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Share on Twitter The family of an Indigenous Coober Pedy elder who lives with dementia and has been missing for 11 days in remote South Australia is questioning why more is not being done to find her. Aunty Shirley Williams was last seen leaving the Coober Pedy Hospital after a check-up on 28 December and was reported missing on New Year’s Eve.  The Williams clan matriarch is aged 64 by government records but nearly a decade older, according to her immediate family, who are “lo...

The year kicked off with record-breaking heat and devastating bushfires which ravaged the countrys east coast. IN PICTURES: Two bushfires approach a home located on the outskirts of the town of Bargo.(Getty) During the 2019-2020 season, now known as Black Summer, 24 million hectares of land was burnt, 3000 homes destroyed and three billion animals were killed or displaced. Thirty-three people died, including six Australian firefighters and three American aerial firefighters. Huge fires first er...