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A legal stoush between Metgasco and the Lismore City Council could be looming.

Animals Australia says thousands of sheep were found outside ESCAS during the festival of Eid in the Middle East.

The future of a controversial electronic billboard over the Kwinana Freeway, which cost the WA Government hundreds of thousands of dollars, remains unresolved nearly six months after the advertising sign was first switched off.

In the heart of the Victorian Mallee, a conservation project is being established to create an environmental corridor between farmland and a national park.

As prices for export cattle to Indonesia reach unprecedented highs, livestock agents and exporters admit filling Indonesia's fourth quarter order of 200,000 head will be challenging.

Now on show, a chimpanzee at Monarto open range Zoo in South Australia who survived his mother's death last week, and is being cared for by another expectant chimp.

During the 1930s Queenstown had four cinemas, and now the remaining one, the Paragon Theatre, is on the market.

The forced removal of Aboriginal children from their homes in western New South Wales has prompted changes to the way government agencies deal with their families and communities.

A cardboard box, metal plate and stolen black powder could hold the key to an investigation into a fatal explosion near Lithgow, New South Wales police believe.

Port Stephens mayor Bruce MacKenzie says outrage over a BMX track he plans to build at Salt Ash has prompted action to lodge a development application.

Unions say there has been a "heartless attack" on regional jobs as Essential Energy begins implementing its first phase of a restructure.

Wagga Wagga and Griffith will be the focus of a new project, aiming to involve non-government organisations in the battle against the drug ice.

Details are released about the upcoming 12-day tour of Australia and New Zealand by Prince Charles and his wife Camilla.

Staff in South Australia's Education Department fail to pay back almost $2 million in salary overpayments last year, the auditor-general's report reveals.

About 7,000 people join a telephone forum with South Australia's Premier Jay Weatherill to learn about which sectors are earmarked to drive jobs in Adelaide's northern suburbs.

Salt Ash residents, who were recently told they are now included in a chemical contamination zone near Williamtown's air force base, say they still have not been notified by officials.

Upper Hunter residents are being invited to give feedback on Hunter Local Land Service's new strategic plan.

The Upper Hunter has put up its hand to become a 'refugee welcome zone' to assist in the resettlement of people displaced by the crisis in Syria.

A report by St Vincent de Paul calling on the Federal Government to do more to tackle poverty highlights the day-to-day struggles faced by many Australians.

A community group fighting a hazardous waste dump in Tasmania's south-east celebrates a win in the courts after legal action against it is dropped.

For the last few years Peregrine Falcon couple Beau and Swift have been watched by people around the world, but now a new pair has stolen the limelight.

The man behind a plan to build a function centre near King Edward Park has dismissed claims the New South Wales Government should tear up a development agreement.

The travel entitlements scandal engulfing the City of Perth widens again, with more potential cases of undeclared trips by council members and staff referred to the state's corruption watchdog.

A Perth mum hopes to open WA's first performing arts school completely dedicated to people with disabilities.

A woman charged with ill-treating a dog says she was trying to help the sick animal, but was turned away from two vet clinics because she had no money.

Adam Goodes gives his first media interview since retiring from the AFL, speaking to a student newspaper about racism and his plans for the future.

Aboriginal leaders tell an ice forum in Adelaide that governments need to have a specific focus on the ice problem in Aboriginal communities.

Towns across Queensland's south-east region are being hit by storms, but Brisbane misses much of the rainfall.

WA Govt confirms holidaymakers and FIFO workers will not be able to use long-term parking at new Perth Airport rail link stations.

South Australian taxpayers will pay $69 million to private consortium SA Health Partnerships to settle claims for delays, modifications and unexpected remediation work at the new Royal Adelaide Hospital.

The Queensland Police Service will consider using covert speed cameras more often to reduce the number of severe road crashes.

Australia coach Darren Lehmann says he is excited by the form of the young batsmen vying for vacant spots in the Test team to face New Zealand.

Aboriginal leaders tell an ice forum in Adelaide that governments need to have a specific focus on the ice problem in Aboriginal communities.

Pearling company Paspaley plans to plead guilty to a charge of failing to provide a safe workplace in relation to the death of an employee off Broome three years ago.

A hunter who was lost in the remote West Australian Goldfields for almost a week without water survives by lying under a tree for days and eating ants.

The Government's asking for bipartisanship over national security laws, allowing people as young as 14 to be detained without charge, and, in turn, Labor's asking for negotiations on ideas to safeguard local jobs in the China free trade agreement.

Prize money for next year's Australian Open will rise 10 per cent to $44 million, while special celebrations are planned to mark Lleyton Hewitt's final tournament.

The number of patients waiting longer than recommended for elective surgery has almost doubled in the last year, an ACT Health report shows.

There are signs of an end to the stand-off between the Government and Labor on the Free Trade Deal with China. Labor and the Unions have been highly critical of the deal, saying Australians could be disadvantaged as Chinese workers are brought in for major projects. But now Labor says it will back the China FTA if the Government agrees to some changes - not to the deal itself but to the legislation to implement it.

Rio Tinto has announced Ngarluma Aboriginal Corporation as its sublessee of Karratha Station in Western Australia's Pilbara.

Towns across Queensland's south-east region are being hit by storms, but Brisbane misses much of the rainfall.

The Palaszczuk Government and one of Clive Palmer's key businesses, Queensland Nickel Pty Ltd, were in discussions about a potential $25 million loan to help the company, the ABC can reveal.

A one-vote victory decides the LNP's candidate battle in the Brisbane City Council ward of Pullenvale, being vacated by long-term councillor Margaret de Wit.

The Eastern Young Cattle Indicator has fallen again after reaching 595 cents a kilogram on September 30.

The Australian women's artistic gymnastics team is preparing to make a bid for the 2016 Rio Olympics at the World Gymnastics Championships in Scotland later this month.

The 2015-16 grain harvest has kicked off in Western Australia's Esperance port zone this past week.

Perth Lord Mayor Lisa Scaffidi is sacked from the Local Government Standards Panel in the wake of a damning Corruption and Crime Commission report which found she engaged in serious misconduct.

A 21-year-old medical student is turning to photographic fun to bring some cheer to others during her chemotherapy.

He has played 135 AFL games with the West Coast Eagles, but Scott Selwood says he had butterflies as his brother Troy drove him into the carpark of his new home at Kardinia Park.

Minerals explorer Krucible Metals lodges an appeal against a conviction and $300,000 fine for drilling exploration holes without authorisation on a Northern Territory cattle station.