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Painting bought in a country shed for $1 could be by artistic great Tom Roberts and worth $50,000

English-born Tom Roberts (1856-1931) was one of Australia s greatest painters His major works include Bailed Up, Shearing the Rams and The Golden Fleece A woman from the Hunter Valley believes she bought a Roberts portrait for $1 Experts say it looks like a Roberts but its provenance could not be established A Newcastle lawyer took on the task and says she has now solved the mystery  Portrait of a Woman could be worth $50,000 if it is accepted to be by Roberts  Do you know more? Please contact stephen.gibbs@mailonline.com

The beach town where house prices have surged by 40% in ONE year

House sale prices in one beach town have surged by 40 per cent in just one year as more professionals fled the big city. Austinmer in Wollongong s coastal north was one of Australia s best performing property markets in 2020 as working from home became more common. In December 2019, before the Covid pandemic, the town south of Sydney near Royal National Park, had a median house price $1.16million but a year later, this surged to $1.6million, Digital Finance Analytics has revealed.  That difference represented an increase of 40.1 per cent when house settlement prices in December 2019 were compared with last month.  Austinmer in Wollongong s coastal north was one of Australia s best performing property markets in 2020 as more people could work from home with median house exchange prices surging by 40.1 per cent in one year as more people could work from home

Man found clinging to a sea beacon after falling overboard waved his shorts at passing vessels

A boatie who was flung off his boat into the churning sea stripped naked and waved his board shorts in the air in a desperate bid to be rescued. David Simpson, 64, was aboard his yacht MV Focus in waters off Caloundra, on Queensland s Sunshine Coast, on Tuesday when a violent storm swept over.  As he rushed to tie down a dinghy, a massive wave smashed against the vessel and knocked him overboard. A rescue operation was launched after the vessel (pictured) was found at the northern tip of Bribie Island, off the coast of Caloundra, in the Sunshine Coast, about 4pm Tuesday with the engine running and no one on board