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Government accused of playing catch-up over extra GPS tracking funding
Months after issues emerged with the rollout of mandatory GPS tracking of domestic violence offenders, the government promises to fund 38 more staff.
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'Blue blob' or 'beloved new landmark'? It's got this city talking
A controversial sculpture that sparked complaints about its cost and design arrives in Mount Gambier to a positive reception.
Published on: July 16, 2025 | Source:'Aren't enough': Some Canberra GPs will soon be allowed to diagnose ADHD
The ACT Health pilot program, beginning in six months, hopes to reduce the number of Canberrans facing lengthy waits for an attention deficit hyperactivity disorder diagnosis and those having to travel interstate for quicker access to care.
Published on: July 16, 2025 | Source:Morning Mail: Trump lashes Maga ‘weaklings’ over Epstein case, Australia’s birthrate falls, and a Hiroshima love story
Want to get this in your inbox every weekday? Sign up for the Morning Mail here, and finish your day with our Afternoon Update newsletterMorning everyone. He was meant to be the man to defeat the “deep state” – but Donald Trump has found himself defending the transparency of his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case, calling his Maga supporters “weaklings” for not accepting the administration’s line. At home, the birth...
Published on: July 16, 2025 | Source:Pogačar crashes before anti-Israel protester disrupts TDF stage finale
Defending champion Tadej Pogačar is involved in a crash at the Tour de France moments before a protester disrupts the sprint finish where Norway's Jonas Abrahamsen claims his first stage victory.
Published on: July 16, 2025 | Source:Killer's death presents 'opportunity' to find Falconio's remains
Outback murderer Bradley Murdoch's death could present a fresh opportunity to find the remains of his victim, British backpacker Peter Falconio, according to a leading forensic expert.
Published on: July 16, 2025 | Source:Gallen wins points verdict in hyped fight with SBW
Paul Gallen scores a split-points win over Sonny Bill Williams in their long-awaited heavyweight boxing bout in Sydney.
Published on: July 16, 2025 | Source:Ten years telling tales from the bush: Heather Ewart signing off from Back Roads
Heather Ewart was a powerhouse political reporter when she was asked to create a show about regional Australia. A decade later, and with her final season going to air, Ewart admits that getting the idea off the ground was no easy feat.
Published on: July 16, 2025 | Source:Bearded dragons in backpacks reveal speed can be a killer
Ecologist Kristoffer Wild spent a year in the Australian outback fitting bearded dragons with hand-sewn jackets with GPS trackers to track every second of the lizards' lives.
Published on: July 16, 2025 | Source:Major parties take aim at Tasmania's childcare 'desert' to sway votes
Tasmania has the worst childcare access in Australia, with more than half the state considered a "childcare desert". A service at risk of closure says while election promises are encouraging, they don't go far enough.
Published on: July 16, 2025 | Source:Coorong 'on the brink' amid fears algal bloom could be final straw
After decades of environmental degradation, South Australia's internationally significant Coorong wetlands are now at risk of becoming a "wasteland" due to the state's toxic algal bloom, advocates fear.
Published on: July 16, 2025 | Source:Tasmania is limping towards an election nobody wants. Here’s the state of play
There’s a lot at stake for the island state, which desperately needs budget repair and improved services - but you wouldn’t know it from the lacklustre campaign.
Published on: July 16, 2025 | Source:The secret stories of trees are written in the knots and swirls of your floorboards. An expert explains how to read them
‘Reading’ your floorboards can reveal fascinating details about the lives of the trees they once were.
Published on: July 16, 2025 | Source:How do we understand life on Earth? An 18th-century rivalry charts the tension between two types of science ‘genius’
A biography of scientists Carl Linnaeus and Georges-Louis LeClerc explores the complex, disparate lives of two brilliant men who shaped the study of natural history.
Published on: July 16, 2025 | Source:How do we understand life on Earth? A prize-winning biography charts the tension between two types of science ‘genius’
A biography of scientists Carl Linnaeus and Georges-Louis LeClerc explores the complex, disparate lives of two brilliant men who shaped the study of natural history.
Published on: July 16, 2025 | Source:From Sister Rosetta Tharpe to Ronnie Yoshiko Fujiyama: how electric guitarists challenge expectations of gender
Why is the image of the electric guitar hero so often a man, when women have been shredding the axe for nearly a century?
Published on: July 16, 2025 | Source:What is astigmatism? Why does it make my vision blurry? And how did I get it?
Four in ten people live with astigmatism, which can cause blurred vision and eye strain. Here’s what you need to know.
Published on: July 16, 2025 | Source:Has Mark Ronson found his next Amy Winehouse?
Hit-maker Mark Ronson has collaborated with everyone from Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars to the late, great Amy Winehouse. Now he's added another name to his CV: breakout talent Raye.
Published on: July 16, 2025 | Source:Fire ant conspiracy theorist gets uni funding for field work
Southern Cross University provides research funding to a conspiracy theorist who has wrongly claimed fire ant bait causes ADHD, autism, and low fertility in humans.
