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An Australian woman has died after drinking an infusion suspected to contain toxic mushrooms at an alternative healing centre north-west of Melbourne.Rachael Dixon, 53, went into cardiac arrest after drinking an unknown substance at Soul Barn Creative Wellbeing Centre in Clunes at midnight on Sunday, according to authorities.Two other people required treatment in hospital and

An Australian woman in her 60s has won the right to harvest her dead husband’s sperm after convincing a judge they were considering having a baby before he died.The 62-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, plans to use the sperm to impregnate a donated egg and have a child carried to term by

Jacinda Ardern married her long-time partner at a $25,000-a-night winery on Saturday in a ceremony delayed by her own Covid measures.The former New Zealand prime minister and Clarke Gayford, a television presenter, said their vows at the Craggy Range Winery in Hawke’s Bay, on the east coast of the country’s North Island.The private ceremony went

In 2019, the MP assigned a security escort following death threats.“If you’re living with that level of threat, in what is already quite a stressful situation, then there are going to be consequences,” Mr Shaw said.“It is clear to us that Ms Ghahraman is in a state of extreme distress,” he said, speaking alongside co-leader

Jacinta Allan, the premier of Victoria, said the vandalised statues would be repaired and cleaned. “This sort of vandalism has no place in our community,” she said.Marcus Pearl, a councillor, said the statue of Capt Cook should “definitely be repaired and reinstated to all its glory… it’s going to take a little bit of time

Channel Nine issued an apology, saying that the alteration to the photo was a mistake.“Our graphics department sourced an online image of Georgie to use in our story on duck hunting,” Hugh Nailon, the director of the network, said in a statement.“As is common practice, the image was resized to fit our specs. During that

Vikki Campion, Mr Joyce’s wife, said it was “disgusting” that the person who shot the footage had not helped her husband as he lay on the street.David Littleproud, the leader of Mr Joyce’s party, has previously issued a statement of support for Mr Joyce, saying he had explained himself and will not be demoted.However, Anne

As dusk fell, I returned to my hotel (one of several smart new boltholes to have opened here in the last year), cracked open a bottle of chardonnay and settled in for the show from my balcony. The view was as good as it gets: sunset, the beach and the jetty, all cast in a

Some of the ships will be built in Adelaide, ensuring more than 3,000 jobs, but others will be sourced from US designs and a still undecided design to come from Spain, Germany, South Korea or Japan.In 2021, Australia announced plans to buy at least three US-designed nuclear-powered submarines, scrapping a years-long plan to develop non-nuclear

An Australian police officer who allegedly murdered his former boyfriend sent messages from the man’s phone suggesting that he was moving to Western Australia in an apparent attempt to throw investigators off his trail, police have said.Senior Constable Beau Lamarre-Condon is accused of shooting dead Jesse Baird, his ex-lover, and Luke Davies, Mr Baird’s new partner