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Sherie Van Burgel happily admits that her family is “the biggest shell-collecting family” in Albany, 400 kilometres south of Perth. Shell collecting is a popular activity on the coastline around Albany, and Ms Van Burgel said she often took her children to beaches specifically to look for shells. “If there’s been a huge storm, I’m…

NEW DELHI: Congress is learnt to have sternly told the dissenting Punjab leaders to stick with party discipline and not air their grievances against the state chief in public.The message was conveyed after a prolonged show of public opposition by senior state members to the appointment of Amarinder Raja Warring as Punjab Congress president. AICC…

Edwina Dawn Horwath’s top-floor apartment is filled with her framed drawings, stacked books, and glass decorations that hang in the window and reflect rays of winter sun. Like many residents, the 82-year-old has lived in the Victoria Avenue public housing tower in Albert Park, just south of Melbourne CBD, for decades. So the prospect of…

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Four men have been charged by NSW Police and will face court after an alleged home invasion and child abduction in the NSW Upper Hunter last month. NSW Police said on June 6 a group of men allegedly forced entry to a home on Richmond Street, Muswellbrook, in the early hours of the morning. Officers…

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A vote excluding women from elder positions in the Presbyterian Church in NSW and the ACT is disappointing but not surprising, a long-standing parishioner says. The church’s annual general assembly in Sydney this week voted 136-61 in favour of the motion, with about 90 per cent of the assembly made up of men. Church member…

President Donald Trump endorsed Sen. Darline Graham, R-S.C., in the special election to fill her late brother’s Senate seat for a full term. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. “I asked Darline, for the Good of our Nation, to run for the U.S. Senate in the…

An oil on canvas portrait of former US president Bill Clinton lounging in a blue dress may be regarded as the pinnacle of Petrina Ryan-Kleid’s artistic career. Hung prominently in the home of disgraced financier and child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the portrait was thrown into the spotlight following Epstein’s death in 2019, and again…

Welcome to From the Politics Desk, a daily newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the White House, Capitol Hill and the campaign trail. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. In today’s edition, we sort through the fallout from…