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Bar staff intervene in stand-off between Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce and an anti-mining activist in a New South Wales pub.

Hawthorn hands Essendon the biggest defeat of its nightmare AFL season, thumping the listless Bombers by 108 points in a poor match.

Emma Alberici speaks with Elizabeth Hill and Lesley Jones and asks them what needs to be done to improve access to, and affordability of, child care in Australia.

Lateline visits a martial arts school in the south-west of Sydney to find out what voters are thinking about the messages being delivered by the major parties.

Wests Tigers brush off a week of negative headlines over the Robbie Farah saga to beat an injury-hit South Sydney 30-14.

WA's Health Department admits its public health boss used powers to override water safety rules to allow Elizabeth Quay water park to open in time for the official celebrations.

Adelaide Cabaret Festival co-artistic director Eddie Perfect is promising a "quite shocking, bold and hilarious" mix of shows.

Bar staff intervene in stand-off between Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce and an anti-mining activist in a New South Wales pub.

The father of a psychiatric patient shot by police at a shopping centre on Sydney's north shore says his son was let down by the police and health system.

Dark Park, the interactive art precinct of Hobart's Dark Mofo festival, opens with a host of installations - not to mention a couple of bars and eateries - to explore.

There were no flood warnings for the area in Tasmania targeted by a cloud-seeding operation the day before floods devastated the town of Ouse, the state-owned energy company says.

The sale of the so-called Bondi hoarders' garbage-strewn home in Sydney's east will go ahead after the family's latest court challenge was dismissed.

The Victorian Government makes good on its promise to sack the board of the Country Fire Authority (CFA) after it failed to accept its latest offer over pay and conditions, despite the Supreme Court granting an urgent injunction to stop the board from voting on it.

A Catholic brother found guilty of indecently assaulting 18 boys at boarding school in southern New South Wales is sentenced to more than nine years in prison.

Kalgoorlie Council CEO John Walker warns of job losses, after staff emphatically voted down a planned freeze on employment conditions.

Three children who went missing from Adelaide's south on Wednesday night are found safe and well, and a man is detained by police for breaching bail.

A man tells of his desperate but unsuccessful efforts to save a diving instructor and her student who drowned at Mornington, south of Melbourne.

A man is convicted of murdering a Sydney sex worker in an Adelaide hotel room by beating her and slitting her throat.

A road safety expert says hands-free phones are not safe in the car.

A Gippsland carers' support group has cut back on face-to-face support for carers, after a Victorian Government funding cut.

Defence force policy that members do not wear uniform in election advertising material claims second scalp.

A serial rapist has five years added to his jail sentence for a rape he committed while on bail over similar offences.

Wayne Shorter's stellar career as a soloist and with Art Blakey, Miles Davis, and Weather Report over the last half century have earned him a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.Here he meets fellow saxophonist Wilbur Wilde and Australian jazz vocalist Kristin Berardi.

The niece of murdered Pilbara bus driver Lindsay Judas, says privacy laws stopped the family from searching for her missing uncle.

As international tourist numbers increase, Indigenous operators prepare to reap the rewards.

Western Australia's main grain handler and marketer the CBH Group has announced a thorough structural and governance review.

The former mayor of the now-defunct Auburn council tells a public inquiry she only discovered her real estate partner was also in business with former deputy mayor Salim Mehajer when she read about it in the newspaper.

The best way to end the working week. This week Richard is joined by Rebecca de Unamuno, Lex Marinos and Gary Eck.

After months of consultation, the Queensland Agriculture Minister has revealed her decision on exactly where the line will go, as the Government moves to abolish the "control zones".

Victorian farmers hope a visit by some of the best Chinese chefs in the world might lead to a boost in food exports.

The draw for West Australian candidates for the Senate is held, with the top spot going to Fred Nile's Christian Democratic Party.

Rain ruins olive harvest in New South Wales mining town.

Volunteer firefighters are granted an urgent injunction to stop the Country Fire Authority from voting on a new deal over pay and conditions, as the Victorian Government threatens to sack the board if it does not end the bitter bargaining dispute.

The Tasmanian frontbencher, who is standing down temporarily from his portfolio, says he "misunderstood the question" when he provided wrong information to a parliamentary committee.

Aaron Voon, a child psychiatrist facing charges in Canada, appears in Perth Magistrates Court accused of possessing child exploitation material.

This June is particularly special for a group of woman, all called June, who are celebrating 10 years of meeting together at Bathurst in central west NSW.

The Mature Australia Party is awarded the coveted first position on Senate ballot papers in South Australia where 64 candidates are vying for the state's 12 seats.

The NT Government freezes development in the Darwin rural area of Berry Springs as it admits it doesn't know who is using what water.

A Catholic brother found guilty of indecently assaulting 18 boys at boarding school in southern New South Wales is sentenced to more than nine years in prison.

One of Canberra's oldest and most-loved residents, Iris Barlin, dies. Iris was married to George Barlin, Canberra's "father of television", for almost eight decades.

There were communication failures and inadequate care in the lead-up to the death of Iranian asylum seeker Hamid Khazaei, a coronial inquest in Brisbane hears.

SA Health chief David Swan resigns to take up a role in the private sector, saying he has "no regrets" despite a series of controversies during his time in the job.

History buffs have create an inflatable globe to capture the voyages that led to the European discovery of Australia.

Tickled is a jaw-dropping new feature documentary about the very dark underbelly of competitive endurance tickling. Seriously.

It is a "miracle" a learner driver and his passengers survived a collision with a cow in the Northern Territory, police say.

Cancer survivor Julie McCrossin wants patients better prepared for radiation therapy after her experience of being locked rigid under a treatment mask.

Former Liberal Party member Marcus Cornish, who is running as an independent conservative in the crucial western Sydney seat of Lindsay, says he will preference Labor above the Liberal Party.

Detectives reopen the 17-year cold case murder of a father of five who was stabbed to death in Sydney's south-west.

As work begins on a new helicopter rescue base in Lismore, some people are concerned about the service being hampered by fog.

The former mayor of the now-defunct Auburn council tells a public inquiry she only discovered her real estate partner was also in business with former deputy mayor Salim Mehajer when she read about it in the newspaper.