Southern Australia has seen record summer temperatures set this week.Never before seen high temperatures have been recorded in South Australia, NSW and Victoria. Highest being in Renmark, South Australia, - 49.6C, 121F Fowler's Gap, NSW, - 49.1C, 120F Walpeup, new record for Victoria, 48.9C, 120F Hopetoun shared this... See More »
Everyone knows Australia can be a dangerous place.What with Sharks, Funnel Web Spiders, Crocodiles, Snakes and the rest. Tourists need to be on high alert when travelling outside the metropolitan areas. A 19-year-old Canadian female teenager travelled from Canada to Australia, and she ended up on... See More » (+1)
4 year old boy - Gus, went missing on his families homestead a month agoExtensive searches failed to find him. The latest effort will drain the properties dam. No suggestion of foul play. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-30/police-to-drain-dam-in-search-for-gus-at-yunta/105951056
I drove past a For Sale sign in BusseltonStopped to have a look. On-line research showed me it sits on 1.63 hectares - 4 acres. 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, Swimming Pool, 3 car garage. Will I put in a bid? Not on your nelly. Asking price AU$3,750,000 US$2,453,000 UK£1,813,688, C$3,371,718,... See More » (+1)
Anyone here old enough to remember having an outside outhouse?West Coast of Tasmania, 1960's. Our toilet was outside. Not very pleasant getting up in the middle of the night, pouring with rain, very cold. There was a Nightsoil collector who would come around once a week to take away the dunny can and replace it... See More »
Things that go bump in the night. (day)Yesterday I was deep in the Aussie bush, beyond the black stump, miles from nowhere. Sitting in my chair enjoying the nothingness when all of a sudden there is a load crash. It sounded like a large, empty steel drum hitting the ground. Baffled me, I... See More »
ANZAC day here in AustraliaANZAC - Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. The soldiers in those forces became known as ANZACs. Anzac Day is a commemoration of the anniversary of the landing of Australian and New Zealand troops at Gallipoli, Turkey on 25 April in 1915. Anzac... See More »
A most bizarre story from Australiahttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-17/dead-man-toes-court-case-animal-shelter/105061796 A Melbourne woman has been convicted but avoided jail after she retrieved a dead man's toes from a bin at an animal shelter where she was working. The... See More »
