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Canberra is the often forgotten capital of Australia, not Sydney or Melbourne or any other Australian city. Indeed, it could have been Melbourne or Sydn...

More ancestral remains of First Nations people are being held in major Australian museums today than in 2010, despite a long-standing government policy to return remains to their communities, says a leading activist.

Date Time Man charged, weapons seized, after investigation into public place shooting at Bourke A man will face court today charged with firearm offences following an investigation into a public place shooting in the state’s north-west on New Year’s Day. About 5.30am on Friday 1 January 2021, officers received reports a firearm had been fired multiple times during an argument on Culgoa Street, Bourke. Police were told a group of people had congregated on the street during the altercation before a man produced the shortened rifle and fired several rounds of ammunition into the air. The gro...

Welcome back, Darling © Provided by ABC NEWS Floodwaters are re-energising drought-hit communities. () Australia's third-longest river, The Darling, is running a banker once more as floodwaters from March storms bring its first major flush after years of drought.  For some people the water means money in the bank; for others it represents a feed or a place to come together with family. With a red dog the shape of a wombat by her side, three-year-old Ivy Moore leads her father James to his ute outside their home at Walgett in northern New South Wales. The farm is a 400-kilometre roun...

Barwon River flood transforms tiny border town of Mungindi after drought, COVID and fire WedWednesday 7 Mungindi's current landscape (right) is vastly difference to last September's (left). ( Print text only For the past 12 months, Mungindi residents have had little to smile about.  Prolonged drought had run the Barwon River dry and drawn hundreds of skinny kangaroos into town searching for "a skerrick" of grass or water. Now the arrival of floodwaters from the east — after weeks of decent rainfall — has residents daring to believe their luck has turned. "People have good water in t...