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Howard Loosemore, alongside a few talented photographer friends, spent 15 years capturing every Australian fairywren species and plumage in vivid detail that’s been published in a new book about the small and colourful lives of fairywrens Continue reading...

DC Fairhurst and Lucy Green’s film could have been a by-the-numbers genre piece. Instead it is fun, frothy and refreshingly different Audiences have been conditioned to expect movies that are either in full colour or, more occasionally now, black and white – and ne’er the twain shall meet. Or, at least, very rarely: the sassy, small-budget crime flick Pickpockets joins a small consortium of films – including Rumble Fish, Pleasantville and Schindler’s List – that zhoosh things up by mixing both.

Legal challenge against ballot initiative that bans transgender girls’ participation in girls’ school sports is poised to set off a battle over rights A coalition of advocacy groups are preparing to mount a legal challenge against a Washington state ballot initiative that bans transgender girls’ participation in girls’ school sports, which voters approved in last week’s midterm election and will go into effect next month. The challenge is poised to set off a protracted legal battle over the righ

When Queensland’s first independent victims’ commissioner spoke out, the LNP’s next move was calculated and brutal. Community groups now fear retribution – and funding cuts Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Queensland’s first independent victims’ commissioner, Beck O’Connor, found herself in the crosshairs of a new Liberal National party government that had staked its future on a promise to serve the interests of victims of crime. In the government’s first nine months,