Australia’s energy market operator will be given urgent new powers to buy and store gas in a bid to keep the lights on and avoid another winter of electricity discontent. 

Shattered rugby league legends have made an ­impassioned plea to men to open up about their mental health struggles in a desperate bid to prevent more ­suicide tragedies like that of Paul Green. 

The generous sponsor who linked with Paul Green as a schoolboy and stayed for life spoke to him less than two days before his death without getting any hint of the tragedy ahead. 

The state’s peak medical body is lobbying the Queensland government to allow retired doctors to return to work due to unprecedented workforce pressures. 

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