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Former AFL player Josh Hill is accused of child sexual abuse.

Ex-AFL player stood down from youth role at Indigenous body over child sex allegations

Josh Hill was a youth co-ordinator for the First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria, which said it had severed all ties with the former Western Bulldog.

  • Melissa Cunningham

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Through the forests near Pemberton.

We’re calling it: Aussie region has one of the world’s best drives

This road trip is right up there with the Great Ocean Road, but it’s on the opposite side of the country.

  • Julietta Jameson
Koh Lipe, Southern Thailand.

Go west: 16 highlights of the other great ocean on our coast

The Indian Ocean stretches from WA to the east coast of Africa and offers a wealth of islands, many with white-sand beaches ringed by coconut palms and aquamarine water.

  • Lee Cobaj and Craig Tansley
Zodiac excursion to King George Falls.

Every day is a surprise in this remote part of Australia

Along Western Australia’s remote Kimberley coast, time and tides rule everything.

  • Kerry van der Jagt
Peter Dutton claimed nuclear waste from a small reactor each year would fit in a coke can.

Australians don’t want a nuclear wasteland in their backyards

The main stumbling block facing a Coalition plan for nuclear power stations around the nation will be where to store the waste.

  • The Herald's View
Hugh Marks

New ABC boss has a steep learning curve ahead of him

Marks should be given a chance to prove his critics wrong by recognising that the ABC is not a commercial outfit, but a public broadcaster dedicated to producing independent, trustworthy and quality programming to a diverse audience, regardless of class or political persuasion.

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Drugs, bikies, a serial killer: How did six men vanish from the outback without a trace?

Wes Lockyer is one of six Aboriginal men from WA’s remote north to have disappeared in recent years. His family want the police and pollies to do more to find them. And the public to care.

  • Tim Elliott
Iron ore at BHP’s Jimblebar mine in the Pilbara.

Miners rejoice as Albanese shelves environment watchdog

The resources sector wants the reform to be abandoned altogether rather than returned to the agenda in February.

  • Mike Foley
The blocky cliffs along the Hunter River are some of the oldest rocks in the Kimberley.

Enjoy rock-star treatment along this wild and ancient coastline

Watching living dinosaurs between sips of champagne? This crazy juxtaposition of luxury in a prehistoric wilderness is a hallmark of my Kimberley cruise on Scenic Eclipse II.

  • Carolyn Beasley
Imogen Mitchen and Corey Rozario are doing great things with their pop-up at Margaret River skate park.
14.5/20

This freewheeling Margaret River pop-up is blazing a new trail for modern Asian cooking

While BMX bandits practice bar spins and grommets drop-in, an emerging cooking talent is serving game-changing dahl, punchy pickles and other bold Burmese cooking.

  • Max Veenhuyzen

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