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A Tasmanian MP caught drug driving has been disqualified from driving for six months. Braddon independent Craig Garland appeared in the Burnie Magistrates Court on Monday after pleading guilty in June this year to one count of driving a motor vehicle while a prescribed illicit drug was present...

Farmer and volunteer firefighter Scott Smith made and received hundreds of calls while tackling a bush fire in WA's Great Southern earlier this year. Despite repeated attempts to connect to other farmers and firefighters, many went unanswered. "[I made] just over 250 calls," Mr Smith said...

Tracy has been waiting almost six months for her superannuation request to be processed by one of Australia's largest funds. The Perth woman asked that her full name not be used. She held power of attorney for her mother, Vicky, who had been a member of HESTA for decades. "She'd [her...

George Cross recipient Michael Pratt died on Saturday. (Facebook: Governor-General of Australia) Australian George Cross recipient Michael Pratt has died in Melbourne, aged 70. The former Victorian Police officer was the last Australian to receive what at the time was Britain's highest award...

Judy Dent remembers the day her terminally ill husband Bob told her he had enough. Bob Dent had been suffering from incurable prostate cancer for nearly five years, and by that stage Judy said Bob was only half living. "It got to the stage where managing the pain meant that he couldn't see, he...

A local family has gifted an "unprecedented" private donation of $1.7 million to enhance the lives of residents living with dementia at an aged care facility in western Victoria. Eventide Homes in Stawell received the donation from members of the Mangle family from Halls Gap, who had previously...

A South Australian government aged care home, which looks after 23 people with dementia or complex disabilities, inappropriately used lap belts and other mechanical restraints to stop falls and control residents' behaviour, the ABC can reveal. The issues at the Disability SA facility at...

The Victorian government says construction has finished on the five new stations built as part of the Metro Tunnel project. (Supplied: Victorian government) Melbourne's new $15 billion Metro Tunnel will only operate for five hours a day when it opens in early December, with trains running...

Limited potatoes are left at some supermarkets in South Australia. (ABC Rural: Jessica Schremmer) Empty potato shelves at some major supermarkets are impacting consumers as growers battle to overcome widespread shortages. Extreme weather and drought across South Australia have reduced harvest...

Builder Mike Harris was persuasive. In March last year, he told Tony* and his wife that if they wanted their major renovation to get underway, they needed to pay $140,000 in costs outside their contract so he could quickly buy building supplies. MJ Harris Group was run by Diamond Creek...

When was the last time you checked the ingredients list of a pack of muesli bars at the supermarket? If you regularly look closely, you might have noticed a change. For Carman’s Apple Pie Aussie Oat Bars, the percentage of oats recently went down from 55 per cent to 45. ABC News / Source...

Trevor Miller was asleep when two young teenagers broke into his home in April and dragged him from his bed by the hair. "I fought back as best I could, that’s when the bedroom wall got damaged," he says. "The fight continued on into the passageway, I managed to break free of them, into the...

Retailers and small businesses in northern Australia have expressed alarm over major changes to a debt repayment system coming into effect next month. Centrepay is a federal government system used by about 500,000 social security recipients to incrementally pay for goods and services such as...

John Finucane finally returned to his Pyrmont home in April, after a two-year absence to escape the noise from Sydney Metro's construction. However, a few weeks ago he got a knock on the door, telling him to expect 24-hour excavation and mechanical hammering in a cavern just a few metres from...

When you think of the types of buildings and places that make it onto Australia's heritage listings, you probably imagine large Victorian houses, parliamentary buildings and national parks. But tucked away on George Street, Dawes Point, is one of Sydney's most unexpected heritage-listed sites...