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A major provider of drug and alcohol rehabilitation in central Australia has reduced the number of clients participating in programs at one of its sites to a third after it flooded earlier this year. Drug and Alcohol Services Australia (DASA) was providing services to 28 clients at Aranda House earlier this year. But when floodwaters…

“I just snuck a look at the event.” “Reads well in your favour mate, albeit they kept it respectful towards her.” These are some of the first text messages Sergeant Shannon Daniel Cooper sent to his long-term friend, minutes after illegally accessing the police’s internal database for confidential information about the friend’s domestic violence matter….

There are no World Cup games shown at Wimbledon — even when England is playing — but the Centre Court crowd was clearly finding ways of following some of the action anyway. Loud cheers that had nothing to do with tennis broke out three times during the third set of Barbora Krejcikova’s win over Mirra…

England needed a hero. Trailing DR Congo by a goal and facing World Cup elimination, England needed a moment. Harry Kane gave them two. As England fans in Atlanta, back home in England and in bars across the world celebrated a come-from-behind victory with equal parts delight and relief, they were largely raising their glasses…

Aged Care Minister Sam Rae has announced decisions from the government’s algorithm-assisted tool, used to determine how much funding older Australians get to support living at home, can be changed in “extenuating circumstances”. The Integrated Assessment Tool (IAT) was introduced by the federal government last year, arguing it would allow for faster and fairer assessments….

It has all the elements of a superhero movie: an invasion of killer mites, scientists tinkering with genetics, and spiders coming to the rescue. But that is also a simplified version of research taking place on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast in the race to save Australia’s bees. Varroa destructor is a parasitic mite that was first…

It took seven match points, but eventually Barbora Krejčíková has knocked French Open champion Mirra Andreeva out of Wimbledon in the biggest upset of the women’s tournament so far, winning 4-6, 7-5, 6-4. Andreeva faced six match points when 2024 Wimbledon winner Krejčíková served for the match at 5-3 and saved them all before finally…

What Rianna Hills lacks in size, she makes up for in drive. The eight-year-old Gold Coast girl practises as often as she can; on weekends and after school, even as the sun starts to drop below the horizon, Rianna is at her local golf course. “Every time I hit the ball, every week it’s going…

Two people who scaled New York City’s Empire State Building and unfurled a banner about “the power of love” before an apparent marriage proposal have been arrested. Dressed in black and wearing masks, the duo appeared to climb the 443-metre Manhattan skyscraper without tethers and were seen balancing on a narrow ledge to kiss atop…

It is a chill morning on the banks of the Murray River as the Friends of Nyah-Vinifera Park (FONVP) protest camp wakes to greet the day. Protesters have spent the past 40 days blocking river access at the Nyah-Vinifera flood plain, 20 kilometres north-west of Swan Hill in northern Victoria, and say they do not…