Tasmania’s salmon industry has confirmed over 5,000 kilograms of antibiotics were used last summer to treat a disease outbreak which killed 9,000 tonnes of farmed fish over the first three months of this year. The final figures have been released several months after the salmon industry was banned from using the antibiotic, known as florfenicol,…

A South Australian coroner says it is an “unfortunate truth” that there was “no genuine opportunity” for police to predict or prevent a crash that killed two women on Anzac Day in 2020. On Tuesday, State Coroner David Whittle handed down his findings into the deaths of senior police officer Joanne Shanahan and mother Tania…

Two matches isn’t much time to develop a reputation as a State of Origin saviour but Bradman Best has managed it. The Newcastle centre scored a double on debut for New South Wales in Game III of the 2023 series, helping the Blues to a dead rubber win that saved them from the shame of…

A protester who spent 23 hours up a tree in an unsanctioned community garden near Brisbane’s CBD has been removed by emergency services in a cherry picker. Queensland Fire Department escorted the woman out of the tree safely after a power line was removed to clear the way down. The tree sits at Kurilpa Common,…

Alpine communities in the NSW Snowy Mountains are facing a nervous wait to see if forecast snowfalls can rectify a “terrible” start to the season. Warm temperatures and rain have hindered natural snowfall and snow-making operations at ski resorts. Since the season was declared open on June 6, 14 centimetres of snow has been recorded…

In December 1985, geologist Dr Mike Thomson was mapping rock layers on the Antarctic Peninsula when he unearthed a bone. The meticulous note taker pulled out a pencil and jotted down his initial thoughts about the fossil. “Vertebra of large reptile,” he wrote in his field diary, alongside a sketch of the 10-centimetre-wide bone. Mike…