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The final report on South Australia's nuclear fuel cycle royal commission will be handed to the Government today, but the findings will not be made public until next week.

The Youth Affairs Council of Victoria wants more transparency about the number of students who are suspended or expelled from schools.

Tasmanian Mining Minister Adam Brooks can not say how long it will take to divest himself of his mining services company amid calls for him to stand aside while the process is completed.

A man fleeing from police in Melbourne, who was found hanging on a building seven storeys above the ground, falls and critically injures himself.

Queenslanders could have a new Opposition Leader this afternoon, with a spill motion to be moved at an LNP partyroom meeting at 11:00am.

The Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is preparing to announce a deal that will see Singapore sink over $2.25 billion into expanding defence bases in Queensland.

The Defence Department is under pressure to compensate residents living near army and RAAF bases that have contaminated local groundwater with toxic firefighting foam.

Three men are rescued after their boat capsized at Port Broughton on South Australia's Yorke Peninsula after residents hear their calls for help.

A multi-million-dollar legal battle is brewing over delays and cost blowouts on the Perth Airport expansion as dozens of sub-contractors are left thousands of dollars out of pocket.

7.30 talks to Iron Maiden as they touch down in Brisbane to start the Australian leg of their Book of Souls world tour.

They're one of the biggest selling heavy metal bands of all time. And now they are back in Australia as part of their Book of Souls world tour. Here are some things you may not know about Iron Maiden.

Bill Shorten delivers his Budget reply speech as parliament wraps up before the election campaign.

Bill Shorten defends measures he outlined in his budget reply speech and attacks elements of the government's budget.

Farmers and anglers are alarmed by an NT Government proposal to change its longstanding 80:20 water rule, which determines how much of the resource must be allocated to the environment and how much can be used by industry.

A high-profile former police chief joins a group of doctors who want more safe centres for drug users to be rolled out in Australia's capital cities.

Police spend the day scouring bushland near the town of Carrabin in Western Australia's Wheatbelt after skeletal remains were discovered in the area.

Hundreds of mourners attend a funeral for Walid Ahmad, the man gunned down in broad daylight at a Bankstown shopping centre last week.

Detainees at the Broadmeadows detention centre in Melbourne's north are being subjected to increasingly strict security measures and substandard conditions, according to asylum seeker advocates.

After more than 130 years in the Cooma community, the Cooma-Monaro Express hits news stands for the final time.

The Defence Department is under pressure to compensate residents living near RAAF bases that have contaminated local groundwater with toxic firefighting foam.

At the Rio Tinto AGM in Brisbane today, three local residents from Bulga, in the Hunter Valley, confronted board members about the impact of the mine on their town. Bulga is on the verge of the Mount Thorley Warkworth open cut coal mine. Rio Tinto plans to expand the mine closer to their historic village, and extend the life of the mine to 2036. The residents said it was the only way to have their voices heard.

A chemical engineering student spent millions of dollars on handbags and luxury goods after a bank gave her the money by mistake, a Sydney court hears.

Muttaburra's first solo female police officer, Sergeant Linda Smith, wins an Australian Police Medal for outback service.

Australian Brad Craddock admits becoming an NFL player was not always on his bucket list but the Adelaide boy plans to make the most of his rookie deal to play NFL with the Cleveland Browns in the United States.

A man who bludgeoned his partner and choked his two young sons to death in Wollongong 17 years ago is ready to be released from prison, the NSW parole authority says.

The Victorian Government strikes an 11th-hour pay deal with the state's nurses, averting planned industrial action.

The landlord negotiating with Broken Hill City Council over a plan to move the city's library into a shopfront says the proposal would boost city traders and see a return to "the good old days".

It is "inconceivable" Coober Pedy teenager Karen Williams is still alive and the prosecution does not need her body to prove its case against the alleged murderer, a Supreme Court judge is told.

The first National and Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Suicide Prevention Conference is being held in Alice Springs.

Another 640 jobs will go from the ASC shipyards in Adelaide by the end of next year, a Senate estimates hearing is told.

Tobacconists are claiming that the newly announced tax hike on cigarettes will leave them vulnerable to violent crimes.

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Cookernup in the Harvey Shire is keen to have its own postcode again.

Dairy giant Fonterra will cut the price it pays its farmer suppliers from $5.60 per kilogram of milk solids to $5.

A kookaburra found with a skewer lodged in its throat leaves vets at a Gold Coast wildlife hospital scratching their heads.

A 65-year-old man is charged with the murder of his wife, whose body was found in her home in Victoria's Gippsland last month.

A western Sydney teenager accused of plotting an Anzac Day terror attack is refused bail on the grounds he poses an unacceptable risk to the community.

Police hunt a man in his 20s after several random attacks on shoppers at Regency Plaza Shopping Centre in Adelaide's north.

Tamworth domestic violence victims are honoured at candlelight vigil.

Liberal WA backbencher Murray Cowper takes to social media to criticise his Government's handling of the clean-up at bushfire-ravaged Yarloop, saying it is far too slow for his liking.

Queensland proponents of nude bathing have been caught with their pants down, with a push to establish the state's first legal clothing-optional beach was blocked by the State Government.

A man who started a fire in his prison cell and assaulted guards was not getting the support he needed in jail, an Adelaide judge says.

The Midfield Group is not shaken by the Murray Goulburn fall out, but has delayed progress to its Penola processing plant in south-east South Australia.

The ACT Government proposes making exceptions to the double jeopardy rule, which protects citizens from being retried for a crime of which they have already been acquitted.

The Granites Gold Mine in the Tanami Desert has just completed a 3.2-kilometre underground tunnel.

A 65-year-old man is charged with murder over the discovery of a woman's body in a house in Traralgon, in Victoria's Latrobe Valley.

The ongoing stoush between Collingwood and GWS continues with Pies football manager Neil Balme signalling intentions to poach Giants players.

Changes in technology and an ageing workforce have prompted the NSW RFS to appeal for new volunteers.

The distinctive and powerful voice of Claire Anne Taylor was cultivated in a Tasmanian bush home, designed to be open to musical ideas and a do-it-yourself ethos.

Legal and social service groups are urging bipartisan political support for a new plan aimed at reducing the impact of domestic violence.