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Four people have died and a teenager is fighting for life after a car crash in Victoria’s west.
A car carrying five females was travelling along Wannon-Nigretta Falls Road at Bochara about 9.30am on Saturday when the driver lost control, hitting a tree. Four people died at the scene. The fifth, a teenage girl, was flown to the Alfred Hospital with upper body injuries in a critical condition, an Ambulance Victoria spokesman said.
Police cordoned off the area to allow major collision investigation unit detectives to probe the crash.04.41 BSTA pre-election promise by the New South Wales government to protect the state’s koala population from extinction has taken another step forward, with the purchase of a parcel of land for dedicated habitat.reports Koala-preferred bushland covering 4500 hectares near Port Macquarie on the state’s mid-north coast has been purchased by the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service.
Research shows koala populations in the wild will dwindle to the mere hundreds by 2050 if steps are not taken to protect them., said on Saturday the opportunity to buy large parcels of private land featuring koala habitat along the NSW coast are extremely rare, and described the move as “a big win”.
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