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A shire council in central Victoria has been shut down by the efforts of just one resident. The bins will still be collected, roadworks will continue, and the libraries will still open. But any big decisions have been suspended because there are only two people left at the council table. Five councillors at Hepburn Shire…
The new owners of Tasmania’s largest farm have revealed how they plan to manage Rushy Lagoon in the state’s far north east. Last week, federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers approved the sale of the iconic property to Britain’s largest forestry investor Gresham House. The decision triggered public and political backlash, with the Tasmanian government calling for…
A fertiliser company that piled chicken manure, coffee grounds and other waste up to twice the allowed height has been fined $35,000 by a South Australian court after more than 700 complaints about the smell. But a local resident said the fine was not enough of a deterrence and the odour from Neutrog Australia’s property…
When French art critic Louis Leroy cast his eyes on the works featured in the First Impressionist Exhibition in Paris in 1874, he couldn’t have been less impressed. The groundbreaking show featured paintings by the likes of Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro and Pierre-Auguste Renoir that had been rejected by official government-sanctioned art exhibition the Paris…
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US President Donald Trump says he will not charge a 20 per cent toll on traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, just hours before the US Navy’s blockade is set to resume. The US has continued to strike Iran, and the Kuwait Army has said one of its naval vessels was targeted by an attack…
Two years ago, Nicole Pengilly’s hope of buying a home in Brisbane receded with every inspection she attended. “You could see the house prices going up as I was looking,” she said. “The amount I could borrow hadn’t changed, so it just felt like it was slipping away.” After a decades-long real estate boom, with…
UK counterterrorism police are treating the alleged murder of former politician Ann Widdecombe as a targeted attack. Ms Widdecombe, 78, was found dead in her home in rural south-west England with what police described as “serious injuries” late last week. Police arrested a 28-year-old white British man from Rotherham, more than 400 kilometres north of…
A Tasmanian woman is suing former Archbishop of Hobart Julian Porteous and the state of Tasmania over allegations of sexual abuse by two others when she was a child.
Every night holds unknown dangers for children being sexually exploited in Thailand’s tourism hubs. “They never know what they may encounter behind the next door, or who they will be forced to deal with,” said Greg Bradley, chief executive of non-government organisation Destiny Rescue Australia. It is a crime unfolding at hotels, short-term rentals, private…