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Outdoor life comes at a price for farmers as they face a greater risk of skin cancer

Living your best outdoor life could be putting you at risk of the "national cancer", health workers warn. Here's why annual checks should be part of everybody's beauty routine.
Bernard Atkins stands in a cap and green shirt, in front of silver cows and green pastures

Best friends Gary and Duncan survived the HMAS Voyager disaster. Sixty years on, their emotional scars are still deep

As survivors mark the grim anniversary of the accident that claimed 82 lives, they describe the lasting impacts and invaluable camaraderie that has helped them come to terms with what they experienced.
black and white image of a smashed up boat bow

Here's everything you need to know about today's AACTA Awards

It's been billed as Australia's answer to the Golden Globes — or even the Oscars, depending on who you ask — and the stars are gathering for the ceremony on the Gold Coast.
A composite image of Margot Robbie, Rebel Wilson and Cate Blanchett

Western Australia

Former WA Liberal Party leader David Honey loses preselection battle for Cottesloe to Sandra Brewer

The property council chief wins the preselection battle for the Liberal heartland seat of Cottesloe, defeating former WA Liberal Party leader David Honey. 
A side-on close-up shot of Property Council WA chief executive Sandra Brewer.

Factory fire that caused toxic smoke clouds may impact farmers ahead of seeding season, industry head warns

There are concerns a blaze which destroyed parts of an agricultural supplies warehouse may stretch fertiliser and chemical supplies thin for farmers across Western Australia ahead of the seeding season.
An aerial image showing fire damage to a storage factory near a beach

Freediver overcomes fear of ocean to recover precious items dropped from Australia's longest jetty

Peter Wissink struggled with a phobia of the ocean after his father died. Now, he's known around town as the man who saves people's precious items when they are accidentally dropped into the water.
An underwater shot of a man freediving in the ocean.

Victoria

Red versus blue: Why the right gum tree matters in a healthy wetland

Most of the 1,000 different eucalyptus tree varieties are native to Australia but not all belong in a pristine wetland.
Red gum tree alongside a waterway.

Outdoor life comes at a price for farmers as they face a greater risk of skin cancer

Living your best outdoor life could be putting you at risk of the "national cancer", health workers warn. Here's why annual checks should be part of everybody's beauty routine.
Bernard Atkins stands in a cap and green shirt, in front of silver cows and green pastures

Call for dashcam footage expanded as bushland search for missing Ballarat woman winds back

Police confirm crews have been called off in the bushland search on Ballarat's south-eastern fringe where the 51-year-old mother-of-three was believed to have disappeared on Sunday.
Two SES members wearing orange uniforms walking through long grass

Tasmania

Tasmanian Labor takes back control of its affairs ahead of predicted early poll

The Tasmanian ALP branch was placed under national control in mid-2022, following a year of internal division and a state election campaign marred by infighting. With expectations high that Tasmanians will go to the polls as early as next month, Labor's national executive has voted to end its administration of the state branch.
Blonde woman wearing a bright red coat

Outdoor life comes at a price for farmers as they face a greater risk of skin cancer

Living your best outdoor life could be putting you at risk of the "national cancer", health workers warn. Here's why annual checks should be part of everybody's beauty routine.
Bernard Atkins stands in a cap and green shirt, in front of silver cows and green pastures

Here's everything you need to know about today's AACTA Awards

It's been billed as Australia's answer to the Golden Globes — or even the Oscars, depending on who you ask — and the stars are gathering for the ceremony on the Gold Coast.
A composite image of Margot Robbie, Rebel Wilson and Cate Blanchett

South Australia

Brand new car rolls through beachside home after driver reportedly forgets handbrake

Police say the car was unattended when it rolled downhill through a house south of Adelaide, before exiting out the other side, off the balcony, and landing in the front yard.
Car crash house

Town's decade-long labour of love restores 131-year-old butter factory to former glory in SA

Thousands of donated hours, countless sausage sizzles and a donation to assuage a former scout's conscience over a stolen cheese wheel, have breathed new life into this historic South Australian butter factory.
A woman and two men on a deck built in front of a historic restored butter factory with a barrell roof

Outdoor life comes at a price for farmers as they face a greater risk of skin cancer

Living your best outdoor life could be putting you at risk of the "national cancer", health workers warn. Here's why annual checks should be part of everybody's beauty routine.
Bernard Atkins stands in a cap and green shirt, in front of silver cows and green pastures

Queensland

Police declare crime scene after body reportedly found in vehicle at Mackay beach

Emergency services were called to Harbour Beach in Mackay shortly after 1pm following reports of a body being found in a car.
Police officers standing near vehicles at a beach.

Woman, 26, charged with attempted murder after three-month-old found with reported stab wound

A 26-year-old woman has been charged with attempted murder, after a three-month-old baby was found with what police say appeared to be a stab wound to the abdomen.
Side photo of Queensland police car.

All the stylish looks at Australia's night of nights, the 2024 AACTA Awards

The best and brightest of Australian film and television grace the red carpet for the 2024 AACTA Awards on the Gold Coast.
Three actresses standing on the red carpet

Northern Territory

Red versus blue: Why the right gum tree matters in a healthy wetland

Most of the 1,000 different eucalyptus tree varieties are native to Australia but not all belong in a pristine wetland.
Red gum tree alongside a waterway.

Outdoor life comes at a price for farmers as they face a greater risk of skin cancer

Living your best outdoor life could be putting you at risk of the "national cancer", health workers warn. Here's why annual checks should be part of everybody's beauty routine.
Bernard Atkins stands in a cap and green shirt, in front of silver cows and green pastures

How a baseballer from a multi-billion-dollar franchise ended up pitching in the outback

In spring in the northern hemisphere, Blake Whitney trains alongside the best baseballers in the world but in the off-season he's just another player in Alice Springs.
A man with a hat slings a baseball bat over his right shoulder while standing in a baseball diamond

New South Wales

NSW bureaucrat suspended with pay pending corruption investigation into Sydney property deal

The senior planning department official purchased a property in the upper north shore suburb of Gordon within one of the government's planned Transport Oriented Development Zones before the policy was made public last year.
Corruption findings face legal challenge after ICAC's High Court 'disaster'

Man dies after crop duster crashes in western New South Wales

A man has died after the crop dusting aircraft he was in crashed into a paddock near Bourke in western New South Wales.
NSW police generic; blue and red lights on top of Newcastle car

Elderly woman, 80, dies more than a month after alleged assault at Sydney hospital

Police allege the 80-year-old woman was one of three who was assaulted on January 4, she was left in a critical condition and died in hospital on Friday.
the outside street view of bankstown-lidcombe hospital in sydney

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