An interstate psychiatrist will be appointed to review the treatment of a suicidal teenage boy – but his family say they have not been given a new plan to keep him alive in the meantime. 

Youths as young as 16 are taking photos of themselves armed to the teeth with modified firearms in a disturbing escalation of  the northern suburbs gang war.  

Dozens of  Riverland residents have dug deep to help  to protect a heritage 119-year-old Moorook house that rising floodwaters have turned into an island. 

Families are facing New Year hip-pocket blows with ­energy bills, road tolls, passports and even the cost of the humble postage stamp rising. 

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