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A sexual assault survivor who campaigned for the right to speak about her traumatic experience has been named the 2021 Australian of the Year. Hobart woman Grace Tame, 26, was groomed and raped by her 58-year-old maths teacher Nicolaas Bester when she was in Year 10 at the exclusive all-girl St Michael's Collegiate School in Hobart. Bester served 18 months in jail after pleading guilty to maintaining a relationship with a young person and possession of child exploitation material. Grace Tame has been named Australian of the Year for 2021.(Sydney Morning Herald) READ MORE: However, under Ta...

TERRITORY activist, educator and artist Dr Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr Baumann AM has been named the 2021 Senior Australian of the Year. Dr Ungunmerr Baumann AM, from Daly River, became the Northern Territory's first fully qualified Aboriginal teacher in 1975 before becoming the principal of her home community's school. She then went on to visit schools through the Top End advocating for the inclusion of art in Territory kids' education as an art consultant for the NT Department of Education. The 73-year-old was awarded the prestigious Senior Australian of the Year award at a ceremony in Canber...

Crocodiles such as this 4.4m, 350kg specimen can pose a significant danger to local communities. Going head-to-snout with one of the planet's deadliest predators is usually the plot of a horror movie - but for the Australia’s Northern Territory government's Crocodile Management Unit, it's a Thursday. Literally. Last Thursday was the day the team set out to see if they could track, trap and transport a massive 4.5-metre saltwater crocodile that had been getting a little too close to the Nauiyu community on the Daly River, in the Katherine region of the Australia’s Top End. The team, led ...

Summer solstice 2020: Planets come out to play at end of longest day SunSunday 20 updated SunSunday 20 DecDecember 2020 at 10:42pm Today is the longest day, not the latest sunset. But when the sun does go down, the planets will put on a show this year. ( Print text only Hang on, what about December 1? Australia is one of just a few countries that considers December 1 the beginning of summer (or winter in the northern hemisphere), says astronomer Fred Watson. "My understanding is that that comes from colonial times because it was the 1st of December when the troops got their summer uniforms a...