Is this one of Australia's most achievable first-home family buys?

Rising interest rates, soaring property prices and low listings have made some Aussies question whether they will ever become first-home buyers.

However, an agent has pitched the $85,000 four-bedroom, one-bathroom weatherboard home in the country town of Coonalpyn in South Australia as an "affordable" option.

On 1149 square metres, the property at 32 Peake Terrace requires TLC but has the bare bones in place.

Listed by Alastair Johnson of Spence Dix & Co Property, the home has also been angled at investors or renovators that are keen to "buy, improve and flip", given the farming district has a shortage of housing.

"With a little bit of vision and work, you can turn this house into a very comfortable home," Johnson says on the listing.

The home is situated on a large block with a shed for storage.

The timber floors could do with a revamp along with the stained carpet and some missing kitchen cabinetry.

Coonalpyn, which has a tourism industry and is known for its enormous silo mural, is experiencing a rental shortage for agriculture workers, the listing explains, offering the possibility of a return.

Sheep, cattle, wheat, barley, canola, beans and peas are farmed in the region, about 143km south east of Adelaide.

Emma Tetewsky is slowly recovering in hospital and is expected to be okay after she was stuck in the mud in a state park for at least three days.

Tetewsky, 31, was reported missing on June 26. Her parents told WBZ-TV she left her home in Stoughton, Massachusetts on Sunday night and left her cell phone in her bedroom. When she didn't return, they knew something was wrong. After several days, they began to lose faith.

"So many times this type of story ends sadly and I didn't have much hope at all. I thought she would have already succumbed to the elements," Emma's father, Avran Tetewsky, told WBZ.

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On Monday evening, police were called to Borderland State Park in Easton. Hikers told them they heard a woman screaming in a swamp. The hikers couldn't reach her but were able to point officers in the right direction. Three Easton police officers waded through the swamp and were able to pull her from the mud and carry her out safely.

"She called out for help. She said 'I need help.' I'm still in disbelief after a week that she could even do that because she didn't have food and she's pretty dehydrated," her mother Barbara Zinaman, told WBZ.

"It was traumatic to be stuck in the mud for as long as she was," Barbara said. "It's miraculous that they found her."

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"I want to thank everybody that's texted, called, emailed, showed love and concern," Zinaman said. "The search rescue teams and the county."

"All the community people who trekked through the woods with their dogs and of course these hikers, she wouldn't have been found," Emma's father told WBZ.

The family says Tetewsky has several mental challenges but loves to nature walk. She was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital in Brockton with injuries police said are serious, but not life-threatening.

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A letter found in a secret floor safe by renovators in New Zealand is finally making its way to the addressee, more than 30 years after it was written.

Thanks to helpful Stuff readers, our story about the secret Lower Hutt safe was passed to a close relative of Alfred and Muriel Clench, the now-deceased couple who installed the safe and wrote the letter.

New owners found the Clenches' letter at the bottom of a locked vault, cemented into the foundations under a false floor in a wardrobe, when they were working on their Korokoro​ home two years ago.

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It contained two items: instructions on how to reset the safe and a detailed letter from the Clenches, outlining the eight separate banks they kept their money and valuables in – including wallets and a canvas bag of jewellery.

As well as being a treasure map of sorts, the letter contained a personal message to their granddaughter – so the new homeowners were keen she receive it.

Eventually a newspaper clipping of the Stuff story about the vault's discovery made its way into the hands of Rosie Hislop​, whose father helped Alfred Clench build the house and install the safe decades ago.

Hislop was friends with the Clenches' daughter, Pamela Clench, who died in 2015.

She said Alf and Muriel Clench moved to Australia in 1991, where they lived with Pamela Clench and her husband Merv Doyle.

It came as a shock to Doyle that there had been anything in the safe, as he thought his father-in-law had cleaned out its contents long ago.

"That's where they kept all their valuables," he said, speaking from Boyne Island in Queensland.

"It's obviously something that he missed when he was cleaning out the safe."

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Doyle laughed when he heard the vault had been jackhammered out of the concrete – saying the new owners didn't need to cut the safe open if the original curtains were still hanging.

