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A man has been charged over the alleged kidnapping and murder of a woman in Sydney’s north-west. Police started an investigation on Tuesday after reports the 58-year-old woman failed to return home. Family members told officers they last heard from the woman on Monday, when she told them she was visiting a relative in Winston…
The vice-president of the search team that solved two high-profile missing persons cases in Tasmania will assist in the search for the Nannup Four after the decades-long mystery was featured in an ABC podcast. Chantelle McDougall, her five-year-old daughter Leela, Simon Kadwill and Tony Popic went missing from the isolated town of Nannup in 2007. In the weeks…
More than 16,000 kilometres from New York, Peta Bradley is preparing to swim around Manhattan Island by following a black line on the bottom of a 25-metre council pool at Gulargambone, in the central-west of New South Wales. The town has a population of about 500 people, and is almost four times the size of…
A northern Tasmanian scrap metal recycler has vowed to operate safely and responsibly after the regulator lifted a processing ban. Recycal Pty Ltd has been given the green light to resume shredding and processing activities at its Rocherlea site near Launceston, more than two years after the detection of elevated lead levels brought those operations…
More than 100 Aboriginal artefacts have been covered over after a Tasmanian government agency gave another government agency permission to build a new path in the state’s north. The Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre (TAC) says the tools, estimated to be at least hundreds of years old were damaged during work to build a new walking and…
With the industry in the grips of a “terrifying” fight for survival against varroa mites, Queensland beekeepers have gathered in Bundaberg desperate for news of effective treatments. Varroa is a parasitic mite that attacks European honey bee colonies. Almost all wild honey bees in south-east Queensland are gone, and many of the state’s managed colonies…
Three-year-old Lauren Zeller has a one-in-a-million bleeding disorder but she’s able to run, jump and tumble like other little girls thanks to the kindness of strangers. Lauren was diagnosed just before her first birthday with a rare and severe form of von Willebrand’s disease — type 2B — which impairs blood clotting. As a baby,…
Brisbane Broncos coach Michael Maguire has declared the Broncos are “still well and truly alive” in the wake of their 42-point belting at the hands of South Sydney on Thursday night. The Rabbitohs effectively had the match won at half-time with a 30-point lead, as the reigning NRL premiers slumped to a sixth straight defeat….
Melbourne couple Averill and Lloyd Johnson were not interested in having a conventional wedding ceremony. “Imagine a steampunk gothic vampire aesthetic. So black top hats, lots of fabric, buckled biker boots and play swords,” Mr Johnson said. They had children from other marriages and a mortgage and wanted to keep the cost down by exchanging…
It’s been two weeks since Madeleine Ogilvie resigned from cabinet, and the saga is reaching a tipping point. Premier Jeremy Rockliff’s apology for not interrogating the issue further appears not to have eased the concerns of the crossbench. There’s still brooding anger about Ms Ogilvie’s statements to parliament, and her legal fees — the purpose…