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When Lillian Rowsell was in her final year of school and unable to continue formal education, her parents started looking for a creative solution to bring all her sources of support together. “All her friends were going to uni, so we thought: ‘Well, let’s make our own university,” Lillian’s mother, Andrea Rowsell, said. “We called…

Tasmanian political strategist and polling company owner Brad Stansfield has announced he will stand for preselection to contest a Senate seat at the next federal election. Mr Stansfield advised the Tasmanian Liberals through successful state election campaigns from 2014 to 2024. He was chief of staff to former Liberal premier Will Hodgman for eight years,…

Legal advocates are warning Victoria’s tough-on-crime bail laws could lead to an Indigenous death in custody, as the state’s prison system struggles to keep up with a ballooning population of unsentenced prisoners.  Introduced in response to increasing crime rates, the March 2025 changes to the Bail Act were designed to target repeat, violent offenders by…

Drumlines, culls, shark tagging and personal protection devices have been thrust back into the spotlight after three spearfishers died in fatal shark attacks over the past two months.  Two spearfishers died in waters off WA’s coast, while a third man died spearfishing in far north Queensland in May.  Spearfishing has grown in popularity in recent…

For a man whose two most recent major championships have been blighted by squirrelly guts, Sam Short sure does like to keep us abreast of his epicurean exploits. He was eager to dive into a bowl of his mum’s spaghetti after wrapping up his 800m national title at the Australian Swimming Trials, and as his…

Kane Williamson put the New Zealand team first to the very end. Despite being in mid-series in England, with one Test down and two to come, Williamson retired from all international cricket with immediate effect. The 35-year-old scored 0 and 18 against England in the Test loss at Lord’s last week and dropped himself out…

As hordes of ice hockey fans stream into Canberra’s AIS Arena, groups of women congregate excitedly outside. Taylor Elfverson said she and her friends were having “a girls’ night out”. “I watched a few episodes of that Off Campus [show] and thought, ‘let’s go see an ice hockey game’,” she said. “I’ve never seen a…

For the past few days, the world has been watching the exchange of fire between the United States and Iran across the Persian Gulf like a crowd at a tennis game. And it seems, based on the details which are emerging about what might be in this deal between Washington and Tehran, that it’s the…

You know the songs.  But do you know the songwriters? The 2026 inductees into the Songwriters Hall of Fame are credited with smash hits that include Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas is You and Beyoncé’s Single Ladies. Established in 1969, the Hall of Fame celebrates and honours the work of those behind the…