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Klungkung District Police released this image of the capsized boat in the waters off Nusa Penida.

Australian tourists killed and injured in Bali snorkelling boat capsize

Despite attempts by the captain to control the boat, it was hit by multiple waves before capsizing.

  • Ben Cubby, Zach Hope and Amilia Rosa

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Essendon premiership player Ricky Olarenshaw and his wife, Sarnanitha, in 2023.

Olarenshaw’s wife found guilty of allowing ‘pornography services’

In a bad day for purveyors and partakers in Bali’s raunchy massage scene, two other Australians were also found guilty on the charges in separate cases.

  • Zach Hope and Amilia Rosa
Tumini showing some of her scars from the Bali bombing. Her wounds were so ghastly that the hospital workers who received her assumed she was dead.

Bali bombing patients caught up in Indonesia’s DOGE-style budget cuts

Tumini still remembers the explosions and screams, and stumbling into that smoky night from Paddy’s bar, where she had been mixing cocktails.

  • Zach Hope, Amilia Rosa and Karuni Rompies
Batu Karang, Nusa Lembongan.

No crowds or chaos: These three Bali escapes are a step back in time

Overdevelopment is rife on the south-west coast, but these satellite island stays offer a step back to more mellow times.

  • Jenny Hewett
Erik De Haart pays his respects at the Bali bombing memorial in Coogee in 2008.

Bali bombing hero risked his life to rescue victims

Erik de Haart was heading back to the club when “a bright orange mushroom cloud lit up the sky”. He spent hours looking for his mates and hauling victims from the burning debris.

  • Malcolm Brown
Sidemen, free of traffic congestion and overdevelopment, offers a slower pace of travel.

‘The next Ubud’ in Bali is, thankfully, nothing like the actual Ubud

Sidemen on the east coast of the island offers a quieter, more immersive Bali for those who relish a slower mode of travel.

  • Penny Watson
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Sydney man Mohamed Rifai being led to a press conference in Bali on Thursday.

Accused Australian brawler paraded in Bali alongside his bouncer foes

Tourist Mohamed Rifai, from south-west Sydney, faces up to five years in jail over a fight outside a Bali beach club. The security guards face even longer.

  • Zach Hope and Amilia Rosa
Men brawl in Bali

‘Let’s go, bro!’ Australian tourist suspected of triggering wild Bali brawl

Bali police are still looking for four tourists involved in the fight in which four security guards were injured.

  • Zach Hope and Karuni Rompies
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‘Bali is more seamless’: The passport processing headache greeting Australian travellers

Long queues are forming at Australia’s airports thanks to a digital processing system that is riddled with faults.

  • Eryk Bagshaw

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