Sydney news

Sydney Roosters coach Trent Robinson slams calls for Mitchell Pearce to be rubbed out of the NRL for his Australia Day antics, but is coy on what he feels is a suitable punishment.

A Northern Territory construction company says it's losing contracts and will shed workers because of Labor's proposed moratorium on fracking.

The establishment of a multi-user port on South Australia's Eyre Peninsula is a step closer with the announcement of Japanese-owned trading company Emerald Grain as a partner in the project.

A car industry lobby group has accused major manufacturers of anti-competitive behaviour by refusing to pass on basic information to independent repairers.

South Australian fruit company expanding operations in the Riverland to install new machinery and hire additional workers.

Joel Fitzgibbon will be installed as the Labor candidate for the redrawn Federal seat of Hunter, avoiding a vote by local rank and file members of the party.

A decision on the controversial redevelopment of the Seaward Village near Campbell Barracks in Swanbourne, WA could be made within weeks.

The confidence of both the Perth Wildcats and the New Zealand Breakers is high heading into game one of the NBL grand final series.

Five eastern quolls are released into a woodland sanctuary in Canberra, decades after they were last seen in the wild.

The Arts Health Institute says it has designed innovative short courses to help managers of Australia's aged care facilities improve the lives of residents.

The Productivity Commission recommends changes to anti-dumping laws in Australia.

Consistency is tough to come by in the NRL, and for these 10 teams, 2016 could be a season of changing fortunes.

The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse is preparing to publicly investigate centres for the performing arts, including the high profile case of a Sydney dance teacher who pleaded guilty to more than a decade of abuse offences. The peak body for the dance industry admits that more can be done to ensure that children are safe.

Graham Arnold says he is not concerned that Australian clubs could eventually be priced out of the ACL ahead of Sydney FC's big clash with Guangzhou Evergrande.

An Adelaide photographer with an interest in urban exploration captures the beauty of derelict and abandoned spaces.

A woman is charged after a five-month-old girl is taken to hospital and a man also sustains injuries during a domestic incident in Sydney's west.

A fruit fly quarantine zone in Adelaide's inner south is expanded because of another outbreak of the pest.

A Redfern man is charged with assault after allegedly leaning into a pram and spitting in a baby's face in Sydney's CBD on the weekend.

Sydney man Ahmed Saiyer Naizmand, 21, will face court next week to apply for bail after allegedly breaching five terrorism control orders.

Former Golden Boot winner Benji Marshall vows to let his football do the talking as he fights to extend his NRL career with St George Illawarra.

Researchers will attempt to train healthy Tasmanian devils released into the wild to avoid dangerous roads, as more become roadkill victims.

Australia is underprepared to deal with the escalating problem of extreme "killer" heatwaves and a "whole of society approach" is needed to deal with the problem, a Climate Council report says.

The organisers of Stereosonic, one of Australia's biggest music festivals, give their in-principle support for pill testing, despite the NSW Government ruling it out.

The needs-based model for education has become something of a political football, and Lateline visits a school in south-west Sydney where funds are used to help students struggling with English.

Australia's most decorated gymnast, West Australian Lauren Mitchell, says she is on track for the Rio Olympics after recovering from a knee reconstruction.

Exports of West Australian-produced jarrah honey are booming on the back of high demand from China.

The Royal Flying Doctor Service receives almost $4 million in government funding to construct a hangar in Perth for its new jet aircraft.

Scientists discover scores of forgotten graves at the Third Quarantine Cemetery using a ground-penetrating radar, but say there are many more mysteries to be found at the historical site.

A 16-year-old high school student is tasered by Northern Territory police officers in front of his mother after allegedly becoming violent on school grounds.

An inquiry into the controversial closure of a youth mental health unit in Brisbane hears a senior clinician feared some patients were too unwell to be transferred to other services in the lead-up to the closure.

An 85-year-old grandmother died after being hit on the back of the head with a blunt object like a hammer, a forensic pathologist tells Brisbane's Supreme Court.

A dispute has broken out in the Katherine branch of the Country Liberals (CLP) over the political fate of local member Willem Westra van Holthe, who quit last month as Northern Territory deputy chief minister.

Queensland's peak dairy farmer lobby group strongly criticises Animal Health Australia's revised plan to control an infectious cattle disease.

The eldest daughter of accused murderer Glen McNamara recalls seeing her father with co-accused Roger Rogerson on the day Sydney student Jamie Gao was killed.

Former defender Matthew Jaensch reaches a confidential settlement with a man who punched him in the face in a city hotel five years ago.

A mining company sells a Top End gold project so it can use the cash to develop a Central Australian tungsten asset.

Researchers at the SA Museum are examining the cleaned up, half-tonne skull of a sperm whale, which beached itself on Yorke Peninsula.

An isolated stretch of coastline along Western Australia's south coast becomes a hotspot for off roaders and tests local emergency services.

The former head of the NT's Bar Association wants to join an appeal launched by former NT Labor leader Delia Lawrie that relates to the Stella Maris inquiry, the Court of Appeal hears.

Melbourne star Billy Slater is set to play his first game since State of Origin II after being named for the Storm's NRL season-opener against St George-Illawarra.

Illegal drugs worth $275,000, a range of firearms and a pipe bomb are seized after a police raid on a property in Darwin's rural fringe allegedly linked to an outlaw motorcycle gang.

Three state forests and half of another are reclassified as flora reserves to save the last koalas in south-east New South Wales.

Around 100 families from the Mentone-Parkdale parish want their priest removed, at least from school activities. They say they've been kept in the dark about a historical sex abuse incident involving their priest, Father John Walshe, in the '80s.

WA Health Minister Kim Hames is confident the bacteria control problems at the Elizabeth Quay water park can be resolved.

A poor wet season delays the start of the commercial barramundi fishing season in Wyndham, Western Australia.

A 10-year-old girl who was pulled unconscious from a backyard pool on Queensland's Sunshine Coast last weekend dies in a Brisbane hospital.

The Lieutenant Colonel who led troops at the battle of Long Tan during the Vietnam War makes his third appeal to gain recognition of bravery medals awarded after the battle.

A truck falls into a quarry at Nyora, in South Gippsland, killing the female driver.

Tasmanian man Paul Adrian Lowe will spend at least 13 months in prison after shooting at family members on New Year's Eve.

Robotics, equestrian, major life decisions. Life is full on for today's high school students.