Graham Horstman battled motor neuron disease (MND), a devastating and incurable illness, just as he did the football field: head-on. “Graham’s attitude was: ‘It is what it is, we get on with it, and we move forward,’ and that was just his whole outlook the whole way through,” Mr Horstman’s wife, Leigh, said. After receiving…
Michael and Lindy Chamberlain standing on the steps of Alice Springs courthouse at the time.(Supplied/ABC News Graphics: National Museum of Australia/Jessica Henderson) Four decades ago, “an ugly episode in Australia’s legal history” drew to a close after the chance discovery of a baby girl’s jacket in the outback. It unravelled Lindy Chamberlain’s murder conviction. Now,…
Ahead of VB G RAM G coming into force on July 1, 19 states and UTs notify scheme NEW DELHI/CHANDIGARH: With the Aam Aadmi Party govt in Punjab, which had not only opposed the Viksit Bharat – Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) Act 2025 but even passed a resolution against it in the…
Welcome to the ABC Arts wrap of the best new books published this month. In a huge treat for readers, both Ann Patchett (of Tom Lake fame) and Maggie O’Farrell (Hamnet — need we say more?) have new books out. Find out what our reviewers made of these much-anticipated novels below. Also among the best…
Growing up, Nick Lowden always had a footy in hand. He relished the rough and tumble of a hard-fought game. Like many kids, he dreamt of making it big. His parents, Kerry and Tony, could see their boy was talented, a team player and that the AFL was within reach. What they couldn’t see, what…
The death toll of two earthquakes in Venezuela has climbed to 1,430, as searches for survivors intensify during the remaining hours of the window for survival. Residents took the search for missing loved ones into their own hands, citing a scarcity of government rescuers and thousands of people remaining missing. Aid agencies consider the first…
When Karl Stefanovic landed the Today Show co-hosting gig in 2005, he was told to just be himself. It was advice he took to heart and over the years, it would help him rise to become one of the country’s most beloved personalities. “Someone told me once when I started the Today show, there’s no…
The crisis in the Strait of Hormuz almost immediately caused a fuel price shock felt in bank accounts around Australia. Even if the Strait returns to normal, that shock will keep sending prices up in a range of industries. Economic ripples will filter through to a plethora of products, such as plastics, fertilisers, building materials,…
Spot electricity prices that soared to their maximum allowable level. Emptied batteries unable to supply a grid desperate for more energy. Dormant gas plants that fired to life and ran flat-out for days to keep the lights on. South Australia may be the country’s renewable energy flag-bearer, but its embrace of the transition has been…
‘We’re working on for first uncrewed Gaganyaan mission this year’, says Isro chief V Narayanan NEW DELHI: Isro chairman V Narayanan said on Saturday that the country is preparing for the first uncrewed Gaganyaan mission, advancing Chandrayaan-4, a lunar sample return mission, and Chandrayaan-5, a joint long-duration mission with Japan involving a heavier rover.Delivering the…