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Gardening experts say all you need is a bag of potting mix, some seeds and two weeks.

Veterans and serving members of the Australian Defence Force will share their mental health experiences, including what helped them, at hearings for the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide in Townsville next week.

Unlike breast and prostate cancers there is no national screening program to detect lung cancer, so by the time it's picked up it's often too late.

George Christensen was a thorn in the Liberal National Party's side until the end — sensationally quitting the party and parliament last week before pledging his allegiance to Pauline Hanson's One Nation party today to run on a Senate ticket.

COVID has nearly killed the city centre. Now experts are pondering what the future of the CBD will be in post-pandemic Australia.