files containing pornographic images of around 400 naked women and girls from Adelaide surfaced on a bulletin-board website being used by an informal network of creeps this week before spreading to several other sites.

An Adelaide woman caught up in the nude photos leak to a US-based website has not escaped humiliation despite the images linked to her name being "faked". Around 400 women and teens living in Adelaide had their intimate photos uploaded to a messaging board this week in apparent acts of "revenge porn".

The NSW skills minister's office is following up on calls for an investigation into issues of “rubber stamping” within the TAFE's distance education institution following a meeting with a state Greens MP. NSW skills minister agrees to investigate 'rubber stamping' complaints at TAFE college. Skills Minister John Barilaro agreed to look at long-known allegations of misconduct within the state's Online Training and Education Network (OTEN) in a meeting with Greens Jamie Parker.

Thousands of customers of dental clinics and tattoo parlours across Australia have been put at risk of infectious disease by teachers at a NSW TAFE who have passed sterilisation course students without properly assessing their knowledge. Documents obtained by 9 Stories show some teachers working at the OTEN College in Strathfield have passed Sterilisation Services students despite many never sitting exams or completing assessments.

Australia's oldest person never learned to say no to favours, which is how he found himself knitting tiny jumpers for little penguins. When Phillip Island's Penguin Foundation requested keen knitters to donate their time and yarn to make woollen jumpers for little penguins to wear in the event of an oil spill in March last year, responses came from around the world.