Five must-see show highlights
From the human cannonball to chook washing, there’s plenty of exciting and entertaining must-see acts at this year’s Royal Hobart Show. SEE ALL THE PHOTOS FROM DAY ONE.
In Depth
What does your MP own? Explore our SA pollie tracker
UPDATED: Ever wondered whether your local MP has other sources of income? Or how many properties they own? Or what gifts and travel come as a perk of the job? Explore the very latest data in our easy-so-search register of the interests of every SA MP.
Who will win the World Cup?
Can Australia do it? Will the All Blacks make it three in a row? The rugby World Cup kicks off on September 20 and you can predict the winner with our special predictor. And see how many other fans agree with you.
Surviving the Hawkesbury: an oyster farmer’s story
Millions of oysters were killed by a devastating disease on the Hawkesbury River’s crippling the lifeblood of the waterway and the farmers, writes Jake McCallum and Maryanne Taouk
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Coast’s most wanted man still on the run after 27 years
AN ORDERED hit, a biscuit company extorted for millions of dollars, two dead and a man on the run for nearly three decades. This is the bizarre and true story of the execution of SP bookmaker Peter George Wade and his partner Maureen Ambrose by Ronald Henry Thomas and John Victor Bobak.
Lives torn apart by prescription drug nightmare
FOR Sally Wilkinson, the call that every parent dreads came on Christmas morning 2016. Expecting to hear from her son, Daniel, who was skiing in Canada with friends, she was delighted when her phone rang. Seconds later, her world came crashing down.
Deadly past of new Parklea Prison operator
THE announcement of the contract for Parklea — a facility with well documented issues — comes following a series of reports surrounding ‘uninhabitable conditions, violence, abuse and riots’ at MTC private prisons across the US.
The Coast’s biggest bikie brawls
THE Gold Coast has long been the backdrop for disputes between rival outlaw motorcycle gangs, but rarely have these arguments spilt into the public sphere. All that changed in 2006 when a violent public confrontation between bikies set plans in motion to have the city’s gangs completely dismantled.
White hot: Best and worst dressed at the Emmys
SCARLETT Johansson and Kristen Bell stunned in all-white, as Emilia Clarke and Chrissy Teigen sported sexy, sheer gowns. SEE THE PHOTOS
Gillian Armstrong ‘gets more credit than she deserves for My Brilliant Career’ says Margaret Fink
Leo Schofield’s cracking lunch with the pioneer of modern Australian cinema
Inside Coast cops’ ‘worst day ever’
IF you ask any long-serving Gold Coast cop what their worst day on the job has been, they’ll answer May 29, 2011. The day when one of their own — a young father and a good mate — was cruelly gunned down in a brazen tavern robbery.
Houses named in one in 100,000 year flood zone
THOUSANDS of homeowners in a Sydney suburb could see a dramatic increase in insurance costs and a lack of confidence from investors or developers, following the State Government’s decision to identify homes within a one in 100,000 year flood zone.
Residents reject sports field masterplan
HOMEOWNERS in Riverstone are furious following the release of the West Schofields Masterplan, which will see the acquisition of their homes over the next 20 years for sporting fields.
Attack of the killer frogmen
A FORMER KGB colonel was gunned down in his driveway by ‘frogmen’ working for the Russian mafia who fled in the darkness of a Gold Coast canal. The death of Gennadi Bernovski, 41, in 2000 still intrigues today.
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