Fifty years later Bill Jauncey doesn’t know how he held on with two fellow guards and more than 90 prisoners in their custody, as Darwin’s Fannie Bay Gaol was torn to pieces by Cyclone Tracy.
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The annual photography competition – a collaboration between the South Australian Museum and Australian Geographic – has run for over 20 years. Take a look at this year’s best entries.
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John Van Der Kallen and Jane Morgan spend their working lives fixing people’s bodies. Outside of the nine-to-five, the couple are focused on repairing the natural world. Photographer ANDREW QUILTY captures their world.
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A victim of a violent NZ-born menace Glenn Taylor but was saved by Direction 99 from deportation has laid ‘100 per cent’ of the blame with the Immigration Minister.
Here’s a fun challenge for news buffs: can you place eight of The Australian’s front-page headlines from the past 60 years in chronological order? Clicking on the link in the answer will bring up the front page to enjoy.
Breaking down the world-class technique that makes Mollie O’Callaghan the fastest 200m swimmer in history – and one of our hottest Olympic prospects.
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Chinese-run ‘scam universities’ are training enslaved workers how to fleece Australians out of their life savings. Inside their walls, a modern horror story is unfolding. WARNING: Graphic content
With more than half of TikTok’s users now aged over 30 it can no longer be said to be the platform of youth culture. But with 8.5 million users in Australia, its demise would surely be felt.
Until now, the events of a Bulldogs wrestling session have been shrouded in mystery. According to one insider, the incident has the potential to be the biggest crisis for Canterbury since the Coffs Harbour gang rape allegations.
In what will one day be studied as the Platonic ideal of incoherent policy, the Albanese government has effectively decided to degrade and diminish Australia’s defence forces.
Who pays what? What now for the Toowoomba case? And what about Sharaz? Your Lehrmann questions answered.
As Australia appoints a special military adviser, we ask what he can realistically achieve – and what’s Israel’s next move?
Six months after Hamas’ bloody attack on October 6 that might have brought it the world’s sympathy, Israel is today closer to being a global pariah than ever before.
Rain that fell over the past two months in western Queensland has transformed the desert. It’s a reminder to graziers of the importance of allowing the waterways of the Channel Country to flow | AERIAL PHOTOS: SEE THE RESULTS
It’s a little over two weeks since the worst night of Joel Fitzgibbon’s life. The former defence minister was at dinner at a restaurant in Sydney, unaware everything would change.
A weary, polarised America is waking up to the realities of a Trump v Biden rematch. Democrats may come to rue treating this scion like a leper.
Vaping rates have exploded, organised crime controls the trade, and Australia stands on the brink of a public health disaster. Is it time we followed New Zealand’s lead?
ASIO called him ‘one of the most dangerous KGB officers ever posted to Australia’. He really loved us.
Chronic urinary tract infection affects women and children disproportionately – is this why medicine has failed to treat the condition seriously?
Despite her pop cultural omnipresence and record-breaking achievements, it’s a mistake to overlook the mountains this generation-defining artist has climbed to reach new peaks.
As Iran’s allies stoke even more fires across the region, they are pushing their benefactor closer to the brink of a direct conflict with Washington that it has long sought to avoid.
As rookie soldiers in Israel take their first tentative steps on to the battlefield in Gaza, they quickly learn three lessons. Yoni Bashan reports from inside Gaza, the first journalist from an Australian media outlet to do so since October 7.
On a fateful night over occupied Europe our Bomber Command airmen displayed astonishing bravery and sacrifice. A true story from the most dangerous theatre of WWII.
In a time of turbulence and anxiety, The Australian has chosen Cheng Lei as its 2023 Australian of the Year: a person of exceptional resilience, articulacy, and strength of values.
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