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Despite loud pleas for him to stay at home in the bosom of his family. The King of Australia has decided to accept the Labor Government’s...
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Life expectancy in Australia has fallen by 0.1 years due to the Covid epidemic. COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death in 2022, ma...
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The government has backed down on it strong vaping laws to get the support of the Greens to get the legislation through the Senate
From ...
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There too many crocodiles in the NT so they are to kill 1200 each year. Since saltwater crocs were protected from mass culls and hunting ...
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The bus Priscilla Queen of the Desert was missing but its rusting shell has been found and funds are being raised to restore it
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Snapshot answer
It’s a northern marsupial mole, says BBC News, a rare denizen of the Australian outback that’s so elusive “authorities d...
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Squeaky Beach, 3 hour drive south east of Melbourne, is famous for the acoustics created when walking on the silica and quartz sand.
Bea...
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You will be fascinated to know that New South Wales consumed almost as much cocaine as all other states and territories combined while Vi...
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Australia has for the first time released data reflecting the gender pay gap at more than 5,000 companies – every private company with 10...
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HOT IN Australia THIS WEEK!
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Despite loud pleas for him to stay at home in the bosom of his family. The King of Australia has decided to accept the Labor Government’s...
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Life expectancy in Australia has fallen by 0.1 years due to the Covid epidemic. COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death in 2022, ma...
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HOT IN Australia THIS YEAR!
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I am writing this from my hospital room right now. Our medical systems are in such diabolical mess it is beyond all & any human comp...
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Squeaky Beach, 3 hour drive south east of Melbourne, is famous for the acoustics created when walking on the silica and quartz sand.
Bea...
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When retired navy officer Bob Williams applied to enter the race for the first time this year, there was never any question Oli would be ...
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Victorian upper house MP Georgie Purcell has lashed Nine News in Melbourne for using an image edited to make her breasts look bigger and ...
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The chance of any free trade deal between Australia and the EU has just about ended. Last minute talks with the EU collapsed as once agai...
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It is 7.30 pm and the polls closed an hour ago, the ABC has said that three states (NSW, Tasmania, SA) have voted “No” to the referendum ...
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The PM Albo has finally announced the date for the referendum on “The Voice”.
It’s a tough ask, only 8 out of 44 referendums to change t...
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The talent this year on The Voice Australia is amazing.
The coaches are Rita Ora, Jason Derulo, Jess Mauboy and Guy Sebastian.
First I ...
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The prospect of a possible strike at a liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant in Australia has pushed wholesale gas prices up in Europe. Bench...
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I took the opportunity to vote in the referendum on The Voice to Parliament this morning. The referendum is due to be held on this Saturd...
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Continuing the discussion from I'm a Celebrity 2023 - Day 4:
Thousands of rats - dead and alive - have swept up on beaches in Quee...
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On 23 May 2023, Australia and India entered into a Migration and Mobility Partnership
Arrangement (MMPA). The MMPA is a bilateral framew...
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Australia has for the first time released data reflecting the gender pay gap at more than 5,000 companies – every private company with 10...
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It hardly seems possible but it is the 50th Anniversary of the opening of the Sydney Opera House.
When I first came to Australia I lived...
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The winner of Australia’s first Winter Olympic gold medal, David Bradbury has been the recipient of a bravery award for rescuing four gir...
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The Australian High Court has thrown a spanner in the works for both sides of politics.
The High Court set aside an earlier ruling that ...
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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese came to power last year promising the country would leave the climate “naughty corner”. Long c...
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Australian federal MPs – including the prime minister and cabinet members – have voted overwhelmingly to urge the US and the UK to allow ...
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As from 1st January 2024 the import of single use disposable vapes will be banned.
The importation of all other vapes, irrespective of n...
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The personal information of 9.7m Australians was stolen from the country’s largest health insurer, Medibank, in late 2022. Sensitive docu...
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HOT IN Australia Last 3 Years!
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The first famous faces have been seen touching down in Australia ahead of this year’s I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!.
Former Ra...
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Well folks here I am halfway on my journey to Australia sitting in Changi airport Singapore .
Left home Monday and traveled up to Heathr...
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By Shaimaa Khalil and Tiffanie Turnbull in Brisbane
In the past three years, record-breaking bushfire and flood events have killed more...
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The International borders have only partially opened but are slamming shut again because of the new South African variant “Omicron”
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An elderly woman with dementia is in hospital with life-threatening head injuries after being tasered by police at her aged care home.
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Unlike the USA Social Media providers in Australia will be designated as publishers of their content under new laws proposed today to cur...
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It is six months since Australia opened the borders to international travellers but tourist numbers are well down compared to 2018
ABS f...
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Some of the interesting facts from the 2021 census.
25.4 million people call Australia home. Population has doubled in 50 years.
Mi...
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Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced the move, in a press conference from Canberra, just days after his country also secure...
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On the radio this morning a person from Strategic Aviation (?) said that it was likely that Australians would be able to fly to selected ...
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Official inflation figures released today show inflation running at 5.1% the highest for over two decades since the boost given by the in...
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I dunno … I find this a little hard to believe.
Australians have been named the heaviest drinkers in the world after spending more ti...
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Major Corporations continuing to gouge the public whilst raking in billions in profits.
Insurance companies failing to payout in a timel...
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There are seven cases of Japanese Encephalitis in Australia the first for decades.
This a virus found in birds and transferred by mozzi...
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From February 20, people 18 and over who have not had a COVID-19 vaccine or positive case in the last six months are eligible for another...
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HOT IN Australia Over 3 Years!
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Katie Hopkins has been told to get out of Australia after breaking quarantine conditions.
As one commentator said, “Why would Scotty all...
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Just arrived in Hong Kong on our way to Australia.
It’s years since I was here .
Super modern airport .
Everyone walking about with ma...
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Hospital patients have been bitten !
Farms and Housers have been infested !
Restaurants and supermarkets over run !
Sounds like they ...
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How many on this forum have visited Australia… the country of my birth. I never miss a chance to promote my wonderfully diverse land. So ...
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Anybody thinking of Australia and New Zealand for next year???
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Having been to quite a few countries there is on I would dearly love to visit and that is Australia.
OK for the “sights” yes but mainly ...
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Ozzie cattle farmers are upset that fallow deer are eating the grazing
for their cattle?
Their argument is that the deer are not indige...
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Does anybody remember this young lad? An English schoolboy named Nigel Molesworth. We had quite a few of our own Aussie schoolboy heros b...
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