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Generations of Australians have flocked to this beach. Today, it is desolate

The destruction of this former paradise is not from over-tourism, though many will say this has happened too.

  • Zach Hope and Amilia Rosa

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Sydney Morning Herald / The Age: Will Lack and fiance Jacqui Page participate in the DC Eagles Australian Rules Football Team first training session  of 2026 on March 14, 2026 in Washington, DC.  photo: Leigh Vogel   Photo: Leigh Vogel / SMH
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Pass the Sherrin – it’s footy season, and not just in Australia

The Washington DC Eagles are one of dozens of Australian rules football clubs across the US that will compete in regional and national tournaments this year.

  • Michael Koziol
Nick Adams with US President Donald Trump, who initially appointed Adams to be ambassador to Malaysia.

Revealed: Trump’s new job for Australian ‘alpha male’ Nick Adams

The Sydney-born Trump diehard will serve as special presidential envoy for “American tourism, exceptionalism and values” after being dumped as US ambassador to Malaysia.

  • Michael Koziol
Grant Schultz has been charged with two counts of people smuggling.

‘Black flight’: Charter flight boss charged over alleged plot to smuggle Australians into Indonesia

Two men – without visas or passports – were allegedly discovered by Indonesian immigration authorities on board a small plane in the province of South Papua.

  • Zach Hope, Jack Gramenz and Karuni Rompies
Mevlut Coskun (left) and Paea I Middlemore Tupou after their sentencing on Monday.

Two Australian gunmen sentenced to 16 years’ jail over Bali villa murder of Melbourne dad

A third man, who was charged with assisting premeditated murder, was sentenced to 12 years’ jail.

  • Zach Hope and Amilia Rosa
Igor Komarov, shortly before he was kidnapped, with his influencer girlfriend Yeva Mishalova.

Snatched in Bali, this Ukrainian pleaded for his ransom. Then police found his head

A foreign enterprise had again sent operatives to Bali, Australia’s most popular overseas holiday destination, to carry out its dirty work.

  • Zach Hope and Amilia Rosa
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Australian mother Catherine Birmingham with her British husband, Nathan Trevallion, and their children. 

‘Empty inside’: The Australian family fighting Italy for their ‘unschooled’ children

The authorities in Abruzzo have taken a dim view of a couple’s off-grid style of parenting.

  • Amelia Adams, Natalie Clancy and Nichola Younger
Jazmyn Gourdeas, the widow of Zivan Radmanovic, consoling one of their children outside court in Bali after the judges postponed the accused killers’ verdicts.

‘What a joke’: Family of Australian shot dead in Bali told to come back next week

The family of Zivan Radmanovic is furious at travelling all the way to Bali for the court verdicts. Without notice, the judges adjourned.

  • Zach Hope and Amilia Rosa
Australian Robert Trott has been sentenced to 20 years in jail in Timor-Leste.

Australian child predator cops 20 years in a Timor-Leste jail

Despite being found guilty of sex crimes in 2024, the man was free in the community until last month, spending time inside a Dili school.

  • Zach Hope
Rocket test

Australian hypersonic plane completes first test flight at five times speed of sound

An Australian-made hypersonic aircraft reached five times the speed of sound in a test scientists say will forge the future of air travel.

  • Michael Koziol