Published on: July 16, 2025 | Source:Police shooting of Kumanjayi Walker could lead NT communities taking back full control
The Kumanjayi Walker Inquest backs Aboriginal-led solutions and restoring Warlpiri self-determination, which his family says will "prevent deaths in custody".
Published on: July 16, 2025 | Source:Aldi is trialling grocery delivery in Australia. We put it to the test against Coles and Woolworths
Here’s how the German-owned supermarket chain’s online shopping trial with DoorDash compares with other options when it comes to pricesFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAldi is known for its permanently discounted prices and its famously odd products sold in the middle aisle.Last week, the German-owned supermarket chain took another step...
Published on: July 16, 2025 | Source:Will this weekend’s election end the political chaos in Tasmania? - podcast
This Saturday, Tasmanians will go to the polls again. The state election is the fourth in just over seven years, and many are hoping it will finally put to rest the chaos and animosity of successive minority governments.Climate and environment editor – and Tasmanian – Adam Morton speaks to Reged Ahmad about the issues front of mind for voters and whether whoever wins office will work across the aisle to get things done...
Published on: July 16, 2025 | Source:Torres Strait leaders lost their landmark case. How can governments be held to account on climate?
Experts and advocates say it’s time for the law to change after judge says matters based on climate policy cannot be decided by courtsFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesSign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter hereIn the hours after the federal court delivered its judgment in a landmark climate case on Tuesday, the two Torres Strait Islands community leaders...
Published on: July 16, 2025 | Source:Ken Henry urges nature law reform after decades of ‘intergenerational bastardry’
In his National Press Club address, Former Treasury Secretary Ken Henry made the case for urgent, ambitious nature law reform to boost productivity while saving species.
Published on: July 16, 2025 | Source:PM’s China trip continues – as it happened
This blog is now closedAccused childcare paedophile’s workplace list grows as education minister backs national databaseGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastSUV driven into luxury Sydney CBD store in ram raid targeting handbags, police sayPolice in Sydney are investigating after an SUV was driven into a luxury store in the city’s CBD early this morning, part of a ram raid targeting handbags.I...
Published on: July 16, 2025 | Source:Politics with Michelle Grattan: Malcolm Turnbull on Australia’s ‘dumb’ defence debate
The former prime minister warns of a ‘reckless’ degree of ‘delusion’ in Canberra about AUKUS, saying it risks costing Australia far more than anyone wants to admit.
Published on: July 16, 2025 | Source:‘Why the hell did we ever drop it?’: Labor should push for new carbon tax, ex-Treasury head says
Australia has no hope of curbing emissions without ‘world’s best carbon policy’, Ken Henry tells National Press ClubFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastFederal Labor should make the case for a new carbon tax, former Treasury secretary Ken Henry says, describing the measure as “the world’s best carbon policy”.Speaking in Canberra about ways to...
Published on: July 16, 2025 | Source:Humpback whale delays ferry service in Sydney Harbour – video
A ferry service was delayed after a humpback whale was spotted by commuters on Sydney Harbour near Fort Denison about 8am on Wednesday. It swam to Circular Quay – the city's central ferry terminal – before moving east towards the defence base of Garden Island then to Watsons Bay and north towards Balmoral‘Inquisitive, relaxed’ humpback whale swimming in Sydney Harbour delays ferries and boats Continue reading...
Published on: July 16, 2025 | Source:Why is Israel bombing Syria?
Syria’s foreign ministry says a number of soldiers and civilians have been killed by coordinated Israeli drone attacks and airstrikes near the two countries’ border.
Published on: July 16, 2025 | Source:Can Australia reach its 2029 housing construction target? Data shows we’re already falling behind
Want the best charts in your inbox every fortnight? Sign up for The Crunch hereAustralia will have to build housing at a significantly faster rate than it has in the last couple of decades to meet the government’s target of 1.2m new homes between June 2024 and 2029.To hit the target we need about 240,000 new dwellings every year, and new data shows we are already falling behind. The most recent State of the Housing...
Published on: July 16, 2025 | Source:How a drone delivering medicine might just save your life
The reality of drone-assisted health care may be closer than we think.
Published on: July 16, 2025 | Source:We travelled to Antarctica to see if a Māori lunar calendar might help track environmental change
The Māori language describes 12 distinct types of snow. Researchers are identifying them in Antarctica as part of a project that connects Western science with Indigenous knowledge.
Published on: July 16, 2025 | Source:Right-wing political group Advance is in the headlines. What is it and what does it stand for?
The husband of antisemitism special envoy Jillian Segal has donated to Advance. Here’s what the group’s all about.
Published on: July 16, 2025 | Source:Scientists could be accidentally damaging fossils with a method we thought was safe
A common scanning method used to create ‘virtual copies’ of precious fossils could be erasing some of the crucial information held within.
Published on: July 16, 2025 | Source:Why it’s important young, unemployed Australians get a good job instead of just ‘any’ job
New research finds economists and policymakers are too focussed on the unemployment rate and not on the quality of jobs young people are doing.
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