As the drought bites deeper, residents in a growing number of rural communities are fighting to stop local groundwater being taken to satisfy Australia’s thirst for bottled water.
At Tamborine Mountain in Queensland’s Gold Coast hinterland, some locals are angry that bore water supplies are being used to supply bottled water companies.
“We watch the water tankers go up and down the road,” local Tanya Bregnsdal said.
She believes the bottled water industry is to blame for her bore running dry.
A high school football coach in New York has been suspended because his team won a game by too much.
The Chinese appetite for beef has reached unprecedented levels with Australian exports to China up 73 per cent on last year, making it our biggest export market for beef.
Victoria Police has expressed “extreme disappointment” in one of its officers for the second time in two days, after screenshots of his Facebook page displaying alt-right material were shared on social media.
The treatment of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is facing the threat of extradition from Britain to the US on espionage charges, is putting his life “at risk”, according to an independent UN rights expert.
After oil mysteriously washed ashore on some 2,100 kilometres of Brazil’s coastline for two months, officials have finally identified a suspect: a Greek-flagged ship belonging to Delta Tankers Ltd.
Months after it was found hiding and crying in the garden of a backyard in north-eastern Victoria, DNA testing has confirmed a small pup that was suspected to have arrived by air is pure dingo.
Speculation has been building all week about much-needed rainfall, but now as the clouds gather on the horizon the question we are all asking is “where will get the rain?”
The Prime Minister has railed against “progressives”, accusing them of denying people’s liberties in a speech that slammed environmentalists for targeting businesses that invest in non-renewable industries.
Glass-bottom bridges boomed in popularity across China in the past two years
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