Can private information uploaded to ChatGPT be found by other users?

A NSW government data breach exposing up to 3,000 people has raised questions about the risks artificial intelligence pose to personal security. A contractor for the NSW Reconstruction Authority uploaded the names, contact details and personal...

Sailors Celebrate the Navy’s 250th Birthday

OCTOBER 13, 2025 – Multinational service members deployed in support of Pacific Partnership 2025 celebrated the Navy’s 250th Birthday embarked on the Lewis B. Puller-class expeditionary sea base USS John L. Canley (ESB-6) underway in the Western...

Sailors Celebrate the Navy’s 250th Birthday Aboard the USS John L. Canley

WESTERN PACIFIC OCEAN – Multinational service members deployed in support of Pacific Partnership 2025 celebrated the Navy’s 250th Birthday embarked on the Lewis B. Puller-class expeditionary sea base USS John L. Canley (ESB-6) underway in the...

Fiona Falkiner and wife Hayley Willis announce split

Fiona Falkiner, model and former host of The Biggest Loser Australia, has announced she's separated from her wife, sports presenter Hayley Willis. Falkiner, 42, shared the news in a statement on her Instagram stories over the weekend. "Hayley and...

Placing priority on diversification

An economy is a continuum. One finance minister who manages an economy for ten continuous years hands either a jewel or a disaster to his replacement. What has former finance minister Colm Imbert handed his successor Davendranath Tancoo? Jewel or...

Pasifika Sipoti in brief for 13 October

Manu Samoa team bows in prayer after their 31-12 loss to Chile on Sunday morning. Photo: Supplied/Manu Samoa Rugby Manu Samoa has missed out on playing Italy in a rugby international clash on 22 November. The Samoans were originally billed to meet...

Alleged Sydney gunman had no known mental health history, police say

The man who allegedly unleashed at least 50 bullets on random members of the public in Sydney on Sunday night had no known mental health history, according to police. Tactical officers exchanged gunfire with the 60-year-old man in Croydon Park,...

Farmgate Backpackers leads with integrity amid industry challenges

At a time when the agriculture and horticulture industries are again experiencing issues in some southern mainland states, a Bundaberg operation is standing up for workers and farmers. ERLE LEVEY goes to Childers to speak with Bill Darby of...

'Positive outcome': NSW psychiatrists win boost in pay dispute

NSW public sector psychiatrists have won a 20 per cent interim pay rise for 12 months, following a ruling in the state's Industrial Relations Commission (IRC). More than 200 public hospital psychiatrists tendered their resignations earlier this...

Hunt for 'aggressive, dangerous men' who slipped Sydney police operation

A police operation involving tactical officers and hostage negotiators was sparked by a report of an armed group entering a home in Sydney's south-west. The operation began on Friday morning after officers from the Bankstown Area Command and...

Teenage girl dies in crash involving allegedly stolen car

A 16-year-old girl has died in a crash involving an allegedly stolen car in Wodonga, as police investigate two deadly collisions in Victoria's north in the space of 12 hours. The Wodonga teenager was a passenger in a Nissan being driven by another...

Two face court over alleged murder of 18yo in Victoria's east

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this article contains images and names of people who have died. Two teenagers have faced court charged with murder after a stabbing incident in Victoria’s east left one man dead and...

Family says Indigenous man who died in custody was deprived human rights

The family of an Indigenous man who died in prison says an apology from Corrective Services NSW has come "too little, too late". WARNING: This article contains the names and images of First Nations people who have died. It also includes...

Truck driver who hit school bus knew he had faulty brakes, court told

A mother of a high school student injured in a bus crash at Bacchus Marsh, north-west of Melbourne, three years ago had described the chaos that unfolded at the scene as "like a horror movie". The woman, who cannot be identified for legal reasons,...

Live: First awards handed out at Dally M as Rooster wins Try of the Year

3m agoWed 1 Oct 2025 at 10:03am The Dally M Awards ceremony has begun We are underway with the ceremony. Former player Braith Anasta has come up to address those in attendance. 5m agoWed 1 Oct 2025 at 10:01am Tedesco is 'quite nervous' ahead of...

Pacific Islands News Roundup – October 3 – 9, 2025

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Email with smiling workers on wrecking balls outrages caravan evictees

A leaked email from a northern New South Wales council has caused outrage among a group of caravan owners facing eviction from four council-run parks. The Clarence Valley Council internal email included an AI-generated illustration of a series of...

How airport schooner helped police capture Sydney's 'Night Stalker'

A former funeral director and hospital wardsman has admitted to a series of sexual attacks on women in Sydney in the early 90s, after a familial DNA link led to his arrest more than three decades on. Warning: This story contains details of graphic...

$30M for MVA to Keep Failing Us, While Our People Suffer and Go Hungry

By Mabel Doge Luhan for Mabel’s Table, Kandit News & Views It was barely more than a century ago when I still held out hope for curing my primary medical complaint. No, not the posterior carbuncle, nor the seasonal rickets. I’m talking about my...

The European Union and the Pacific Community boost border security in Marshall Islands with advanced X-Ray technology

Photo: European Union Ambassador Barbara Plinkert and Marshall Islands Minister Anthony Muller, key handover of the Airport X-ray machine The Republic of Marshall Islands (RMI) has received a state-of-the-art X-ray machine to reinforce border...