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Kaya Lehmann caught dengue in February in Bali and has been sick for months.

The hidden menace on the rise in Australia’s favourite winter holiday destinations

Kaya Lehmann visited a waterfall in Bali during a summer holiday. Four months later she’s still counting the cost.

  • Angus Dalton

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The design of Anantara Ubud Bali is hilltop-down.

New Bali jungle resort is beyond the tourist crowds and traffic of Ubud

A resort located well beyond the centre of town sounds increasingly like a good idea amid Ubud’s overtourism and standstill traffic.

  • Penny Watson
Australian man arrested in Bali. Identified as Lamar Ahchee.

Australian identified after alleged 1.7kg cocaine bust in Bali

Police say a 43-year-old man was set to be paid just $4700 for his alleged role in handling drugs with a possible street value of more than $1 million.

  • Zach Hope, Amilia Rosa, Patrick Begley and Cloe Read
Beach villa, Regent Bali, Canggu.

Stylish new Bali resort helps the battle against bogans

The popular Indonesian island is clamping down on disrespectful tourists, and a new hotel is offering a five-star escape from the madding crowds.

  • Julietta Jameson
Tour boats anchored at Nusa Penida, a top snorkelling destination in Bali.

‘I was panicking’: How a bucket-list trip to paradise turned into tragedy

Holly and Josie were excited to have scored the final two seats on a snorkelling boat as they left their Bali hostel and headed to the port that morning. But what happened once onboard would leave them traumatised.

  • Zach Hope and Amilia Rosa
A passenger on the snorkelling boat that capsized off Bali, killing Australian tourist Anna Blight, has recounted horrifying details of the tragedy, including how her seven-year-old daughter became trapped underneath the overturned vessel.

Heartbreaking wish of little girl trapped under capsized Bali boat with Australian victim

A passenger on the snorkelling boat that flipped in rough seas has recounted horrifying details of the tragedy, including how her badly injured daughter has been left traumatised by the death of Australian tourist Anna Blight.

  • Zach Hope and Amilia Rosa
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Anna Blight was killed when a snorkelling boat capsized off Bali.

Bali boat tragedy victim remembered for her ‘passion and kindness’

Anna Blight, who is believed to have become trapped under a capsized tour vessel, has been remembered for her “generosity and integrity” and as a true friend.

  • Zach Hope and Amilia Rosa
Klungkung District Police released this image of the capsized boat in the waters off Nusa Penida.

Australian tourist killed and injured in Bali snorkelling boat capsize

Despite attempts by the captain to control the boat, it was hit by multiple waves before capsizing.

  • Ben Cubby, Zach Hope and Amilia Rosa
Essendon premiership player Ricky Olarenshaw and his wife, Sarnanitha, in 2023.

Olarenshaw’s wife found guilty of allowing ‘pornography services’

In a bad day for purveyors and partakers in Bali’s raunchy massage scene, two other Australians were also found guilty on the charges in separate cases.

  • Zach Hope and Amilia Rosa
Tumini showing some of her scars from the Bali bombing. Her wounds were so ghastly that the hospital workers who received her assumed she was dead.

Bali bombing patients caught up in Indonesia’s DOGE-style budget cuts

Tumini still remembers the explosions and screams, and stumbling into that smoky night from Paddy’s bar, where she had been mixing cocktails.

  • Zach Hope, Amilia Rosa and Karuni Rompies

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