A country pub is in deepwater with its local council for allowing passing travellers in self-contained caravans to park on their lawn overnight. After publican Stuart O’Neil wrote a best selling book on mental health, he and his family bought the Deepwater Hotel in northern NSW. It is located highContinue Reading
Residents of a western Sydney suburb have been baffled by the vivid colour their local creek after it mysteriously turned neon blue. “There’s something causing it, we’d like to know what and who has caused that problem,” John Hibbard of the Friends of Toongabbie Creek told Channel 9. Now theContinue Reading
Drive through one of countless new crammed housing estates in Sydney’s west and you might picture the small saplings lining narrow streets one day blossoming into lush trees. But the reality is that government planning controls have allowed verges so narrow that what’s planted doesn’t have enough space to everContinue Reading
Syndey is facing a “homelessness tsunami” as the country battles a cost-of-living crisis. Scattered throughout Sydney’s most affluent suburbs are makeshifts homes set up on foothpaths, often next to empty buildings. And as rents continue to climb, an increasing number of people are just one rent rise away from homelessness,Continue Reading
A new homelessness encampment, known by inhabitants as “Wayside After Hours,” has sprung up in one of Sydney’s most affluent suburbs. Tucked underneath the awnings of the empty Metro Minerva Theatre Building in Potts Point is a burgeoning camp for the area’s rough sleepers, with up to eight people takingContinue Reading
Thousands of people in Queensland’s central and northern regions have been urged to prepare for a tropical low, now inevitable to intensify into Tropical Cyclone Kirrily, to cross the coast overnight. The dire warning comes as the Bureau of Meteorology forecasts gale-force wind gusts of up to 150km/h, storm tidesContinue Reading
Thousands of people in Queensland’s central and northern regions have been urged to get prepared as a tropical low, now inevitable to intensify into Tropical Cyclone Kirrily, prepares to cross the coast overnight. The dire warning comes as the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) forecasts gale-force wind gusts of up toContinue Reading
Post-Christmas garbage is spilling onto the streets in one western Sydney local government area as council waste workers continue strike action. Suburbs in the Blacktown City Council area have been affected by the ongoing industrial action, with their overflowing bins left uncollected on Boxing Day amid ongoing negotiations between theContinue Reading
A Sydney mayor has called on the state government to help with the clean-up and policing bill from a raging Christmas Day beach party which left one of Australia’s most recognisable beaches trashed. Nearly 10,000 people, mainly comprised of backpackers and tourists, descended onto Bronte Beach in Sydney’s eastern suburbsContinue Reading
Alice Springs baker Darren Clark has been left speechless after being awarded a $10,000 cash prize by 2GB radio host Ben Fordham. Fordham phoned Mr Clark on Friday morning to inform him he was being given the prize for “news tip of 2023”. The outspoken community activist, who runs theContinue Reading