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A 29-year-old man is charged with attempting to kill another man who was shot in the chest outside a police station in Perth's south yesterday.

Police question three people who were arrested last night in connection with the disappearance of Kangaroo Flat mother of four Samantha Kelly, who has not been seen for three weeks.

A day after his wish to be a superhero came true, a tired Iron Boy says his experience saving Sydney from the clutches of an evil group led by Ultron was "pretty amazing".

Australian travellers, John and Ace, fell in love with a lion cub they found in Harrods, the London department store. (R)

A day after his wish to be a superhero came true, a tired Iron Boy says his experience saving Sydney from the clutches of an evil group led by Ultron was "pretty amazing".

A number of Australian Federal Police officers deployed overseas have contracted the Zika virus on previous assignments, but there have been no recorded cases this year, an AFP spokeswoman says.

Perth-based mechanical engineer, writer, and tireless campaigner for diversity and acceptance Yassmin Abdel-Magied pens her first memoir.

Andrew Barr lashes out at a series of Federal Government funding cuts and the relocation of public service jobs, in a letter to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

Police continue to question three people who were arrested last night in connection with the disappearance of Bendigo mother of four Samantha Kelly, who has not been seen for three weeks.

Queensland Police are to return to a dam south of Brisbane where two bodies, believed to be those of Iuliana Triscaru, 31, and Cory Breton, 28, were found in a large metal box on Thursday.

The home of late Australian poet and Aboriginal artist Oodgeroo Noonuccal has been destroyed by fire on Stradbroke Island off Brisbane.

A landmark medical trial in Tasmania looks at the impact of vaccines on the immune systems of elderly people, a study researchers believe could have enormous implications.

Residents in a southern New South Wales shire argue passionately for their independence at a public inquiry into a proposed merger.

Are the Nationals out of step with a rapidly changing social environment? One federal member, Andrew Broad, has upset locals in north-west Victoria by equating same-sex relationships...with randy rams

Andrew Barr lashes out at a series of Federal Government funding cuts and the relocation of public service jobs, in a letter to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

With the Australian women's hockey team focused on the Rio Olympics, captain Madonna Blyth says there is nothing she would rather do than play for her country.

Years of research have paid off for a Darwin nursery owner, selling out of a new tropical flower ahead of Valentine's Day.

A review into how the wool industry sells its clip has recommended a web-based selling system.

Newcastle Jets coach Scott Miller says his side needs to reduce the amount of time Brisbane Roar has with the ball if they are to get a win.

Charlestown MP Jodie Harrison seeks a meeting with Education Minister Adrian Piccoli over allegations an autistic boy was locked in a school cupboard.

The Newcastle Bar Association says it is impressed by the facilities in the city's new courthouse, which is due to open on February 22.

The NSW Government confirms a marina building which partially collapsed into Lake Macquarie this week will be demolished.

A Senate inquiry will investigate the re-emergence of the deadly coal miners' disease known as black lung in Queensland.

Police charge a man with the shooting murder of another man in Bell Post Hill on Tuesday.

A 13-year-old girl drowns while trying to help her little brother, who was struggling in rough water at a beach near Wonthaggi in Gippsland.

Hundreds of Marymead supporters call on the ACT Government to reverse a decision that will stop the charity providing foster care and out-of-home care in the territory.

Scientists working near a small town north of Perth play a major role in the detection of gravitational waves, identifying and fixing an instability in the massive US detectors.

Barnaby Joyce says he will consider his portfolio options, as he takes on a new role as National Party leader.

Two teenagers in WA's Goldfields region are charged with attempted aggravated armed robbery after they allegedly used a knife to hold-up a school canteen.

An east coast mayor says it is time to upgrade infrastructure at popular Coles Bay after water contamination closed a popular beach.

Families SA did not want to "jeopardise" paedophile carer Shannon McCoole's employment because he was regarded as a "wonderful" employee, a royal commission hears.

Barnaby Joyce is a controversial character whose rogue approach to politics could not differ more from that of Warren Truss, Lucy Barbour writes.

Netball Australia chief executive Kate Palmer says she would not be surprised if there was a joint AFL-netball franchise in the trans-Tasman competition in 2017.

Eight years since former prime minister Kevin Rudd said sorry to the Stolen Generations, two Martu women from Western Australia's Pilbara region believe the national apology has offered little comfort.

A team of Sydney schoolboys piloted a robot in zero gravity on the International Space Station as part of one of the world's biggest computer programming competitions, Zero Robotics.

A former principal who sold a demountable school building to a friend for $100 is found not guilty of acting corruptly as a public officer.

Hollywood actor Robert Downey Jrthe real Iron Mansends a personal message to Sydney's Iron Boy, nine-year-old Domenic Pace, making him an honorary member of the Avengers.

A man is arrested over a fatal shooting following an argument in Bell Post Hill earlier this week.

Football clubs player woes could spark fresh political fight over FIFO could work as an alternate.

New Zealand will face no disciplinary action for fielding eight players when the team scored a game-tying try against Australia in the Sydney Sevens.

Three men are arrested in connection with the disappearance of mother of four Samantha Kelly, as police search properties in the area.

Australian freshman Ben Simmons is on the shortlist for the John R Wooden Award, the highest honour in US college basketball.

Rare video of a box jellyfish being eaten by another far less poisonous jellyfish is captured at a north Queensland marina.

There was a heart-warming story in Sydney today, when Make a Wish Foundation and NSW Police made a nine year old child's dream come true. Domenic is a school boy who has cystic fibrosis but today he became Iron Boy and helped to keep the streets of Sydney safe.

Backyards in Queanbeyan and parts of Canberra are covered with "golf-ball sized" hailstones and the roof of a supermarket partially collapses after a storm hits the region.

A man with a suspected gunshot injury has been found near Rockingham police station, WA Police say.

You can volunteer to work with Indigenous Australians through ICV, and look out for a new six part series of Jack Irish.

Surfing Tasmania issues a warning after a shark took bites out of a surfer's board at Marrawah in the state's north-west.

Thirty doctors at Modbury Hospital, in Adelaide's north-east, write an open letter warning the State Government's Transforming Health plans for the facility will lead to treatment delays and higher risks for patients.

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