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Hardware giant Bunnings could be set to participate in the government's $4billion JobMaker wage subsidy scheme despite its sales jumping by 10.5 per cent during the COVID-19 crisis. Parent company Wesfarmers said it would not rule out using the scheme announced during this month's budget - which offers employers between $100 and $200 a week for hiring new staff between the ages of 16 and 35. Woolworths had earlier said on Wednesday it would not be involved in the scheme after making record profits in the past financial year. 'While the circumstances in which our businesses would access the program are likely to be limited, we are always looking to create jobs for young people, especially in our retail businesses,' a Wesfarmers spokesman told Daily Mail Australia. Shoppers pictured forced to queue outside Bunnings in Myaree, Perth due to social distancing measures. The company has not ruled out taking part in the government's new JobMaker scheme 'If there is a ro

Former Blue Peter presenters have rallied around John Leslie with Anthea Turner, Diane Louise Jordan and Yvette Fielding taking to the stand to call him a 'gentleman' after he has been accused of sexual assault. Fern Britton, who he co-hosted This Morning with in the 90s, has said she is 'confident' the allegation is not true. The 55-year-old former TV presenter has denied grabbing a woman's breasts out of nowhere at the celebrity party 12 years ago. The alleged non-consensual touching is said to have taken place in London's West End in 2008. Ms Britton, who presented the ITV morning show from 1999 to 2009, said she has stood by her friend since Matthew Wright had mistakenly named Leslie as Ulrika Jonsson's rapist that she wrote about anonymously in her 2002 autobiography. In a written statement, she said: 'I asked immediately if it was him. 'He said no. I have no reason to disbelieve him and have supported him from then on. The allegations hit John

Gladys Berejiklian's lawyer fumes his client's 'privacy and security' were 'violated' when the ICAC accidentally published an explosive transcript containing intimate details of her relationship with Daryl Maguire.   The Independent Commission Against Corruption on Friday apologised to the NSW Premier and her former Wagga Wagga MP lover for accidentally uploading a transcript of a private hearing on Thursday afternoon.    Commissioner Ruth McColl on Friday said the transcript 'touched on the relationship of Gladys Berejiklian and Mr Maguire.'  'On behalf of the Commission, I would like to apologise for that inadvertent uploading,' she said. Ms McColl said the details were suppressed and how the technology gaffe happened would be investigated. Berejiklian's furious lawyer, Arthur Moses SC, said 'that was a matter in relation to a violation of my client's privacy and her security as a result of the error made by this commission.' It

Two fugitives have been jailed for a further four months after they were caught boasting about their escape in the pub. Convicted armed robber Vincent Israel, 31, and burglar Peter Johnson, 29, scaled a five-foot high fence to escape HMP Sudbury on September 9. The pair drove 50 miles from the Category D prison in Derbyshire to the Stitching Pony in Kettering, Northamptonshire. A customer called the police after they were overheard boasting of their escape. Israel and Johnson, both from Corby in Northamptonshire, admitted charges of escaping from lawful custody on Wednesday.  They were both jailed for a further four months after they appeared via video-link at Northampton Crown Court. Convicted armed robber Vincent Israel , 31, and burglar Peter Johnson , 29, scaled a five-foot high fence to escape HMP Sudbury on September 9. Sentencing, Judge Rebecca Crane said: 'Those in category D prisons are trusted prisoners. You breached that trust.' The court heard Israel and Johnson wer

President Donald Trump will be voting early and in person, his daughter Ivanka revealed on Thursday. 'My father will be voting early in person himself, and you can too,' Ivanka Trump said in a video urging supporters to get to the polls before Election Day.  President Trump is on a two-day trip to his home state of Florida but his in-person voting will likely take place on his next trip to the critical battleground state, a campaign adviser told DailyMail.com.  The president is registered to vote in Palm Beach, where his Mar-a-Lago estate is located.   President Donald Trump will be voting early and in person, his daughter Ivanka revealed President Trump is on a two-day trip to his home state of Florida but his in-person voting will likely take place on his next trip to the critical battleground state, a campaign adviser told DailyMail.com Florida is particularly important to the Trump campaign and it's unclear how the president will win a second term without it. Trump ha

It was 4.26pm and property developer Joe Alha was walking into New South Wales State Parliament for a few glasses of red with his mate Daryl Maguire. Alha was hoping their drinking session would lead to a meeting with somebody important - even the state Premier, Gladys Berejiklian.  But the businessman was apparently oblivious to the fact he was being covertly photographed by corruption investigators as he strode up Macquarie Street, Sydney. A series of pictures tendered at the Independent Commission Against Corruption show the moments before Maguire and Alha met Berejiklian in a 'drop in' meeting. Sydney property developer Joseph Alha is covertly photographed as he arrives at NSW State Parliament on November 15, 2017 - the day he had a 'drop in' meeting with Gladys Berejiklian A clear photograph of Alha arriving at Parliament at 4.27pm that has been tendered at the corruption inquiry into whether Alha's mate Daryl Maguire misused his public office  The photographs

David Hampton, 36, has been charged with killing his two-year-old daughter, Sunday, and shooting his 12-year-old son in the neck in Kentucky A Kentucky father has been arrested and charged with shooting two of his children, killing a toddler and injuring her older brother. David Hampton, 36, opened fire on his children, including his two-year-old daughter, Sunday Rose Hampton, and his 12-year-old son in Vicco, Kentucky, on Wednesday morning, according to state police. The children were gunned down in front of their mother and another sibling, the Hazard Herald first reported. Both injured brother and sister were evacuated from a neighbor's home and rushed to Hazard ARH, where Sunday died of her injuries. Her brother, who has not been named, was then airlifted by a helicopter to a hospital in Johnson City, Tennessee, to be treated for a gunshot wound to his neck. He was listed in stable condition as of Thursday. KSP Trooper Matt Gayheart said the shooting took place inside one house

RAF pilots flying the next generation of fighter jets will be able to rely on a ‘virtual assistant’ if they get in trouble, engineers revealed yesterday. Scheduled to be in service by 2035, the Tempest warplane will be capable of being flown by humans or the computer ‘co-pilot’. The aircraft will be able to tell whether the pilot is ‘stressed or overloaded’ by analysing data from smart watches, heart rate monitors and other technology. If so, the plane’s systems would intervene and help out. The RAF and BAE are developing a new aircraft, the Tempest, which will have a computerised assistant to assist the pilot (artist's impression)  The RAF believe the new aircraft could enter service by 2035 after the government committed £2 billion to the project Some of the work is being carried out at BAE’s ‘factory of the future’ at Warton in Lancashire. The Government has committed £2billion to the Tempest project by 2025 ‘In the future we are expecting the battlespace to be a lot busier an