| Surrounded by twisted sheet metal, blackened earth and melted homes, Mark Peters and Kim Harper could only take in the scene. Ms Harper was on the phone to her mother: "They're all gone Mum!" |
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| Seven people and at least 176 homes have been confirmed lost in the New Year's Eve fires that have swept through South Coast communities. |
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| As South Coast residents and tourists struggle to work out what was lost in the bushfires, stories continue to emerge of the devastation. |
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| The new year has brought thick smoke haze to Canberra, and some of the highest levels of air pollution ever seen in the capital. |
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| Customers queued outside Milton's IGA to buy food and water as the district went without power after the South Coast fires. |
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| Insurers are bracing for a huge damage bill as the scale of the NSW bushfires' destruction slowly begins to emerge. |
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| Australia could have gone to war with Iraq in 1998, five years before the US invasion which toppled Saddam Hussein, documents reveal. |
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| Defence admitted morale had been hit hard by massive reforms in 1997 that involved axing 5600 jobs and closing 30 bases and installations. |
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| As the smoke rolled into Canberra on New Year's Eve and the clock struck midnight, Rebecca Kirby and Roary Beggs barely noticed. |
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| Opinion: As we stand poised at the beginning of a new decade, we have a stark choice before us, writes Nicholas Stuart. |
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| From Summernats to The Greatest Showman, here’s our tip for what to get up to this weekend. |
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| Mr Bean has become so familiar, so comfortably part of our pop-culture tapestry, that it's easy to miss how striking a creation he is. |
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