A community activist group has urged the South Australian government to consider alternative locations for the new $82 million Adelaide Aquatic Centre. The Adelaide Park Lands Association says the government’s consultation process, which opened on Tuesday, envisages no sites other than on existing parklands. The group’s president Shane Sody has written to Premier Peter Malinauskas …
Queensland have avoided blackouts on Monday night but the energy regulator is warning of potential challenges to come. The Australian Energy Market Operator earlier issued an alert warning of power outages for the southeast and the east coast between 5.30pm and 8pm on Monday, and again on Tuesday morning. Watch the video above for more …
The widow of Queensland mining magnate Ken Talbot is taking legal action in a Brisbane court over the estate of the Macarthur Coal founder who died more than a decade ago. Amanda Talbot is suing Boyd Legal over allegations owner Bill Boyd failed to finalise her husband’s new will before he died, causing her to …
Sydney Roosters teammates say Luke Keary remains in good spirits as their star halfback starts a recovery from his latest concussion. Keary’s status remains a concern after he received a knee to the back of the head in the Roosters loss to Melbourne on Saturday night. The concussion is Keary’s first since he suffered five …
A toddler who died after being pulled unresponsive from a lagoon in Queensland has been remembered as a “rambunctious little boy”. Witnesses described hearing a gut-wrenching scream when Ashtin Pitt, aged 22 months, was found in Maryborough’s Ululah Lagoon on Saturday afternoon. His disappearance that day had sparked a frantic search involving his family, police …
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Actress Rebel Wilson says she is trying to “handle with grace” the Sydney Morning Herald’s revelation that it planned to “out” her, giving her a two-day deadline to comment publicly on her relationship with Ramona Agruma. On Friday, the Pitch Perfect star announced she and Agruma, a fashion designer, were officially a couple. WATCH THE …
The story of 1950s sugarcane cutters Roo and Barney is a script that has occupied the minds of thousands of Australian students for decades. The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, a play by Ray Lawler, has featured in school curriculums across the nation. Lawler, who recently turned 101, is highly regarded for his groundbreaking work …
Typically, Ash Barty’s first thoughts on her latest individual honour were about others. Barty is among a batch of sports luminaries recognised in Sunday’s Queen’s Birthday Honours List, with the recently retired tennis star appointed an Order (AO) of Australia. The same honour has also been bestowed on the late cricket great Shane Warne. Watch …
Shane Warne often described his life as a soap opera. Wickets, women, famous friends, lavish lifestyle – Warne played in the spotlight on and off the cricket field. But his posthumous Queen’s Birthday Honour, appointed an Order (AO) of Australia, shines a light on a side of Warne kept largely in the shadows: his philanthropy. …
When Anne Green began her career studying the stars, women were such a rarity in the male-dominated field that special provisions had to be made. “When I first went to the telescope to observe, I was given the professor’s room because it was the only one with a shower; they hadn’t even considered that there …