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A power company is defending dozens of job losses across the western region, saying they represent a small proportion of staff in each town.

State Labor MP for Newcastle Tim Crakanthorp has accused the Government of arrogance and wasting taxpayer's money by now seeking Parliament's approval to shut the city's rail line.

The new deputy mayor of Parkes says she hopes her appointment encourages other women in the region to consider taking up leadership roles.

A man armed with a knife is arrested after the bodies of his mother, aged in her 60s, and his eight-year-old nephew are found outside a house in Sydney's west.

Queensland researchers find sharks living in shallow, tropical waters around northern Australia are well placed to cope with climate change.

Locals in Narromine are being urged to consider joining the State Emergency Service amid concerns the unit could close.

The Northern Territory mango season is now well underway with most of the growers around Darwin busy picking this week.

A Queensland father calls for more awareness of international child abductions after his ex-wife fled the country with his son a decade ago.

Newcastle councillors have unanimously backed a plan to push for the establishment of a jobs taskforce to address the region's rising unemployment rate.

The Broncos will get another look at what they are missing when they face off against North Queensland and discarded hooker Jake Granville in Saturday night's qualifying final.

A peak tourism industry conference in the Hunter will highlight the capacity for regional areas to host major business events.

The union representing the Hunter's energy workers says Essential Energy and Ausgrid are taking a 'bloody-minded' approach to job cuts in the region.

The Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission begins in Adelaide today, with University of Melbourne professor Ross Garnaut to be called as the first witness.

There are fears community division surrounding this week's double round of Planning Assessment Commission hearings in the Upper Hunter will have "deep-seated" social impacts.

The ACT branch of the Labor Party denies there is any issue with a spate of political donations made to the party by one of the companies behind a billion-dollar bid to build Canberra's light rail project.

A Hunter indigenous services organisation says the problem of homelessness among Aboriginal youth in the region is far greater than most people realise.

Emma Alberici speaks with Leonard Doyle on how the asylum seeker crisis in Europe can be handled by the international community.

Lisa Scaffidi will stand for a third term as Lord Mayor, pitting her against City of Perth councillor Reece Harley.

Western Australia's Major Fraud Squad charges a man who promoted a Mark Ronson performance in Perth that never happened.

A West Australian man who was sentenced to life in prison for the murder and sexual assault of his baby stepson is found dead in prison.

A doctor who delivered twins at Canberra's Calvary Hospital tells the ACT Coroner's Court he was not informed of the mother's high blood pressure reading in the hours leading up to her death.

An RMIT student pilot is killed after crashing on a solo training flight at Millbrook, in Victoria's west, leading the university to suspend operations at its Point Cook flight training centre.

The mother of a Melbourne woman who fell 300 metres to her death from the "Troll's Tongue" in Norway mourns the loss of "a beautiful soul" who died doing what she loved.

The case to favour Christian and other minority religious groups is being made by Government Ministers and MPs in offering protection visas to Syrian asylum seekers but one refugee says Islamic State aren't selective and are killing everyone.

Lisa Scaffidi will stand for a third term as Lord Mayor, pitting her against City of Perth councillor Reece Harley.

The driver of an allegedly stolen sedan that ran a red light and crashed at high speed in Darwin's rural area, killing one man and hospitalising four others, is charged over the crash and a string of alleged crimes.

Bullying, sex abuse and cover ups happened at Geelong Grammar for almost 50 years according to evidence at the Royal Commission into child sex abuse and former headmaster John Lewis was told of allegations without reporting them to police.

About 400 people turn out in support of asylum seekers at a Light the Dark protest in Canberra's CBD.

New research finds open-cut mines can affect groundwater and trees up to several kilometres away, which could have implications for the proposed Shenhua coal mine on the NSW Liverpool Plains.

Video emerges of a Gold Coast police officer punching a handcuffed man in the face outside the Surfers Paradise watch house.

All eight NRL finalists have called in the cavalry, with Greg Inglis, Ben Hunt, Michael Morgan and Andrew Fifita headlining a list of big inclusions for the first week of the NRL finals.

Hawthorn leads all comers for nominations for the AFL All Australian team with six nominations in the 40-strong squad, which includes 21 new faces.

Australia is taking its biggest team to the arm wrestling world championships later this month, with hopes of being competitive against the best on Earth.

The pilot of a light plane dies after the aircraft crashes into a paddock at Millbrook in Victoria's west, according to police.

An asylum seeker at Darwin's immigration detention centre has a colonoscopy request ignored despite suffering rectal bleeding, the man's partner tells the ABC.

Hundreds of energy workers will have to wait five weeks before they know whether their jobs are among those being axed across NSW.

You won't catch Trudy-Anne Doyle on her mobile phone - she doesn't own one.

The quality of Australian branded beef is improving, according to judges and entrants at the Royal Agricultural Society's Sydney Royal Fine Food Spring Show.

A man who was killed by a rubbish collection truck in a laneway in the Perth CBD was warned by police officers that it was too dangerous to sleep there an hour before being hit.

A convicted rapist who killed mother of two Jodi Eaton is sentenced to life in prison by the Hobart Supreme Court.

Unity Mining drops a proposal to use cyanide at a gold mine in near Braidwood in southern New South Wales.

The number of exhibitors at the largest mining event in the Asia-Pacific has dropped by 170 since its last show two years ago.

The Matildas players have withdrawn from their Sydney training camp ahead of their United States tour following a breakdown in talks over the pay dispute with the FFA.

Rural Fire Service crews are working to get a bushfire at Wyee under control.

Consumer demand for blueberries is driving the global increase in production of the fruit, but "there are major challenges" ahead for the industry, says one Australian industry leader.

Mr Joshua is a former school principal in Ngukurr.

The remote community Ngukurr received its first shower bath in 2015, allowing John Joshua to be assisted to shower without his wheelchair.

Mr Joshua is a former school principal in Ngukurr.

An LGBTI health service will roll in to Broken Hill this week to offer free, rapid HIV testing during the Broken Heel Festival.

Nimbin pioneer credits new drug for prolonging his life after lung cancer diagnosis.