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'Kakadu of the South' awash with life as birds, fish return after rains Posted September 02, 2020 10:00:10 A wetland in south-western NSW is brimming with life thanks to winter rain and environmental water flows.

Police say it could be up to a week before it is known what caused the death of eight-year-old Trinity Bates at Bundaberg in south-east Queensland. Her body was found in a drain near her home on Monday morning. Police say they have finished a post mortem examination, and the report finalised, but it will not be released publicly. Bundaberg man Allyn John Slater, 19, has been charged with one count of murder in relation to the death and police say there are no further charges pending at this stage.

Wally Pare came to Australia as a 15 year old in 1939, and trained as an army radio operator on the outbreak of World War Two. One day, he was asked to volunteer for something secretive, something dangerous, something which posed a real risk he may not come home. A young man with a taste for adventure, he ageed. He found himself on Fraser Island training with a shadowy team with operated outside the Geneva Convention, today known as Z Special Forces.