In Queensland’s cattle country, beef is big business. From grazing to abattoirs and the quintessential butchery, the industry is the fabric of the west. But outback butcher shops are shutting up shop due to economic pressures and a lack of apprentices. “It’s pretty devastating to everybody,” said Tarj Wiles, who managed Julia Creek’s only butcher…

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…

Raging wildfires in western Ontario have forced the evacuation of communities, shut roads and trapped two unfortunate train operators.  As the inferno swirled around them, the drivers of a freight train near the small community of Armstrong said things had gotten “a little scary”. “This could potentially overtake us here,” one driver said. “Holy sh*t.”…

A former employee of a strata business on the NSW Mid North Coast has been refused bail on more than 400 fraud offences. According to NSW Police, Jessica Marrie Carah, 30, is alleged to have transferred more than $2 million from strata trust accounts into a personal bank account. She allegedly spent the money on…

As you look out across the expansive Eungedup Wetlands, there is little evidence of its previous life as a potato farm. Environmentalists bought the property near Denmark, 420 kilometres south of Perth, in 2023 with an ambitious plan. Having raised close to $700,000, they wanted to flood the 104-hectare property and turn it into a…

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.

Growing up in Yuendumu in the 1960s, Bess Nungarrayi Price recalls a childhood surrounded by family, connected to the bush, far from the threats of alcohol and drugs. The former Northern Territory government minister believes that sense of safety is no longer present in the remote and urban Aboriginal communities of Central Australia. “Our families…