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Former Sunrise host Melissa Doyle has been appointed to a prestigious new role, saying she is feeling “every single emotion” about the high-profile opportunity. The appointment marks a new chapter for the veteran journalist, who is taking on a prominent national position. Doyle revealed her reaction to the news while acknowledging the significance of the new role.

Donald Trump’s support for a united Ireland has drawn criticism from British and Northern Irish politicians, with Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch accusing the US president of making “loose” comments about the future of democratic countries. Speaking alongside Taoiseach Micheál Martin at the Farmleigh Estate in Dublin, Mr Trump said he would “love to see a unified Ireland” and predicted that reunification would eventually take place. “I think it would be a great feather in everybody’s cap if that happened,” he said. “It’s going to happen eventually. It may as well happen now.” Mr Trump acknowledged that the UK would have…

Rebel Wilson attended the Toronto International Film Festival premiere of her new film, Girl Group, with her mother Sue Bownds, as the pair drew attention for their striking resemblance on the red carpet. The 46-year-old Australian actress and her 69-year-old schoolteacher mother appeared together at Friday’s screening, both dressed for the occasion. Bownds wore a silver and black gown decorated with a floral motif and sparkling details. She styled her blonde hair in soft waves, adding diamond jewellery, pale heels and make-up featuring heavily lined eyes and pink lip gloss. Wilson chose a plunging, off-the-shoulder black gown with a silver-encrusted…

Two women are fighting for their lives after a police car and a Kia sedan crashed into two houses in Bossley Park, in Sydney’s south-west. The collision happened on Prairie Vale Road at about 12.20pm on Sunday, when police were responding to reports of a child running on a motorway. The police vehicle was travelling with its lights and siren activated. The Kia and the police car left the roadway after colliding, crashing through a fence and into separate houses. Nobody inside either property was injured. The Kia’s driver, a woman believed to be in her late 20s, was taken…

Two women are critically injured after a police car responding to a priority incident collided with their Kia sedan in Bossley Park, in Sydney’s south-west. The crash happened on Prairie Vale Road at about 12.20pm on Sunday while the police vehicle was travelling with its lights and sirens activated. Both vehicles left the road, broke through a fence and struck separate houses. No one inside either property was injured. The Kia driver, a woman believed to be in her late 20s, was treated by paramedics at the scene before being taken to Westmead Hospital in a critical condition. Her passenger,…

The final 70 Up programme will reunite viewers with the people first filmed as seven-year-olds in 1964, as the pioneering series reaches its conclusion with the participants reflecting on six decades of change. The latest instalment is made without director Michael Apted, who died in 2021. It asks whether the Jesuit saying used to open every episode – “Give me a child until he is seven, and I will give you the man” – has proved true of those followed throughout their lives. The series began as an examination of the British class system, bringing together children from sharply different…

Two people are in a critical condition after a police vehicle and a red sedan collided in Bossley Park, west of Sydney, before both vehicles crashed into separate homes. Emergency services were called to Prairie Vale Road at about 12.20pm on Sunday after reports of the collision. Police said officers had been responding with lights and sirens to an incident involving a child seen running on the road when their vehicle struck the Kia sedan. The force of the crash sent both vehicles off the road, through a fence and into nearby properties. No one inside either house was injured.…

More than 100 social and affordable rental homes are to be built in Perth’s CBD, with a 30-storey development on Roe Street due for completion in 2029. The project will deliver 174 one- and two-bedroom apartments, including 139 affordable rentals and 35 social homes. It is being presented as one of the biggest social and affordable housing developments in the city centre. Housing and Works Minister John Carey said the Western Australian Government was “throwing everything” at accelerating the delivery of new housing. “Never have we seen in our state’s history, so many build-to-rent projects underway, and this is the…

A former police officer accused of stalking four women in Frankston by placing Apple AirTags on their cars has been denied bail by a Melbourne magistrate. Timothy Wilson, 65, appeared by video link at Melbourne Magistrates Court on Sunday, facing four stalking charges as well as allegations of possessing a firearm and a weapon while prohibited from doing so. Police allege the four women found 10 tracking devices attached to their vehicles, while prosecutors told the court investigators believed there could be up to 25 further victims. The first complainant was alerted to an AirTag near her location on June…

A father who fears his son will be emasculated by becoming a stay-at-home parent has been urged to reconsider his assumptions and trust his adult son’s judgement. The man wrote to agony aunt Caroline West-Meads saying his son was discussing taking time away from his career to care for future children because his wife earns twice as much as he does. He said he found his daughter-in-law, an accomplished corporate lawyer in her early 30s, “unbearable” and believed she was bossy, opinionated and dominated his son, despite his having a successful career of his own. The couple are considering having…