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King Charles enjoyed his recent tour of Australia, according to Robert Hardman.

Super Saturday of auctions coming up

‘Surprising’ finding by Australian-led study is first recorded instance of one antibiotic causing resistance to another in a different class

Change is part of a beta release in Australia that expands on existing detection defaulted for under-13 users

Opposition Senate leader floats idea of penalties for bad behaviour; Australian-led study links an untreatable superbug to an antibiotic

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The Australian commissioning team at Netflix has had a pretty good run over the past 12 months. In January, the adaptation of Trent Dalton’s novel Boy Swallows Universe proved to be the most successful Australian-made show to that point, scoring 7.6 million views globally in its first two weeks.

In Eleanor Rigby, the Beatles asked: “All the lonely people – where do they all come from?” The answer to that question is complex, but loneliness is a widespread feeling among Australians. One in three people feel lonely, and one in six experience severe loneliness.

Last month, Australia’s newly appointed minister for emergency management, Senator Jenny McAllister, and Senator Tony Sheldon, special envoy for disaster recovery, took part in a cultural burn outside Lismore in New South Wales, as part of the National Gathering on Indigenous Disaster Resilience.

The 2022 news that the US Supreme Court had overturned Roe v Wade and ended the constitutional right to abortion sent shockwaves around the world.

Relatable.