"On the bottom of the curtains [on a nearby window], sewn into the hem, was the combination to open the safe," he said.

Alfred and his brother Henry became well-known in Lower Hutt when their carpentry business took off. Muriel balanced the books in the early years.

When they eventually retired and decided to move to Australia to be nearer their daughter, the family reunion didn't last long, Doyle said.

Months after the move, Muriel died from complications from an undiagnosed brain tumour.

Her husband lived for another 16 years, then eight years later Pamela died as well, Doyle said.

He hasn't told his stepdaughter about the letter and hopes it will be "a nice little surprise" when he hands it over.

The woman who found the letter is putting it in the post.

This article originally appeared on Stuff and is republished here with permission.

Australia's southern states are bracing as a "series of cold fronts" prepares to unleash damaging winds, driving rain, and even snow and hail over the next several days.

Weatherzone said the conditions will endure for the next four to five days, warning "severe weather warnings are likely to be issued closer to the weekend".

A complex low-pressure system was seen passing to the south of Western Australia on Wednesday, generating extreme winds – and another cold front is chasing hot on its heels.

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"This brisk southwesterly airstream caused wind gusts of 98 km/h at Cape Leeuwin and 80km/h at Rottnest Island," the weather service said.

"While wind was lighter in Perth early on Wednesday, the air was still moving fast enough to make 12-13C feel more like 8C shortly after 6am."

Marine wind warnings are currently in effect for the Eucla Coast, Leeuwin Coast, Albany Coast and Esperance Coast.

Today a low of 8 degrees and a maximum of 17 degrees is forecast for Perth. 

As the low tracks eastwards over today and Friday, similar conditions are forecast for parts of southeastern Australia.

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"Cold air behind the front will also produce small hail and highland snow in some areas, adding to the wintry feel of this system," Weatherzone said.

"A second strong cold front will then reach SA on Friday before crossing southeastern Australia on Saturday.

"This system is likely to cause stronger winds, with damaging gusts possible in parts of SA, Vic, Tas, NSW and the ACT between Friday and Sunday.

"Showers, hail and snow are also likely near and in the wake of this powerful cold front."

The wild weather comes days after parts of outback Queensland were hit with a record-breaking unseasonable deluge.

Today Sydney will experience mostly sunny conditions, with a low of 9 degrees and a high of 18 degrees.

It will be slightly chillier in Melbourne, where a minimum of 9 degrees and a high of 15 degrees is expected. Late showers are also on the cards.

Afternoon rain is also threatening to fall over Canberra, which will experience a cold 0-degree start before the mercury climbs to 12C.

Hobart has a low of 5 degrees on the forecast and a high of 14 degrees.

It will be mostly sunny in Brisbane. Temperatures will range from 11 degrees to 24 degrees.

Showers will fall over Adelaide, where temperatures will fluctuate between 10 degrees and 14 degrees.

And Darwin will be mostly sunny. A low of 21 degrees is forecast before the mercury climbs to 33 degrees.

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Two months after the lavish coronation of King Charles III at Westminster Abbey in London, Scotland has hosted its own event to mark the new monarch's accession to the throne.

While Charles and Queen Camilla wasn't crowned a second time on Wednesday (early Thursday AEST) in Edinburgh, the festivities include a crown, horse-drawn carriages, mounted cavalry and a flyover by the Red Arrows, the Royal Air Force's aerobatic display team, as Scotland celebrates its unique relationship with the monarchy.

The focal point of the event is a service of thanksgiving at St Giles' Cathedral, where Charles was presented with the Scottish Honours — the crown, sceptre and sword of state. The Stone of Destiny, an important symbol of Scottish identity, was also be moved to the cathedral for the festivities.

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The presence of these icons of Scotland's nationhood is a mark of respect for a country that is fiercely proud of its history and where the desire of some for independence has never died, even though it has been bound to England and the United Kingdom since 1707.

Scotland's national government is led by the Scottish National Party, which is calling for a second independence referendum.

"It's not a coronation,'' said George Gross, an expert in coronations at King's College London.

