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Faecal contamination detected in drinking water supplied by private agency in Taliparamba

A joint inspection by the Health department and the Taliparamba municipality has revealed faecal contamination in drinking water supplied by a local private distributor. The inspection, aimed at preventing the spread of jaundice in the area, uncovered E. coli bacteria—commonly found in human faeces—in water samples collected from the distributor, identified as Jafar Drinking Water Supply. Although the supplier presented …

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Efficient customs clearance boosts food supplies

China Daily

Officials at Gongbei Customs in Zhuhai inspect grocery supplies headed for Macao. "We supply Macao with over 10 batches of fresh seafood products every day, thanks to efficient customs clearance procedures," said Zhou Jinhong, a manager in charge of the processing and distribution center of the company. Considering fresh seafood products supplied to Macao, with multiple batches, diverse varieties and …

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Efficient customs clearance boosts food supplies

China Daily

Officials at Gongbei Customs in Zhuhai inspect grocery supplies headed for Macao. "We supply Macao with over 10 batches of fresh seafood products every day, thanks to efficient customs clearance procedures," said Zhou Jinhong, a manager in charge of the processing and distribution center of the company. Considering fresh seafood products supplied to Macao, with multiple batches, diverse varieties and …

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5 days, 14 hours ago

Karnataka maternal deaths: BJP says health department under 'medical mafia'

India Today

The Karnataka BJP has accused the Siddaramaiah-led Congress government of negligence over recent maternal deaths in the state, alleging that the health department is under the control of a "medical mafia”. The BJP leader also called for stringent action against the pharmaceutical company involved, urging the government to go beyond blacklisting and address what he termed the "medical mafia." Speaking …

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6 days, 14 hours ago

Scott Wilson couldn't see Aboriginal superheroes in the comics he loved. So he created his own

ABC

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned that this article contains the name of a deceased person. As he grew up and learned to make his own superheroes, Scott found the answer in creating comics that draw from the world's oldest living culture, and by sketching its newest figures. "A lot of the characters that I was forming had …

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6 days, 14 hours ago

Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex tracking Europa Clipper on its journey to Jupiter's fourth-largest moon

ABC

At 3am on a Monday morning as most of Australia slept, a small CSIRO team was wide awake and hard at work at Canberra's deep space tracking station. Europa Clipper's launch was a "a happy, textbook flight", Mr Nagle said. Before the rest of the CSIRO team picked up tracking and communicating with Europa Clipper when their shift officially started …

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6 days, 14 hours ago

Wauchope High teacher Denise Walker, 83, still loves her job after six decades

ABC

At 83, Denise Walker says she's never left school. From 1960s to today Ms Walker, a mother of four, started working at Griffith High School in the NSW Riverina in January 1964 as a visual arts teacher. Wauchope school captain Lucas Phillips said Ms Walker was his favourite teacher. Ms Walker said teaching aside, a life highlight occurred in 1967 …

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6 days, 14 hours ago

Heavy rainfalls and extreme heatwave warnings forecast for parts of Queensland

ABC

Parts of Queensland have been submerged by flash flooding overnight, with more rainfall predicted in the next 24 hours, as towns in the north and west of the state brace for a severe-to-extreme heatwave. Senior meteorologist Felim Hanniffy said Warner north of Brisbane and areas to the north-west "received rainfalls of up to 150 millimetres". Fraser Coast Mayor George Seymour …

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1 week ago

Black Dog, from Chinese director Guan Hu, is a disarmingly funny addition to the man-meets-dog film canon

ABC

Black Dog begins, somewhat unusually, with an avalanche in the Gobi Desert. Fast facts about Black Dog What: In the lead-up to the 2008 Olympics, an ex-con tasked with rounding up stray dogs strikes an unlikely friendship with a black whippet Starring: Eddie Peng, Xin, Hu Xiaoguang Directed by: Guan Hu Where: In cinemas now Likely to make you feel: …

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1 week ago

NT's Wongalara sanctuary protecting native wildlife using cool-burn fires

ABC

Out in the dense Arnhem Land bush, in one of the most isolated locations of the Northern Territory, three people are striving to protect hundreds of native species. "The amount of time it takes to ground burn that country depends on the small window that's done around the end of March … through to the middle of July," he said. …

