Tasmania’s basketball team the JackJumpers have won their first NBL title after defeating Melbourne United 83-81 on Sunday. In just their third season in the comp, their success bodes well for the state’s new Tassie Devils AFL team when it lands in 2028. 

A sniffer dog called Vespa officially has the best nose in the business after winning the 2024 NSW Service Dog Award at the Sydney Royal Easter Show. The black labrador made a record-breaking 739 interceptions at Sydney International Airport in 2023, so he has great form…

And a plumber from regional Victoria has gone from pipes to planets after being awarded a medal by the Astronomical Society of Australia. Rod Stubbings is one of 3 people in the world to make 400,000 measurements of the brightness of variable stars to help astronomers better understand the Milky Way. An amateur star is born…