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Police are appealing for public assistance to find a missing woman who was last seen in Sydney's south-west on Thursday.

A woman is fatally stabbed and a man known to her is arrested in north Queensland.

A major sinkhole swallows vehicles at a popular camping spot near Queensland's Rainbow Beach.

Three people were injured in a boat explosion in the Brisbane River at Yeronga on Saturday this afternoon, police report.

The Cowboys beat Melbourne 32-12 at AAMI Park and will face Brisbane in the NRL's first all-Queensland grand final.

Firefighters bring a blaze at Sydney's Central station under control, with platforms reopening and commuters allowed back into the station after an evacuation.

Crowds in Brisbane are wowed with a spectacular firework display on the Brisbane River, beginning with a Defence Force flyover and ending with an explosion of colour over the Story Bridge.

Grandstand brings you live updates from the NRL preliminary final between the Melbourne Storm and North Queensland Cowboys at AAMI Park.

Follow all the AFL action as it happens as Collingwood faces Fremantle and the Giants play the Swans.

Mourinho breaks through at last for a Group One victory, claiming the Underwood Stakes (1,800m) at Caulfield and making his case for a Cox Plate berth.

A deal between the CSIRO and energy giants that will involve the research vessel Investigator in oil and gas exploration has been criticised by environmentalists, but the organisation says the data will be in the national interest.

An 80-year-old woman dies after falling from the balcony of her home in Beaudesert, south-east Queensland.

Vlad Duric riding Mourinho reacts after the Underwood Stakes at Caulfield Racecourse on September 26, 2015 in Melbourne, Australia.

Twelve people, most of them children, are rescued from waters off Turnagain Island in the Torres Strait during a tense night time rescue mission involving two helicopters, a fixed-wing aircraft and two marine vessels.

Scientists hail the release of the first immunised, captive-bred Tasmanian devils into the wild as a turning point in the fight against the disease which threatens to wipe them out.

Mourinho breaks through at last for a Group One victory, claiming the Underwood Stakes (1,800m) at Caulfield.

The AFL condemns all violence at its games following a "completely unacceptable" crowd incident during the Dockers preliminary final loss at Subiaco Oval on Friday night.

An unlikely partnership between a small rural school and one of Australia's most exclusive resorts.

The Flying Padre has been bringing compassion and a sympathetic ear to outback communities in Queensland's remote north for 50 years.

Western Australia's native sandalwood plantation industry comes of age.

Broncos coach Wayne Bennett says he will not allow Justin Hodges's possible ban for the grand final to become a distraction in the lead-up to next week's decider.

Former Bond actor George Lazenby tells a festival in his home town of Goulburn he regrets not doing more 007 movies.

Adam Giles apologises for infighting in his Government and says the instability has impacted the public's perception of the party.

A man appears in court charged over a mini-motorcycle crash in Melbourne's south in which a mother of two was fatally injured.

SA Water is carrying out drilling around one of the River Murray's locks, and will also call in divers, to help identify the cause of a leak.

Attorney-General Vanessa Goodwin plans to address "shortcomings" in the state's justice system in dealing with high-risk family violence offenders following the murder of Jodi Eaton.

A 22-year-man who allegedly burgled several homes in one day and stole a valuable convertible is arrested and charged after a police chase in Canberra's south.

A man charged over a mini-motorcycle crash in Melbourne's south in which a mother of two was fatally injured, is vulnerable and has had thoughts of self harm, a court hears.

Three men appear in court charged with the murder of a Melbourne woman who disappeared a month ago.

Concerned residents in Alawa call police after they were woken by two drunken men who set fire to a car they were trying to transform into a convertible.

Two kayakers who died on New Zealand's Lake Tekapo on Friday were students at Monash University in Melbourne, local police say.

About 2,000 people have spilled onto the lawn of the iconic Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame in Longreach to watch Paul Kelly perform under the stars in a special drought relief concert.

A 22-year-old man is charged with seriously assaulting two police officers in inner Brisbane early this morning.

A spectacular lights and fire show at Adelaide Oval by a French pyrotechnics troupe will open next year's Festival of Arts.

Newly-promoted ACT senator Katy Gallagher says while she has a keen interest in health, she is expecting to fill a role in Labor's outer ministry.

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Perth families fight to save their homes as truck drivers defend a planned new freight link through the southern suburbs.

Two Perth men have been extradited from Queensland after failing to appear in court on drug trafficking charges.

A petition started by a Brisbane high school student calling on the Prime Minister to consider drastically reducing his salary or donating it to charity gathers more than 1,800 signatures.

A victim of child sexual abuse says he is hopeful Adelaide's Archbishop will ultimately be forced to defend a charge of concealing abuse against children.

Police have shut down the Nomad bikie gang's clubhouse in Singleton in the latest crackdown on outlaw motorcycle gangs in the Hunter.

Hundreds of door knocks have been carried out, and almost 400 drivers in the Murray Mallee interviewed, as part of the police investigation into the discovery of a young girl's remains near Wynarka.

A Darwin mother who took her three-year-old daughter from child protection authorities says she did it because her daughter was being mistreated in care.

A man will appear in court today charged over a fatal motorcycle accident in Melbourne's south.

Police on the NSW mid-north coast examine a white station wagon as part of the investigation into the disappearance of William Tyrrell.

A Melbourne mother of two critically injured when she was struck by a motorcyclist in a hit-and-run dies. Three people are charged over the fatal collision.

Fremantle veterans Matthew Pavlich and Luke McPharlin may have played their last games for the club after the Dockers were defeated by Hawthorn.

The New South Wales Roads and Maritime Services says a recent spate of tragedies should act as a warning to Hunter boaties.

Perth families fight to save their homes as truck drivers defend a planned new freight link through the southern suburbs.