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1 week, 1 day ago

Dominic Field, aka The Wiggles' Tree of Wisdom, shares how he finds balance in life

ABC

The Wiggles might be among the world's most popular children's entertainment empires, but at its core, it's a family business, according to Dominic Field, and he should know — it's a family he was born into. "My uncle is Anthony, the Blue Wiggle, and my dad is Paul Field, who was the lead singer of the Cockroaches and then became …

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1 week, 1 day ago

First car reached Barrington Tops a century ago. Today, it's a popular tourist destination

ABC

It's been 100 years since the first car reached the wild and remote Barrington Tops in northern New South Wales. Ms Roberts said Henry Luke White, a pastoralist and philanthropist, drove the first car up to the Barrington Tops — at an altitude of more than 1,500 metres — on January 15, 1924, with a small group of people. "In …

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1 week, 2 days ago

Stranded couple stalked by crocodile in Gulf of Carpentaria flood tell of outback survival

ABC

There was no doubt in Tony Fogg's mind that he and his wife were going to die as floodwater quickly rose to the top of their car after it was swept off an outback Queensland road. Mr Fogg and his wife Lisa had been travelling from Normanton to Kowanyama in north-west Queensland on December 5 when they attempted to drive …

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1 week, 2 days ago

Harold Ball had a short but impressive football career before he died in WWII

ABC

"Don't worry there's not a bullet made that can travel as fast as I can," up-and-coming footballer Harold Ball wrote from his World War II posting to his brother George in regional Victoria. Harold Ball with Melbourne Football Club officials and teammates after the 1940 VFL Premiership. Harold's best game The 1940 preliminary final was played at the MCG on …

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1 week, 3 days ago

The War of the Rohirrim is the first Lord of the Rings film in a decade, but can it compare with the originals?

ABC

Once a staple of the pre-Marvel multiplex, The Lord of the Rings universe has been missing from movie screens for an entire decade, ever since series director Peter Jackson wrapped up his painfully distended adaptation of The Hobbit in 2014. Entitled The War of the Rohirrim, it's set nearly two centuries before the One Ring found its way to Bag …

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1 week, 3 days ago

Charleville Outback Museum of Australia on hold due to cost blowout

ABC

It was billed as a grand tribute to outback life and history that would transform the Queensland town of Charleville into a premier tourist destination. Murweh Shire Council Mayor Shaun "Zoro" Radnedge said increased building costs were to blame. "Coming out of COVID the project started, but unfortunately since then we've had cost blowouts with the cost of doing these …

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Critics Choice nominations 2025: Papal thriller Conclave and Wicked score 11 nods each

ABC

Edward Berger's Papal drama thriller, Conclave, has cleaned up in this year's Critics Choice award nominations securing 11 nods, alongside blockbuster hit Wicked. Best actress Cynthia Erivo — Wicked Karla Sofía Gascón — Emilia Pérez Marianne Jean-Baptiste — Hard Truths Angelina Jolie — Maria Mikey Madison — Anora Demi Moore — The Substance Best supporting actor Yura Borisov — Anora …

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1 week, 4 days ago

Police and bystanders rescue two people stranded on car roof in Pilbara flood

ABC

Two teachers have been rescued after they were swept away by floodwaters and stranded for hours in Western Australia's remote Pilbara. Police said the 56-year-old man and 50-year-old woman were trying to cross a river outside Jigalong, more than 1,300 kilometres north-east of Perth, when their four-wheel drive was swamped by rising water. "We managed to get choppered across the …

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1 week, 4 days ago

Darlington Public School in Sydney's inner-city awarded World Building of the Year in international competition

ABC

This Aussie primary school might be small in size, but it's considered one of the best examples of architecture worldwide. Nestled in Sydney's inner-city, Darlington Public School has been awarded World Building of the Year at the 2024 World Architectural Festival. Darlington Public School principal Michelle McCormack said the building's design would benefit their student cohort greatly. "We're very, very …

