Australia’s favourite car has grown by more than 80 centimetres in just over a decade, and experts say our obsession with “super-sized” utes and SUVs is here to stay despite growing calls to tax and regulate them off the roads. A striking image comparing the size of the Mazda 3,Continue Reading
Foreign Minister Penny Wong will direct $17m to fight the tuberculosis scourge that continues to cripple Southeast Asia and The Pacific, though one international aid agency says the money won’t be enough to wipe out the curable illness. Ms Wong announced the commitment on Sunday ahead of World Tuberculosis Day,Continue Reading
People who can’t stand on one leg for 10 seconds are more likely to die within the next decade than their peers, a new study has suggested. Researchers asked participants to carry out the simple task, The Sun reports, which involved tucking one leg behind them and having their armsContinue Reading
Adam Bandt will declare protesting “is back” and bigger than ever when he paddles out to sea on a kayak as part of a blockade of a major port on Saturday. The Greens leader will join hundreds of people expected to take to the water in Newcastle, in the NSWContinue Reading
A heart breaking picture has emerged of the families ripped apart in the hellish beer garden pub crash that killed five in Daylesford on Sunday. Pratibha Sharma, her nine-year-old daughter Anvi, and her partner Jatin, 30, were killed when a white BMW X5 crashed into the busy venue and hitContinue Reading
Two families have been caught up in a horror crash in regional Victoria that has been described as an “absolute tragedy”. The carnage unfolded on Sunday night after a white BMW X5 crashed into the busy venue and hit customers sitting outside just after 6pm, leaving five dead and fiveContinue Reading
I’m not gay, but many of my dearest friends are. I remember well the vile abuse heaped on them in the same sex marriage campaign for the right of two people, who love each other, to marry a partner as I have. That debate wasn’t about me, it would haveContinue Reading
A grim outlook of life if Australia votes No in the upcoming referendum has been foreshadowed by prominent Indigenous leader Noel Pearson. Mr Pearson, the founder of the Cape York Institute, detailed why he believed Australia needed a Yes result in the October 14 referendum while appearing as a guestContinue Reading
Australian woman Tracey Bunworth was caravanning with her husband when her holiday took a devastating turn. The couple from Geelong in Victoria loved to travel and had centred a 10 week trip around the Birdsville Big Red Bash in the Simpson Desert. But tragically just weeks after the festival, 58-year-oldContinue Reading
It seems impossible to talk about anything but the Voice in the current political climate, which is a shame because perhaps the biggest threat to the Voice is people constantly talking about it. And now here I go again, so apologies for that. However it will not be what youContinue Reading