It does not look like a big-ticket public project, but in the past two decades, repeated attempts to shift this bus stop have cost ratepayers almost $9 million. Despite these efforts, Launceston’s St John Street bus interchange — the main hub for people going in or out of the CBD — remains exactly where it…

Gaza health officials say Israeli strikes have killed at least 11 people, including two children and an Al Jazeera cameraman, in the latest violence to rock the Palestinian territory despite a ceasefire. The Qatar-based news network said its cameraman Ahmed Wishah was killed on Saturday, local time, in an “Israeli bombardment” that targeted a house…

In 2021, as the Taliban closed in on Kabul and seized back power, members of Afghanistan women’s cricket team fled for their lives. Five years on, the women are about to embark on a tour of England; part cricket series, part advocacy campaign. Canberra-based player Benafsha Hashimi said the team was taking with them “one…

The beach is quiet, small waves lap the sand, a breeze rustles the trees that line the shore.  As the water ripples at their feet, a line of people step forward and make their way into the shallows.  With the sea gently splashing their knees, they cast flowers into the water, a poignant act of…

Mark Anthony Haines had a big smile, adored animals and had a soft spot for the musician Prince. Warning: This story contains racist and offensive language. It also features photos of an Indigenous man who died. He was loved by his friends, and would call his younger siblings for weekly chats over the phone. Mark…

Even from the other side of the door, they could hear the television news report blaring: a man in custody, another on the run, four police dead. Outside, the three senior officers stopped and listened. Then Superintendent John Fitzpatrick knocked. “[They] knew why we were there,” recalls Fitzpatrick, then the force’s divisional commander for Road…