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NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian provides update on coronavirus

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and NSW Chief Health Officer Dr Kerry Chant has confirmed four new cases of COVID-19 overnight with 9,400 tests conducted for May 8.



  • Epidemics and Pandemics
  • Infectious Diseases (Other)

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Django Unchained

Quentin Tarantino's new opus blends many styles and genres in a confronting and outrageous fashion, and the result is brilliant.




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Django Unchained

This time Tarantino has turned his curious eyes to the origins and myths of the American Civil War and Django Unchained is the result. This wild and often darkly funny ride is Tarantino at his anti-studio best!




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Side Effects - Jonathan Dawson Film Review

Side Effects is many things, and finally becomes a full throttle thriller moving ahead at great pace and no little intricacy.




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The Conjuring

This 70s-era haunted house fright fest delivers on the chills and harks back to a golden age of big screen horror.




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James Blake crosses musical boundaries in Perth

James Blake brought is soulful electric music to the Astor





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Jobs

The biopic of the legendary digital age figure may be fairly lacklustre but is saved thanks to a fantastic and career-defining performance from Ashton Kutcher.




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Blue Jasmine

Woody Allen finds form with his new film, that's more drama than comedy and features a brilliant cast, led by a powerful performance from Cate Blanchett




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Deckchair Review: Jappeloup

Every week Drive sends a listener to the Festival Films to be their deckchair reviewer. Here's what our reviewer thought of Jappeloup.




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Deckchair Review: A Hijacking (Kapringen)

Deckchair Reviewer, Denise, gives her review of 'A Hijacking', currently showing at Perth International Film Festival's Joondalup Pines.




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Mies Julie

Mies Julie magically takes us to the root of humanity, shocking and provoking us to reflect on our society. A difficult task in a world desensitized by busyness, television and instant media.




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The Curious Scrapbook of Josephine Bean

Bit by bit, children's play The Curious Scrapbook of Josephine Bean reveals itself to be one of those rare love stories that really touch you.




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Jasper Jones

It's an awful shame that Barking Gecko's latest play Jasper Jones has not got a longer season because many West Australians will feel they have missed out.




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We bought a farm to have more family time. We're risking it all to join a natural farming revolution

About a year ago, my partner and I learned of a revolution in Australia's paddocks. We want to farm in a more natural way, but the stakes are high making the shift could send us broke.







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Aboriginal skydiver makes history by jumping into his ancestral homeland for NAIDOC week

Indigenous skydiver Marley Nolan-Duncan makes history by jumping out of a plane and into Gamilaraay country, the home of his ancestors.





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Legal challenge over Sussan Ley's decision to put potential mining jobs at Shenhua Mine before cultural heritage

A decision to prioritise a controversial coal project over the protection of Indigenous sacred sites has landed the Federal Environment Minister at the centre of a fierce legal battle.




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Refugee advocate Robin Jones





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Burren Junction bore baths



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Prime Minister and NSW Premier announce $1b funding for Wyangala, Dungowan dam projects

The Prime Minister and NSW Premier announce a $1 billion joint investment to upgrade the Wyangala Dam and build a new one at Dungowan to help drought-devastated NSW regional communities.





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Nigel's riverfront property dream turned into a nightmare, he says he just wants 'fair' compensation

Nigel Lazenby always dreamed of owning a house with river frontage, but that turned into a nightmare when a landslip wrecked his and other homes along the Tamar River in 2016. Now, Nigel is one of a group of owners who just want "fair" compensation.



  • Housing
  • Disasters and Accidents
  • Landslide
  • Government and Politics
  • House and Home
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'We just love him': Why this 90-year-old keeps volunteering

Derek Benson says at 90, "you look around and you've lost all your good friends", and that he'll keep volunteering at the Youngtown City Mission near Launceston "for as long as I can stand up and do it".




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Data reveals why our isolation can't just end when we've flattened the curve

Data suggests Australia's strict physical-distancing measures are beginning to work — but the risks are huge if we relax too quickly.




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Two staff at major Tasmanian hospital test positive for coronavirus

An investigation is underway after two staff members of the North West Regional Hospital in Tasmania test positive for coronavirus.




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Megan was in Paris on an arts residency when coronavirus hit. Now she's reimagining her project from home

Artist Megan Walch was just two weeks into a months-long arts residency in the heart of Paris when coronavirus took hold of France. Armed with her camera, she documented her experiences. Now back home in Tasmania, she's just one of the artists adapting her work for an unusual age.




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Glamorgan Spring Bay council boss quits two weeks into job

Ian Pearce's resignation is the latest to plague a small east coast council, blaming his speedy exit on age, health concerns and union harassment.




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Undies for Fiji

A group of women in rural Tasmania is sending undies to remote villages in Fiji. Why? It's all about helping young girls over there get a better education.



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Ewe must be joking! Prickles fleeced of seven years of wool in minutes

Prickles the sheep disappeared when she was just a lamb when bushfires destroyed the boundary fences at her farm in 2013. Following her surprise return two weeks ago, she has finally been shorn for the first time in seven years.




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Car crash at tram stop injures pedestrian outside Royal Adelaide Hospital

A man suffers head injuries when he is hit by a car that mounted a tram stop outside the Royal Adelaide Hospital, narrowly avoiding other bystanders.




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SA Radio Rentals to close with loss of 100 jobs

Radio Rentals will close all 12 of its South Australian stores, blaming difficult retail conditions and online competition in the company's core business of electronics and household goods.






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Indigenous history along the Murray River being unearthed in five-year research project

A team of archaeologists is working with Indigenous people along the Murray River to discover stories of the land that could now be tens of thousands of years old.





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Missing persons cold cases are being spotlighted by Australian art project The Unmissables

Ryan Chambers went missing in India 14 years ago but his loved ones hope this artwork will get people talking again.








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Family of Naomi Williams rejects apology from local health district after Tumut Hospital death

The family and friends of Naomi Williams, who died, along with her unborn son, after 20 attempts to get help, say the apology they have received via a statement from the health district is not good enough.






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Woman and child airlifted to hospital, 26 injured in church group bus crash

A woman is in a serious condition with head injuries, while NSW Ambulance is treating dozens of other patients after a bus crashes near Harden, 125 kilometres north west of Canberra.