Sydney news

A woman is arrested for allegedly spitting in the faces of six different people at various train stations around Sydney over the past month.

Hawthorn reaches the AFL grand final for the fourth consecutive year after an impressive 27-point win over Fremantle at Subiaco Oval.

Thousands of heritage buildings across the country could be at risk of collapse if and when a populated centre is struck by an earthquake, experts warn.

Brisbane books its place in the NRL grand final with a scintillating 31-12 win over the Sydney Roosters at Lang Park.

The death of a 70-year-old man at a Perth hospital in 2012 was preventable and resulted from misdiagnosis, a Perth coronial inquest finds.

Two men are arrested in Melbourne and charged after the AFP led National Anti-Gang Squad and the Australian Border Force seize drugs worth up to $8 million.

The daughter of a Canberra man committed for trial on child sex charges was urged by church leaders and her mother to "forgive her father", according to court documents.

Queensland will see its first female motorcycle cops hitting the road, as the police force celebrates a major milestone.

A West Australian man is found guilty of the systematic sexual abuse of his three daughters over a 10-year period.

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice. The question for humanity isn't really if our world is going to end it's when, how and, is there anything we can do about it anyway?

WA police stop a Darwin couple's car at gunpoint over child stealing allegations, but say they could not arrest them because of botched NT Government paperwork.

Lawyer Meena Singh is the Director of Legal and Strategy with the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service. This week's Soapbox item looks at the issues and concerns around how Victoria Police use social media.

Six months after the State Government withdrew funding for the Perth Observatory, a small army of keen astronomers has picked up the task of running the historic centre.

A former Bunbury doctor is sentenced to five years in jail for molesting five female patients.

A 44-year-old man is charged over a nine-hour stand-off with Queensland police at Bowen Hills in Brisbane's inner-north.

After testing the market for his services, Carlton ruckman Matthew Kreuzer signs a new deal to stay with the Blues.

Northern Territory artist Les Huddleston in Bagot community in front of a recently re-painted house.

Melbourne artist Andrew Bourke painting a wall in Darwin's Indigenous community, Bagot.

The two women stand on top of an Aboriginal flag hand mural painted in Darwin's Bagot community in September 2015.

Colourful murals are being painted on the roads and buildings of Darwin's largest Aboriginal community to highlight its traumatic history and the resilience of its residents.

Melbourne artist Andrew Bourke painting a wall in Darwin's Indigenous community, Bagot.

Brisbane Grammar School reiterates its apology to former students sexually abused by a school counsellor, as the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse announces a public hearing.

A Melbourne mother of two critically injured when she was struck by a motorcyclist in a "callous" hit-and-run has died.

The RSL claims the health system has badly failed a Vietnam veteran with a disability who was left in immigration detention for four months and is now missing from hospital.

The best way to end the working week. This week's panel were Tommy Dean, Zoe Norton Lodge and Wendy Harmer.

An ad appears for Kirribilli House on a holiday rental website, offering perks including a "panic room", a "big red button" and a dedicated security professional named Barry.

A sheep shearer violently kidnapped an Eyre Peninsula couple last year and drove 500 kilometres from Cowell to Adelaide with one of them in the car boot, over an apparent drug debt, a court hears.

Queensland Police prepare to charge five people after a major drug haul in Brisbane in which ice and cannabis worth $650,000 are allegedly seized.

A western Queensland grazier is fighting for a water license to irrigate crops using water from his Great Artesian Basin bore.

Coburg is to become home to a new apartment precinct under planning changes designed to attract almost $1 billion worth of residential, retail and community development in Melbourne's north.

A Western Australian research project has found it is financially viable to hand weed low numbers of wild radish on a broadacre scale.

Vincent Martin Crowe is convicted of the drug-fuelled murder of a fellow Irishman, Kenyon Meyler, 21, in the Perth beachside suburb of Scarborough.

Australian Wool Innovation is spruiking its successes in a countrywide tour as it faces the prospect of being defunded in the WoolPoll.

A new partnership between rural lobby group Western Australian Farmers and Chinese company Lifeland, will see local milk and honey exported to China, with the first shipment due to leave in December.

When Professor David Mason wrote about ten things he admired about Australia he says his brief article had more impact than anything the former poet laureate of Colorado has ever written. He now joins a dialogue that began when Bega, New South Wales, and Littleton, Colorado, established the very first Australia-USA sister city relationship in 1961.

North Queensland acrobat Japhet Baya has travelled all over the world thanks to his circus skills.

Before the gates officially open, the showgrounds are already buzzing with activity in preparation for the Perth Royal Show.

A promise in the lead-up to the last Federal election is a step closer to realisation, after Treasurer Scott Morrison unveiled the location for the purpose-built Commonwealth agency in Gosford.

Regional Tasmanian newspaper is bucking the trend of falling circulation and advertising revenue with its 'local' strategy.

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This weekend the tiny town of Woomelang will get a boost in numbers- in the form of hundreds of ferrets.

The image of a man seen to be throwing punches towards police during a brawl at the NRL semi-finals last Friday is released in a bid to identify him.

Police identify a woman found unconscious in Rockhampton's CBD in central Queensland after her family answers a public appeal.

The latest Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) aircraft to take to the skies will be a $100,000 hot air balloon.

Major north-west Tasmanian manufacturer The Elphinstone Group joins forces with Elbit Systems Australia to launch a joint bid for a multi-billion-dollar Defence contract.

An expert panel, set up to deal with a toxic leak at the Williamtown airforce base, has begun examining water testing results to determine the extent of contamination.

A defence industry organisation says it is buoyed by indications Adelaide might benefit from a local build of Australia's next submarines.

Perth-based engineering and construction firm Civmec launches an audacious bid to build Australia's new multi-billion-dollar submarines.

A West Australian man is found guilty of the systematic sexual abuse of his three daughters over a 10-year period.

Even though glasses will be lifted this weekend to honour the 100 years of service of the Westonia Tavern formerly known as the Edna May Tavern, the building itself is actually 117 years old.