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A two-year-old girl remains critically ill after falling from a second-storey window of a unit in Brisbane.

St Kilda chief Matt Finnis is keen to find out 'who knew what and when' regarding the video featuring Jake Carlisle.

Families of a small public school slated to close at the end of this year say it's hard to keep their hopes up, even with new political support.

Academic says rural doctors are powerful agents for positive change in their communities, and are well placed to deal with our worst health problems.

The Port Stephens mayor has denied a Raymond Terrace park will be developed and lost to the community.

Waste collection and recycling services are being expanded in parts of the Gilgandra Shire to offset the closure of four rural tips.

In the gentrifying inner-Melbourne suburb of Flemington, median house price is $800,000 and the median wage is well above the national figure, there is a primary school where the children are among the poorest in the country.

Police are cracking down on hoon driving in the Hunter.

Police hunting for Gino and Mark Stocco are working to find a credible tip-off after receiving thousands of reports from the public about the father and son fugitives.

A mining company is arguing to have a condition on its open cut coal mine approval overturned.

Wayne Bennett throws his hat into the ring for the coach of the Australian national rugby league side.

There are renewed calls to upgrade a notorious accident blackspot south of Hobart after a head-on crash injures seven.

A Mid-Western Region councillor says he expects plans for more coal mines in the district will proceed despite concerns about their impact on water.

The Forbes Shire says it is ideally situated to host an electric car recharging site on the Newell Highway.

The Batchelor Butterfly Farm in the Northern Territory is set for a major upgrade after netting a government grant of more than $27,000.

As South Australia struggles with job losses in mining and manufacturing, the fashion industry is opening up employment opportunities.

A man is missing in Tasmania's South West National Park, after becoming lost on a walk in the Mount Anne area.

Efforts are ramping up to prevent a locust plague in the central west with dozens of reports so far this season.

A mine workers union has welcomed a decision to deem a mine expansion 'approvable'.

A new domestic violence campaign focusing on children launches today at Westmead Children's Hospital in Sydney by the Australian Medical Association (AMA) and Australian of the Year Rosie Batty.

The winner of this year's Sculpture by the Sea exhibition describes his work as a political statement about global warming and poverty.

A man is dead and second man is fighting for his life after a stabbing during an altercation in Melbourne's north-east on Thursday night.

New Zealand skipper Brendon McCullum expects next month's Test series against Australia to be played in good spirit under Steve Smith's captaincy.

Perth councillor and developer James Limnios is elected the new Deputy Lord Mayor at a special council meeting.

Alice Springs snake handlers are being run off their feet after an outbreak of the slithery serpents, which have invaded homes in "huge numbers" during a burst of warm night-time weather, including one that ended up in a household fridge.

The family of Karlie Pearce-Stevenson and Khandalyce Pearce says the pair will be laid to rest in Alice Springs thanks to funds raised by the public and the help of local government.

Victorian taxpayers pay a record $62 million to stage this year's Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne.

The cost to redevelop the Nyrstar Smelter at Port Pirie in South Australia rises by $49 million due to adverse foreign exchange rates and extra engineering work.

Australia opener David Warner will play for New South Wales in next week's Sheffield Shield clash in a bid to prove his fitness for the first Test against New Zealand.

Former north Queensland school principal and Christian Brother Terence Kingston faces nine historical indecent treatment charges relating to his time at St Teresa's College in Abergowrie in the 1970s.

In what is described as a game changer, Perth becomes the first place in Australasia to use portable 3D CT scanning during complex surgery.

Police identify a woman found dead in her Perth unit earlier this week by her friends as Rachel Anne Michael and say they are treating the case as a suspected homicide.

The Tasmanian Government is talking up its record of employment growth in regional Tasmania since taking office in March 2014.

Victoria's firefighters' union has accused the Premier and Emergency Services Minister of betrayal, in a dramatic escalation of its lengthy pay dispute with the State Government.

An iron ore company affiliated with Rio Tinto is fined $70,000 over the death of a man at a mine in Western Australia's Pilbara region.

The link between a body found in NSW with a baby's remains found in South Australia has left the two victims' hometown of Alice Springs reeling in shock as it becomes a focal point for the police investigation into the murders.

Police appeal for anyone who heard screams in Kangaroo Point overnight to come forward, after a woman is found dead in an apartment.

A two-year-old girl is in a critical condition after falling about five metres from the window of a unit block in Brisbane's south-east.

A thief steals a new Holden Commodore during a company demonstration at Mallala Raceway, north of Adelaide.

The New South Wales Premier Mike Baird says the state government is working on methods to keep BlueScope's Port Kembla steelworks open.

A severe storm passes through Brisbane, leaving thousands of properties without power and bringing trees down ahead of the peak hour rush.

SNAP calls for a full investigation into alleged incident involving abuse of a primary schoolboy by a Wollongong priest in the 1980's.

Former Perth barrister Lloyd Rayney is, for the first time, giving sworn evidence in public about the circumstances surrounding the death of his wife Corryn in 2007.

A magistrate gives the mother of a baby murdered in WA's north a suspended sentence for assaulting police the night her son was taken, saying "I just can't jail her".

The big story of the AFL trade period has turned sour with the revelation that St Kilda's star recruit, Jake Carlisle, appears to have taken drugs. On the day he was traded from Essendon to St Kilda, a grainy video was aired showing him apparently snorting a line of white powder. Today, Jake Carlisle released a statement, and while not admitting to drug use, he did say he'd made a 'very poor decision' and 'a mistake'.

The shape of council mergers in south east NSW will now be decided following the government's 'Fit for the Future' program announcement of those that are financially fit and those unfit for the future.

The company operating the remote east Kimberley port of Wyndham says it plans to upgrade the facility.

Advertising account manager Stacey Bachelor sheds his corporate skin to put his new-found barbering skills to benefit Sydney's homeless men.

Regional families with children who suffer from type 1 diabetes plead with the Federal Health Minister to subsidise technology that saves lives.

A former senior teacher at one of Australia's most prestigious schools has told the royal commission he can't remember being told a staff member was abusing students. The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse is examining Geelong Grammar's treatment of abuse claims over almost five decades.