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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QLD

‘Cannot breathe’: Nation’s stinkiest suburb

‘Dry retching’: Australia’s filthiest suburb

Thousands of Australians claim they have been getting seriously ill from “putrid horrendous manure chemical smells” from an industrial area.

Banking

A new theory on what happened to an Australian couple’s missing property deposit has been floated, but the bank remains staunch on not being at fault.

Extraordinary claim on couple’s missing $90k

A new theory on what happened to an Australian couple’s missing property deposit worth $90,000 has been floated by a family member.

What initially appeared to be an innocent case of leaving the taps on turned out to be something far more disgusting.

‘S***storm’: Sinkhole floods homes with poo

A huge sinkhole has opened up on a suburban street in Adelaide, breaking a sewage pipe and flooding a number of homes and businesses in the area.

Mental Health

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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.

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