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Moment lightning strikes Brit boy, 8, in 'extreme freak accident' on beach

Footage shows the eight-year-old boy wading out into the water in New South Wales, Australia, before falling down after a bolt of lightning suddenly flashes across the sky

Daily Mirror

WA's first Westland petrel joins list of other vagrant birds taxidermied for future research

Researchers are scratching their heads after a bird species usually found between New Zealand and Chile is found waddling on a remote West Australian beach.

ABC News

Record dry spell threatening Tasmania's Wilderness World Heritage Area

Unusually dry weather is leaving the state's Wilderness World Heritage Area sensitive to fire. It's a prospect that threatens a living fossil that traces its history to the ancient super-continent Gondwana.

ABC News

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Sydney Festival: From Thomas Weatherall's Blue to Stephanie Lake's Manifesto and the harbourside Vigil, this year hit us in the feels

The best of this year's Sydney Festival included a "tattoo to optimism" featuring nine drum kits, an anxious opera on an indoor beach, a harbourside vigil, and a devastating debut play.

ABC News

‘Public enemy number one’: on the hunt with Queensland’s volunteer cane toad busters

A competition to deplete the invasive, warty amphibian has attracted plenty of contestants – who take it deadly seriously

The Guardian - AU

Paddling calendar: the best places to kayak and canoe in Australia, every month of the year

With a coastline that stretches thousands of kilometres, Australia is an all seasons, bucket list destination for on-water adventures

The Guardian - AU

I thought I loved Australia — until I spent more than two weeks there

Spend a few days in a foreign city and you may start to believe you’ve developed a sense of the place — perhaps you could even picture yourself living there. But stay a little while longer and you quickly come to realise you scarcely understand it at all.

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Celebrations planned for 25th anniversary of Perth’s twinning with Polish city Bydgoszcz

Perth and Kinross councillors this week agreed to begin plans for a weekend of events in June

Daily Record

A Pilot’s Done A Huge QA About Flights Including How To Spot When Mad Turbulence Is Coming

Would you like some slight turbulence ma'am?

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Shire of Quairading offering $800k to attract GP as regional doctor shortage continues

The Shire of Quairading's president says the town's hospital and pharmacy will be at risk if a new doctor is not found.

ABC News

'Not just three days': Supercars work begins Wednesday for Newcastle 500

Supercars has approval to work round the clock for nine days.

Newcastle Herald

Dolphins cry as lightning crashes into the sea

"This is up there with my best lighting shots"

Newcastle Herald

Lights on the Lake brings life to Canberra landmark

And the free laser and water shows are also on Friday and Saturday nights at Lake Burley Griffin

The Canberra Times

The 'incredibly special' and top secret cave home to 20,000 microbats

I'm witnessing one of our region's most captivating wildlife spectacles.

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Newcastle Herald

Bonza Newcastle flights now on sale

The new budget airline announced Friday fares from Newcastle would start from $59.

The Guardian - AU

Why does Australia get so many storms in summer?

Meteorologists forecast more storms and heavy rain to come over south-east, as western Sydney records more than 100,000 lightning strikes

ABC News

Budget regional airline Bonza selling tickets ahead of maiden flight from Sunshine Coast

The budget carrier is selling tickets for its first flights from the Sunshine Coast next week.

Newcastle Herald

What's on this weekend in Newcastle, NSW

The annual Beach 5s Rugby Festival at Nobbys Beach, markets, A Midsummer Night's Dream and more.

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Australia Day comes to violent end as Perth riots see police pelted with rocks, bottles and pavers

Ten people are arrested and two officers are injured as rocks, bottles and broken pavers are thrown at police who declared two out-of-control gatherings in Perth's city centre overnight.

AAP

Australia Day stirs patriotism, past sins

Australia Day was celebrated nationwide with flags and citizenship ceremonies but it also inspired massive protests as the political tide changes.

The Independent UK

Australian beauty spot forced to close to tourists due to ‘red tape’

Lorella Springs has been welcoming visitors for 25 years

The Guardian - AU

My bad trip – I took a voyage of self-discovery, but the self I discovered was a total buzzkill

Getting dumped right before a solo overland journey from Barcelona to Beijing derailed my bid to rebrand myself as a woman of the world

Evening Standard

Thousands rally for ‘Invasion Day’ protests on Australia Day holiday

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said it was a ‘difficult day’ for indigenous peoples, but there were no plans to change the holiday date

Newcastle Herald

'A very exciting day': Lake Macquarie welcomes new citizens

Almost 100 people became Australian citizens in Lake Macquarie on Thursday.

The Guardian - AU

Thousands attend Invasion Day rallies on Australia’s national holiday as colonisation debate rages

With Australia increasingly uneasy about celebrating its national day, recognition of Indigenous people in the constitution has become a new flashpoint

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