Murray-Darling report lays bare ‘the system is sick’, say the people it affects

The Murray-Darling Basin Royal Commission has cited gross maladministration, negligence and unlawful actions by Commonwealth officials as just a handful of the failures in its multi-billion-dollar effort to save Australia’s largest river system.

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(Unredacted) Submission to the Aus Govt Review of Australian Broadcasting Services in the Asia Pacific

As a leader of a team of broadcasters and content makers going live-to-air, Radio Australia program makers needed to know where our audience was.

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Ford Rangers, Mazda BT-50s recalled as farmers report spot fires with new utes

A farmer in western Victoria says a fire started by his new ute, a model recently recalled by the manufacturers, could have cost him millions of dollars in damage.

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‘You’ve never seen anything like a Nirvana crowd’: 25 years on from that Fishos gig

Scrappy Seattle three-piece Nirvana had just knocked Michael Jackson off the top of the Billboard music charts when they played Fisherman’s Wharf Hotel on Queensland’s Gold Coast, 25 years ago today.

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