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Crime A YOUNG mum’s brief distraction at the wheel led to a head-on collision that ultimately killed a 98-year-old great grandmother.

News TWO bodies - a mother and her son - have been removed from a vehicle submerged in a river on the state’s Mid North Coast.

Environment IT'S time to stop the snake-bashing and confront the cold hard facts — you’re more likely to die from a dog bite than a snake one.

News Thousands of people wandering through Sydney’s busiest mall tomorrow can expect to see a “dog” getting roasted on a classic Aussie barbecue.

Crime Six women who have faced court for trying to smuggle drugs into the Lost Paradise music festival have been slammed by a magistrate.

Health THE way women have been told to take the contraceptive pill each month came from an effort to please the pope, and makes it more likely the pill will fail.

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Health From brain foods to simple snacks the kids will love, make packing school lunches easy with these top tips, writes Anooska Tucker-Evans.

Offbeat It’s not just you, these cakes are supposed to look like small breasts. And there’s a reason even the most conservative Italians can’t get enough of them.

Environment SIR David Attenborough has issued a dark warning about the “wholesale” destruction of our planet if world leaders don’t act to protect precious ecosystems.

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News RESIDENTS in Ipswich, Brisbane, the Gold Coast and Toowoomba have all been affected.

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Environment Councillor's strange claims of the benefits of poisoning dunal vegetation

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Opinion A HEARTBREAKING letter from an indigenous girl begging to leave a mission in Queensland explains why we keep having the change the date debate.

Politics Clive Palmer has lost yet another attempt to block criminal charges being brought against him.

News THE childhood home of former prime minister Gough Whitlam is under imminent threat of being levelled by bulldozers.

News This mum cheated death when a freeway sign crushed her car. But despite walking away, the nightmare isn’t over.