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More than three years after Ballina mother Lindy Lucena was beaten to death by her abusive partner, the NSW police watchdog will hand down its report into what lessons should be learned from her case. Ms Lucena’s family have spent the better part of those three years calling for her case to be scrutinised, speaking…
The family of a woman who disappeared five decades ago believes she might be one of the earliest victims of serial killer Ivan Milat and that police once regarded him as the only viable suspect. Keren Ellen Rowland was 20 and pregnant when she went missing after her car ran out of petrol at Parkes…
For the first time in four decades, Australian Crawl, one of the country’s most celebrated rock bands, is getting back together. Original frontman James Reyne will reunite with guitarist Simon Binks and drummer David Reyne for 10 shows in October and November, their first since the band split in 1986. While James Reyne has continued…
For a film series that once felt ubiquitous at the multiplex, James Bond has spent much of the 21st century missing in action. Five years after No Time to Die gave Daniel Craig a mercifully conclusive farewell, the future of the eponymous super-spy has never felt less certain. The rights to Bond have since been…
A double-sized dose of relief. That’s what the Reserve Bank board members will be feeling today when they meet to thrash out our future interest rate movements. Within the space of a few weeks, the picture has changed dramatically. The pressure to keep pushing rates ever higher has suddenly dissipated. There’s almost a universal consensus…
The length and breadth of Australia time marches to different beats and cadences. While an hour is always an hour and a minute is always the same, at which time each precise hour takes place differs dramatically. The vast spans of Australia mean that there are nine official time zones covering its population, across summer…
Beneath the sprawling gnarled branches of a kiawe tree in Hawaii’s pristine Kealakekua Bay, an X lies carved into an otherwise unassuming rock face. But there’s no buried treasure to be found here. This X marks the spot where Captain James Cook was killed by Kānaka Maoli (native Hawaiians) on Valentine’s Day in 1779. The…
A group of councils in Melbourne’s north is calling on the state government to spend $45 million to buy land to begin planning for a hospital and railway station to meet the future needs of the booming population. The Northern Councils Alliance said the region was set to grow by 500,000 people in coming years,…
Jonno Duniam’s decision to leave the Senate by the end of the year thrusts the Tasmanian branch of the Liberal party into uncertainty. But Sunday’s announcement also made one thing clear — why so many big names had been throwing their hat into the preselection ring. Senator Wendy Askew’s decision not to recontest the seat…
Once upon a time, saving was a sensible pathway to financial security. You put your hard-earned cash in the bank. Those savings grew, helped you buy a home and you could put anything extra aside for retirement. Those days are gone. Inflation has outstripped interest earned over the past decade, and the cost of…