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 Have you decided to host guests this holiday season and want to make sure your home is completely healthy and neat? I can help you out by sharing an article here that has tips on how to clean your home to keep it spotless and free from germs and allergens. Follow tips like using natural cleaning solutions, wiping surfaces, disinfecting areas as you go and keeping indoor plants to maintain good indoor air quality. You can also hire expert bond cleaners in Hobart to help you deep clean your home and keep it healthy for your guests and yourself. https://www.bondcleaninginhobart.com.au/how-to-clean-tips-for-keeping-your-home-healthy/

 A man has been charged with the shooting murder of escaped prisoner Nicholas Scott outside a home north of Hobart on Tuesday. The 20-year-old remains in custody and will appear before the Hobart Magistrates Court at a later time. Scott, 26, absconded from prison custody while being treated at the Royal Hobart Hospital (RHH) on Monday night, and police later discovered his body outside a house in Granton after responding to a report of a gunshot. Inside the house, they found a man with non-life-threatening injuries who was taken to the RHH for treatment. Read More: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-04/granton-man-charged-with-murder-of-nicholas-scott/101827170

 Farmers across Australia are anxiously watching long-term climate forecasts, with fears a hot and dry El Niño system could back up the current flood-inducing La Niña.     The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) has advised that 40 per cent of past La Niña events have switched to El Niño events in the same year that a La Niña has ended. This year's La Niña is expected to recede by autumn. The last El Niño resulted in a record-breaking drought from 2017 to 2020, and that has farmers worried. "I don't want to think about El Niño or another drought," Moree grain and beef producer Oscar Pearce said. Read More: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-04/bom-forecasts-40-per-cent-chance-el-nino-august-drought-fears/101826780

 Have you heard of a flatypus? How about a platysausage or a fattypus? These are all terms coined by Jack Ashby to describe badly-stuffed taxidermy platypuses. "I think they're the most amazing animals that ever evolved, and they are very popular in museums," he said. Dr Ashby, a Museum of Zoology assistant director at Cambridge University, says he has seen a lot of dodgy taxidermy in museums around the world during the course of his work. "Most of them are the wrong shape," he told ABC Radio Hobart's Kylie Baxter. Read More: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-05/poor-taxidermy-making-fattypuses-out-of-australian-animals/101827332