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This article contains a discussion of sexual assault. Gardening Australia’s current longest-serving presenter, Jerry Coleby-Williams, is a beloved fixture of Australian television. For 26 years, his gentle English lilt has invited us to share his love of horticulture. And for 26 years, he has felt he had to hide his identity on screen as an…
Loading Good morning football fans! Or is that still good night? It’s an early one this morning as we bring you the first of four games as the second round of group stage fixtures come to the close. Once again, two of the big guns are in action today, with Portugal hoping for an improve…
Holly Reid stresses out when her car repayment gets closer. Each fortnight, the single mum pays $339. “I get a lot of anxiety, especially if I get an extra bill or rego’s up,” she says. “It’s that uncertainty of whether or not I’m going to have enough food to feed the kids.” Ms Reid took…
Australian vocalist, former Sherbert frontman and ARIA Hall of Fame inductee Daryl Braithwaite says he is stepping back from performing live. The 77-year-old performer announced the news to his Instagram page and said he made the difficult decision “after much thought and consideration”. “For some time now, it has been increasingly physically challenging for me…
South Australia’s police union has passed a vote of “no confidence” in the leadership of the police commissioner and his deputy, despite the top cop saying the move was “not reflective” of the feedback he received from officers. Delegates of the Police Association of South Australia met on Tuesday to discuss staffing pressures, retention and…
A suspended Queensland police officer accused of committing “serious violence” against a woman, making false CrimeStoppers reports and threatening to shoot himself in the head, has been granted bail after spending a night in the watch house. Detective Senior Constable John Paul Daniel McDonnell was initially charged with one count of stalking (domestic violence offence)…
A court has been told an alleged religious cult leader groomed a girl for more than a decade and told her it was her “mission from God” to become his wife and bear 45 of his children. William Kamm, who dubbed himself “Little Pebble”, and his co-accused Sandra Susan Mathison, faced the first day of…
Kids Helpline has revealed a growing number of Australian children are again hitting a crisis point before reaching out for help. The 2025 Kids Helpline Impact Report showed the youth counselling service was contacted 128,998 times over the year, which was an average of 353 cases a day. Nationwide, 5,190 were classed as “crisis interventions”….
Australian mining company Mastermyne has been fined $310,000 for the death of a worker at a central Queensland mine in 2022. Gavin William Feltwell, 59, was working a night shift on March 25 at the Moranbah North mine in the Bowen Basin and was in a crew of six workers who were assigned to do…
Two people have died in a car crash at Old Beach in Tasmania’s south. Tasmania Police said a Holden Barina hatchback and a Mitsubishi Triton utility vehicle collided on the East Derwent Highway shortly before midday. The two occupants of the Barina died at the scene. The Triton driver was uninjured. “Identification of those two…