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Eira Dalzell has been selected to represent Australia at the World Disabled Water Ski Championships three years after losing some of her fingers in a boating accident.

Wirangu teen Mia Speed say she treasures the difference her book is making to empower and inspire her younger family members.

Louisianna Chungulla will have an interesting story to tell – and an usual place of birth on her official documentation – after some fast work by the RFDS at Broome International Airport.

Carnarvon's enormous satellite dish is a step closer to being back in action amid a global space and technology boom. 

A Queensland man had the experience of a lifetime after being invited to play on stage alongside The Killers in a stadium packed with 18,000 people.

Lyn Bayfield's community came to the rescue when a wholesaler refused more than 100 fresh-cut bunches from her farm, a practice an industry body says is common in the "cutthroat" business.

Newcastle teen Kade Sutton was put into an induced coma after suffering heart failure during a warm-up. Now he's back at the crease, with the support of some sporting heroes and his life-saving coach.

Firefighters in outback Queensland have raced against the clock and each other in a series of physical challenges. It's part of a the annual fire trials, dating all the way back to 1924.

The caravan park is the lifeblood of Groper Creek, but keeping it running 24/7 has been a rollercoaster journey for friends Jeanette Garvey and Wendy Coplick. 

Victorian couples opting for smaller, cheaper weddings as the cost of living eats into budgets.

The forest at the tip of Lord Howe Island's highest peak is an otherworldly place alive with animals and plants not found elsewhere on Earth. But it's taken radical action to save it.

An emperor penguin found malnourished on an Australian beach has been released into the Southern Ocean after a period of recovery.

Year 12 graduates are swapping booze for juice as they shun a week-long binge on the Gold Coast, opting for more wholesome activities instead.

The Garbutt Magpies in Townsville has switched to serving only water alongside healthy food at its Friday night activities for local children, measuring the effects for a type 2 diabetes prevention study.

Australian inventor Lawrence Hargrave created history when he was lifted off the ground in a flying device he created in 1894. Now, 130 years later, he is remembered as a generous pioneer whose engineering breakthroughs influenced the world's first aeroplanes.

This house in the South Australian town of Mount Burr sold for $45,000 after the local mill's closure at the turn of the century, but house prices are rising sharply.

Around a long table in Wollongong, members of the multicultural community donate their time to make sandwiches for students arriving at school without lunch.

A climate change solutions innovator, an academic who has dedicated her life to treating gynaecological cancers, a youth not-for-profit founder and Olympic swimmer have been named as Tasmania's Australians of the Year for 2025. Here are their stories.

Tony and Lyndelle Bristow divorced in the early 1990s when his cricket career took him to the other side of the world. Thirty years later they have remarried. 

Becoming a conductor is about more than being good at reading music. A group of Australians have just secured their qualifications in Tasmania and it's more than just 'hand movements and a baton'.

A kelpie that cost a farmer $200 has blitzed a national working dog challenge by running almost the distance of Brisbane to Rockhampton in two weeks.

After Kate Bradley "started life again" at age 43 in Tasmania, she decided to plant berries and sell ice cream. Thirty-five years on, after much success (and false starts), she looks back with pride — and is ready to move on from the business she built, much of it by her own hands.

After 25 years, there's a changing of the guard on Gabo Island as one lighthouse keeper retires and hands the keys to his replacement, in a tradition spanning 160 years.

Two locals from the small NSW town hope their new barbershop-cum-studio will be a safe space for young people to express themselves creatively.

A small art project has developed into a series of collaborations in one South Australian town, where concerns about COVID had kept children and aged care residents apart.