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Australian swimming superstar Mollie O’Callaghan has revealed she fought through stress fractures and bone bruising in her back to compete at the Commonwealth Games. Just over a week before the start of the program in Glasgow the five-time Commonwealth and five-time Olympic Games gold medallist dropped the bombshell on social media. “Last month I was…
Brigitte Szabo was watering her garden at her Townsville home when some movement caught her eye. “A pair of sunbirds were flying around and chirping and carrying on as they do and then all of a sudden this great big green frog launched itself,” Ms Szabo said. It was an unexpectedly brutal display of a…
When in the trenches of motherhood, your child’s journey towards adulthood can at times feel slow and exhausting. So, when they grow up and decide to leave the nest, it should feel like a victory, because you raised them right … right? But the experience of becoming an empty nester and recalibrating who you are…
The death of a man who was sleeping rough in a small rural community has prompted calls for more support for those experiencing homelessness. The 63-year-old man was found unresponsive under the verandah of a vacant building in Millicent in South Australia’s south east last month. The tragic death has prompted the community to push…
Victorian Liberal MP Moira Deeming has made a last-ditch plea to her party to retain her candidacy for the state election, after refusing to apologise to her parliamentary colleague for alleging he put her in a headlock. Mrs Deeming had accused former party leader Matthew Guy of assaulting her at a community event in May….
Police are investigating how a kangaroo with a joey in its pouch was shot with an arrow on the New South Wales Central Tablelands near Lithgow. Wallerawang community members are looking for the injured animal after it was spotted with an arrow piercing its back at Lake Wallace on Saturday, July 4. Volunteer and macropod…
As we tick closer and closer to Victoria’s state election in November, a flurry of new parties has been racing to join the contest, planning to take advantage of an archaic aspect of the electoral system that has been abolished in every other state. The applications of a dozen aspiring political parties are currently being…
A Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton nicknamed “Gus” has become the most valuable dinosaur fossil bought at auction. The fossil, discovered on a South Dakota cattle ranch in 2021, sold for $US50.1 million ($71.8m) after a 10-minute battle between seven bidders at Sotheby’s, New York. “Gus” is one of the world’s most complete T-rex skeletons, with 183…
The Fair Work Commission has ruled a trucking company was within its rights to dismiss a driver after he set the temperature of a trailer full of ice cream nearly 20 degrees too warm. Jeremiah Manly worked as a linehaul truck driver for ERH Refrigerated Transport, and was tasked on December 3 with collecting a…
Adelaide Crows defender Josh Worrell has been reported by police and will face court over a traffic crash last week. Worrell, 25, was involved in a collision involving a pedestrian on Port Road at Woodville on Friday morning. In a statement, police said the pedestrian — a 29-year-old man — “sustained injuries and was taken…