''But it's very symbolic in that Scotland has its own identity.''

Wednesday's events in Edinburgh were a continuation of Charles' effort to cement ties with the people of the four nations that make up the United Kingdom as he tries to show that the 1000-year-old monarchy remains relevant in modern Britain.

Soon after the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, last September, Charles visited Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales before attending the state funeral in London.

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Just as May's coronation ceremony gave nods to the multicultural nature of Britain today, Wednesday's church service will include a psalm sung in Gaelic.

Charles was also presented with a new sword made by Scottish artisans and named after Elizabeth. The sword will be used in place of the current sword of state, which was made in 1507 and is too fragile for use in the ceremony.

But some Scots weren't celebrating as people throughout the UK face a cost-of-living crisis fuelled by high food and energy costs.

Our Republic, which campaigns for an elected head of state in Scotland, staged a protest rally outside the Scottish parliament to coincide with the coronation events.

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"The vast majority of Scotland didn't care to celebrate the coronation in May, with support for the monarchy at an all-time low in Scotland," the group said in a statement.

"Charles' perpetual need to celebrate his reign, with all the pomp and pageantry it requires, is a spit in the face to the people struggling with the cost of living."

The began in the early afternoon with a People's Procession that will travel down the Royal Mile from Edinburgh Castle to St Giles' Cathedral.

The procession included more than 100 people representing charities and public service groups such the Scottish Ambulance Service, the Royal Scottish Highland Games Association and the Girls' Brigade.

Shouts of "Not my King" could be heard from nearby protesters.

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The Scottish Honours followed behind escorted by police and military units.

Soon after, the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiments and a collection of military bands set off from the Palace of Holyroodhouse, the king's official residence in Edinburgh. Charles and Camilla then left the palace.

The one-hour service of thanksgiving was followed by a 21-gun salute and the Red Arrows flyover.

The festivities offered an opportunity for royal fans to celebrate Charles' coronation while also paying homage to Scotland's unique history.

Historically an independent country, Scotland was first linked to England in 1603 after the death of Queen Elizabeth I. Because the queen had no children, the crown passed to her cousin James VI who was already king of Scotland, uniting the two countries under a shared sovereign.

But Scotland remained independent until 1707 when lawmakers in both countries approved the Act of Union, which created the United Kingdom.

The public festivities were personally moving for Charles, who stood on roughly the same spot where he stood vigil last year, watching over his mother's coffin with the crown of Scotland resting on its lid.

"I think it would be extraordinary if that didn't have an impact on him or on any human being," said Gross, a visiting research fellow in theology at King's College London.

"It's very important in bringing the union together, just as after his mother died, after the late queen died, he did various services around the Union, Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland, so on. So he will be doing the same here. This is bringing things together."

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A massive clean-up is underway after a bus collided with a cement truck and crashed into two homes on the Mornington Peninsula this morning.

A dozen people were onboard the bus when it crashed on Dromana Parade at Safety Beach, south of Melbourne, about 11am.

Tim Green's family owns one of the affected properties and said the damage looked to be extensive.

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"I received a phone call to say there was a bus in our living room," Green said.

"My father built this house and it will get fixed.

"Everything is repairable but it won't be cheap."

Acting Sergeant Steve Newland said 12 people were on the bus, two in the truck, and said no occupants were inside the impacted homes at the time.

"It's very lucky these houses are holiday rentals and no one was occupying them at the time," Newland said.

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The truck was travelling north on Prescott Avenue when it collided with the bus.

Police believe the collision caused the bus to crash through a front fence of a house on Prescott Avenue before clipping its roof.

It continued to crash through another fence before hitting a house, causing extensive structural damage.

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The 44-year-old bus driver and a 17-year-old passenger were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

They remain at Frankston Hospital in a stable condition. 

Another passenger suffered minor injuries and was treated at the scene by paramedics.

The 32-year-old truck driver was uninjured and is assisting police with their enquiries.

A significant emergency service presence remains on the scene including four CFA units, SES, police and Ambulance Victoria.

Safety Beach is located 56km south of Melbourne.

Police will continue to investigate.

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