“Best Decision Ever!” Woman Moves into Retirement Home at 38
A 38-year-old Australian woman who has been living in a retirement home for a year claims moving there as a way to start over was the best decision she ever made. After her long-term romantic relationship with her partner came to an end, the 38-year-old woman, who preferred to remain anonymous, decided it was time […]
Australian Island Birds Are So Full of Plastic They Crackle and Crunch
Australian scientists have discovered that mutton birds on Lord Howe Island have so much plastic in their stomachs that they clackle and crunch under slight pressure. Lord Howe, a tiny volcanic island on Australia’s east coast, is home to around 500 humans and over 44,000 shearwaters, aka mutton birds, a species of long-winged seabirds. It’s […]
Radio Station Secretely Uses AI Host for Six Months Without Anyone Noticing
An Australian radio station has come under fire for reportedly using an AI-generated female host for six months without mentioning it before listeners started questioning “her” identity. Last year, Australian Radio Network’s CADA station, which broadcasts in Sydney, introduced a new host named Thy and even created a new show for her called Workdays with […]
Man Faces 10 Years in Prison for Trying to Collect All the Elements in the Periodic Table
An Australian man is accused of breaking his country’s nuclear non-proliferation laws for ordering a sample of plutonium online in a bid to collect all the elements in the periodic table. In August of 2023, 24-year-old Emmanuel Lidden was arrested at his parents’ house in Sidney, Australia, during a major operation that involved Australian Border […]
High School Teacher Allegedly Identifies as Cat, Growls at Students
An Australian high school teacher has come under fire from concerned parents for allegedly identifying as cat and acting weird in front of students. Australian media have been reporting on the bizarre case of a teacher at Marsden State High School in Logan City, Queensland, who reportedly asked students to refer to her as “Ms. […]
Woman Who Played Bride in “Fake Wedding” Shocked to Learn She Got Married for Real
An Australian woman asked to have her marriage annulled in Court, claiming that she was tricked into it by her husband who told her that it was just a stunt to boost his Instagram following. The woman, whose name has not been revealed by the Court, told the presiding judge that she met her husband […]
Australian Supermarket Uses GPS Locators to Discourage Meat Theft
Australian supermarket chain Drakes recently started a trial of putting GPS locators on expensive meats in order to reduce losses caused by shoplifting. A South Australian supermarket chain has become so exasperated with meat shoplifting that it is currently trialing a security system that involves putting cuts of expensive meat into transparent cases fitted with […]
Man Fakes His Own Kidnapping to Hide Infidelity from Girlfriend
An Australian man reportedly made his girlfriend believe that he had been kidnapped so he could spend New Year’s Eve with his mistress. 35-year-old Paul Iera narrowly avoided jail time after he admitted before a judge that he had concocted an elaborate lie to hide his infidelity from his girlfriend, wasting tens of thousands of […]
Man Tries to Sue Hospital Claiming That Witnessing Wife’s C-Section Left Him with ‘Psychotic Illness’
An Australian man tried to sue a Melbourne hospital claiming that he was ‘permitted’ and even ‘encouraged’ to attend his wife’s C-section, which caused the onset of a mental illness. In January of 2018, Anil Koppula’s wife gave birth to a healthy baby via cesarean section at the Royal Women’s Hospital in Melbourne. He was […]
Woman Under Investigation After Serving Deadly Mushrooms to Former In-Laws
An Australian woman believed to have invited her former in-laws over for lunch only to serve them highly poisonous mushrooms claims she knew nothing about the poisonous ingredients and had no reason to hurt her guests. Two weeks ago, Erin Patterson, a 48-year-old woman from Leongatha, near Melbourne, invited her ex-husband’s parents to her house […]
Toyota Land Cruiser Drives 7 Km Underwater, Sets New World Record
A group of car enthusiasts in Australia recently drove a 1978 Toyota Landcruiser seven kilometers on the bottom of the ocean, setting a new world record for the longest underwater drive. On the morning of July 29th, a bright orange Toyota LandCruiser drove into the northern Australian Sea to the cheers of dozens gathered at […]
Landlord Driven Nuts by Tenant Who Underpays Rent by 1 Cent Per Week
An Australian landlord took to a Facebook group to vent his frustration with a tenant who deliberately underpays his rent by one cent every week. The anonymous homeowner wrote on a landlord Facebook group asking his peers for advice on how to handle a cheeky tenant who reportedly underpays the rent by 1 cent every […]
Family Refuse $33 Million Offer to Sell ‘Nail House’ to Property Developers
A family in Sidney, Australia is being praised for resisting the urge to sell their property to developers who have bought all the land around it, despite being offered tens of millions of dollars for it. The Zammit family home has become one of the most famous properties in Sydney both because of the way […]
Hotel EastLink – Getting a Room Here Is Literally Impossible
Located alongside a motorway outside of Melbourne, in Australia’s Victoria state, lies Hotel EastLink. At least what looks like a high-rise hotel, because in reality, it’s just an unusual sculpture. Designed by local artist Callum Morton, the Hotel EastLink was unveiled in 2007, and it has been confusing motorists ever since. It’s not as large […]
Lajamanu – The Arid Australian Town Where It Keeps Raining Fish
Lajamanu, a remote community in the Australian outback, near the Tanami Desert, recently experienced its fourth rain of fish in the last 50 years. They say lightning never strikes in the same place twice, but apparently the same cannot be said about raining fish. The arid town of Lajamanu, in the Northern Territory outback, sees […]