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Dramatic Sailor Rescue 09/07/2023

A Gold Coast sailor stranded in wild seas in the Great Australian Bight is headed back to dry land after a dramatic rescue in heaving, 10m swells and cyclonic winds. 

For the first time, Queensland drivers will be tested for cocaine in random roadside drug tests. 

A secret report has laid bare the super-sized pay of Victoria’s leading public sector road and rail executives, including one who earned more than $814,000 last year. 

Troublemakers face bans from Adelaide’s most popular areas, and random police searches, under an unprecedented legal bid to crush the CBD’s mounting crime wave crisis.

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