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‘We loved her so much’: family of Ballarat teenager hope to raise awareness about suicide

Bridie Cocks took her own life in Ballarat in 2022, shortly after her boyfriend also died by suicide

The Guardian - AU

Children and babies ‘at risk’ as childcare centres scramble for staff, insiders say

Exclusive: Childcare educators say the safety of young children is being compromised by severe staff shortages across the sector

The Guardian - AU

Machine learning: could ChatGPT become just another tool for Australia’s year 12 – like Wikipedia?

An International Baccalaureate student says she and her peers find the AI platform helpful for brainstorming – but that doesn’t mean safeguards aren’t needed

The Guardian - AU

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Australia’s public housing towers are regarded as dated and ugly. But what will happen when they’re gone?

While many residents agree the flats are past their useful life, sudden announcements about the demolition of their homes has caused shock and anxiety

The Guardian - AU

Rural Australians want cheaper medicines – but they don’t want their pharmacies to close

New 60-day prescription model came into effect on 1 September, and country pharmacists say they don’t know how they’ll survive the change

The Guardian - AU

A Melbourne office held vital records of Aboriginal children’s homes. How did they go missing?

When the United Aborigines Mission wound up in 2020, boxes of records disappeared – leaving stolen generations survivors with agonising questions

The Guardian - AU

‘Bottom of the food chain’: e-scooter riders push for reimagining of Australia’s bike lanes

A new transport hierarchy is being negotiated in our cities, leading to friction on footpaths and bickering in bike lanes. Is there a better way?

The Guardian - AU

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Cases of flesh-eating invasive strep A bacteria surge in Australian children

Medical journal reports alarming rise in cases over two years with some young patients experiencing toxic shock, amputation and flesh-eating, necrotising disease

The Guardian - AU

Meet Melton, officially part of Melbourne, but crying out for city services

Incorporating the north-western outlier made Melbourne technically the biggest city in Australia. But residents say they are still treated as country cousins when it comes to funding health and transport

The Guardian - AU

‘Without them I’d be starving’: cost-of-living crisis forcing more Australians than ever to rely on food banks

Nation’s largest provider of food relief is helping about a million people each month – many of them with jobs and many of them for the first time

The Guardian - AU

Mum's huge €200,000 scam rumbled after €43 shopping trip at DIY store

A full internal investigation found that the fraudster had stolen a total of £181,000 from her employer over five years

Irish Mirror

Woman who stole £180k from work discovered by £37 B&Q purchase

Tracy Ellis lavished family members with gifts and 'phoned in sick' when the scam was uncovered

Bristol Post

Woman who stole £180k from work exposed by £37 B&Q purchase

Tracy Ellis lavished family members with gifts and 'phoned in sick' when the scam was uncovered

Wales Online

Mum's £180,000 'fantasy life' scam rumbled after £37.80 purchase at B&Q

Tracy Ellis 'betrayed' her colleagues, a court heard

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Daily Mirror

Mum's huge £180,000 scam rumbled after £37 shopping trip at B&Q

Tracy Ellis, 52, lived out a "fantasy life" as she lavished family members with gifts, funded by swindling her employer out of huge sums of money over a period of more than five years.

Liverpool Echo

Mum's £180,000 scam uncovered after she went shopping at B&Q

Tracy Ellis lived out a "fantasy life" as she lavished family members with gifts

The Guardian - AU

The great non-alcoholic drinks taste test: from the ‘clean and refreshing’ to a ‘bitter mess’

Over two hours, Thomas Carr and sommelier Samantha Payne sampled almost 100 upmarket spritz, sodas and ‘wellness tonics’ – and lived to tell the tale

Liverpool Echo

Dad went back to growing cannabis after business he set up failed

A crown court judge told James Eedle he was "not a very good role model to those children."

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The Guardian - AU

‘We have to do our bit’: the rural Australians campaigning for the Indigenous voice

Kitchen table conversations of no more than 10 people are being held across Australia in the hope that informed citizens will vote yes in the referendum

The Guardian - AU

People are going homeless in this Victorian getaway spot. Could an Airbnb tax be the answer?

Getting a rental on the Mornington Peninsula has become difficult – but some are doubtful a state-imposed levy will help

The Guardian - AU

The Australian drag performers and ‘rainbow angels’ fighting back against far-right vitriol

As queer artists increasingly become political targets, volunteers wielding large wings are swooping in to their defence

The Guardian - AU

Protect ya king! Wu-Tang Clan’s GZA pairs bars and the board in speed chess tournament

A restored church in Melbourne’s north was the venue this week for an evening of chess fused with hip-hop

Liverpool Echo

Thug who got shorter sentence after shotgun loophole went on to murder woman

Stephen McHugh would have been subject to licence conditions, or maybe still in prison, if he had received a mandatory minimum sentence for possession of a firearm

The Guardian - AU

Beginning of the end? Subdued start to duck hunting season at Victoria’s Lake Buloke

Season kicks off with animal rights campaigners outnumbering hunters at one location amid a parliamentary inquiry

Daily Mirror

Dad caught with £85,000 of heroin and crack in sports bag when he fell off his bike

Craig Byatt was attempting to escape police along a canal towpath when he slipped and was arrested while carrying the illicit class A substances inside a sports bag

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