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Free childcare a relief for parents, centres

Parents and childcare centres have welcomed the government’s decision to make childcare free across Australia from next week.

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Capital Chemist Chisholm simply the best

Capital Chemist Chisholm has been named the Guild Pharmacy of the Year 2020, thriving in one of the toughest years imaginable.

How to exercise outside - if you must

No leisure activity in a crowd is permitted - and a crowd is more than two people. The police are watching. So what can you do?

Rapana getting in swing of things

He's taken a flamethrower to the backyard, cleaned all his golf clubs and ordered a hitting net to get his golf fix.

'One slip and everyone's out of a job'

Joe Cleary's been adhering to the strict social restrictions to ensure the racing industry can keep going for as long as possible.

Times Past

Former prime minister Gough Whitlam flagged new measures to assist Vietnamese refugees and orphans on this day in 1975, as the end of the Vietnam War drew near. Royal Australian Air Force aircraft were set to carry Australian-bound Vietnamese orphans into the country. The federal government was also set to give an extra $1 million in aid to refugees in South Vietnam. READ MORE