A group of alleged scammers posing as exorcists have swindled more than $150,000 from elderly women using a bizarre scheme claiming they are being haunted by spirits in Melbourne’s east.
Vandals are defacing Lime bikes with anti-Semitic graffiti to intimidate residents in Jewish Sydney quarters creating “mobile racist billboards” in the latest anti-Israel campaign.
Wild storms have wreaked havoc across parts of New South Wales, with fallen trees blocking roads, hitting power lines and causing chaos as much of the state battles wild winds and heavy rainfall.
Tobacco wars have erupted on Sydney’s streets with one man allegedly having a toe cut off and two others being savagely bashed, during a foiled attempt to steal more than one tonne of illegal tobacco.