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NSW Police say they won't approach Manly for evidence before they need answers from the club as they continue to examine alleged match fixing in the NRL.

Great Southern farmer makes the most of her farming background after buying the local town pub.

A man hit by a car while jogging in Melbourne's inner east is taken to hospital with critical injuries.

Cancer patients who were given the wrong dosages of chemotherapy at two Adelaide hospitals are being offered compensation by the State Government.

Trials to stop long-nosed fur seals destroying commercial fishing catches in South Australia's Coorong are so far not working, local fishermen say.

The Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce says he's confident voters in his seat of New England will put the bigger picture ahead of parochialism when they cast their ballots next month. Last night on the ABC's Q and A program he faced his rival for the seat, Independent Tony Windsor, who is campaigning on local issues such as NBN access and opposition to coal seam gas mining.

Australia's progress in the Rio Olympics will be closely watched by critics and supporters alike of the Australian Sports Commission's polarising Winning Edge policy.

A young woman dies after her car hits a wombat, causing her to lose control and crash into an oncoming ute, near Wonthaggi in Victoria's Gippsland region.

In a show billed as the 'Tussle in Tamworth', the Q&A audience bombarded Barnaby Joyce and the rest of the panel with tough questions about rural issues such as CSG mining and the NBN.

Emergency services say it is too early to assess the damage after king tides peaked along the New South Wales east coast, which have already been battered by extreme weather that has claimed the lives of three people.

A man is charged with culpable driving causing death after two women were killed in a car crash at Attwood, in Melbourne's north-west

The Cronulla Sharks are back on top of the NRL ladder after a last-minute converted try saw them beat the Bulldogs 20-18 in Sydney.

Darwin Festival threatens to cancel this year's even unless the NT Government "makes good" on almost half a million dollars management says it is owed, elevating the war of words over the event's handling.

Doreen Collyer is described as a "devoted grandmother, mother and loving wife" by her husband after she was attacked and killed by a suspected five-metre shark off the Perth coast.

The ABC obtains exclusive footage of the moment a senior constable pulled a gun on a motorist caught speeding near Longreach.

Lockdowns are being enforced at an Adelaide youth detention centre because there are not enough staff to supervise offenders, the union says.

Two bodies are found in floodwaters in NSW after extreme weather battered the state, while the search for a man believed missing off Sydney's Bondi Beach is called off for the night.

Two elderly people remain missing after being swept away by floodwaters in Tasmania, as dozens of people bed down for the night in evacuation centres in the state's north.

There are renewed calls for national monitoring of Australian beaches in the wake of severe storms which washed away homes and other waterside properties along the east coast.

More king tides and a large swell are expected to hit the New South Wales east coast, which has already been battered by extreme weather that has claimed the lives of three people.

Opposition Leader Bill Shorten is standing by comments on working mothers labelled sexist and "prehistoric".

Homicide detectives want to speak to a Melbourne man in relation to the death of a woman, aged in her 30s, at Mildura in Victoria's north-west.

Homicide detectives want to speak to a Melbourne man in relation to the death of a woman in her 30s at Mildura this morning.

Reporter AlexandraBlucher is in the low, lying, partially flooded suburb of Newstead in Launceston. She says residents are watching and waiting, as many have been evacuated and moved to safer areas.

The Coffs Harbour International Marina's site office has collapsed and two yachts have sunk, after the weekend's east coast low created wild surf conditions and caused waves to crash over the marina's northern break wall over the weekend.

A man is charged by police after drugs with a street value of up to $7 million are seized near the town of Norseman in Western Australia's Goldfields.

The inquest into the suicide of a 23-year-old Indigenous man, who escaped from the Darwin hospital's secure mental health unit, hears he escaped over the fence, as other patients had previously.

The body of a man is recovered from a swollen river in Canberra after he was trapped in his car and swept away by raging floodwaters.

Great Southern farmer makes the most of her farming background after buying the local town pub.

An apartment in Melbourne is raided as part of an investigation into a person who has allegedly been providing cosmetic medical procedures while unregistered, the health practitioner's watchdog says.

An outback green tree frog is recovering in the Cairns Frog Hospital after being injured in a lawn-mowing incident, seriously.

The Mid-Western Regional Council does not think the district will be adversely affected by a mining company's multi-billion dollar loss.

A huge low pressure system has wreaked havoc in New South Wales, causing flooding throughout the state's east and combining with king tides to lash coastal properties.

Leo Sayer is touring with Lulu.And we meet the composers of the No Excuses! choral suite.

Major flood warnings are in place for five rivers in Tasmania, as the island state is hammered by a massive storm cell which caused chaos in Sydney.

From Central Queensland to Sydney's northern beaches and Launceston, the country's eastern fringe has been hit by heavy rain and flash flooding, with three lives lost and hundreds forced from their homes.

An Uber driver is sacked after hurling homophobic abuse at a lesbian couple in Melbourne and threatening to drag them out of his car.

Biosecurity SA confirms Russian wheat aphid has spread more than 200 kilometres in South Australia.

The National Zoo and Aquarium says it made the decision to euthanase Bengal tiger Bakkar on Saturday when the animal's health begun to deteriorate rapidly.

An Adelaide GP who saw a 10-year-old girl two days before she died from organ failure due to a herpes infection tells an inquest he incorrectly thought she had glandular fever.

There are hopes it will be business as usual at the Parkes and Narrabri CSIRO telescopes, despite media reports about looming funding cuts.

Ninety-cap veteran Tim Cahill will wear the Socceroos' armband against Greece after Mile Jedinak was released from camp for personal reasons.

There is a push to establish the NSW Upper Hunter as the first community in the country to introduce mental health education into all of its schools.

While most Sydneysiders run for cover from the storm that lashed the Australia's east coast a group of big-wave surfers chase the rides of their lives in the Red Bull Cape Fear contest.

A man charged with manslaughter over the death of 57-year-old Gregory John Hudson on Queensland's Gold Coast in 2014 has his second application for bail refused.

A woman who died after she was attacked by a suspected five-metre shark off the Perth coast is identified as Doreen Collyer, a lecturer at Edith Cowan University.

A school in inner Melbourne is trialling an optional extra hour of classes for older students to cover language classes in an attempt to deal with the "cluttered" modern-day curriculum.

A photography exhibition captures the importance of the journey and the pathway not just the destination.

If you're looking for an uplifting topic you probably wouldn't automatically think of death.

The clean-up of homes and roads is continuing on the Tweed as council authorities and residents deal with the aftermath of Saturday's storm.