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The editor-in-chief of the Australian rolls out questionable readership figures and plugs for its new true crime podcast. Plus: Seven news boss rallies the troops

The Country Fire Authority said they were called to a rescue at Indicator Lane in Mount Clear, just south of Ballarat. In November 2007, rescuers successfully brought 27 miners back to the surface after a cave-in at the mine.

A miner remains trapped after a rock fall at a gold mine in Ballarat.Another miner pinned by the rocks was left with life-threatening injuries. Twenty-nine other miners were able to get to a safety pod and were brought to the surface hours after the incident.

Flashback Friday returns, taking a peak at photos which graced our pages in 2006. See if you know any of the faces.

Flashback Friday returns, taking a peak at photos which graced our pages in 2006. See if you know any of the faces.

Flashback Friday returns, taking a peak at photos which graced our pages in 2006. See if you know any of the faces.

Dave Grohl said he had lost count of the number of times Foo Fighters have toured Australia “10, 20, 100”. The answer is actually 13. Foo Fighters first toured Australia on the Summersault Festival in 1995. They were back in 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2011, 2015, 2018 and for that one-off show in Geelong in 2022. The early tours were mainly club shows. The biggest they got in those first 10 years (outside festivals) was a Festival Hall show in Melbourne. The first arena show w...

‘Miracle’ is a term that gets bandied around a lot these days, but the Beaconsfield mine rescue back in 2006 would have to come pretty close. Clinton

As more details emerge about the miracle survival of four Australian surfers, speculation mounts TV and movie studios are on the hunt

To mark the 30th anniversary of “CityNews”, social historian and journalist NICHOLE OVERALL has written an eclectic history of Canberra and beyond over the past three decades. Here is 2006.