Editorial coverage from the Melbourne Australia Wire newsroom.
The 19th century pastoralist Thomas Austin was homesick. He yearned for the pastimes of his home in England – especially rabbit hunting. He asked his family to send him some rabbits.
Imagine planning a holiday across India’s Golden Triangle: Delhi, Agra and Jaipur). You could compare dozens of websites, scroll through reviews and ask friends for recommendations.
Around half a million Australians use GLP-1 medications for diabetes – and when you add people who use it for obesity and weight-related conditions, the total is much higher.
The attack on Independent MP Helen Haines in Wangaratta has shocked a nation whose politics is normally peaceful even by the standards of mature democracies.
Helen Haines, the independent federal MP seriously injured in Monday’s attack outside her Wangaratta office, remains in a critical condition, with sources saying she has lost a leg.
For the past three years, reducing the role of te Tiriti o Waitangi/Treaty of Waitangi in public life has been one of the coalition government’s main priorities.
Independent federal MP Helen Haines remains in critical condition after being struck by a vehicle outside her electorate office in Wangaratta, Victoria.
The most damaging weather events are the record-breaking “one-in-100-year” disasters communities have usually only seen once.
Australia is “going too fast” in building data centres and “been swamped by US tech” expanding here to avoid growing American community opposition, former industry minister Ed Husic has warned.
Open a honey bee hive on a warm afternoon and the first thing you’ll notice is movement.
In the second half of the 19th century, colonial agriculture and pastoralism in Queensland were hungry for labour, and people of the South Pacific supplied much of it.
When I graduated from high school more than 25 years ago, I received a phone call. I hadn’t met the caller, but they knew of me.