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Retiring champion Adam Goodes is labelled as the greatest Sydney AFL player ever by former team-mate Michael O'Loughlin and coach John Longmire.

Eight wombats are deliberately run over and killed at a camping ground at Kangaroo Valley in the New South Wales southern highlands, police say.

Three men, aged 29, 31 and 41, and a 21-year-old woman are charged with the murder of north Queensland man Michael McCabe.

North Queensland hammers Cronulla 39-0 to move through to the NRL preliminary finals for the fourth time in club history.

North Melbourne scores a shock 26-point win over Sydney in their AFL semi-final to become the first team to reach the preliminary finals after finishing the season in eighth place.

Former SAS Captain Andrew Hastie wins the Canning by-election, retaining the West Australian seat for the Liberal party after Malcolm Turnbull's prime ministerial coup helped defuse voter dissatisfaction with the Coalition Government.

Port Adelaide forward Jay Schulz re-signs with the club through the 2016 AFL season.

A boutique distillery in the Kimberley is producing award winning rum.

Voters in the Canning by-election cite local candidates and issues, along with traditional allegiances, as decisive factors before casting their ballots.

Grandstand brings you live updates from the North Queensland Cowboys' NRL semi-final clash with the Cronulla Sharks in Townsville.

Revelations that teenagers were tear gassed while in youth detention in the Northern Territory last year is condemned by Amnesty International.

Luke Brattan is free to sign with another club after an appeal by Brisbane Roar to keep his services was dismissed.

Cosplay queen Yaya Han talks about her unintentional rise from hobby to career at Brisbane's Oz Comic Con.

Scientists and street artists combine their talents in Canberra in an effort to bring local scientific research and discoveries to the fore.

Doncaster hero Kermadec makes the transition to weight-for-age winner after claiming the George Main Stakes at Randwick.

The Sydney Roosters' loss to the Melbourne Storm in their qualifying final woke the team up.

An elderly couple and their female friend believed to have been on their way home from a church meeting are killed in a multi-vehicle crash in Queensland's Lockyer Valley.

The Tasmanian Government reveals plans to reopen 12 beds at the Launceston General Hospital in the hopes of easing pressure on the emergency department.

Aerial patrols aimed at reducing the threat posed by sharks during the school holidays begin on the New South Wales north coast.

Sausage dogs from across Melbourne face off to settle, once and for all, the question of which dachshund is the city's fastest.

Parliament House opens its doors to the public for a behind-the-scenes look inside the house on the hill.

A 31-year-old man has been charged over the sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl in Broome in Western Australia's Kimberley region.

The parents of a missing Melbourne mother are pleading for their daughter, who has been missing since August, to return home to her two young children.

Uniformed police march in Brisbane's annual Pride Festival parade for the first time in its 25-year history after Commissioner Ian Stewart lifts an earlier ban.

A 52-year-old man is extradited from Queensland to New South Wales to face child sexual assault charges dating back to 1997.

Behind the scenes at the National Museum, staff are working hard to conserve and store an ever-growing collection that includes giant kewpie dolls from the Sydney Olympics and the Play School Rocket Clock.

The disappearance of New South Wales toddler William Tyrrell is referred to the Coroner's Court, but police say the investigation is continuing in the belief he is alive.

Catch up with the latest podcast of Saturday Talkback Gardening with Jon Lamb and Ashley Walsh.

Four Launceston artists prepare for their runway debut, having been paired with local designers to create "wearable art" for themselves and their wheelchairs.

The Hagley Farm School in northern Tasmania marks 160 years of teaching students in the classroom and the paddocks.

Three guns are found in a stolen car that police say crashed near Canberra Airport before the driver fled the scene early this morning.

More than 220 teams from across Australia will spend 24 hours racing their human-powered vehicles around a circuit in South Australia.

Voters head to the polls in the Canning by-election in WA, with the Liberals expected to win comfortably in the wake of Malcolm Turnbull's elevation to the prime ministership.

Police cordon off an Adelaide business in the early hours of Saturday to investigate whether an offender is still inside.

An entire Sydney council is facing suspension after a New South Wales Government investigation identifies numerous failures of the required standard of governance and legal compliance.

A long term Carrington resident is worried the historic waterfront Pump House will be forgotten by the Port of Newcastle's new owners.

Voters are preparing to cast their ballots in the Canning by-election in WA, with the Liberals expected to win the poll comfortably in the wake of Malcolm Turnbull's elevation to the prime ministership.

Belmont Wetlands says the rehabilitation of the former BHP land is being hindered by foxes preying on the state park's vulnerable or endangered native species.

Four-metre swell was pounding, a man and his son were struggling in the rough conditions 500 metres out to sea, one had a broken a rib, the other was clinging to a surf board, but lifesaver Richard Garnsey says he was determined to save the pair.

The Environment Protection Authority has defended the time it took them to inform residents about a toxic leak at the Williamtown air force base saying they did not want to cause unnecessary alarm.

While the prevalence of sexting is creating a conundrum for lawmakers, young people say peer pressure is just too great.

A botanical artist has completed nearly 500 watercolour paintings to meticulously record the flora of a fragile bioregion in regional Queensland.

The success of Tasmanian pop singer Asta inspires her father Jack Binnie to turn from building houses to crafting acoustic guitars out of native wood.

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Fire crews discover a man's body inside the remains of a burnt-out bungalow at Malvern East in Melbourne's south east early this morning.

Two men, aged 29 and 41, and a 21-year-old woman are charged with the murder of north Queensland man Michael McCabe.

Proposed changes to introduce portable long service leave entitlements for employees in the aged care industry are taking too long, a union says.

State Opposition Leader Luke Foley has urged Newcastle Council to reconsider its policies after a Big Bash cricket trial game in the city was cancelled.