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It took three attempts and thousands of dollars in legal fees before Andrew Bretherton was finally granted access to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Mr Bretherton lives with a complex biological illness called myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), also known as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), which he developed after catching glandular fever as a 26-year-old. Now,…

Peter Stevenson has gone from living in a one-room converted shipping container in Victoria’s Yarra Valley to an air-conditioned two-bedroom home on Phuket Island. Mr Stevenson has found he can afford to live well in Thailand on his age pension. But it was a different story five years ago when he was spending half of…

Raeleigh Kemp can’t help but laugh after school drop-off some mornings because it is such a far cry from how it used to be. Her 11-year-old Zane Kemp, who is autistic, now runs to The Sycamore School gates and even cries when he is too sick to go. Years ago, Ms Kemp could not have…

Rising Australian athletics star Gout Gout and American champion Noah Lyles have hugged it out after their first run against each other saw the 150m world record broken. The pair celebrated wildly after the 150m clash at the Ostrava Golden Spike event in Czechia as Lyles broke the record with a time of 14.67 seconds….

A tourism consultancy firm has recommended visitors to Hobart’s Kunanyi/Mt Wellington be charged for access, in a bid to raise more funds for park maintenance.  Documents obtained by the Tasmanian Greens and seen by the ABC reveal the report delivered to the Wellington Park Management Trust Board said charging people who visit would likely dis-incentivise…

Donald Trump says both he and JD Vance have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to end the war the United States and Israel launched on Iran more than 100 days ago.  The US president said he signed a “great deal” with Iran and promised the Strait of Hormuz would soon be opened. The speaker…

Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock is fond of saying that hiking the interest rate is only tool the RBA has to get inflation down. But she does have another — her words. After the RBA board decided, for the first time this year, not to use its principal tool, the board and its spokesperson-in-chief chose…

Residents of Lorne, on Victoria’s scenic Great Ocean Road, have been locked in a battle of wits for years now. They’ve been fighting skirmishes with a large flock of increasingly intelligent sulphur-crested cockatoos that love lifting the lids of the town’s wheelie bins and spreading rubbish on the ground. “When holiday-makers and Airbnbs, etc, leave…

State of Origin Game II is tonight.  New South Wales can regain the shield with victory at the MCG, after producing the largest comeback in Origin history to win Game I. Queensland must win to keep the series alive and force a decider at Lang Park in three weeks. Here is what you need to…

Regional businesses say fuel relief measures need to be extended because the damage done from the fuel shock is far from over. Sharon Middleton runs one of those businesses; for the past three decades her family company Whiteline Transport has moved freight from east to west across the Nullarbor Plain. “I’m really very concerned and…