7 October 2026
Australia's oldest living person, Ken Weeks, turns 113.
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7 October 2026
Researchers found the shift from open woodland to dense forest after 1788 led to more intense fires, consistent with loss of cultural burning practices Sign up for climate and environment editor Adam Morton’s free Clear Air newsletter here The drastic land use changes wreaked by colonisation created a “catastrophic wildfire loop” that rendered south-east Australia more susceptible to climate-fuelled bushfires, experts say. A team of researchers, working with the Gunaikurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation, an organisation that represents traditional owners, reconstructed 1,000 years of vegetation and fire history at Purghagoolah, a lake surrounded by forest in Croajingolong national park in Gippsland, Victoria.
7 October 2026
Australia play their first test in South Africa since the 2018 ball-tampering scandal when they start a three-match series in Durban on Friday, with the visitors unlikely to face more than a few ...
7 October 2026
A Royal Australian Mint coin commemorates the black box flight recorder, invented by defense scientist David Warren after investigating the 1950s Comet crashes.
7 October 2026
The ancient disease of plague is back in the headlines after the death this month of a Russian lab worker. (Image credit: Science Source )
7 October 2026
David Cowan's reputation unravelled after three victims disclosed historical sexual abuse, leading to him being jailed for more than five years.
7 October 2026
Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka is downplaying tensions within his coalition over his unilateral decision to announce the date for the country's first-ever referendum ahead of an upcoming election.
7 October 2026
Kim Dotcom previously gave millions of dollars to a failed political party - now his wife is putting cash into a different party.
