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5 days ago | 
thewest.com.au | Emma Kirk
One-in-five Australians are expected to have a ticket in Oz Lotto’s mouth-watering $70m jackpot draw. It will be the second biggest lottery prize on offer in Australia this year and the fourth biggest Oz Lotto jackpot in its 31-year history.
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5 days ago | 
thewest.com.au | Emma Kirk
A new satellite to text messaging service has launched in Australia making it possible to send or receive texts from outdoor locations when your mobile coverage is out of range. Telstra has launched the product to give mobile customers the ability to send or receive texts beyond the network’s mobile range, benefitting users who live work or travel in regional or remote parts of Australia.
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5 days ago | 
thewest.com.au | Emma Kirk
A shock new report says Australia’s $800bn food system is “falling short”, despite producing enough food to feed nearly 100 million people. The CSIRO has completed the first national stocktake of the nation’s food system, which identified 100,000 Australian farmers produced enough food to feed 27 million Australians and another 73 million people globally.
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6 days ago | 
thewest.com.au | Emma Kirk
A memorial service for an Australian who died volunteering with a humanitarian and mine clearance charity in Ukraine will be held this week. Nicholas Parsons, 28, was working in the country’s war-torn east with Prevail Together, a US and UK-based group that sends volunteers into Ukraine. He was killed alongside the charity’s co-founder Chris Garrett, as well as another team member who was severely injured in an incident near Izyum on May 6.
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6 days ago | 
thewest.com.au | Emma Kirk
A man’s body has been discovered inside an industrial bin at a business in Tasmania. Emergency services were called to the premises on Percy St at Bellerive near Hobart about 9am on Monday. A police spokesman said the man’s body was discovered at the rear of the premises located on the eastern shore of the Derwent River. “Detectives and forensic personnel are currently on the scene conducting investigations,” a spokesman said.
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6 days ago | 
thewest.com.au | Summer Liu |Emma Kirk
Liberal Tim Wilson said his win in the Victorian seat of Goldstein was because he looked to “reverse engineer” teal strategies that brought them success in 2022. Mr Wilson said his campaign focusing on a bright vision for the future appealed to the electorate and delivered one of the rare flips for the Liberal Party in the federal election. “I think we were speaking to people’s sense of hope and ambition … we weren’t playing small, we were going big.
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6 days ago | 
thewest.com.au | Emma Kirk
Australia has one of the highest rates of pet ownership in the world so it should be no surprise pet-friendly holidays are on the rise across the nation. According to the RSPCA, almost 70 per cent of Australian households have an estimated 28 million pets, and many Australians are looking for the perfect getaway with their furry companions. New data from TripAdvisor reveals Australians are increasingly shaping their travel plans around their dogs and heading to pet-friendly destinations.
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1 week ago | 
news.com.au | Emma Kirk
The sister of a mother who was allegedly killed by her husband in a suspected murder suicide is raising money to support the couple’s child, now in her care following the tragedy. The bodies of Krystel and James Paul, both aged 41, were found after emergency services were called to a Cairns home about 7.15pm on Tuesday to conduct a welfare check. When officers arrived at the Mount Sheridan home on Verbena Dr they found both bodies with gunshot wounds.
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1 week ago | 
news.com.au | Emma Kirk
A new member for the Melbourne seat of Goldstein has been crowned, four weeks after the federal election. Independent candidate Zoe Daniel demanded a recount after losing the seat to Liberal moderate Tim Wilson by just 260 votes, saying several errors were made during the distribution of preferences. The Australian Electoral Commission finalised the partial recount of 85,000 votes on Saturday confirming Mr Wilson had won with a margin of 175 votes.
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1 week ago | 
news.com.au | Emma Kirk
A man who jumped off a bridge into croc infested waters near Darwin is now missing after drifting away from workmates. Brendon Doherty, 55, jumped off the Channel Island Bridge into Darwin Harbour on Friday night but got caught in strong tidal currents and was unable to make it back to shore. His friends last saw him laughing in the water before he was swept away about 9.42pm.
