The Australian suburbs where buyers can secure a home with mortgage repayments on par with the nation’s average rent have been revealed in new data. Australia’s median weekly rent was $570 last year, according to CoreLogic’s 2023 rental report. An analysis of the market by PropTrack found more than 350 locations across the country where … Read more
Every year, dedicated scientists have the grim task of compiling a master list of climate calamities that have befallen Australia. It’s a miserable chronicle of extreme events, but the scientists who put it together say it’s essential reading. Because people forget, and forgetting is dangerous in the face of escalating climate threats that demand preparation. … Read more
Major South Australian wine producer Salena Estate Wines has entered voluntary administration, almost a year after it tried to find a buyer. The family owned Riverland winery behind the plonk stocked at Dan Murphy’s and Liquorland was appointed KPMG administrators Tim Mableson and Ryan Eagle last Thursday. The Loxton winery and sprawling vineyard, much of … Read more
A 48-year-old Port Pirie man has slapped with a suspended prison sentence for drowning his former housemate’s husky in what a magistrate called “a horrible and cruel death”. The husky, named Tessa, was found inside a 240L wheelie bin filled with water at an address in Solomontown in Port Pirie, about 225km northwest of Adelaide, … Read more
An Adelaide toddler with a rare genetic variation has “gobsmacked” health professionals with her flexibility. Xanthie Thea Wooldridge-Wright has a 22q11.2 duplication — a genetic variation present in about one in 4000 births. The variation means a portion of Xanthie’s 22nd chromosome is duplicated. Stream your local 7NEWS free on 7plus It can result in … Read more
Olympian Melissa Hoskins, who was killed in a car crash at the end of last year, has been remembered as a champion cyclist as well as a “one of a kind” mother and friend at a memorial held at Adelaide Town Hall. Hundreds gathered at the event, held on what would have been Hoskins 33rd … Read more
An Adelaide mother who saved her son’s life after he had a cardiac arrest is advocating for more people to learn CPR. Nurse Libby Thomas, 34, said her eight-year-old son, Jacob, woke up on January 15 complaining of itchy skin. Thinking it was eczema, Thomas started to apply cream to Jacob’s skin, before the young … Read more
An unlucky dog in the RSPCA’s care for nearly 600 days is looking for a forever home. The organisation has appealed to the public to help its longest-staying canine resident, three-year-old Mia, who has been staying at an Adelaide shelter for nearly two years, find a home. Mia has been adopted three times over her … Read more
A Cairns teenager living with encephalitis hopes to raise awareness of the autoimmune disease after doctors initially believed she had a common cold. Makenzie Webber, now 16, became sick after a camping trip to Port Douglas in 2018 when she was 10 years old. Her parents thought she had a cold, but in the weeks … Read more
When a major bank prepared to shut its doors in the South Australian coastal town of Kingston, it wrote an email to the council addressed to Mr Bean. But there was no Mr Bean to be found at the council chambers, which sits right next to the BankSA branch. “We certainly have no Mr Bean … Read more
