For more than 60 years, Harry Plane has had a designated seat at his favourite local pub. The Junction Hotel in the outback mining city of Broken Hill has served as a gathering place for miners, footy players, and railway workers for more than 130 years.  As he sips on a beer, Mr Plane reminisces…

The multinational owner of Tasmania’s beloved James Boag’s brewery has no plans to sell the brand, despite claims from the United Workers’ Union (UWU). The brewery’s parent company Lion Australia issued a statement this morning refuting the union’s clams that the brand and the brewery were for sale. Confusion reigns, however, as a letter seen…

Randwick councillors have rejected a plan to introduce hundreds of parking meters at some of Sydney’s popular eastern beaches. The proposal would have brought 1,400 paid parking spaces for visitors at beaches including Clovelly, Coogee, Maroubra, La Perouse, Little Bay and Malabar. Residents of the Randwick council area would have had access to an unlimited…

Serena Williams had already won seven Grand Slam singles titles, including two Wimbledon crowns, when Maya Joint was born in April 2006. But now the 20-year-old Australian has ended the fairytale return of the 44-year-old Williams at the All England Club with a stunning 6-3, 6-7 (6/8), 6-3 victory in the first round. It was…

The town of Katherine in the Northern Territory has been a meeting place for centuries, and remains a crossroads for people travelling across the north. But it was not until the completion of a bridge in 1926 that the town, 300 kilometres south of Darwin, was officially gazetted. Today, we look back at a century…

Eight years on from her daughter’s brutal murder, Vanessa Gardiner still cannot give enough thanks to the police officers who never gave up in their hunt for the killer and are now firmly “part of the family”.  Rajwinder Singh was convicted in a retrial in December 2025 and sentenced to life imprisonment for 24-year-old Toyah…