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Townsville Floods
How Queensland is being soaked by an 'unprecedented monsoonal burst'
The north Queensland coast hasn't seen anything like it before. Homes are flooding, dams are overflowing and still the rain keeps pouring down. What's going on?
- by Peter Hannam & Nigel Gladstone
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Sex & relationships
Miriam Margolyes: 'Men still hold the balance, but it’s getting better'
Actor Miriam Margolyes speaks on her career and the men who have influenced her.
- by Robyn Doreian
Extreme weather
'Extraordinarily fortunate': How NSW has dodged the worst fire weather
NSW has so far been spared the severe fire dangers this summer that might have been expected given the record heat for the state - and Australia overall - for both December and January.
- by Peter Hannam
Extreme weather
'Dome of hot air': Australia blows away heat records
Sophie Lewis, a climate researcher at the University of NSW, specialising in heatwaves ,says it's like nothing she has seen before.
- by Peter Hannam & Rachel Clun
Extreme weather
'Exceptionally hot, exceptionally dry': January was Australia's hottest month on record
As temperature records tumbled across the country, Victorians experienced one of our hottest and driest Januaries since records began.
- by Simone Fox Koob & Rachel Clun
Extreme weather
January was Australia's hottest month on record, Bureau says
January was Australia's second record-breaking month of high temperatures in a row.
- by Rachel Clun
Extreme weather
Global warming hasn't gone away despite cold as Trump suggests in tweet
While the Midwest is in the grip of a chill that's likely to set records, the earth is still considerably warmer than it was 30 years ago and especially 100 years ago.
Extreme weather
'A January to forget': Hot end to month puts heat records in play
Sydney is tracking its hottest January on record, and the oppressive humidity has only made temperatures less bearable.
- by Peter Hannam
Extreme weather
Hot air from Australia causes New Zealand heatwave
Parts of Hawke's Bay on the east coast of New Zealand’s North Island, and Richmond in the Nelson area of the upper South Island topped the scale at 35 degrees.
- by Paul Gorman
Extreme weather
Woman evacuated off the top of the Sydney Harbour Bridge with heat exhaustion
A woman has been evacuated off the top of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, after suffering heat exhaustion while completing the bridge climb.
- by Sarah Muller
Extreme weather
Adelaide records hottest ever day on record
Adelaide is sweltering through its hottest day in 130 years of records, with the mercury reaching 46.2C in the city.