The reactions to news items about Helen Haines, especially on YouTube but here too, illustrate how serious a problem this is. All A.Bell could do in public was withdraw but she needs also to ask herself why this is the sort of thought that comes to her.

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Dear ABC, a map would have helped considerably. More than the Rainbow Bee-eater, for example.

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The federal court has overturned a rare protection order issued by former environment minister Tanya Plibersek under Indigenous heritage legislation, which the company said effectively blocked a goldmine in the central west of New South Wales. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Federal independent MP for Indi, Helen Haines, is in critical condition after being struck by car outside her electorate office in Wangaratta, Victoria, at about 3.35pm Monday She has been taken to Melbourne’s Alfred Hospital, where she underwent surgery overnight www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Carpentarian grasswrens, palm cockatoos and hundreds of ecologically significant wetlands will be protected in new national parks in Qld. 👏 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

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