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Sammy Haigh's day starts with a series of complex calculations. "I get out of bed and work out how many grams of carbs I'm going to be eating for breakfast, then I put those carbs into my insulin pump, which will deliver my insulin to me," she said. The 26-year-old Newcastle woman is one of 2...

Fines will now be issued to people caught speeding over the new Bridgewater Bridge, following a seven-week trial that found an average of 800 drivers per week were caught over the speed limit. The bridge, one of Tasmania's most expensive infrastructure projects, was opened in June this year...

Blue Wiggle Anthony Field visited the Sydney ozone therapy clinic run by Edward Dulitsky. (ABC News: Sharon Gordon) Cara does not consider herself to be "woo woo" but when she started experiencing unexplained health symptoms, she became curious about alternative medicine. She booked in at The...

Beach bars could become a permanent tourist attraction on the Gold Coast from next year, but an environmental researcher warns the city's eroded beaches are in no shape to accommodate them. Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate said he would like the first venue to be set up at Broadbeach in the 2026...

Each day around 200 hospital beds in Western Australia are taken up by people who do not need to be there, according to state budget estimates released last month. It is the result of a lack of aged care vacancies and at-home support for older people, particularly in regional areas. The issue...

Joan Anderson, holding the original bamboo hoop she shipped over from Australia. (Supplied: Chris Riess and Amy Hill) The Australian woman uncredited for her role in making the hula hoop an international sensation has died aged 101. Joan Anderson was born in Sydney in December 1923, where she...

One of Australia's largest employers has axed 45 jobs in its customer call centres after rolling out an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot to deal with customer inquiries. The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) confirmed to the ABC that the organisation was consulting the dozens of people...

The number of prohibition orders forcing food businesses to temporarily close in the ACT almost quadrupled during the last financial year. There were 26 prohibition orders issued by the ACT Health Directorate for food safety breaches during the 2024-25 financial year — up from seven the year...

Sir Michael Hill, the founder of jewellery brand Michael Hill, has died aged 86. The company announced "with great sadness" the passing of their founder in a statement released on Tuesday. "The Board, Executive and all the Michael Hill team express their deepest and sincerest condolences to...

Kitchen utensils and gadgets come in all manner of shapes and sizes. (Adobe Stock) Have you considered replacing your plastic spatula after seeing a much-shared study that found black plastic kitchen utensils were unsafe? The study was corrected in early 2025 due to a major miscalculation...

Thousands of Australians wrongly slugged more than $60 million in excessive bank fees could soon get a refund, but the national corporate regulator says Commonwealth Bank customers may not receive a cent. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) today revealed it had put...

Some of Webjets airfares cost triple the advertised amount after adding compulsory fees. Image source: ABC News / Stephanie Chalmers. Travel giant Webjet has been fined $9 million after it admitted it failed to include compulsory fees in some of its advertised airfare costs, and it provided...

Source: ABC News (Australia) / Youtube. Inside an unassuming church hall in Hervey Bay, a group of amateur singers is belting out classics from the likes of John Denver and Gerry and the Pacemakers. Some voices are in tune. Some are breaking with laughter. Others are singing the wrong song...

A small minority of houses burn wood for heat, but their smoke is breathed by millions. Image source: ABC News. Every year the winter cold brings an ambient haze of wood heater smoke to the suburbs, streets and houses of southern Australia. This smoke can aggravate asthma, divide neighbours...

Completed meal kits depart a distribution centre in Western Sydney. Image source: ABC Landline. Boxes of produce fly out the door at a food distribution centre in Sydney's west, with a conveyer belt whisking away packed meal kits in a high-tech warehouse. The meal kits typically include...

As the blender blitzed and Jane Dudley prepared for a radical procedure, the concept of being at the forefront of a potentially revolutionary change in the treatment of bipolar disorder was far from her mind. Mostly, Jane was thinking about how revolted she was by what was about to happen. But...

A major disability employment provider supporting more than 6,000 Australians living with disability has told staff it has lost a federal government contract to deliver services in all states except Western Australia. ABC News understands Maxima employees were told on Thursday that the...

Byron Bay residents are worried a plan to boost the tourism hotspot's nightlife will lead to an increase in alcohol-fuelled violence. The NSW government announced in April that Byron Bay would be the first town outside of Sydney to trial a special entertainment precinct (SEP), as part of a...

The expansion of MACH Energy's Mount Pleasant coal mine would result in it continuing to operate until 2048. (7.30) A Hunter Valley community group has won a legal challenge to bring one of the largest coal mine expansions in New South Wales to a halt. In 2022 the Independent Planning...

Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte plan to sue US influencer Candace Owens. Image source: Reuters / Chris J. Ratcliffe. Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte, have filed a defamation lawsuit against a right-wing US podcaster who claimed the spouse of the French president used to be a man...