Sydney news

The Bendigo mosque appears likely to go ahead after the Victorian Court of Appeal refuses an appeal against its planning approval.

Media covering Margaret and Bas Wie's marriage in Darwin in 1958.

The Victorian Government asks the state's Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commissioner to investigate claims of gender inequality and bullying among emergency services.

The immediate future of coal seam gas in the Northern Rivers is likely to be decided at a meeting in Sydney later today.

A bus stop seat where a Sydney teacher was stabbed to death becomes a makeshift memorial, with students remembering the victim as dedicated, caring and an inspiration.

The Walgett Shire Council says slow ambulance response times appear to be the result of reduced services its community.

Photograph of Australian television show This Is Your Life about Darwin man Bas Wie, first aired in 1978.

New Gippsland farmer starts Highland cattle stud, with plan to promote beef from the Scottish breed of hairy orange cattle.

ABC Rural explores how investment from some of the wealthiest people in Australia is changing the face of agriculture.

The far west's Aboriginal health service says it's preparing to roll out a major research project to Wilcannia and Menindee aimed at gauging local levels of psychological distress.

An expansion of Adelaide Oval number two, which sits west of the main oval, will go ahead after the Adelaide City Council approved the removal of significant trees in the area.

More than 20 per cent of Year 12 graduates across Canberra will receive an Australian Tertiary Admissions Rank (ATAR) of 90 or more, the ACT Board of Senior Secondary Studies figures show.

Mining magnate Andrew Forrest says the Australian agricultural sector needs to strongly encourage foreign investment and market itself under a unified Australian voice if it's serious about becoming a mainstay of the Australian economy.

A seafood industry veteran thinks WA is moving from a mining boom to a dining boom.

The first abattoir to operate in Western Australia's far north for 22 years is just months away from opening.

A major brand of infant formula could be stripped from Coles supermarket shelves after its founder was accused of secretly developing the brand while still working at another baby food company.

The Land Court of Queensland rejects a bid to stop Adani's proposed Carmichael coal mine from going ahead, but makes a list of recommendations to protect the environment.

Victorian students could be charged minimum fees under the recommendations of a review aimed at ridding the state's vocational education system of shonky training colleges and poor-quality courses.

More than 6,000 Hunter teenagers will be waking this morning to find out their Higher School Certificate (HSC) results.

It's hoped a new drop in centre for refugee women will help them adapt to their new lives in the Hunter.

Police say a man took his own life at an indoor firing range in Adelaide's CBDthe same premises that was the subject of a 2010 coronial inquiry into two other deaths.

International tourists arriving in Adelaide today will be handed extreme heat warning pamphlets at the city's airport, with the mercury set to nudge close to 40 degrees.

The mayor of Parkes Ken Keith says converting part of the former hospital site into a childcare centre will cater for growing demand in the district.

It is hoped plans to fluoridate a central west town's water supply will significantly improve dental health for Indigenous people.

Wagga Wagga City Council's General Manager has admitted the Douglas Aerospace loan always looked like trouble.

The IAEA says it is closing its investigation into whether Iran once had a secret nuclear weapons program, opting to support Tehran's deal with world powers rather than dwell on its past actions.

Police are investigating allegations an autistic child was disciplined by being locked in a dark cupboard at a Newcastle school.

Tasmania's director of local government recommends Glamorgan Spring Bay councillors take a training course on their role and responsibilities.

A senior adviser to ACT Police Minister Joy Burch resigns after briefing a union official about a meeting between the Minister and the chief police officer.

Eleven men are remanded in custody and will appear in court in Melbourne today after a series of raids targeting the Finks outlaw motorcycle gang.

Plans for the Scone bypass and rail crossing project are now on display.

The Hunter community is being urged to get behind the coal mining industry after an expansion plan was put on hold.

A man is charged after allegedly using a hire car to deliver cocaine in Sydney's CBD and eastern suburbs.

Hundreds of people gathered in Sydney last night to mark the one year anniversary of the Martin place siege. Sydney mother and barrister Katrina Dawson and cafe manager Tori Johnson were killed in the attack at the Lindt cafe, where a gunman took 17 people hostage.

The head of Linc Energy, the mining company at the centre of a major Environment Department investigation, pushes for all charges against it to be dropped.

A Northern Territory driver who allegedly makes a U-turn into traffic without properly checking miraculously avoids being hit by a four-wheel-drive, instead hitting and destroying its caravan on the territory's main highway.

A Royal Commission report into abuse at a children's home in northern New South Wales is critical of the response from Police and State Government departments.

Sydneysiders pay tribute to the victims of the Lindt Cafe siege with flowers and an evening commemoration ceremony on the first anniversary of the attack.

Seven Northern Territory Year 12 students complete their high school studies after overcoming a senior year twice disrupted by cyclones.

A Melbourne family waits anxiously for news of relatives taken hostage amid fighting between Islamic State and local militias in the Syrian Christian village of Tal Hemes.

A north Queensland father-of-three who was almost killed in a motorcycle crash four years ago hopes other motorists will take notice of his story and drive safely this summer.

A renewed push to save New Norfolk's historic Willow Court is underway with plans for a restaurant and shopfront and a brewery and bar.

Former Australia skipper Ricky Ponting says Usman Khawaja should be recalled for the Boxing Day Test in place of Shaun Marsh.

Treasurer, Scott Morrison, responds to questions about the government's change of rhetoric on debt and deficit, and explains budget changes in the mid-year economic and financial outlook (MYEFO).

Sydneysiders pay tribute to the victims of the Lindt Cafe siege with flowers and an evening commemoration ceremony on the first anniversary of the attack.

Soundwaveboss AJ Maddah casually drops a bombshell on Twitter, saying there will be "definitely no" 2017 edition of the flagship hard and heavy music festival.

The man who died after the truck-crane he was on collapsed in Brisbane late Monday night is remembered as a family man who loved to help his community.

Girls have taken out top positions in most HSC subjects in New South Wales including in the male-dominated fields of automotive and primary industries.

The wife of Dutch migrant Marco Grippeling describes the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 as "an act of war" as she tearfully describes the life she planned to live with her husband.

Metro Trains officials are hopeful passengers will not face heat delays this summer as Melbourne heads for the first 40 degree Celsius day in December in five years.