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An emotional vigil is held for a toddler found dead in a Melbourne creek as the search for her killer continues.

An 18-year-old who was allegedly part of a group of men who took photos of themselves hanging off cranes, ledges and walls on Adelaide construction sites is charged by police.

A jury's decision to find a man guilty of murder after he killed two people in a head-on collision is a South Australian first, the victims rights' commissioner says.

Whoever defaced a Brisbane billboard depicting animal cruelty in the greyhound racing industry for the second time in two weeks are "pretty desperate", Animal Liberation Queensland says.

Police find the remains of missing teenager Cayleb Hough in a mineshaft in a national park north-east of Melbourne.

Management at a north Queensland golf club attracts strong criticism after trying to ban the Last Post and Ode of Remembrance.

One of the nation's most notorious bank robbers wants to live the next chapter of his life in tropical north Queensland, but his bid for freedom is looking precarious.

The final phase of the $1 billion Mr Fluffy buyback scheme will begin tonight, with the first public auction for cleared blocks in Canberra's south.

The Victorian Government is attempting to dismiss the council of the state's second-biggest city. The Local Government Minister says dysfunction means she has no choice but to try and sack the Geelong Council.

Police believe the stabbing of two men in a hotel car park in Berala, west of Sydney, was a targeted attack.

Roughly 16 million islanders face the prospect of freshwater supplies drying up, as climate change takes its toll.

Two men have been rushed to hospital after being stabbed in the car park of a pub Sydney's west on Monday night.

Cameron McEvoy sets a new national and Commonwealth record of 47.04 seconds in winning the men's 100 metre freestyle final at the Australian Swimming Championships in Adelaide.

The prime minister has claimed the powers are available to regulate the banks . . .

South Brisbane crushes as much potential into as small a space as possible. So what went wrong at West End?

Brisbane's biggest and best fun run event is back better than ever.

The ARU recorded a deficit of almost $10 million last year – its worst in over a decade - with chief executive Bill Pulver admitting he is not proud of the game's financial results in 2015.

Geelong Council and high-profile mayor Darryn Lyons will be sacked by the Andrews government on Tuesday, and voters in the regional city will not get a chance to elect another council until 2020.

Collingwood coach Nathan Buckley says he and his assistants are partly responsible for the club's early-season malaise.

The NSW Waratahs, Sydney Roosters and Sydney FC have vowed to fight the NSW government's stadium plans at Moore Park having been misled in negotiations with sports minister Stuart Ayres.

The Campbell sisters Cate and Bronte are the fastest into Tuesday night's 100m final but the sizzling Emma McKeon is keeping them honest after her best swim in the sprint event.

Clubs based at the Sydney Football Stadium speak out against New South Wales Premier Mike Baird's plan to build a new facility at the site, not on the adjacent Centennial Parklands.

The Victory will find out on Tuesday night if they have their star striker for their elimination final.

The Canterbury Bulldogs kick-start their season in earnest with a tough 18-12 win over the Melbourne Storm at AAMI Park in Monday Night Football.

Storm skipper says his pack stood up to the Bulldogs while Des Hasler praises his team's goal-line defence.

Melbourne Storm had their chances but Canterbury Bulldogs converted theirs, taking the points at AAMI Park on Monday night.

A man armed with a hatchet or small axe threatens staff at a drive-through bottle shop in Adelaide's northern suburbs.

Washboard abs and expensive trees: the things we'll remember about Geelong's most-flamboyant mayor.

WA electricity distributor Western Power is looking to cut up to 215 jobs through voluntary redundancies.

Pilot blew a 0.059 blood alcohol reading before he was due to fly 96 passengers to Queensland.

The Victorian Government will move to have the entire Geelong City Council sacked after an independent inquiry found it had a culture of bullying and harassment.

Kelmscott Senior Football Club has been booted out of the WA Amateur Football League over its litany of 2015 red and yellow cards and two incidents subject to criminal proceedings.

Ronald Mulkearns, the Catholic bishop who presided over the Ballarat diocese during some of its worst years of child sexual abuse by priests, is buried in a simple grave rather than the cathedral crypt.

Coalition unity over a banking royal commission is cracking, with eight government MPs now supporting an inquiry or saying it should be on the table.

An AFL supporters group condemns the actions of a woman who unfurled a provocative banner during an AFL match at Hobart's Bellerive Oval at the weekend.

Melbourne City striker Harry Novillo is in danger of being banned for his side's A-League elimination final.

Waratahs forwards Dave Dennis and Jack Dempsey believe a win against the Brumbies this weekend could result in a "snowball" effect similar to the one the team found themselves in towards the end of their successful 2014 campaign.

A deadly fungal virus is pushing seven native frogs, including two Queensland species, to the point of extinction.

Protests over the insensitive naming of her restaurant Uncle Ho might be the least of restaurateur Anna Demirbek's problems.

I hate exercising with a passion. Yes, yes, I know it's good for me. And I know it will extend my life. It will improve my sex life. It will make travelling more fun. What's not to love?

The Liberals' "Transport Future" policy offers relief from the debate over how many public transport users should switch from buses to trams.

Bryan Adams has followed Bruce Springsteen's lead by scrapping a show in Mississippi in protest over the state's anti-LGTB laws.

On Saturday Hugh Hefner turned 90. He celebrated by watching a screening of Casablanca, a birthday tradition he has upheld for years.

While Sydney FC's end-of-season cull begun with the club terminating the contract of Jacques Faty on Monday, the defender didn't waste any time finding a new home, quickly agreeing terms with the Central Coast Mariners.

Western Power is cutting 215 jobs from its operations but sources suggest up to 30 per cent of the workforce could be under threat.

The Championships were a great success but premier trainer Chris Waller and I both are of the view that the dates should be fixed, rather than being tied to Easter, which can fall anywhere over six-week period.

Twenty years on, four witnesses to what remains one of the worst mass shootings by a lone gunman recall the harrowing events of that day.

If there is a symbol of suburban decay, it is the abandoned shopping trolley. Out behind the housing commission flats in Heidelberg West where tiny Sanaya Sahib was staying with her mother, they lie dumped in a filthy maze of laneways.

Staff at Perth Zoo are mourning the loss of African lion Nelson, after the 13-year-old succumbed to pneumonia.

The three Allianz Stadium tenants are lashing out at the Baird government's plans to leave them homeless during the four year construction of a new stadium at Moore Park having received guarantees from sports minister Stuart Ayres they they wouldn't be displaced.