Labor is vowing to allow Boxing Day trading and bring  forward  Sunday openings under a shopping hours policy it will take to the state election.

Australian beer drinkers are avoiding hangovers, with a doubling in the market share of low or no alcohol beers. 

A boy injured in the Tasmanian jumping castle tragedy has finally woken up in hospital and even made a request for pizza after “putting up one hell of a fight”.

And in sport, Scott Boland’s transformation from a 118kg batting allrounder at Frankston-Peninsula to Australia’s second Indigenous male Test cricketer in 144 years will be completed when he receives the 463rd baggy green on Boxing Day.

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