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Education Minister Peter Collier says the status quo is "not working" after a teacher was assaulted and more than 50 students suspended from Kalgoorlie Boulder Community High School.

An overhaul of Western Australia's on-demand transport sector driven by the arrival of ride-sharing services such as Uber is unlikely to be completed before the 2017 election, Transport Minister Dean Nalder says.

Farmers could leave the dairy industry after an unexpected price cut by processors Murray Goulburn.

The Indigenous community of Wadeye has become one of Australia's largest suppliers of Kakadu plum, and right now it is harvest time.

Troubled oil and gas company Linc Energy could owe creditors more than $120 million, and its assets have been seriously devalued by a ban on underground coal gasification, the administrator says.

Hundreds of people are expected to attend a memorial service honouring victims of the Port Arthur massacre, 20 years to the day since 35 innocent people were gunned down.

Nikki Grenfell, whose parents survived the mass shooting at Port Arthur 20 years ago, reflects on how the massacre changed their lives forever, and what it was like to visit the town for the first time.

Gunshots fired at a brothel in Melbourne's south earlier this month narrowly missed a woman inside, investigators say, as police ramp up their efforts to find the shooters.

The sex industry, robbery, drug running, even chopping off his own fingerthere was very little John Kenney wouldn't once do for food or his next hit.

A Senate committee is today examining plans by BP to search for oil in the Great Australian Bight, off the coast of South Australia.

More than 40 members of Brisbane's Muslim community talk about their lives, ambitions, and beliefs as part of a special project, Faces of Islam, organised by award-winning photographer Matt Palmer.

Figures show Canberra's two hospitals spend more money to provide acute care than any other major metropolitan hospital in the country.

The Victorian Government begins selling its second state budget, with big spending on transport infrastructure and relief on payroll tax.

Youth homelessness is costing the health and justice systems more than $600 million a year, a new national study finds.

Twenty years ago today the unimaginable became reality when lone gunman Martin Bryant went on a killing spree at Port Arthur in Tasmania murdering 35 people. Then Prime Minister John Howard described it as an event that shook the nation to the core. Today survivors, family and friends of the victims will join others at a Memorial Service

Queensland welterweight Jeff Horn adds the biggest name to his growing boxing resume, as American Randall Bailey does not come out the corner to contest the eighth round.

A South Australian man's dying wish to see Leicester City win the English Premier League was just one match away, but Tony Skeffington's race was run and he died at home on Monday.

Adelaide man Tony Skeffington's lost battle with cancer and devotion to Leicester City garners support across the globe with fans at the team's home city paying their respects.

A 19-year-old boy who died of injuries sustained in a serious assault in Melbourne's CBD is praised as a quiet, well-regarded student of Yarra Valley Grammar.

A teenager is charged with riot, larceny and malicious damage following a brawl involving up to 100 people at Mount Druitt railway station in Sydney's west.

A class action is launched against Cash Converters over allegations it effectively charged Queensland borrowers more than 400 per cent interest on loans.

Australia's national ballet company heads to Adelaide's outer suburbs to inspire the next generation of dancers, and to widen professional dance's geographical reach.

A 28-year-old Canberra man is charged with the murder of 52-year-old Andrew Carville, whose body was found in Majura last year.

Lynne Beavis, a nurse who went inside the Broad Arrow Cafe at Port Arthur moments after the 1996 massacre to help the wounded, says she is still haunted by the images of the terrifying day, 20 years on.

Convicted child sex offender Cameron Flynn Tully to serve two years less in a Canberra jail, after four of the 18 charges against him are set aside.

Adelaide man Tony Skeffington's battle against cancer and devotion to Leicester City garners support across the globe with fans at the team's home city paying their respects.

The Leigh Creek coal train makes its final journey to Port Augusta ahead of the closure of the local power stations next month.

The National Capital Authority signs off on major construction work for the ACT Government's light rail project.

A Perth radiographer is disqualified from practising for 18 months after admitting he pulled a woman's underpants down without consent and spread her legs to expose her vagina.

Nurses attending home callouts on their own must be stopped after the alleged bashing of a nurse in the remote Northern Territory community of Wadeye, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation of the Northern Territory says.

Victoria Police continue to search for a motorcycle rider who may have been seriously injured in a crash on the Hume Freeway at Longwood after hitting a wombat.

Police investigate whether a badly injured teenager was assaulted and thrown down a well in the Perth suburb of Kelmscott by the same man who later rescued him.

There is hope new owners of land that belonged to one of the last table grape properties at Menindee in New South Wales, will use land for production, or create local employment.

A Tasmanian driver is automatically disqualified after allegedly recording a blood-alcohol reading almost seven limes the legal limit.

A Canberra man found guilty of culpable driving, after his friend died in an accident in 2014, is sentenced to more than three years in jail.

Former prime minister Bob Hawke opens an exhibition looking back at Australia's cultural, social and political involvement in the anti-apartheid movement.

Searchers recover a body after an Afghan national was swept into the ocean at one of Western Australia's most notorious rock fishing sites.

A former tattoo artist says he was knocked unconscious while being arrested by a Gold Coast police officer who is accused of using excessive force during a number of arrests.

A 20-year-old Perth man charged over the death of his baby son is refused bail and remanded to a psychiatric facility because of concerns about his mental health.

Errol Bax is using chocolate to help drive his photography business out of a downturn.

An Adelaide teenager allegedly part of group that broke into high-rise buildings and filmed themselves hanging from cranes and ledges is charged.

The future of an Australian shark patrol charity looks in doubt amid a series of investigations into fraud and misappropriation of funds.

Black Mountain tower in the ACT is evacuated and one lane of Parkes Way is closed due to a series of suspicious fires on the mountain's southern ridge.

Interest groups have had a largely positive reaction to the Andrews Government's second budget, but some are disappointed an announcement on tackling affordable housing has been delayed.

A Bentleigh man is arrested by the Victoria Police homicide squad in connection with the suspicious death of a woman on Tuesday.

A bird shot through the wing and torso with an arrow in north Queensland over the weekend was an accident, police say.

The shooting of a bush stone-curlew with an arrow in north Queensland over the weekend is deemed an accident.

A mother who lost her son to a prescription overdose is welcoming the State Government's $30 million crackdown on "prescription shopping" but is calling for a nationwide approach.

Meet the two Marios from Marios, and Chip Monck, the lighting designer with a pedigree stretching back through Woodstock to Greenwich Village in the late 1950s, who helped them on The Continental Cafin Prahran.

The Lindt Cafe siege was not like a "Hollywood movie" where the gunman could easily be shot dead and all the hostages could walk out safely, Assistant NSW Police Commissioner Michael Fuller says.