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Dozens of blazes in NSW, Queensland and Tasmania as extreme heatwave moves north

Lawyer for the accused did not reveal in Toowoomba court if he still plans to seek a suppression order ahead of Queensland law change

State’s human rights commission says practice ineffective in making prisons safer and calls for use to be limited and eventually abolished

In the late 1920s, poet Mary Gilmore – the woman on the A$10 note – declared she’d encountered only two instances of “genius” during her four decades in Australian literature. The first was a man who remains a household name: Henry Lawson, bush poet, author of iconic stories like The…