Regional news
VIC: Daisy Roffe-Silvester and Lillian Tai are milk sisters. Also known as a milk-kinship, milk siblings are not related by blood but were nursed by the same mother….read on.
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QLD: Two Australian saltwater crocodiles have successfully been exported to an aquarium and underwater zoo in Turkey. Rob, a five-metre long male crocodile, and Mrs Rob, a three-metre long female, had been caught in the wild as rogue crocodiles.
VIC: Single parents on welfare have little to no chance of finding an affordable rental home in Bendigo, new data has revealed. Anglicare Victoria’s rental affordability snapshot showed just two per cent of rentals in regional Victoria were within range for a single person receiving parenting payments.
NSW: Police have recovered one of two luxury cars that were stolen from a Helensburgh home while the owners were sleeping. On Thursday police pulled over a white BMW in south-western Sydney, after vehicle checks drew it to their attention….the Audi is still missing.
National news
►Port Macquarie paramedic Scott Duffy says five years ago he didn’t know about ice but now he attends about one incident a week...read on.
►A man has used a knife to threaten an employee at a bottle shop before he stole cash and ran from the store. Tasmania Police attended the report of an armed hold-up at a Claremont bottle shop about 8pm on Monday...the attendant was not harmed but was distressed by the incident.
►Australia’s greatest basketballer has described the "nightmare" of weaning herself off the painkillers and sleeping pills she depended on during her career. She told the ABC's Four Corners program she turned to the medications to meet her contractual obligations in the world's best basketball leagues.
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It was a nervous but excited Isaiah Firebrace who took his first steps on the Eurovision stage in Kyiv this week as he prepares to sing for Australia at the prestigious song contest.
Pundits got their first glimpse of the Echuca-Moama teen’s performance on Monday, Australian time, one that will see him sing from atop a rotating turntable.
International media quizzed the 17-year-old on everything from his time on The X Factor to his stint supporting former Eurovision performer Jessica Mauboy.
He was quick to endear himself to local journalists by speaking in Ukrainian and saying he would like to visit a Kyiv school...story and video here.