It’s still one of the worst accidents in Central Coast history — the night in 1936 when two cars hurtled off the end of a Davistown jetty in a fog and sunk into the darkness. Rescuers rushed to help as sharks circled.
The wall is breached. It’s the single most significant event in the drama-laden Game of Thrones. And its fallout will chart the course of the show’s final season.
When the French tightrope walker Jean Francois Gravelet, who called himself Blondin, walked a tightrope across Niagara Falls on June 30, 1859, he stunned the world.
Mixing four different cultures into one, Saada Abdikarim shares why her fried rice bridges the distance between her Australian born children and Somali born mother, bringing back old memories and creating new ones.
W-A-R: We spell out the reality of what a war with North Korea would look like.
THIS idealistic young Melburnian left Australia to fight for the Islamic State’s Caliphate. Now he wants our help to escape it.
WHEN Melbourne was having problems with its preparations for the Olympic Games, a visit from Avery Brundage IOC president in 1955 put a fire under them to get things right.
WHEN fading tennis star Bobby Riggs wanted to make a point that he could beat the best female tennis player of the day, he picked the best, Billie Jean King, and lost the battle of the sexes.
FILMMAKER Lissette Orozco’s brave documentary Adriana’s Pact tells the story of Orozco’s discovery that her beloved aunt Adriana Rivas was an active member of dictator Augusto Pinochet’s secret police.
When CSIRO needed expertise to help them design the Parkes Radio Telescope they turned to one of the greatest engineering minds of the day Barnes Wallis
It is not melodramatic to say that police officers make life and death decisions every day.Few however make them like outgoing Assistant Commissioner Mark Murdoch has done in the full blaze of publicity with the eyes of the world watching. Not once but twice.
SICK Australians in need of urgent in-home care are being routinely treated by junior and under qualified doctors working for private equity firms — subsidised by the nation’s severely strained health budget.
WHEN he’s not flying across Australia for modelling assignments, politely declining the odd request to autograph a fan’s backside or being recognised for “not being Kris Smith”, celebrity model Kris Smith loves leading a quiet life on Sydney’s north shore. He talks candidly to CAROLINE TANG.
SICK Australians in need of urgent in-home care are being routinely treated by junior and under qualified doctors working for private equity firms subsidised by the nation’s strained health budget.
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