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Wednesday, March 7 Trump adviser quits over tariffs Top White House economic adviser Gary Cohn, a Wall Street banker who became a key architect of the 2017 tax overhaul and a bulwark against protectionist forces within the Trump administration, is resigning, the […]

Australia Has The Ability To Survive Doomsday

Australia’s ability to survive a global catastrophe is now a little stronger, “backed up” in a remote seed vault deep within in a mountain on the remote Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, the ABC reports. Seeds from 32,000 varieties of Australian grain and […]

WWII Battle Ship Found Off The QLD Coast

The wreckage of a US aircraft carrier credited with helping save Australia from possible Japanese invasion during World War II has been found off the Queensland coast. In May 1942, the USS Lexington, along with 216 of its crew and 35 aircraft, […]

#SheViews Married At First Sight

Hearts around Australia  are breaking thanks to Married at First Sight last night. Everyone’s #couplegoals Sarah and Telv had a very dramatic fight over…nothing? The couple, who have been Australia’s favourites since the beginning, had an argument caused by Telv watching a […]

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Tuesday, March 6 Trump says he won’t back down on tariffs United States President Donald Trump has insisted he is “not backing down” on his plan to impose stiff tariffs on imported steel and aluminium, despite anxious warnings from House Speaker Paul […]

Making Friends For The Long Run

Making friends was easy at school. After that, though, as you head out into the big wide world, making new friends gets harder. Of course there will be those few special friends from school who will always be friends no matter where […]

Domestic Violence Takes Australian Women Every Week

The extent of Australia’s family, domestic and sexual violence crisis has been revealed in a landmark report that details the death toll and increasing generational impacts of the issue. ABC radio reported that for the first time, the government’s Australian Institute of […]

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Athletics legend Roger Bannister dies aged 88 Iconic Olympic athlete Roger Bannister, the first man to run a mile in under four minutes, has died aged 88. Bannister made history and captured the world’s imagination as the first man to break the […]

#SheHistory – Edith Cowan

While most Australians don’t realise it, they are regularly in touch with one of Australia’s toughest and formidable campaigners for equal rights. The portrait of Edith Cowan, who became Australia’s first female parliamentarian in March 1921, aged 60, is on our $50 […]

Don’t Miss The Winter Paralympics

While the Winter Olympics came to a close last Sunday, many viewers are getting ready for the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games in April. But what most people miss out on is the Winter Paralympics, running from 9 to 18 March and holding […]

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Friday, March 2 ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON QUEEN A failed assassination attempt on the Queen during a royal tour of New Zealand in 1981 was covered up to “avoid jeopardising” future royal visits, a former police officer has claimed. Nearly four decades on […]

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Victorian Cop Resigns After Racist YouTube Comments One of the top Victorian police officers has resigned. It was exposed that Assistant Commissioner Brett Guerin, head of Professional Standards was posting racist remarks on YouTube. He appeared on 3AW last week defending his […]

Oscars 2018

The Oscars have crept up again, highlighting the best of the best in the film industry. Favourites for the night include Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Gary Oldman for Darkest Hour and Francis McDormand for Three Billboards. Australian nominations include Margot Robbie […]

A Plastic Reality

It’s no wonder plastic surgery has become so in demand, we see it on our screens and in our feeds every single day. From Keeping Up with the Kardashians to competitions on Facebook that advertise free boob jobs. While reasons vary over […]

A Dose of Vitamin D

As we enter the cooler months and the days shorten, it’s no longer quite so easy to soak up the sun’s rays. That typically means a drop in the level of vitamin D in your body. So, should you worry if you’re […]

Trump Defies National Gun Group

US President Donald Trump has defied the National Rifle Association (NRA) and fellow Republicans in pushing for tougher gun control laws during a meeting with Congress members in Washington. The ABC reported today that Mr Trump criticised politicians during the White House […]

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Contaminated rockmelon crisis talks Leaders of Australia’s melon industry will meet with supermarkets today to discuss strategies to get rockmelon back on shelves. A listeria contamination connected to a New South Wales melon grower has been linked to two deaths in the […]

France’s Age Of Consent Laws To Get Overhauled

In what most, if not all Australians would consider incredulous, sophisticated France is considering doing something long ago adopted in other Western nations: setting an effective minimum age of consent for having sex. Despite France’s “age of consent” of 15, it currently […]

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