Southern Highlands Secrets

Anti-puppy farm campaigners have criticised the Department of Primary Industries' code of practice that covers dog breeding facilities. The group Oscar's Law will today address a Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal hearing into an application for a puppy farm at Ballan, east of Ballarat. The...

The RSPCA is again calling for an end to jumps racing after a horse had to be put down following a jumps event at Mount Gambier in South Australia's south-east this afternoon. The favourite, Fasilenko, fell during the open steeple race but jockey Stephen Gray was not injured. The RSPCA's South Austr...

A man who was found guilty of animal cruelty last year, will face court today charged with failing to comply with a court order. Raymond Andrew Grayson had been ordered to remove cattle from his Torbay property, near Albany, after he was found guilty of not providing sufficient food to nearly 300 co...

The number of cattle dying on export ships is the highest it has been in four years, according to figures tabled in Parliament by the Department of Agriculture this month. The figures reveal 1,192 cattle died on board ships destined for Asia and the Middle East - a 20 per cent increase on last year'...

Australia's live export industry has suspended cattle shipments to three Indonesian slaughterhouses in what is seen as a bid to pre-empt a program on ABC TV. As Four Corners prepares for Monday's broadcast of footage taken at a slaughterhouse in Indonesia, the live export industry is panicking. It f...

Bowral Police created a devastating car crash and an assault to a female. This could of become much worse if the car had hit other pedestrians or drivers on the road.. all because of raising revenue no matter what the cost. A HIGH-speed police pursuit of a vehicle in the NSW Southern Highlands was a...

Detective constable Michael De-haan of NSW Bowral police station falsified evidence to obtain an illegal search warrant to raid a Moss Vale property. Can you imagine how many other dodgy illegal search warrants Bowral police have created in the past and continue to produce into the future. Michael D...

Rupert Murdoch's powerful British news operation has admitted responsibility in a phone hacking scandal involving members of the royal family and celebrities like actress Sienna Miller that has also cost the British prime minister's spokesman his job. News International, parent company of Britain's ...

The corrupt Food Authority Australia still allowing Coles and Woolworths to brand their imported fruit and vegetables as made in Australia

The Victorian Government has assembled a ministerial taskforce to investigate failings in the sex offenders registration scheme. The Ombudsman savaged government agencies for putting the rights of sex offenders above those of vulnerable children. Its report to Parliament found more than 700 children...

Australian commandos have lashed out the military prosecutor's decision to level a charge of manslaughter over the killing of six civilians during a botched night-time raid in Afghanistan. As foreshadowed in the Herald, three commandos will face a charges over the deaths of four children and two adu...

New South Wales Health has denied there is a birth defect cluster in a small community in the state's Northern Rivers region. Gastroschisis is a condition where a baby's intestines and organs grow outside the body through a hole in the abdominal wall. In the past three years at least seven babies ar...

There is evidence that many prospective migrants are resorting to fraud to overcome tougher migration rules, with the compulsory International English Language Testing System (IELTS) at the centre of the controversy. The IELTS can make or break a candidate's future in Australia. Karen, an Indian gra...

POLICE have denied claims they bashed a mother of two when they came to her home in the north of NSW to investigate a domestic incident. Carolyn Neverov, 41, said police struck and kicked her in front of her 13-year-old daughter when they came to her Armidale home on Tuesday. “They were really rough...

THE West Australian police have again been embarrassed over their treatment of Aboriginal man Kevin Spratt - who was tasered 41 times in a week in 2008 - after the court of appeal today overturned a conviction against him for obstructing police. Justice Stephen Hall ruled that a miscarriage of justi...

The Crime and Misconduct Commission (CMC) still has "ongoing concerns" despite praising the Queensland Police Service (QPS) for improving its use of Tasers after the death of a man in the state's north. Antonio Galeano, 39, died after being tasered multiple times by police after he alleged...

NSW Police hold state of secrecy on crimes including rape and murder By Mark Morri and Gemma Jones NSW Police ... are not reporting crimes and have shut the media out of important information related to crime scenes. THOUSANDS of crimes, including rape and murder, are being hidden by the NSW Police ...