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PATIENT OPTIONS: Kirsten Pilatti, BCNA CEO talks with Elizabeth Blane in Latrobe, Tasmania during a Breast Cancer Network Australia event. Picture: Paul Scambler

GPs and advocates want to see the telehealth program extended to provide patients with more options on how they access medical care.

Call to re-instate, expand telehealth services ahead of July 1 cut-off

Bruno (Damon Herriman) and Laura (Jackie van Beek) go to a new-age retreat to attempt to reinvigorate their marriage. Picture: Supplied

Everyone speaking gibberish may be a way of illustrating miscommunication, but it's radical.

A weird romp words can't describe

COLOURLESS: A field of stag-horn coral bleached white on the Great Barrier Reef during a mass bleaching event. Picture: Brett Monroe Garner/Getty Images

Coral might look like plants, but it's actually a living, breathing inverterbrae. So why are these marine creatures turning so white?

Why has Australia's coral become bleached?

Austin Butler electrifies as Elvis. Picture: Universal 

It pulls you up to realise that this is Luhrmann's sixth feature film.

Baz Lurhmann's Elvis is an exhilarating and brilliant homage

Chris Hemsworth, Miles Teller and Mark Paguio in Spiderhead. Picture: Netflix

You understand why Hemsworth would have been attracted to the production.

Hemsworth's Spiderhead is a slick, pacey futuristic thriller

Director Kyle Balda has been at the helm of a number of others in this franchise and he sure knows what his audiences want.

It's more Minion high-jinks and it aims to please

WHAT TO DO IN THE DARK: It can be tough getting through a black out, but with a bit of planning, it can be made easier. Picture: FILE

As the energy emergency enters another week, we're being told to plan for power outages. So what do you need to get through the dark days?

How to prepare a 'black out survival kit' as the energy crisis continues

STORAGE TECHNOLOGY: LNG storage tanks at a terminal in Yokohama, Japan. Picture: WikiCommons

The country needs more transmission, more renewables, more storage. But how do we get there?

Has the energy emergency forced a re-think in future of electricity production?

DAVID'S LEGACY: Corowa resident Jackie Monk, the widow of 61-year-old Japanese encephalitis victim David Kiefel, has been campaigning hard to ensure vaccines are made available to the community. Picture: JAMES WILTSHIRE

Advocate Jackie Monk says many people in town were willing to pay the cost.

I wouldn't wish it on anyone: Virus widow wants to protect her community

SACRED GROUND: Goanna are back to celebrate their 1982 classic album Spirit Of Place. Picture: Martin Stringer

Shane Howard explains why Solid Rock will always matter

Goanna rediscovers their Spirit Of Place

FULL THROTTLE: Herald journalist Madeline Link on board the 222 Offshore powerboat at Lake Macquarie. Picture: Max Mason-Hubers

The sun was shining, a severe weather warning hung in the air and I had been to the chiropractor the day before.

I got flung across a lake at breakneck speed in a powerboat

DRESSED FOR SUCCESS: Sydney post-punk band Johnny Hunter are ready to deliver on the hype with their debut album Want. Picture: Tom Wilkinson

Sydney band Johnny Hunter know how to stand out from the crowd.

Johnny Hunter are taking what they Want

Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez return for the second season of OMITB which adheres sensibly to the mantra of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". Picture: Disney+

This series delivers joyous entertainment by a cast at the top of their game - if that isn't true art, then nothing is.

It's close to the best thing on TV and we've got some good news

Although everyone who is homeless feels the negative impacts, children can face a tough future due to something completely out of their hands.

If kids are having to couch surf or live out of a tent or caravan, there are difficulties for them in getting to school, getting three square meals a day.

'Safe, stable place to sleep every night' could keep kids off police radar

TOUGH AS LEATHER: Australia's kangaroo industry says it is fed up with baseless attacks from animal activists in the US. Picture: Kangaroo Industry Association of Australia.

Kangaroo industry decides it's time to answer its critics in the USA.

Valuable kangaroo trade answers its critics

'GAVE HER A SMACK': Kai Hansen describes his 'resident croc' Casey as his main girl, but one day, she "had a go" and he "gave her a smack". Picture: supplied

"She wanted to have a go so I gave her a smack."

'I gave her a smack', publican fends off crocodile with frying pan

WINTER WARMTH: Pet owners are warned to be extra vigilant over winter, making sure not to put animals in a position of risk. Picture: Bec Pridham

"We can do something and know that it hurts, but [pets] can't tell us that it hurts."

A fur coat doesn't always mean winter warmth: Keeping your pets safe in the cold

Many rivers and streams along the east coast have seen record flows courtesy of the La Nina.

La Nina is gone for now but 50/50 chance it will return in a few months.

La Nina stalls for now but wet weather to continue

Bago Maze & Winery landscape architect Ian Mobbs. Photo: Ruby Pascoe

"We put a lot of thought into the function of the maze and how people move through it."

Take a walk through an award-winning maze

Matt Kean says the government is investing in reforms that will keep NSW on the path to surplus.

The deficit for the current year marks an improvement from half-year forecasts.

NSW budget surplus confirmed for 2024/25

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Cardinal George Pell is due to be sentenced after being found guilty of child sexual abuse.

Chief Judge Peter Kidd has handed down his sentence after Cardinal George Pell was convicted for attacks on two choirboys in the 1990s.

