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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

Wauchope resident Anthony Mahr is asking people not to pat or feed his guide dog. Photo: Liz Langdale. 

Anthony Mahr is asking people not to pat or feed his guide dog.

'Shadow is my eyes': Plea not to distract guide dogs

This is a sample of The Echidna newsletter sent out each weekday morning .

Voters biting the hand that never fed them

Member for Cowper, Pat Conaghan. Photo: Mardi Borg

For the first time since Federation, the seat of Cowper is in limbo

Pat Conaghan on lessons learned and being in election limbo

SAD NEWS: Jackie Monk has paid tribute to her husband David Kiefel.

Wife pays tribute to much-loved husband David Kiefel after long battle.

61-year-old dies from Japanese encephalitis

Hydrogen has been touted by many as the answer to climate change. So what's the deal with it?

Will hydrogen technology be the answer to Australia's emissions woes?

The interim Albanese frontbench. Picture: AAP 

Crossbenchers Rebekha Sharkie, Bob Katter, Andrew Wilkie, Helen Haines and Zali Steggall have given Labor confidence of supply.

Labor secures support for a working minority government, but hopeful of more

The May 23 post-election front pages of publisher ACM's daily newspapers in NSW, Victoria, Tasmania and the ACT

From Barnaby country to Labor's heartlands: what the ACM papers say

Ovens Murray Public Health Unit operations manager Jody Bellette said there were significant concerns about influenza.

Vaccine offered at hub as concerns grow around 'significant' flu season

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

The hoary old chestnut of hip-pocket politics no longer cuts it

UGLY SCENES: Video has emerged of two men brawling in Newcastle on Sunday morning before a third man is stabbed. 

A man has been stabbed during an ugly brawl between two groups in Newcastle in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Man stabbed repeatedly during ugly brawl

Anthony Albanese has been sworn in as prime minister before heading to Tokyo for a Quad meeting.

Mr Albanese and Senator Wong will head to Tokyo on Monday afternoon.

Albanese sworn in as 31st prime minister

Anthony Albanese and new Labor MP for Reid Sally Sitou on Sunday morning. Picture: AAP

Labor's Sally Sitou said her own victory proved voters wanted politicians who 'reflect the community'.

Albanese takes first steps of governing, as Liberal recriminations begin

LONG HAUL: Member for Farrer Sussan Ley, with supporters on Saturday night, has not ruled out putting her hand up to lead the Liberals, and affirmed she is committed to serving a full term after her re-election. Picture: JAMES WILTSHIRE

Member for Farrer Sussan Ley says it's up to party to choose leadership

Ley not ruling herself out for leadership, with lessons to learn for Libs

OUT OF MY WAY: Myrtleford's Paul Mazambi proves too strong for Ntagawa Jackson in the Savoy's impressive 6-2 win. Picture: JAMES WILTSHIRE

It was a passage of play which completely changed the coaches' team talks.

Once is bad enough but twice in five minutes? That's calamitous

Michael McCormack with wife Catherine, daughter Georgina and Georgina's partner Daniel Bell (left) and son Alex and Alex's partner Jemma Yates celebrate at Wagga's Murrumbidgee Turf Club after declaring victory in the Riverina in the 2022 federal election. Picture: Madeline Begley.

Riverina MP Michael McCormack has thanked voters for returning him for a fifth time

Riverina MP 'pleased' by victory, pledges to serve full term

Josh Frydenberg (left) appears to be among a number unseated moderate Libs, as Simon Birmingham says the party needs to bring more women into the fold. Picture: AAP

Peter Dutton is the heir-apparent for the Liberal leadership, but moderates want someone who can bring more women into the fold.

Libs moderates seek Morrison successor to increase women in the party

It was Soctt Morrison's way or the highway. And he was wrong. Picture: AAP

Voters have given a mandate for a federal ICAC with teeth and serious climate action.

The flawed political gambit that lost the election

Outgoing Prime Minister Scott Morrison and former Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins. Pictures: AAP, Karleen Minney

Every single pollster said the women were coming for Morrison. Every single pollster was right.

Women driving change: The moment that seeded a movement

TOUGH NIGHT: Barnaby Joyce made a solemn victory speech in Tamworth. Photo: Mark Kriedemann

The Nationals have avoided the bloodbath voters inflicted on the Liberals by retaining all 16 of their electorates, but the party's hopes of picking up new seats have been dashed.

Nationals defy Coalition bloodbath and look set to hold all seats

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ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK: Australians want a responsible transition to renewable energy. Picture: SHUTTERSTOCK

Here's what came through as the priorities in the federal election

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here we are happily in the middle!

ON SCENE: Police outside the Mate Street unit on Monday. 

Clint Dennis William Bihler to remain in custody

Man accused of Mate Street axe attack refused bail in Albury court

GIVING GENEROUSLY: West End Plaza centre manager Nicole Singh with Carevan's Leanne Johnson, director Jacqui Partington and State Protective Services regional manager Cheryl McIntyre. Picture: MARK JESSER

Carevan asks for food and blankets in winter appeal to warm 500 plus

INSTITUTE UNVEILED: Charles Sturt University Vice-Chancellor Professor Renee Leon and Interim executive director of the Gulbali Institute for Agriculture, Water and Environment Professor Lee Baumgartner in a temperature controlled space with Stocky Galaxia, an endangered fish. Picture: MARK JESSER

The Gulbali Institute is at the CSU Albury-Wodonga campus

Saving fish and rivers among goals for new CSU research institute

Albury's Mia Lavis in action during a rep netball carnival in Albury last year.

It's set to be a big weekend at J.C King Park

Albury gearing up to host major netball carnival again this weekend

One in two Australians are diagnosed with cancer before the age of 85.

Tea off on cancer this May

The Liberal Party has lost its identity in its coalition with the Nationals. Is it time for a partnership rethink? Pictures: Keegan Carroll, James Croucher, Sitthixay Ditthavong

The election result is part of a trend of a declining vote for the two major parties that began in 2010 and is not likely to stop.

The Liberal Party has a stinker of a problem with its Coalition partner

Former PM John Howard with Ryan MP Julian Simmonds during the campaign. Mr Simmonds was defeated by the Greens. Picture: AAP

Perhaps those blaming the voters for getting it wrong should take a long, hard look at themselves.

This is what happens when you treat voters like misbehaving teenagers

Prime Minister Scott Morrison is briefed on the east coast flooding disaster at Emergency Management Australia in February. Picture: AAP

Wedges no longer work. Australians want a serious and reliable climate plan, and resetting the environmental agenda must be the priority over the next three years.

Australians want climate action. Conservatives should listen

Independent candidate Zoe Daniel defeated Liberal MP Tim Wilson for the seat of Goldstein in an election that saw a record number of women elected to Parliament. Picture: AAP

Anger about the Coalition Government's lack of action on gender equality has been one of the issues propelling the teal independents into parliament.

Her rights at work: how will women be treated in the new parliament?

Incoming Prime Minister Anthony Albanese signs a poster for twin brothers in Sydney's inner west on Sunday. Picture: AAP

The Teal and Green revolution shows Australians simply want the government to do the right thing.

Let this be the end of the revolving door in government

Now is the time for the Commonwealth to stop Victorian/NSW stonewalling

OUR SAY: Disunity's a disaster for public health needs of our Border community

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YOUR SAY: Ley would make a good leader for the Liberals

YOUR SAY: Scott Morrison's lack of leadership on full display

YOUR SAY: Denial of sheep footage's authenticity anything but true

INDI ORANGE: Indi MP Helen Haines launches her bid to be re-elected last month. Picture: JAMES WILTSHIRE