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On Tuesday 11 January 2022, police received a referral for search and rescue assistance from Ambulance Tasmania for a 44-year-old male rider who had

Photo: Supplied / Michael Amor, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria 'Tea-tree fingers' is so named because it appears as crusty, finger-like brown lobes gripping dead branches of mānuka and other trees. The species had been recorded at half-a-dozen sites in Australia, and just two sites in the South Island - although it hasn't been seen at one of those, in Arthur's Pass, since the 1980s. Australian mycologists search for it often, and usually without success, but a recent expedition on French Island, south of Melbourne, found dozens of these strange mushrooms. The Royal Botanic Gardens of Victori...

Russel Boey is the 2020 winner of the Sunday Star-Times short story competition in the under 25 category for this piece, 19 Seconds. The university student took out the top prize of $1000. Clear. Sometimes I have this nightmare that I can breathe underwater. I don’t realise immediately. I hold my breath as the cold gnaws and I kick down. Below me his ankle circles in languid orbit, brushing on tangleweed. Deeper. Breath disappears with the last beams of light, but I don’t stop; God knows I don’t stop. When I am certain that I will die, when I am sure that his sallow ankle will drif...