The Latest Breaking News from Australia

Anzac coo-ee echoes in country Australia

Men walked from country towns to the city to enlist in WWI, in what became known as the Coo-ee March. One hundred years on, they continue to inspire.

AAP · Apr 23, 2022

Newcastle family among Australians keen to keep driveway dawn services on Anzac Day even with eased COVID rules

Many neighbourhoods are planning to host a driveway dawn service for the third time this year with the pandemic-inspired tradition looking set to endure.

ABC News · Apr 23, 2022

Girls brought together by Queensland research mission into rare brain disorder hereditary spastic paraplegia

The girls, who share an extremely rare and debilitating genetic brain disorder, have been united by Queensland research aiming to find a breakthrough drug treatment.

ABC News · Apr 23, 2022

Art deco gem’s renewal gets NSW country town back in the dance

‘Striking’ theatre revived after years as wool bale warehouse to become one of Australia’s few still being used as originally intended

The Guardian - AU · Apr 23, 2022

The allure of communal bathing: ‘This is the first time I’ve felt really OK about my body’

Sharing is self-caring as public bathhouses make an unlikely comeback in Australia

The Guardian - AU · Apr 23, 2022

Thinking big helped Australia solve a housing crisis in the 1940s. We can do it again

It’s been a long time since our public housing was anything to be proud of. What if post-Covid we went ‘all in’ like postwar times?

The Guardian - AU · Apr 23, 2022

Australia's overheated property market has become a target for hackers — and they're scamming millions

Property settlement scams are becoming more common, as house prices rise and scammers turn their focus to the large and often lightly protected sums of money earmarked for home deposits.

ABC News · Apr 23, 2022

McGrath hails Indian pace bowlers, expects Bumrah to bounce back strongly in IPL

CHENNAI: Australian pace legend Glenn McGrath on Friday said the way fast-rising Prasidh Krishna bowled a penultimate over in an IPL game showed he could handle pressure.

The Times of India · Apr 23, 2022

Election diary: Hunter seats bursting with voters

The close of the electoral rolls this week showed that Paterson is the second largest seat out of 151 in Australia.

Newcastle Herald · Apr 23, 2022

Scott Morrison refuses press conference as John Howard calls teal independents ‘anti-Liberal groupies’

Warringah MP Zali Steggall accuses former prime minister of using ‘appalling sexist language’

The Guardian - AU · Apr 23, 2022