Craig Wisby and Mason Waller got a surprise tap on the shoulder by Australian Idol judge Marcia Hines to audition for an idol spot with a Golden Ticket. Hines went to Tasmania for a “wildcard diamond” ...

Marcia Hines believes ‘it’s high time’ Tasmania made history to have its first Australian Idol winner, and the judge went to the extreme to hand-pick two ‘gems’. Craig Wisby and Mason Waller got a ...

Resuming on the strength of his slashing Breeders’ Plate success last October, the son of 2021 Slipper hero Stay Inside was expected to further solidify his claims for the world’s richest race for two ...

A union says it will push for all public servants in NSW to be eligible for nearly nine months’ severance pay if the Minns government refuses to slash the “golden parachute” provision for top bosses.

A new superannuation fund brand tracker is being rolled out, with some metrics measured producing interesting results. The new Brand Tracker by Conjointly tracks the brand performance of the nation's ...

Hollywood is always keen to feed us the cinematic cliché of massive, dust-covered spider webs stretching across deep jungle ruins. But in the forests of Madagascar, reality actually outdoes the movies ...

What makes spider silk so extraordinarily strong and elastic at the same time? This was the focus of recent investigations carried out by researchers from the University of Greifswald, the University ...

Spider silk looks delicate — thin, shiny, almost fragile. But on a strength-to-weight basis, it can outperform steel. The silk produced by golden orb weaver spiders reaches tensile strengths of up to ...