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Australian was crucial part of key break that put EF Education-EasyPost teammate Ben Healy in position to take race lead

Bradley John Murdoch, known as the “Outback Killer” and convicted of murdering British backpacker Peter Falconio who vanished in arid central Australia 24 years ago, has died

Some dolphins in Australia use sponges on their noses to hunt fish, a skill passed down through generations

Bradley John Murdoch was convicted in 2005 of murdering Mr Falconio and assaulting his girlfriend Joanne Lees.

Body of Falconio, who Murdoch killed in the Australian outback in 2001, has never been found

Bradley John Murdoch was convicted in 2005 of murdering Mr Falconio and assaulting his girlfriend Joanne Lees

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In the 1960s and 70s, the youth of the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia rebelled by protesting against the Vietnam War, trying psychedelic drugs, embracing free love and discovering the Beatles. Meanwhile, what their contemporaries in China were getting up to was just as transformative.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics will roll out a large-scale census test next month.

In remote central Arnhem Land, finding a northern brushtail possum is encouraging for the local Indigenous rangers. Though once common, such small native mammals are now rare. Many are threatened with extinction.

Australian law needs to adapt, experts say after a court ruled the Commonwealth owes no duty of care to citizens on the front line of climate change.