Car manufacturer Toyota has withdrawn an advertising campaign that was described as incestuous, degrading and sexist. The winning entry in the Toyota-sponsored Clever Film Comp has been pulled from the event’s website following online backlash against sexual jokes including a father implying that his daughter could take a good pounding. Dubbed ‘abuser-generated ...

Channel Nine is set to announce that it has reached a deal with Somers Carroll, the producers of Hey Hey It’s Saturday, to bring the show back to Australian TV screens next year on a regular basis for the first time since it was axed in 1999. The Nine Network confirmed ...

Australian clubbers and students are purchasing a new designer drug billed as a cross between cocaine and ecstasy over the internet. Experts are quickly becoming alarmed at the growing popularity of the mystery drug Mephedrone, known on the street as MM-Cat, Plant Food, Meow and 4-MMC, and fear that it could ...

A flight attendant working for Jetstar accused of attempting to contact a young female passenger through Facebook has been dismissed. Spokesman for the airline Simon Westaway said that the flight attendant had obtained the passengers details from a boarding pass and tried to add her as a friend on the social ...

Australian telecommunications giant Telstra’s national internet network shut down for about an hour today, the company said. The outage is believed to have affected all Telstra business and home broadband and mobile internet customers across the nation. A Telstra spokesman said that all services were restored by about 8:50am. The company had launched ...