A community battery project three years in the making, run by a local not-for-profit and backed by the council, was killed after a spark of misinformation about its fire risk was ignited.
There's the risk of dangerous flash flooding in populated regions stretching from Eyre Peninsula to western Victoria and the Murray River amid growing signs three additional tropical lows will form off Australia's northern coast next week.
Police have charged a 20-year-old man they allege was planning a "mass casualty" terror attack targeting public buildings and Muslim places of worship in Western Australia.
When Prince William and Princess Catherine stepped out for their first public appearance since Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's arrest, an innocuous question was levelled at them. The candid response was perhaps more revealing than anticipated.
Graham Crossan cannot eat, talk or breathe unassisted but he's been denied funding for high-level care due to a new way of assessing aged care funding.