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FEELING THE PINCH: Median weekly rent costs have risen more than 20 per cent in some regional cities while wages continue to stagnate.

Some areas have seen prices jump by more than 20 per cent in the past year.

Weekly rent costs rise to new heights as wages stagnate

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Cold and flu-like symptoms are the highest they've been since COVID restrictions began in 2020.

Flu the roof: respiratory illness rise 'near vertical'

Labor leader Anthony Albanese. Picture: Sitthixay Ditthavong

The polls show the race is tightening with only three days until the federal election.

Live updates: Polls show race tightening, Albanese to address National Press Club

Hospitalisation numbers are down on yesterday.

NSW records more than 12,000 COVID cases, 14 deaths

VOTING RIGHT: A donkey vote (left) will still be counted whereas an informal vote (left) will be discarded.

What is a donkey vote? Does it differ from an informal vote? How do your preferences work?

Don't be a donkey: How to make sure your vote is counted correctly

Queenie describes her show 'Blue: The Songs of Joni Mitchell' as a love letter from one melancholy mother to another. Image credit: Kurt Sneddon. 

Star of the stage and screen, Queenie van de Zandt, celebrates the 50th anniversary of 'Blue', one of Joni Mitchell's most praised albums.

Queenie van de Zandt performs love letter to Joni Mitchell | Photos, Video

This is a sample of The Echidna newsletter sent out each weekday morning until the end of the election.

Don't you hate it when former PMs call at dinner?

Social media has helped countless conspiracies flourish. Picture: Shutterstock

Social media adds a new layer to fighting misinformation.

Don't believe all you read this election

Pre-poll voting centre. Photo: Adam McLean

Female voters have been found to be three times more likely than male voters to be undecided.

Key group of wavering voters could decide the election: ANU poll

Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Country Liberal Party's candidate for Solomon Tina MacFarlane. Picture: AAP

The two men vying for the prime ministership have weighed in on housing and health.

Leaders pivot election pitch to housing and health

Anthony Albanese attempted to dodge questions in Perth regarding the Labor's costings.

War of words erupts as Albanese dodges questions over policy costings

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg and Finance Minister Simon Birmingham have unveiled the Coalition's election costings in Melbourne on Tuesday. Picture: Sitthixay Ditthavong

The Coalition's election costings show $2.7 billion will be cut from the public sector over the next four years if it's re-elected.

'I expect results': Coalition to cut $2.7bn in spending to public sector

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This is a sample of The Echidna newsletter sent out each weekday morning till the end of the election.

Good luck changing the tone of politics

There are 1442 COVID-19 patients in hospital, with 59 in ICU.

NSW records 16 COVID-19 deaths

Throwback to Scott Morrison on the first day of the campaign. Picture: James Croucher

Stay tuned in here for all the developments as Australians turn out to decide who will lead the Parliament and the nation for the next three years.

As it happened: press chase Anthony Albanese after failing to get answers

Voting will be socially distanced this election, but we'll still be using the traditional paper ballots. Picture: Sitthixay Ditthavong

The pandemic election is upon us. How will COVID-19 impact the way we vote?

How COVID-19 will impact the way you vote

HUNG UP: If neither party obtains a majority of the 151 seats in the House of Representatives, it results in a hung parliament.

Punters are predicting a hung parliament to result at this week's federal election. So what is it and what happens next?

What is a hung parliament and is Australia likely to have one?

DRIVING FORWARD: Kildare Catholic College's Pat Ryan looks to send his team forward in the Carroll Cup game against Kooringal High School at Gumly Oval on Monday. Picture: Madeline Begley

Kildare Catholic College will get the chance to end Mater Dei's campaign on Wednesday.

Kildare, Mater Dei enjoy strong wins | Photos

BOMBED: A stray left to sniff around Borod Tower in Ukraine. Photo: supplied

As bombs and missiles rain down, artist and filmmaker George Gittoes is feeling increasingly unnerved about his safety in Ukraine.

'War is on our doorstep': Filmmaker fears for safety in Ukraine

Defence Minister Peter Dutton described a Chinese warship's sailing off the coast of Western Australia as "an aggressive act". Picture: Keegan Carroll

"All this rhetoric by Mr Dutton is just politics. His language around war ... all this sort of stuff that's gone on for the last year is highly dangerous," the WA Premier said.

