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Stage lights dim, the curtain draws and audience chatter hushes. Garyth and Kaye Walpole open their show with a slapstick skit featuring an operatic song about Italian food. With a painted-on moustache and a wig, Mr Walpole plays an incompetent waiter, belting out “cappuccino” with practiced vibrato. Garyth and Kaye Walpole opened Stagecoach Theatre Restaurant…
In Western Australia’s remote north, a tree has stood for decades as a reminder of the region’s painful and violent past, often referred to as the ‘Killing times’. Warning: Readers are advised this story contains distressing content and includes a photo and names of people who have died. In Warmun, 2,800 kilometres north of Perth,…
We have some breaking news to bring you this morning. The US and Iran have signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at ending the war. This has been confirmed by the White House and Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei. The deal was signed digitally and witnessed by US President Donald Trump, according to US…
Environment Minister Murray Watt says One Nation leader Pauline Hanson is acting like a “career politician” for televising political ads during the State of Origin game. The One Nation leader delivered a lengthy address to the Press Club yesterday, where she pledged to end multiculturalism and laid out a vision for a monocultural Australia. Hanson also took…
Wayne Morris’s three-bedroom social housing terrace in Wollongong has a million-dollar view. Walk out of his back door, down a short concrete path and out the gate, and you will find yourself overlooking Bellambi Beach. Mr Morris takes pride in the house he has carefully maintained for 12 years. It was full of family photos,…
Virginia Trioli has announced she is leaving the ABC to pursue new creative opportunities, after 27 years as a journalist, broadcaster and program maker at the organisation. One of the most recognisable and respected voices in Australian broadcasting, Trioli first joined the ABC in 1999 following stints at The Age newspaper and The Bulletin news…
On April 1, Billy Slater shared perhaps the most idyllic Instagram post imaginable. Lying on the greenest patch of grass on his sprawling property, patting his Aussie shepherd with one hand, drinking a coffee with the other, the bird songs whistle and whip as a fawn nibbles on the grass behind him. The only hint…
For rapper and songwriter Miss Kaninna, performing on the Dark Mofo stage in Hobart is a chance to connect with fans in her home state. The First Nations artist grew up on Bruny Island, south of Hobart, and premiered her first single Blak Britney at the festival’s 2022 iteration. Loading Instagram content “Dark Mofo and…
At this time of year, the waters of Whyalla are normally home to tens of thousands of giant Australian cuttlefish, but so far this winter, they haven’t arrived in even close to those numbers. Marine experts fear the harmful algal bloom has had a devastating impact on the species, which annually breeds in the Upper…
Tino Fa’asuamaleaui honoured advice from his father on the last day of his life when he led up front to inspire Queensland to a comeback State of Origin victory. The Maroons prop was enormous in their 44-24 win over the Blues at the MCG last night to send the series to a decider in Brisbane….