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For months, detectives have been trying to unravel who may have helped Dezi Freeman remain out of sight after the fatal shooting of two police officers in Porepunkah. The investigation has shifted from one man’s movements to the question of whether others helped him stay hidden before he was shot dead in a confrontation with…
In the 80 years since George Romero’s Night Of The Living Dead ambled into public consciousness, zombies have been a vehicle for the full spectrum of societal ills. From terrorism to racial tensions to capitalistic collapse, filmmakers have been stuffing ideological motivations into the undead’s empty heads to the delight of audiences and box offices…
On a former crop-dusting airstrip in tropical north Queensland rows of flowers bloom where chemicals for the region’s vegetable farms were once loaded onto planes. “It’s quite the turnaround,” Bowen flower grower Wanita Sparr said. “Going from an operation that used to effectively spray pesticides and herbicides to being a flower farm where we’re chemical…
For years Australia has remained the last continent to avoid the deadly H5 strain of avian influenza. Now a suspected positive case has hit our shores. Here’s what we know so far. What do we know about this suspected case? The suspected bird flu case was located in Western Australia’s Cape Le Grand beach on…
When the LNP was formed in Queensland back in the late 2000s through an amalgamation of the Nationals and Liberals, one of the state’s local billionaires was willing to assist ahead of the looming state election. LNP leader Lawrence Springborg was offered the billionaire’s jet for use during the campaign against the Labor government,…
Pauline Hanson has called for Australia to reject multiculturalism and “live under the one cultural umbrella”. “We are a multiracial society, but we must be monocultural,” the One Nation party leader said at her National Press Club address on Wednesday. Since then, observers have asked what this means and how it would work in practice…
Ash Jurberg still can’t believe he’s in Seattle with his 19-year-old sons. A week ago, the travel writer from Melbourne received a message on LinkedIn promising him tickets and flights to the United States for the Socceroos game against the US. Stay across the latest news, analysis and features from the 2026 FIFA World Cup…
Coreflow is a little-known company, but its job ads promise eye-watering salaries. Warning: This story includes a description of sexual violence and references to child abuse material. The tech startup, based in Sydney, offers up to $450,000 a year for someone to join its “growth” team and help get its AI product to “hundreds of…
As more detail has emerged about the “understanding” signed by Iran and the United States this week, the more analysts have been shocked by just how high a strategic and financial price Donald Trump was prepared to pay to get the Strait of Hormuz reopened. That is, just how diabolically bad a “deal” this really…
Adiba Ganji knew that her life wouldn’t be the same if she stayed in Afghanistan. “It was a Friday afternoon. We heard that the Taliban are coming,” she told the ABC. On August 15, 2021, the Taliban captured Kabul as the last remaining United States troops withdrew from America’s longest war. Two years earlier, the…