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With a newborn baby at home and a mounting list of renovations, hiring a handyman online seemed like a simple choice for Leanne James. Of course, if she had known what was going to happen next, it was one she would never have made. Almost a year on, she and her husband are now $8,000...

John Fielke is processing table olives under his new method, coined "Olives the Australian Way". Image source: ABC Riverland / Amelia Walters. Table olives are among one of the most polarising foods — people either love them or hate them. A world-first processing method crafting an...

A Victorian man has been fined for stealing livestock from his neighbour after police used DNA testing to prove who the animals belonged to. Strathdale resident Kevin Bloom, 34, pleaded guilty to the theft of 11 crossbred sheep worth $1,300 from a Mount Camel property between December 30, 2023...

A car driven by a 91-year-old struck three pedestrians east of Melbourne on Thursday. Image source: AAP / Joel Carrett. When a car driven by a 91-year-old killed a woman and left a man and boy with life-threatening injuries on Thursday, it reignited discussion over whether Victoria's rules for...

For the most part, Evrim Sen's tiny house on wheels has allowed her to have the serene and idyllic lifestyle she'd always dreamed of. Parked on a private property in Belgrave South, in outer Melbourne, it has more importantly provided Mrs Sen and their spouse Benny Redfern safety and security...

A group of 18 people have been fined thousands of dollars after an unauthorised cabin was built, partly with illegally harvested trees, in a national park on a central Queensland island. Queensland's Department of Environnment says the group holidayed regularly at the hut in a remote part of...

There are calls for urgent reform of the way a widely used prostate cancer treatment is prescribed following a number of suicides by men undergoing the therapy. Androgen deprivation therapy — known as ADT — is a hormone treatment that's commonly prescribed for men with advanced prostate cancer...

Rachel has a family history of breast cancer, the most common cancer for Australian women. As a resident of the regional town of Coles Bay, on Tasmania's east coast, using services like the BreastScreen bus service is "very important" to her. "Because it will show the government that there is...

Authorities are warning people to maintain regular safety checks on gas appliances after a house fire started by a suspected LPG-fuelled explosion fatally injured an elderly northern New South Wales man. The 85-year-old suffered severe burns to 50 per cent of his body when the fire erupted just...

Taxpayers have a statutory right to complain to integrity watchdogs. (ABC News: Bindi Bryce) A "deeply concerning" attempt by the NSW tax and fine collection agency to silence complaints and prevent people going to the corruption watchdog has been revealed, leading to a demand for a...

The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency CEO, Justin Untersteiner, says the regulator held serious concerns for patient safety. Image source: ABC News. The health-practitioner watchdog has put medicinal cannabis prescribers on notice, saying poor prescribing practices and surging...

Joe Camilleri fears his stolen guitars will be sent overseas. Image source: Ian Ritter. Australian music legend Joe Camilleri has been left heartbroken by the theft of precious guitars from his central Victorian home. The Black Sorrows frontman said nine guitars, including two from the 1950s...

North Burnett ratepayers are weighing up how to afford the record increase. (ABC Wide Bay: Nikki Sorbello) A Queensland council has blamed spiralling costs and stagnant growth for a record rate increase. The financially struggling North Burnett Regional Council raised general rates by 25 per...

The closure of 10 Bendigo Bank branches across Australia by late October will mean the end of in-person banking for residents in five regional communities. Australia's Finance Sector Union (FSU) says the closures are a "slap in the face" in areas already seeing a decline in services from...

Eileen Bond's family confirmed she died on Wednesday night. (AAP: Richard Wainwright) Eileen Bond, the former wife of controversial West Australian businessman Alan Bond, has died. Ms Bond's family has confirmed to the ABC the 87-year-old died peacefully on Wednesday night surrounded by...

Nearly everywhere in Australia is grappling with a lack of affordable housing. The small West Australian coastal hamlet of Shark Bay, with fewer than 900 residents, is no different. Bronwyn Hook has lived in the area for 11 years in a caravan. "There was nowhere else to live … I couldn't...

No-one told me my identity had been stolen. No-one told me that my drivers licence and my passport, two of the most crucial personal documents, were compromised and had been for years. I only found out when I applied online for an eSIM. Last June, I was transferring my mobile number to a major...

Juan Carlos Sanchez regrets the day he decided to reinvest his superannuation. In mid-2023, the 41-year-old, who runs a wholesale food family business in Melbourne, was contacted by a financial advisory company called Venture Egg, which convinced him to roll his super savings from ANZ into a...

The residents of a small Queensland community that endured extreme flooding are at "breaking point" after being told it could take years to repair a crucial road, a tour operator says. The record-breaking downpours in February damaged parts of Mount Spec Road, which is the main route into...

Louis May lost his $109,000 first home deposit to scammers in July last year. The scam began with an email, purporting to be from his conveyancer, requesting property settlement, and included account details and a fraudulent PEXA (Property Exchange Australia) form. The 24-year-old...