George Pell sentenced to six years

Former Wallaby captain George Gregan says England can bounce back under Eddie Jones in Australia.

Gregan says England can bounce back

A demonstrator in Athens, Greece, protests Julian Assange's extradition to the US. Picture: Getty Images

Australia's claim to the primacy of truth, freedom, Australian citizenship and executive accountability is on trial.

Harsh truths from Canberra's early days still relevant

Thousands protest the US Supreme Court's decision in New York yesterday. Picture: Getty Images

Ending Roe v Wade is a pure exercise of Republican power, wielded to reduce women's freedom.

Roe v Wade a pure exercise in wielding power

The process of finding and appointing a new CEO at GRNSW is underway, and this process will be an extensive one.

New role, same mission: making greyhound industry the best

Liton Das made 53 in Bangladesh's first innings of the second Test against the Windies on St Lucia.

Touring Bangladesh improve in second Test

The better the quality of the advice coming from the public service, the greater the chance of Albanese leaving the sort of legacy to which he aspires. Picture: Elesa Kurtz

Labor signalled during the campaign it wanted to remuscle the bureaucracy. That certainly seems to be the case.

Anthony Albanese has a lot on the go in the 'back office' of government

Romanian President Klaus Iohannis, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz during a press conference on June 16, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Picture: Getty Images

Ukraine cannot and should not count on real support from western Europe's political elites, even as Europe's citizenry seems to take the opposite view.

Technocracy is enabling Putin's war on the West

Stefanos Tsitsipas has powered into the final of the Mallorca Championships.

Good omens for Tsitsipas in Mallorca run

Once the site is operational - a milestone said to be close - the company will start taking newcomers, but they'll have to pay $150,000 to be indefinitely stored in liquid nitrogen.

Second shot at life, or pure science fiction? Either way, it's on our doorstep

Greyhounds As Pets GM Dr Alicia Fuller spoke to the group about all facets of the program. Photo: Supplied

On June 8 the Parliamentary Friends of Greyhounds Racing were finally able to host Greyhounds Racing NSW at a gathering at parliament house

Friends of greyhounds united at parliament

Inset: Australia doesn't own most of the Bass Strait. Why does China think it owns the Taiwan Strait? Main: Chinese intelligence ship Haiwangxing. Picture: Department of Defence

Likewise, other nations' ships can sail through the Taiwan Strait. And China knows this.

China could sail a warship through Bass Strait if it wanted

 Kylie Grybaitis has been appointed CGRC Road Safety Officer, and will be out and about in our Communities promoting and educating Road Safety initiative.

Kylie Grybaitis is new road safety officer for Cootamundra-Gundagai

SCAM: The ATO will never send you an email or SMS with a link to log in to online services.

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ACM has compiled a list of current scams identified on sites dedicated to informing people about fraudulent and dishonest activities.

Scamwatch: Job seekers targeted in scam doing the rounds

This is a sample of The Echidna newsletter sent out each weekday morning .

The boomers, united, will never be defeated

MINT TRIBUTE: A statue outside the Perth Mint to Arthur Bayley (crouching) and William Ford.

Small town brags about a favourite son even more legendary than Ned Kelly.

Small town hero who eclipses Ned Kelly in the fame stakes

Lisa Wilkinson from The Project poses at the 62nd TV Week Logie Awards last Sunday. Picture: Getty Images

The scale of the fallout cannot and should not be underestimated.

So, Lisa, was your Logies speech worth it?

Illegal drugs with street value of more than $1 million destroyed by police

$1 million drug burn

From the left, GWIC CEO Steve Griffin, Minister Kevin Anderson, trainer Aaron Shearman with Glenidol Girl, and GAPNSW GM Dr Alicia Fuller.

The greyhound industry in NSW will have the highest standards of welfare and integrity in Australia

e-Tracking a world first in welfare

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has rebuked Adam Bandt's Australian flag stance. Pictures: Keegan Carroll, Sitthixay Ditthavong

Gesture politics is virtue signalling, and virtue signalling is not about effecting change. It is about people feeling better about themselves.

Bandt's flag move is virtue signalling 101

The first of three NASA rockets has launched successfully from the Northern Territory.

NASA rocket launches from Arnhem Land

An 18-year-old man has been charged with murder over the killing of another teen in NSW town Casino.

Teen charged with murder over NSW stabbing

Queensland Police say a pilot in his 60s has died after his plane hit powerlines in Bowenville.

Pilot dies in Queensland plane crash

SAFE HAVEN: Jasper, Claude, Yurii, Sophie, Oksana, Volodya, Kristina, Sophia, Adam and Freddy. Picture: GILES PARK

New MP Sophie Scamps, her husband Adam and their three children have created a safe haven for a Ukrainian family, writes Kate Cox.

Fleeing from the Ukraine, family in need finds new home with independent MP

The giant tree house, that has utilised an existing tree within the park, and has ramps and transfer stations for children of all abilities to enjoy.

Livvi's Place Albet Park opening

Cooper Lane. Cootamundra will undergo service relocation works from Monday 4th July 2022. The Cooper Lane and Bourke Street intersection will be closed to traffic whilst work is underway.

Services relocation work to begin in Cooper Lane

BIG FANS: ABBA fans like Mary Martin, Michelle Goode, Lyne Unicomb and Gill Tighe of Coonabarabran (pictured at the 2019 festival) will be ready come October. Photo: JENNY KINGHAM

A manager of the Trundle ABBA Festival has been found