Multifaceted, confusing, frustrating and convoluted — these are the words Samantha Leeman used to describe the aged care system after her family spent months getting her mother into care in 2020. "As much as there's a need for residential aged care, it is the only way that we look after people in that environment other than perhaps prisons," she said. …
Covering thousands of kilometres in a light plane, an aerial survey is documenting the remarkable recovery of the southern right whale. Between Caiguna in WA and Ceduna in SA, Ms Schmidt and Mr Halsall count 101 adult southern right whales, 77 calves and one humpback whale. Ms Ward says about 2–5 per cent of the population of southern right whales …