Australia

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Licenses for teenage riders and crushing powers for illegal e-bikes are among the measures being considered by lawmakers in a nationwide crackdown.

The deaths of the boys, aged 14 and 15, comes amid pleas to curb riders using the restricted roadway.

The teenage boys, aged 15 and 16, were on a motorcycle when the crash happened in Sydney’s west.

What looks like a small hole in the road is hiding a shocking secret underneath.

Optus has suffered yet another nationwide outage which resulted in a handful of triple-0 calls not connecting.

Creditors have taken over the entrepreneur’s business, PAC Capital, and he has separated from his glamorous wife.

Federal Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen confirmed fuel rationing has been reviewed by his department as more than 200 service stations ran out of petrol in NSW, Queensland and Victoria.

Almost half of the social security debt backlog has been wiped out.

Staff members at the ABC are expected to take industrial action this week over an unresolved pay dispute with the national broadcaster.

NSW Premier Chris Minns has confirmed more than 100 service stations are out of diesel and dozens are completely dry amid the worsening fuel crisis.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been phoning his global counterparts to try and shore up Australia’s fuel stocks over the coming weeks and months, as the Middle East war sends shockwaves through global supply chains.

The entire brawl outside the Melbourne petrol station was captured on camera.

Ex-tropical cyclone Narelle is set to leave a path of destruction in another state as residents in the Top End wait for flood levels to rise.

‘The cost of fuel has to be worn by the end customer or people can’t actually operate in business.’