The Editorial Team

Brooke RolfeAfternoon Homepage Editor

Brooke covers a broad range of general news including health, human interest, environment, current affairs and social media. She started at news.com.au after shifting from Yahoo News Australia in June 2021, having previously worked with Daily Mail Australia. In 2017, Brooke moved “over east” from her hometown, Bunbury in West Australia, where she worked for a regional newspaper after graduating with a Bachelor of Communication (Journalism) from Curtin University in 2015.

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Mental Health

Australian Currency - Close up of fifty dollar banknote $50 money generic

New report makes for terrifying reading

For the first time, Australia’s cost of living crisis can be quantified. And it makes for terrifying reading.

National

Jason Mumford, Lismore City Council's city centre manager, prepares for his edgy new hairstyle. Photo Luke Mortimer / Northern Rivers Echo

Distressing call no sibling should receive

A nightmare became reality for a man when he answered the phone to a call from police with harrowing news.

Space

This NASA photo obtained on March 23, 2021 shows an illustration of NASAâs Ingenuity Helicopter flying on Mars. - Ingenuity, a technology demonstration experiment, will be the first aircraft to attempt powered, controlled flight on another planet. Ingenuity arrived at Mars on February 18, 2021, attached to the belly of NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover. Ingenuity is expected to attempt its first flight test in spring 2021. (Photo by Handout / NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT

When Aussies will begin living on Mars

Humans setting up shop on Mars could be a reality much sooner in the future than most Australians think, it has been revealed.

Technology

aKin founder and CEO Liesl Yearsley said AI must be harnessed for good. Picture: Instagram/akin.home

Proof women don’t have a say in our future

Women in the technology sector are still blatantly being excluded from crucial, future-shaping conversations.

Buying

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos JUNE 13, 2023: Sydney housing. The release of a new government report provides a roadmap for fixing AustraliaÃ•s housing crisis. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Nikki Short

Islamic plan to save Aussie housing crisis

Australians locked out of the housing market have been delivered hope by a businessman who is convinced he has a solution to the crisis.

NSW & ACT

A fuming woman has issued a damning threat to people who dare to mess with a pile of items left out for kerbside collection.

Scathing letter after rubbish disaster

A woman from Sydney has issued a damning threat to people who dare to mess with a pile of items left out for kerbside collection.

Animals

Wild scenes have been captured of an enormous snake in a Queensland backyard shifting its weighty body from a home’s roof into a tree.

Family captures ‘freaky’ moment in backyard

An enormous reptile was captured executing shocking manoeuvre in a Queensland backyard as a horrified family watched on.

Business

Real estate agent Aimee Marsh was dismissed after a social media backlash that saw screenshots of comments she allegedly made on social media sent to her employer. Picture: Facebook

Twist after real estate agent sacked

The real estate agent who was sensationally fired last week has made a bold claim about who the real target of her unsavoury comments was.

Travel Incidents

Horror end to Aussie’s trip of a lifetime

A few days ago, Mark Cornell was on the trip of a lifetime – now he only has the shirt on his back.

Mining

New Fortescue iron ore chief Fiona Hick. Picture: Frances Andrijich

Boss of Aussie mining giant suddenly quits

The shock departure of the eleventh senior executive from Fortescue Metals in two years has been announced.

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