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Less than a quarter of US adults meet national physical activity standards

The coach of Australian Olympic pole vault medal contenders Nina Kennedy and Kurtis Marschall has quit his role at the WA Institute of Sport.

Italian-Australian communities are facing uncertainty over whether they'll be able to keep their annual sauce-making tradition this year due to a tomato shortage.

"It’s a matter of finding the kind of transport my great-grandad would have had to look for. It could be a friendly farmer with a tractor and trailer or we could be walking.”

Medicare, Australia’s universal health insurance scheme, provides financial protection against the cost of medical bills, and makes public hospital care available without any charge to the patient. For the large majority of Australians in urban settings, it is a brilliant system – providing subsidised access to care.