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‘At first, it’s fun’: could a night in Sydney’s ‘mushroom’ tower make me lucid dream?

The Commercial Travellers’ Association Club has been transformed into a retro hotel, complete with a soundscape that encourages lucid dreaming. Kate Hennessy checks in

The Guardian - AU

Enlighten Festival returns with a dedicated Pride Weekend

The annual event is lighting Canberra up with all the colours of the rainbow.

The Canberra Times

Best last-minute winter holiday destinations for January sun

Looking to get away this month? Here’s our pick of where to head to escape the cold and soak up some vitamin D

The Independent UK

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Rare ‘corpse flower’ blooming in Australia draws thousands to smell ‘rotting odour’

The foul smell is designed to attract carrion flies

Evening Standard

Queensland rescue chopper call-outs range from dislocated knees to life-threatening jellyfish stings

A busy weekend sees the CQ Rescue Service helicopter fly eight missions, with call-outs ranging from dislocated knees to potentially deadly jellyfish stings.

ABC News

Water tanks stolen from O'Connor parkland

Thieves reportedly emptied the tanks, cut the chains and then carried them to a waiting vehicle.

The Canberra Times

Salvage fight over Sydney to Hobart yacht Huntress as Aboriginal Land Council claims ownership

The Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania claims a Sydney to Hobart yacht that washed up on a remote beach is the property of Indigenous Australians and they are entitled to a third of its worth, despite the vessel already being salvaged.

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Second-generation corpse flower, grown from leaf cutting, blooms at Adelaide Botanic Gardens

The Adelaide Botanic Gardens is being inundated with visitors with some reporting an hour-and-a-half wait to catch a glimpse — or rather a whiff, of a corpse flower that bloomed at the weekend.

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Marrinawi Cove at Barangaroo opened to Sydney Harbour swimmers

Marrinawi Cove, at Barangaroo, is the latest urban area opened up for swimming west of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, but water quality experts say the area needs to be monitored carefully.

ABC News

Boy still critical after helicopter crash

Sydney boy Nicholas Tadros is still in a critical condition after a helicopter crash which killed his mother and three others in Queensland.

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Adelaide bus drivers strike over safety fears, network significantly impacted

Up to 1,000 bus drivers across Adelaide have gone on strike, affecting at least 70 per cent of the city's bus network.

ABC News

Australian designer George Gorrow to launch Crescent Head hotel amid local development concerns

The co-founder of a well-known fashion label returns from Bali to launch a '70s surf-inspired hotel on New South Wales' Mid North Coast, but some residents say the town is already overrun with tourists each summer.

ABC News

How Hummocky's (Mount Chappell Island) super-sized tiger snakes outgrew their mainland counterparts

Flying into Hummocky (Mount Chappell Island) and landing on the grass airstrip feels a bit like arriving at Jurassic Park — and just like in the film, mystery surrounds the island's reptile inhabitants.

ABC News

Summernats fans allegedly damaged property to gain nature strip parking

A group of Canberrans are calling for better traffic control for future Summernats.

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'Ruined it for everyone': Police stretched across city after cruise shutdown

People refusing to get off the roadway meant a part of Summernats had to be shut down.

ABC News

Record crowds, entrants for 35th Summernats, but poor behaviour mars Canberra's annual car festival

Police say drivers took their burnouts to the streets of Canberra after the festival shut down its cruise circuit early.

ABC News

New Zealand couples who survived Gold Coast helicopter crash release images of aftermath

The couples thank their pilot and several bystanders who rushed to their aid for "care and heroism" that "changed their lives" — releasing dramatic images taken after the crash.

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Mossman Gorge search enters third day

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Kenji Sabine travels to Tasmania's most remote locations for science

Kenji Sabine moved to Tasmania for a low-paying gig exploring the state's most remote locations, but when funding dried up he said he'd do it for free.

ABC News

Will Australia see an influx of Chinese tourists as China relaxes strict COVID-19 border rules?

As China relaxes its strict COVID-19 border rules, will Australia see an influx of Chinese tourists? We speak to Chinese people and those in the industry about what to expect.

ABC News

The pub with no town: How a lurid pink hotel kept Dulacca on the map and its regulars connected

Dulacca, Queensland, is a town that started slowly, tried to grow, then gave up. But it has one feature that's impossible to miss — a lurid pink, two-storeyed weatherboard pub.

Al Jazeera

Australia’s battered tourism puts hope in China’s reopening

Tourism-reliant businesses are hopeful the return of Chinese visitors will revive the sector from the pandemic slump.

The Canberra Times

Man charged over Bombala hotel fire

The man is due to appear at Queanbeyan Local Court next month.

ABC News

Outback truckie drives 28 hours every fortnight getting food to community's only grocery shop

Kym Mozol spends the night rattling and shaking down a "rough as guts" outback road to bring a remote community its only supply of groceries.

Newcastle Herald

Volunteers push for a better first impression at iconic Tomaree Headland

There's no real sense of arrival, limited signage to the summit and a complete lack of public toilets at the base, according to Tomaree Headland Heritage Group (THHG) president Peter Clough.

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