Hugh Martin

Almost 2,000 missing ballots found at election worker's home The AEC says a worker collected a secure container holding 1,866 House of Representatives votes from a Sydney polling booth but failed to deliver it to a central counting centre.

this is quite extraordinary.

Help freelancers at Nine Publishing win fair rates Off the back of strike action last year, Nine management committed to engage in discussions about freelance rates and conditions with MEAA representatives. Despite this commitment, Nine management ha...

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“There’s this source Deep Throat…”

“Yeah don’t bother I’m on the group chat”

Top Trump allies hold secret talks with Zelenskyy’s Ukrainian opponents As Washington ramps up its pressure on Zelenskyy to step aside, his rivals are talking to Trump’s team.

This is extraordinary.

Facebook blocked Cyclone Alfred searches and hasn't explained why Despite hundreds of thousands of accounts talking about Cyclone Alfred on Facebook, social media giant Meta was blocking or hiding search results about the impending storm before being contacted by AB...

We shouldn’t be surprised.

Fatal shark attack prompts warnings about deadly creatures A recent fatal shark attack in Queensland prompts warnings for people to be on the lookout for deadly marine creatures these holidays.

Here’s a lovely holiday list of the deadliest critters in Oz.

That’s some serious remarketing.

Televised Test match drinks breaks brought to you by Victoria Bitter. Mixed messages there?

There’s waayy too much cricket on today. 3 Shield games and two Test matches. Spoilt for choice if the weather holds.

Sam Konstas setting a cracking pace at Manukah against India. Great to watch.

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Had a nice chat with 3WAYFM. Thanks to Frank for giving our music a spin omny.fm/shows/a-diff...

Fossicking around the Sydney office last week. History in the corners.

Volunteer firefighters leave families behind to battle fires. It can be an 'emotional roller-coaster' It's six o'clock when the alarm goes off for most volunteers asleep in tents at Ballarat's firefighters base camp. It's the start of another tough day.

Late summer fires in our part of western Victoria have threatened towns and property but the all in effort from firefighters has been magnificent.

Indigenous leaders concerned country is being mismanaged, leading to severe flooding Yorta Yorta leaders want people to "read the language of the land" after January flooding along the Goulburn River.

Victoria has suffered through a lot of riverine flooding the last couple of years, we should be listening more to First Nations people about ways to live alongside these systems.

After two floods in 15 months, residents in northern Victoria weigh up whether to stay or go Cindy Doherty loves her home on the banks of the Goulburn River and says she can cope with the risk of flood. But for others, leaving is a choice worth making.

Our summer of disruptive weather continues in Victoria. Riverland communities in central and northern parts of the state have been particularly badly affected.

Australia's top ultra-distance runners have met for Australia's first 100-mile (160km) race across an entire mountain range. Torrential rain and a lightning ... Is this Australia's toughest 100 mile race? | ABC Australia

The beautiful Grampians in western Victoria held an inaugural ultra marathon recently. We were there to meet and record some of the participants.

'I don't want to raise my kids into this': Families left with no choice but to live in tents in the ... While their parents try their hardest to keep them safe, fed and at school, children are sleeping in tents in the dry ironbark forest of central Victoria, where the extremes of homelessness and bushfi...

Housing is a critical problem across the country, but some families are doing it particularly hard, forced to camp in the bush.

Nothing is being ignored or avoided. It’s simply that this form of reporting does not give room for analysis of reasons for events. News stories never do.

We do a lot of climate and weather reporting elsewhere. Emergency broadcasting is really only focused on the immediate risks to the public. This piece is meant to be about how that was organised. But you’re right, there is another piece to do asking why this confluence of weather events happened.

From fires to floods — a wild 24 hours of emergency broadcasting at ABC Gippsland The ABC broadcasts hundreds of emergency warnings each season, but for the first time in 24 hours the broadcaster transitioned from emergency fire coverage to emergency flood coverage in the same regi...

How our ABC Gippsland team went from covering fires to floods within 24 hours. The first time this has happened anywhere in Australia.

'Overworked' snake catcher collapses after he was bitten and didn't know it A snake catcher in north-west Victoria says he was so busy he did not realise a highly venomous reptile had bitten him on the finger. Then he started to lose consciousness.

Lots of rain through spring and plenty of bush growth across the state means lots of snakes this season. Regional Victorians are being warned to look out for Joe blakes

As the tide ebbs on this Victorian coast, a curious line of domes comes into view Residents along Victoria's coast are fighting back against coastal erosion with innovative and environmentally friendly solutions.

Interesting experiments in artificial reef construction to slow coastal erosion in Victoria’s Bellarine Peninsula. I’ve watched this in practice over recent years. Quite remarkable, albeit small scale at the moment.

Why a fridge '300 times colder than space' is headed for an underground lab regional Victoria The Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory is about to become home to a "quantum refrigerator", in a first for physicists in the Southern Hemisphere.

There’s some fascinating science going on in remote western Victoria.

Exploring Australia's forgotten churches, and their weird and wonderful new uses Deserted churches can be found across Australia as monuments to a bygone era. But not all deconsecrated holy places are destined for a lonely, forgotten existence.

Old churches across the state are being repurposed. So
Many wonderful buildings getting a new life.

There’s more to come out about this, no doubt.

Erin Patterson to face court after police lay murder charges over mushroom meal The woman charged with murder over a mushroom meal linked to three deaths in Victoria's east is due to face court this morning.

This story out of south east Victoria has everyone in the country talking today.

Outback singer swaps small-town pubs for Luke Combs tour after invitation 'of a lifetime' When self-taught musician Wade Forster invited one of America's biggest country singers to a rodeo, he didn't expect him to say yes. Now, the station worker has his sights set on touring the US with ...

I love this. Just the fact a bloke gigging in a Mt Isa pub can find himself in front of a stadium crowd the next week. Well played, sir.

Accused of being a spy, world-record-breaking adventurer Ted Ryko found refuge in outback Aboriginal... After riding 3,000 kilometres from Adelaide to Darwin in 1914, Ted Ryko was lauded as a hero. Then World War I broke out and facing harassment, he fled to Arnhem Land, where he would form a unique ...

Cracking read here on a remarkable outback adventurer from our Gippsland feature reporter.

Gagged and grief-stricken, yet defiant: Ecologists and climate scientists reveal devastating culture... The beauty and wonder of the natural world is what keeps scientists like Dana Bergstrom fighting to protect it. She's one of many who say speaking out comes at a cost  but not speaking up can take ...

Within some of Australia’s leading scientific agencies and govt departments there is a culture of suppression of ecologists and climate scientists that is happening at the same time as the threats they are warning of amplify.

At 84, Beverley loves her rose garden and living at home. Her council makes that possible When residents called on this Victorian council to keep providing in-home aged care services, it listened, despite recent federal reforms that have led other local governments to withdraw from the se...

Across regional Victoria many, if not most, local councils are reducing services to older residents despite the growing needs. It’s encouraging to see one council buck this trend.