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› Melbourne Assembly day three as it happened: Carroll pledges election sweetener for first home buyers; Wilson claims paying down debt will make Melbourne more liveable › Call Her Daddy star Alex Cooper welcomes first child with husband Matt Kaplan › Helen Haines loses second leg after attack outside office › Helen Haines live coverage: Helen Haines’s second leg amputated but she is stable and ‘a fighter’, husband says › Helen Haines has lost both legs after Monday’s alleged attack but ‘her heart and mind in good shape’, husband says › Helen Haines’ husband Phil reveals surgeons have amputated both of MP’s legs injured in alleged attack › The ‘generous’ words Helen Haines had for her rescuers › Emergency services respond to major HAZMAT incident at high school › Australia at 'crossroads' as police warn of 'tsunami' of radicalisation › Alyson Hannigan uses actual Buffy the Vampire Slayer props for Halloween display › Melbourne Assembly day three as it happened: Carroll pledges election sweetener for first home buyers; Wilson claims paying down debt will make Melbourne more liveable › Call Her Daddy star Alex Cooper welcomes first child with husband Matt Kaplan › Helen Haines loses second leg after attack outside office › Helen Haines live coverage: Helen Haines’s second leg amputated but she is stable and ‘a fighter’, husband says › Helen Haines has lost both legs after Monday’s alleged attack but ‘her heart and mind in good shape’, husband says › Helen Haines’ husband Phil reveals surgeons have amputated both of MP’s legs injured in alleged attack › The ‘generous’ words Helen Haines had for her rescuers › Emergency services respond to major HAZMAT incident at high school › Australia at 'crossroads' as police warn of 'tsunami' of radicalisation › Alyson Hannigan uses actual Buffy the Vampire Slayer props for Halloween display

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‘Human composting’ laws pass parliament in Australian first

Brisbane Times · 21 October 2026 at 4:47 pm

‘Human composting’ laws pass parliament in Australian first

So-called terramation will become legal in NSW, with several MPs revealing they want their own bodies turned into soil after they die.

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