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1 week, 4 days ago

Pharrell Williams tells his life story in Piece by Piece, a music biopic made entirely out of Lego

ABC

For a fleeting moment last decade, Lego cinema was poised to be the next big thing. Fast facts about Piece by Piece What: The story of how Pharrell Williams became a world-famous movie producer, told entirely in Lego Starring: Pharrell Williams, Chad Hugo, Gwen Stefani, Snoop Dogg Directed by: Morgan Neville When: In cinemas now Likely to make you feel: …

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1 week, 4 days ago

Cao Fei brings My City Is Yours to the Art Gallery of New South Wales

ABC

Trailblazing Chinese multimedia artist Cao Fei, her translator and I sit down in the corner of a large exhibition space. "It's like a small exhibition within a bigger exhibition to show my sister's drawings and paintings," Cao says. "It's like in the city, you go through little streets and discover something on your own," exhibition co-curator Yin Cao says. Yin …

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1 week, 5 days ago

ABC 2025 Heywire winners reveal 'brave and authentic' stories of life in regional Australia

ABC

Rylie wrote his first song when he was living in a tent in Warrnambool, Gunditjmara Country, as a 16-year-old. "Heywire's true magic comes from the young Australians who participate," he said. "It's crucial for young voices to be heard nationwide, and the ABC is honoured to champion this through the annual Heywire competition." "Heywire ensures young people from rural, regional …

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1 week, 5 days ago

In the aftermath of Melbourne's synagogue arson attack, work begins to save priceless Torah scrolls

ABC

To Daniel Aghion, a burnt Torah scroll represents more than just a ruined object. As he digested the damage done to Torah scrolls in Friday's torching of the Adass Israel Synagogue in Ripponlea, Mr Aghion couldn't help but think of all the times history has repeated itself. Mr Gutnick said these scrolls were handwritten by a scribe, usually in Israel, …

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1 week, 5 days ago

Did these trailblazing women play a role in building the Australia-US relationship?

ABC

Around a century ago, the United States of America was a largely unknown quantity for most Australians. While working on the book, Travelling to Tomorrow: The Modern Women who sparked Australia's Romance with America, Rees found around 700 Australian women who "pursued careers and adventure" in the US around a century ago. Gender politics were — and remain — fraught …

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Faecal contamination detected in drinking water supplied by private agency in Taliparamba

Efficient customs clearance boosts food supplies

Efficient customs clearance boosts food supplies

Karnataka maternal deaths: BJP says health department under 'medical mafia'

Scott Wilson couldn't see Aboriginal superheroes in the comics he loved. So he created his own

Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex tracking Europa Clipper on its journey to Jupiter's fourth-largest moon

Wauchope High teacher Denise Walker, 83, still loves her job after six decades

Heavy rainfalls and extreme heatwave warnings forecast for parts of Queensland

Black Dog, from Chinese director Guan Hu, is a disarmingly funny addition to the man-meets-dog film canon

NT's Wongalara sanctuary protecting native wildlife using cool-burn fires

Dominic Field, aka The Wiggles' Tree of Wisdom, shares how he finds balance in life

First car reached Barrington Tops a century ago. Today, it's a popular tourist destination

Stranded couple stalked by crocodile in Gulf of Carpentaria flood tell of outback survival

Harold Ball had a short but impressive football career before he died in WWII

The War of the Rohirrim is the first Lord of the Rings film in a decade, but can it compare with the originals?

Charleville Outback Museum of Australia on hold due to cost blowout

Critics Choice nominations 2025: Papal thriller Conclave and Wicked score 11 nods each

Police and bystanders rescue two people stranded on car roof in Pilbara flood

Darlington Public School in Sydney's inner-city awarded World Building of the Year in international competition

Pharrell Williams tells his life story in Piece by Piece, a music biopic made entirely out of Lego

Cao Fei brings My City Is Yours to the Art Gallery of New South Wales

ABC 2025 Heywire winners reveal 'brave and authentic' stories of life in regional Australia

In the aftermath of Melbourne's synagogue arson attack, work begins to save priceless Torah scrolls

Did these trailblazing women play a role in building the Australia-US relationship?