Dutton is 'biggest threat to national security', WA Premier says

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UP IN ARMS: Fourth-generation Merino woolgrower and beef farmer Alistair Lade, Highlands, says there is limited information about the controversial wind farm project.

A confidential plan to build a wind farm in Victoria has been revealed as farmers criticise the proponents of the project due to a lack of information.

Plans for Victoria's biggest wind farm revealed in leaked documents

Australia 's Astra Sharma has reached the last eight of the Morocco Open.

Tomljanovic, Sharma into Morocco quarters

Russia's defence ministry says 265 fighters surrendered at the Azovstal steelworks.

Ukraine and Russia: what you need to know

Eritrea's Biniam Girmay celebrates on the podium after winning the 10th stage of the Giro D'Italia.

Flying cork could put Girmay out of Giro

Patients in ambulances are being turned away from Queensland's public hospitals, the LNP says.

LNP claims Qld hospital bypass returns

Currently, a loss of diesel imports would mean a big loss of food supply. Photo: Shutterstock

As things stand, food security still also requires fuel security

Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak confirmed that talks were "on hold" with Russia.

Russia, Ukraine peace talks stall

The Full Court has dismissed Viagogo's appeal of a 2019 decision ordering it to pay a penalty.

Viagogo loses appeal over $7m penalty

The Sydney shooting was "another organised crime intimidation style", Det Supt Darren Bennett says.

Shootings continue as Sydney home targeted

Tokyo Olympian Nathan Katz will make his Commonwealth Games judo debut for Australia in Birmingham

Katz brothers in Comm Games judo team

David Chou was arraigned on charges of murder, attempted murder and use of a destructive device.

US church shooter had gun licence

A Sydney study looked at the effect of COVID-19 on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients.

Viral load worse for lung disease patients

Tiger Woods is gunning for major title number 16 at this week's PGA Championship in Oklahoma.

Woods confident of a PGA Championship win

Police seeking help to identify two wanted men after property targeted by thieves.

Hunt for wanted men as home raided for cash, jewellery, farm gear

Brisbane police are waiting to speak to a man after a suspicious device sparked two sieges.

Man in hospital after Brisbane sieges

InSight has detected more than 1300 marsquakes since landing on Mars in 2018.

Dusty demise looms for NASA Mars lander

Investigators doubt Donald Trump "would add any more value with his testimony".

US Capitol panel unlikely to call Trump

'SORT IT OUT': The PSA's assistant secretary Troy Wright has written to Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce amid claims of research job cuts. Picture: Sitthixay Ditthavong

It follows claims by the Public Service Association that 10 local jobs are set to go.

Wagga job 'cuts' are the Coalition's fault: Jeffreson

A DA reader says young families do not need to be told to use their super to get a roof over their heads.

Letters: Morrison's super first home buyer plan is 'not a solution'

CAMPAIGN: Liberal Democrat candidate Dean McCrae says he wants to reduce the amount of control the government has over people's lives.

The Daily Advertiser is profiling each of the people vying to win the seat of Riverina at the May 21 election.

Former cook offers Riverina voters an 'alternative voice'

GOING GREEN: Crow Mow owner Steve Ween is swapping all of his gas-guzzling gardening equipment for battery-powered alternatives. Picture: Madeline Begley

"We are an industry that cares for the environment and I thought, well, maybe we should care about it as well."

Wagga gardener begins huge move away from petrol-powered equipment

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Licensee Ben Stratton will be hosting live gigs this weekend before the Red Steer changes hands next week. Picture: Madeline Begley

The current management will farewell the pub with live gigs, before handing over the keys.

Red Steer Hotel sells to Sydney buyer as Wagga's pub carousel continues

CHARGED: Anne Geeves is arrested at a property near Harden on May 4. Ms Geeves and her former husband, Robert, have been charged with murder. Picture: Police

The 61-year-old was refused bail in Young Local Court.

Woman accused of murdering Amber Haigh too sick to appear in court

INVESTIGATION UNDER WAY: Police to temporarily close section of Snowy Mountains Highway to investigate fatal crash. Picture: File

Motorists are advised to delay their journeys as there is no alternative detour.