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A NSW Police district has jokingly listed its last Holden Commodore for sale on Facebook marketplace after retiring it.

Ryde Police Area Command listed its last-ever Commodore for $4900 on Thursday, after announcing its retirement earlier in the month.

The ad says the car was "driven by one elderly female driver to church", and claimed the car "never went over 80km/h".

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Police said they listed the car as a joke after multiple people asked if they could buy it, and included a funny nod to the absurdity of the request in the ad.

"[the car] Is a real head-turner, especially with the lights on.

"Serious buyers only, I know what I have."

And, just to make sure no one thought they'd be able to buy it, the post finished with the hashtag of #NotActuallyForSale.

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Lolita, an orca whale held captive for more than a half-century, died on Friday at the Miami Seaquarium as caregivers prepared to move her from the theme park in the near future.

The Seaquarium posted a statement from the nonprofit group Friends of Toki on social media that Lolita — also known as Tokitae, or Toki — started exhibiting serious signs of discomfort over the past two days.

Seaquarium and Friends of Toki medical team members began treating her immediately and aggressively, but the 57-year-old orca died from an apparent renal condition, the statement said.

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"Toki was an inspiration to all who had the fortune to hear her story and especially to the Lummi nation that considered her family," the Friends of Toki statement said.

"Those who have had the privilege to spend time with her will forever remember her beautiful spirit."

Animal rights activists have been fighting for years to have Lolita freed from her tank at the Miami Seaquarium.

The park's relatively new owner, The Dolphin Company, and the nonprofit Friends of Toki announced a plan in March to possibly move her to a natural sea pen in America's Pacific Northwest region, with the financial backing of Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay.

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"I am heartbroken that Toki has left us," Irsay said in a statement.

"Her story captured my heart, just as it did millions of others. I was honoured to be part of the team working to return her to her indigenous home, and I take solace in knowing that we significantly improved her living conditions this past year. Her spirit and grace have touched so many. Rest in peace, dear Toki."

The Lummi Nation, a Native American tribe based in Washington state, refers to orcas as "qwe 'lhol mechen," which means "our relations below the waves". The tribe has spent years working to secure Lolita's release and to return to her home waters.

"The Lummi Nation is saddened by the news that our beloved Orca relative has passed away at the estimated age of 57 years old," Chairman Tony Hillaire said in a statement.

"Our hearts are with all those impacted by this news; our hearts are with her family. We stand in solidarity with our Lummi members whom poured their hearts and souls into bringing Sk'aliCh'elh-tenaut home."

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Lolita retired from performing last spring as a condition of the park's new exhibitor's license with the US Department of Agriculture. She had not been publicly displayed since.

In recent months, new upgrades had been installed to better filter the pool and regulate her water temperature.

Federal and state regulators would have had to approve any plan to move Lolita, and that could have taken months or years. The 2,200-kilogram mammal had been living for years in a tank that measured 24 metres by 11 metres and was 6 metres deep.

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The heaviest snow since early July has fallen across the ski resorts of New South Wales and Victoria and the crowds didn't miss it, with visitors turned away on the road to Australia's largest ski resort Perisher on Saturday morning.

Perisher has so far received 32 centimetres of fresh snow in this storm, the highest amount of any Aussie resort, with totals of around 10 to 25 cm at most other resorts

The long-awaited first major blizzard of August 2023 began early on Friday and was on the forecasts all week, which explains the influx of snow-goers in what has thus far been a moderate season with crowds noticeably smaller on most days than in recent years.

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However just before 10 am on Saturday morning, Perisher sent out phone notifications as well as an update on its website stating that its parking lot was full, with traffic being turned around on the Kosciuszko Road which leads to the resort from the nearby town of Jindabyne.

Fortunately for those with tickets to Perisher, access to the resort is still possible via the Skitube, a railway which runs through the mountain to both Perisher Valley and Blue Cow (another part of the resort) via the Alpine Way.

So one way or another, snow lovers have been able to get their snow fix this wintry Saturday.

Despite this, locals report the road from Jindabyne to Perisher was "like a car park" as early as 7am.

Meanwhile these snowfalls have been particularly good news for Australia's smaller, lower-altitude resorts which have been struggling this winter.

Selwyn Snow Resort in NSW was effectively destroyed in the January 2020 Black Summer bushfires, which burned a third of Kosciuszko National Park.

Virtually all of the resorts's infrastructure was wiped out in the fires, and rebuilt over the last three years, and the resort finally reopened in June 2023, only to close again in early August due to lack of snow.

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The ski lifts and toboggan park are spinning again at Selwyn this Saturday, and the resort's snow cams show that the crowds haven't missed out on the action.

No significant snowfalls are on the horizon for Australia's high country in the next week or so.

So while the snowfalls of recent days have freshened up the cover, they haven't quite added enough to the base to turn a below-average snow season into a good one with spring fast approaching.