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As the people of Wellington joined in the national anthem, singing of being "one and free", the Australian and Aboriginal flags were raised in unison.The central west NSW town of 4000 marked Australia Day on Wednesday evening, moving away from January 26 ceremonies for the first time.
A little boy is fighting for life after being hit by lightning at a beach south of Sydney on Australia Day. Find out the latest details.
The Australian of the Year has faced backlash over her award with many saying there were others more 'worthy' of the honour. Find out what happened.
HOW MUCH HIGHER ARE NSW BRUMBY NUMBERS.In the Kosciuszko National Park, the estimated population has increased 30 per cent in two yearsThat's based on a survey published on Friday, showing 18,814 horses in November 2022, compared to 14,380 in late 2020.
The body of a missing Queensland mother has been uncovered in the back of a car hours after her son was charged over her disappearance.
ShutterstockLast week, the world met “Toadzilla”, a cane toad the size of a football and six times larger than average. The rangers who found her – female toads are bigger than male – were stunned. Weighing in at 2.7 kilograms, Toadzilla may be the largest cane toad ever recorded. Is this a sign Australia’s cane toads are getting bigger? Not necessarily. Like all other “cold-blooded” or ectothermic animals, cane toads don’t have a limit to their body size like mammals and birds do. They can keep
The already remote community is preparing to become even more detached. Source: ABC
On Daniella Mestyanek Young’s first day of military training, she stands among her fellow recruits holding a duffle bag high in one arm above her head. As she ponders the other bodies lined up in her peripheral vision, all struggling to maintain the same pose, it gradually occurs to her that this feeling — of being owned, coerced, programmed — seems unsettlingly familiar: “Have I just joined another cult?” This sense of suspicion forms a pattern in Mestyanek Young’s life, which she documents wit
Amar Singh has used the experience of being racially abused for his turban and beard to create change in his community.Mr Singh founded an organisation called Turbans 4 Australia, which works to put an end to food insecurity.
A knife-wielding man described as a stateless Palestinian has fatally stabbed two passengers and injured seven others on a train in northern Germany before being grabbed by members of the public and arrested by police, officials say.The motive of the attack was not immediately known.
A 66-year-old farm worker has been formally charged with premeditated murder in the fatal shooting of seven co-workers near San Francisco, the second of two gun rampages in California in recent days in which 18 people were killed.Chunli Zhao, a Chinese citizen and the lone suspect in Monday's massacre at two mushroom farms in the seaside town of Half Moon Bay, was formally presented with seven counts of murder and a single count of attempted murder during his first court appearance in nearby Red
Israeli forces have killed nine Palestinians, including at least seven militants and a 61-year-old woman, in the deadliest single incident in the occupied West Bank in two decades, Palestinian officials say.Two rockets were fired from Gaza early on Friday and Israel responded with air strikes on the territory, further escalating tensions.
Minute's silence at January 26 protests in Belmore Park, Sydney.
A US Republican vying for president has faced backlash for failing to rush to his wife's aid when she fainted during his announcement speech. Watch the video.
Pin Rada/AAPSince colonisation, “interventions” to curb Aboriginal “crime” and alcohol have been deployed to control and harm First Nations communities and people. Nowhere is this more true than in the Northern Territory. When these moral panics reach the national media and political stage, the response has typically been top-down policies by federal and territory governments to disempower First Nations people and deny equal rights. Read more: 'Opt-out' alcohol bans in prospect for Indigenous co
Social media influencers who mislead their followers are facing a crackdown from the consumer watchdog as part of a push for more transparency.More than 100 influencers have been identified for investigation after tip-offs to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.
Asteroid 20223 BU's path in red, with green showing the orbit of geosynchronous satellites. NASA/JPL-CaltechThere are hundreds of millions of asteroids in our Solar System, which means new asteroids are discovered quite frequently. It also means close encounters between asteroids and Earth are fairly common. Some of these close encounters end up with the asteroid impacting Earth, occasionally with severe consequences. A recently discovered asteroid, named 2023 BU, has made the news because today
Kosciuszko National Park's feral brumby population has exploded by 30 per cent in two years, calling into question a government target to vastly reduce numbers.The latest survey released on Friday estimated there were 18,814 horses in the park in November 2022, compared to 14,380 in late 2020.
Onlookers watched Indigenous performers at Belmore Park
A couple had to take matters into their own hands when their suitcase was 'lost' for months according to the airline. Read more here.
