Lidia Thorpe says she would not rejoin Greens ‘even if my daughter became leader’ – as it happened This blog is now closed The Guardian - AU · May 14, 2025
Set in stone Etched into rock at a dusty cattle station in outback South Australia is the richest collection of Ediacaran fossils in the world. Now, the site will be open to tourists for the first time. ABC News · Apr 21, 2023
How Flinders Island residents developed a taste for mutton bird, or shearwaters, a meat that tastes like a mix of seafood and chicken Eating mutton bird is part of a long culture in the Furneaux Island group. While the rest of Australia is enjoying the short-tailed shearwater with binoculars, island dwellers are getting out their knives and forks. ABC News · Apr 3, 2023
Flinders Island's last crayfisher calls it a day, saying red tape has put an end to small operators He can weigh a cray by hand and catch them "in his sleep" but, after 70 years in the industry, Jack Wheatley is hauling in his pots for the last time, driven out, he says, by the "big fellas". ABC News · Dec 29, 2022
Traditional owners welcome greater engagement over World Heritage status for Flinders Ranges The federal government will provide $500,000 over the next four years to increase engagement with the traditional owners of a potential World Heritage site. ABC News · Nov 3, 2022
Woman charged over stabbings of two people in Melbourne CBD Police say a man and woman were stabbed near Flinders Street around 5pm Thursday. Neither are believed to have suffered life-threatening injuries. ABC News · Sep 8, 2022
Drought declarations dropped for more than half of Queensland following long wet season The Balonne, Murweh, Western Downs, Maranoa, and Quilpie shires in south-west Queensland have had their drought status revoked, along with the North Burnett and part of the Flinders shire. ABC News · May 12, 2022