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Gloucester mayor John Rosenbaum says his council would oppose a proposal in AGL's water management strategy.

There is confidence state government funding will flow for Yanco's Murrumbidgee College of Agriculture, but only when a business case for the site has been developed.

Luke Hartsuyker is hoping to keep his role as Assistant Employment Minister in Turnbull Cabinet.

The developer at the centre of allegations of fraud and secret commissions involving a Queensland union boss investigated some of the same matters two years ago, terminating the contracts of about 20 people as a result.

A planned three-hour strike by ACT taxi drivers during peak hour will not stop the arrival of ride-sharing service Uber in Canberra, the ACT Government says.

The Royal Society for the Blind and Canberra's Blind Society will lead a sensory tour through Floriade.

A Melbourne motorcyclist is going to court to contest a fine for wearing a camera on his helmet in a case lawyers hope will stop police from issuing similar penalties.

A quarter of Northern Territory pastoral lease land is now wholly or partly owned by foreign entities.

A public meeting tonight will dicuss the fallout from a toxic leak at the Williamtown RAAF base.

Three men are arrested after their car "sliced a power pole in half" in a crash while speeding away from police in Melbourne's south-east last night.

Muswellbrook Shire Council has endorsed a voluntary planning agreement with Rio Tinto.

A proposal to triple truck movements at a Port Stephens sand mine has parents at a local primary school on edge.

Extra recommendations have been placed on the proposed extension of a Lithgow district mine, to allow it to re-commence operations.

A man is in a critical condition after setting himself on fire at the Yongah Hill Immigration Detention Centre east of Perth.

A Bathurst business owner says safety improvements need to be considered as part of plans to overhaul car parking within the city's centre.

A peak Aboriginal group in the state's west says only time will tell if the new Prime Minister will take immediate action to recognise Indigenous Australians in the constitution.

North Queensland star Johnathan Thurston has taken out the players' player medal for the third straight year - and an unprecedented fourth time overall - RLPA awards night.

Lake Macquarie's Independent MP Greg Piper is calling on the government to beef up its legislation regarding the use of home security CCTV.

Testing rules out imported fish as the source of a salmonella outbreak at Burnside Hospital, SA Health says.

There are called for the Devil Ark breeding program to be used as a model for other critically endangered species.

A pilot program being launched in Canberra today is hoping to get organisations to fix the gender inequality in what's known as the STEMM fields - science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine. The latest figures show there are roughly about the same number of men and women who are science graduates, but women only account for about 17 per cent of senior academics.

The search is on for a Maitland man who has not been heard from for more than a month.

The State Government defends its planning for development around the key station in its $2 billion Forrestfield-Airport Rail Link project.

Half of the funding cut from not-for-profit financial counselling services in Western Australia is re-allocated by the State Government.

Fremantle Dockers star Nat Fyfe wins a second consecutive AFL Players Association Most Valuable Player award.

The Queensland Government introduces a bill to Parliament it hopes will curb domestic violence in the state, with the Opposition saying it will offer the laws bipartisan support.

The Territory's two conservative Federal politicians go to ground in the wake of the toppling of Tony Abbott, as NT Labor uses him as an example.

ACT Liberal senator Zed Seselja says he has no regrets about his open show of support for former prime minister Tony Abbott going into the Liberal leadership ballot.

A man dies in an accident involving a ute and truck on the Lincoln Highway just after 4:00pm.

Malcolm Turnbull's rise to become Prime Minister will bring trepidation for Labor ahead of the next election, one that Tony Abbott isn't expected to continue in parliament past.

Despite delivering on election promises around immigration and taxes, many will remember his captain's calls, three-word slogans, and dramatic first-term removal from office.

Economists and business groups want Australia's new Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to make his economic reform priorities clear immediately and to implement them quickly.

Canterbury enforcer Frank Pritchard is found not guilty of kneeing by the NRL judiciary and is free to play in the Bulldogs' NRL semi-final clash against the Sydney Roosters.

Malcolm Turnbull got the vote of Attorney General in the Liberal leadership ballot with George Brandis saying the winner gives 'a better prospect' at the next election.

It took police more than a year to interview known sex offenders after Lucille Butterworth disappeared in 1969, an inquest into her suspected murder hears.

Malcolm Turnbull realised a long-held ambition in becoming Australia's Prime Minister and promised traditional government although former PM John Howard advised embracing the Liberal party's conservative wing.

The Liberal candidate for Canning Andrew Hastie speaks to both the Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and his ousted predecessor Tony Abbott in the lead up to Saturday's poll.

Snakes on a search for water are slipping into suburban toilets in Townsville in north Queensland.

Brisbane Roar's owners will stay in charge of the A-League side for the time being after satisfying FFA by providing the club with cash injection.

Jacob Varghese, is a principal at Maurice Blackburn Lawyers and heads up the firm's class actions department. Writs and Cures soapbox unpacks whether yourpersonality can be used as a defence in court.

A young girl describes the religious ceremony where she allegedly underwent female genital mutilation as part of her culture, a court hears.

An internal Tasmanian Government document obtained by ABC Rural reveals that Biosecurity Tasmania has a budget shortfall of nearly $2 million.

A man dies in a workplace accident in the Perth suburb of Welshpool after his arm became trapped in a machine.

Two men are arrested after a gun was reportedly fired during an argument on a street in Craigieburn in Melbourne's outer-north.

Assistant Employment Minister and Cowper MP, Luke Hartsuyker, says he is keen to keep his position on the Government's frontbench.

Central District's resurgence and West Adelaide's re-emergence as finals contenders to provide a tantalising spectacle when they clash in the SANFL preliminary final at Adelaide Oval on Sunday.

Sydney Roosters name half-back Mitchell Pearce for Friday night's NRL semi-final against the Canterbury Bulldogs.

Police are asking for help from the public as they investigate what a 43-year-old man was doing in the week leading up his body being found in the Hunter River.

Kingscliff fan fiction writer Tania Phillips is growing her own fan base of thousands of readers.

Cane productivity boards have teamed up with researchers in Queensland to find new ways to combat soldier fly.