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2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Eelemarni Close-Brown

Some New South Wales residents returning home after last month’s record-breaking floods are finding mud isn’t the only thing waiting to greet them. Thousands of mid-north coast residents left their homes in May after flooding inundated dwellings and washed away livestock. Some are only just returning weeks after the floods – and about 120 households remain in emergency accommodation, according to the NSW Reconstruction Authority.

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Michael Kalenderian |Rafqa Touma |Caitlin Cassidy |Shelley Hepworth |Carly Earl |Sanjana Jose | +2 more

Boiled eggs? Tofu? Avocado? Are these high-protein, low-sugar alternative mousse recipes the new way to make the chocolate dessert? TikTok certainly seems to think so. Guardian Australia staff put them through a taste test so you can decide if you should try making these at home – or give them a miss and keep scrolling instead• ‘My face is leaking’: taste testing the spicy ramen deemed too dangerous for Denmark

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Reged Ahmad |Hannah Ellis-Petersen |Allison Chan |Eelemarni Close-Brown |Daniel Semo |Hannah Parkes

A fragile ceasefire between India and Pakistan appears to be holding after weeks of clashes and recriminations over the disputed territory of Kashmir. This latest clash began when India accused Pakistan of involvement in a militant attack on mostly Hindu tourists, and has evolved into the region’s worst military skirmish in decades. South Asia correspondent Hannah Ellis-Petersen tells Reged Ahmad about the origins of this conflict, and whether there is hope on the horizon for Kashmir

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Nour Haydar |Alyx Gorman |Allison Chan |Karishma Luthria |Eelemarni Close-Brown |Daniel Semo | +1 more

Australian cookbook author Nagi Maehashi promises her caramel slice recipe actually works. That the caramel won’t be runny and that it won’t crack or ooze when cut. She shared the recipe on her widely popular website RecipeTin Eats several years ago, and then last year, noticed a recipe with uncanny similarities in a bestselling book by Brisbane bakery owner Brooke Bellamy.

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Eelemarni Close-Brown

Outside the French town of Péronne on 31 August 1918, Private William Allen Irwin – a Gomeroi man from near Coonabarabran in New South Wales – was pinned down by German machine-gun fire alongside fellow Australian soldiers from the 33rd infantry battalion. They had been ordered to wrest control of enemy-held positions in an area known as Road Wood during the battle of Mont St-Quentin.