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The 30th and final Alice Springs Beanie Festival has been a sellout, with almost 8,000 handmade creations snapped up by visitors to the colourful event. Event organiser and chief beanieologist Jo Nixon said the festival had set a new record, selling $400,000 worth of beanies in three days. The beanie festival offers many an opportunity…
Metro-style buses, coined the “Gold Coast Surfer”, will ferry passengers from Coolangatta to Burleigh Heads and west to Robina, under the Queensland government’s Gold Coast Transport Plan. The plan is the government’s alternative to the axed stage-four light rail plan, following community opposition nine months ago. Premier David Crisafulli said the “generational infrastructure” was reflecting…
Australia’s tax policy settings are leading to vastly different outcomes for people who have the same gross incomes but are simply different ages, a new report shows. The report, from the Actuaries Institute, the peak body for actuaries in Australia, is raising questions about intergenerational equity. The report provides the example of two Australians with…
When Imam Alep Mydie heard One Nation leader Pauline Hanson’s call to establish a monocultural Australia, he was more confused than concerned. “Even in the place I call home, which is Katanning, I have been here for the past 56 years, multiculturalism has existed before I arrived here,” he said. During her address to the…
Wyndham Clark was on the edge of the greatest collapse in US Open history, but held his nerve to claim a one-stroke victory ahead of fellow American Sam Burns. It is Clark’s second US Open triumph, and he became the first wire-to-wire winner of the tournament since Martin Kaymer in 2014. The 2023 champion seemed…
Overcrowding and deteriorating conditions continue to strain Queensland watch houses almost 12 months after an internal review identified serious problems across the network. Queensland Police Service (QPS) data shows regional watch houses are among the worst, with some facilities regularly operating well beyond their intended capacity. In Toowoomba, 130 kilometres west of Brisbane, the watch…
A splash of green has returned to paddocks across New South Wales that were bare and barren just weeks ago, but the drought isn’t over. The stereotypical scenes of drought: dusty landscapes, dry dams and livestock crowding around hay and grain has been the case across much of the state throughout 2026. But now, farmers…
A record 2.7 tonnes of cocaine worth an estimated street value of $816 million has been seized at a semi-rural property in Greater Western Sydney. Australian Federal Police (AFP) made the discovery at Londonderry on Friday. The drugs were hidden in underground bunkers concealed by false floors within three shipping containers near the rear of…
Australia’s macadamia production area continues to expand, with more than 8,000 trees planted annually over five years in north Queensland. But that increase in production is not expected to bring down the supermarket cost of Australia’s most expensive nut, with domestic and international demand remaining strong. Andrew Cross is harvesting his first macadamia crop after…
Hobart’s coldest morning so far this year has not deterred swimmers from stripping off to their birthday suits and making a splash at Long Beach for the annual Dark Mofo Nude Solstice Swim. The air temperature just before sunrise was 4 degrees Celsius, while the water temperature was 12C. 3,000 swimmers registered to take part…