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April 30th, 2021 Press Release Melbourne, April 30: Australia’s snowsport community gathered at the Snow Australia Awards in Melbourne last night to celebrate the remarkable performances produced by Australian athletes and coaches over the last 12 months. The outstanding success achieved by Australian athletes on the World Cup circuit and at the World Championships meant it was extremely difficult to single out an individual performance. World Championship gold medalist and back-to-back FIS Aerials Crystal Globe winner Laura Peel won the coveted Athlete of the Year awards (Olympic discipl...

With the global pandemic bringing overseas travel to a grinding halt, the number of drownings in Australia have dramatically risen as inexperienced swimmers flock to unfamiliar beaches and waterways to get their holiday fix. December alone has seen 20 individuals drown, compared to 14 across the entire 2019 summer, according to statistics from the Royal Life Saving Society's Summer Drowning Toll. The figure includes six lives lost in Queensland, five in Victoria, four in Western Australia, one in the Northern Territory and two each in NSW and the ACT. Ninety per cent of the victims have been...