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Health From brain foods to simple snacks the kids will love, make packing school lunches easy with these top tips, writes Anooska Tucker-Evans.

Health FOUR new cases of a potentially fatal lung infection may have stemmed from Sydney CBD buildings, prompting a health warning.

Environment SIR David Attenborough has issued a dark warning about the “wholesale” destruction of our planet if world leaders don’t act to protect precious ecosystems.

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Opinion A HEARTBREAKING letter from an indigenous girl begging to leave a mission in Queensland explains why we keep having the change the date debate.

Politics Clive Palmer has lost yet another attempt to block criminal charges being brought against him.

News THE childhood home of former prime minister Gough Whitlam is under imminent threat of being levelled by bulldozers.

News This mum cheated death when a freeway sign crushed her car. But despite walking away, the nightmare isn’t over.

Crime In a fateful meeting, two cops have stumbled upon an alleged dealer sitting in a car before he unwittingly offered the officers the “good stuff”.

Crime Cops have swooped on flight attendants allegedly used a sneaky trick to smuggle high-grade heroin and ice into Sydney and Melbourne.

Money If you bought a lottery ticket in Sydney’s CBD in December, you’d want to make sure you triple-checked your numbers.

Pets & Animals A litter of blue-tongue lizards have a chance at life thanks to a good samaritan and a Sunshine Coast veterinarian.

Crime THE Bangalow man is facing 214 charges, including bestiality, producing child abuse material and stealing women's and children's underwear.

News You can delete your Facebook and Twitter accounts but you cannot escape being profiled, a new study from the University of Adelaide has revealed.

Crime MURDERED South Australian grandfather Steven Hinrichsen was “slashed and stabbed” in the head 50 times, a court has heard.

Council News The New York artist behind the controversial M1 lights at Yatala is furious about plans to tear them down, saying we’ve failed to understand.

News Long-time Surf Life Saving Queensland chief executive officer John Brennan has announced he is stepping down.

Property FIVE Aussie cities have been ranked among the world’s 20 priciest with many of the country’s regional towns also deemed more unaffordable than New York.

Crime A PROMINENT Barossa Valley wine identity has pleaded not guilty in court to child sex charges relating to alleged offences dating back in the mid 90s.

Business A WELL-regarded Queensland restaurant owner is picking up the pieces after the business was placed into liquidation less than 18 months after opening.

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Crime A mother and son have been accused of being the drug king pins behind a major Queensland drug trafficking network that has been smashed by police.