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Alyla Browne stars in Whale Shark Jack.

This Aussie teen works with major film stars. Now she’s swimming with whale sharks

Alyla Browne hasn’t even started her final year of school, but she’s doing her own underwater stunts.

  • Bridget McManus

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Scott Morrison, with former finance minister Mathias Cormann. The PM’s GST is fracturing the budget and the federation

The GST is broken, and hurting NSW and Victoria badly

A deal to quell anger from West Australians is now a $60 billion drain on the budget and generating anger across the federation.

  • Shane Wright
Minns and Allen

Biggest winners and losers in $103 billion GST carve-up

Victoria’s GST allocation will be about $1.7 billion more than NSW’s, despite having a smaller population.

  • Matt Wade and James Hall
Cocooned bed design at Garde.

One of WA’s most notorious prison complexes now has a five-star hotel

Step inside the revitalised Convict Quarter, where heritage-listed cells have been traded for luxury suites, infrared saunas and sleek Asian fusion dining.

  • Louise Goldsbury
Pristine Salmon Bay is brimming with marine life.

This island paradise is undergoing its biggest transformation to date

The backdrop of many West Australians’ childhood summers, Rotto’s sophisticated new offerings have come a long way from tents and ageing cabins.

  • Katherine Scott
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On the mark: This 100-year-old watering hole keeps the country pub dream alive

Following the appointment of an experienced new executive chef, this pub’s future is looking – and tasting – even brighter.

  • Max Veenhuyzen
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Into the Zodiac to explore Dambimangari Country and the Horizontal Falls.

The clever French invention opening up Australia’s wildest coast

Want to poke around among the mangroves at high tide? Want to get a spray from a Kimberley waterfall? The Zodiac will get you there.

  • Jim Darby
Nick Daicos in action on Saturday night.

State of Origin player rankings: Was Nick Daicos snubbed for best-afield honours?

On a night Origin returned to the AFL landscape, there was controversy over who should have been named best afield for Victoria. Here are the player rankings for both teams.

  • Jon Pierik
The Pink House … the oldest brothel in Australia.

I visited Australia’s oldest brothel with my mum. It was eye-opening

Kalgoorlie’s infamous pink house has had its doors open for over a century. No questions about the women-run enterprise seem to be off-limits for McGowan.

  • Julia D'Orazio
Courtney Moir and her border collie Blossom.

Muster Dogs was Courtney’s comfort show. Then it changed her life

“I hope I can inspire somebody the way I was inspired by season one. That would be really cool.”

  • Nicole Elphick