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The Federal Opposition promises to restore all of the health funding money slated for the next four years if elected in July.

The cause of backpacker Rye Hunt's death in Brazil remains a mystery, due to the state in which his body was discovered, local police said on Saturday.

English and Russian soccer fans hurling bottles and chairs clashed with each other and French riot police in Marseille on Saturday ahead of their teams' opening Euro 2016 match.

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee is back to his teleprompter-free ways.

Seventy-five thousand Telstra customers across the country experienced network outages on Saturday.

Just like the infamous summer of 1932/33, England have drawn first blood against Australia in a fiery contest and Eddie Jones has kept his blemish-free record with the old enemy intact, running out 11-point victors against the Wallabies in Brisbane.

Child protesters have attempted to gatecrash a lavish Vaucluse fundraiser being attended by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

North Melbourne faces their most challenging week of the season after their second loss of the season, a spate of injuries, and only six days to prepare for another big game against Hawthorn on Friday night.

Been a while since you've seen Julie Bishop's infamous death stare? Dare to tell her fashion is frivolous and you'll be over like last season's denim cutoffs.

The towers have gone up but the number of properties available to those in need has dramatically shrunk. Where in the city is worst?

Eddie Jones has still never lost a Test at Suncorp Stadium. This time it was a famous one for the old enemy.

Jones has thrown his blowtorch on the Wallabies, saying they are under serious pressure to lift their game heading into the second Test in Melbourne.

Wallabies coach Michael Cheika says officials got it wrong in failing to award a try to Bernard Foley but has refused to blame the lop-sided penalty count for Australia's loss to England in a thumping start to the Test series in Brisbane.

A Perth woman has been arrested and charged after leaving her six and four year old children home alone while she flew overseas.

The government calls it a ''hand up''. For Braeden, it's a golden opportunity to fulfill his dreams.

Daniel Andrews has charged into a legal quagmire after moving to sack the CFA board for refusing to support his industrial deal with the firefighters union.

It was supposed to be an epic reality competition that would reshape the social media landscape. Instead, it was an epic failure.

Bill Shorten's Labor opposition is falling short of the support it needs to secure a parliamentary majority in its own right.

Adelaide have done what no other team has been able to do this season, beat West Coast at Domain Stadium.

Kristine Gorgievski always looked like the likely successful buyer of the Maroubra semi on Saturday.

Foreign language learning in Australia is in serious decline in the second decade of the so-called Asian Century. 

The family of a teenager killed in a car crash in central west NSW have shared tributes for the boy online.

A Labor government would spend an extra $2 billion on hospitals over the next four years but Bill Shorten is making no promises about restoring $50 billion in longer-term funding cut by the Coalition.

An ex-Waratah star has banned his teenage son from the sport he loves.

Tigers leap on cue through a ring of fire, walk along double tightropes and step backwards on their hind legs in scenes similar to circuses that traversed Australia last century.

A man has been arrested after a 38-year-old man was fatally stabbed in Cranbourne.

The Melbourne Storm weren't supposed to cope without Billy Slater like this. But Cameron Munster has more than filled his boots as the visitors dished out a record hiding of the Sydney Roosters.

Sydney Roosters coach Trent Robinson has turned the blowtorch on himself and his misfiring players after the Tricolours crashed to a record loss against white hot premiership pacesetters Melbourne Storm on Saturday night.

Patrick Dangerfield played the best individual game of the season as Geelong defeated North Melbourne by 31 points at Etihad Stadium.

There was no hiding Lions' coach Justin Leppitsch's anger after his side's 83-point loss to Fremantle at the Gabba. "Here we go again," he said, asked whether he feared for his tenure at the club, only days after football director Leigh Matthews and CEO Greg Swann had assured his position – and he boiled over.

The Wallabies trail their England 1-0 in their three-Test series after a 39-28 loss at Lang Park.

New Zealand trainer Tony Pike might have take home the JJ Atkins and Queensland Oaks, courtesy of Sacred Elixir and Provocative, at Eagle Farm for his best day in racing, but the promise of what's to come should have him licking his lips.

The NSW Swifts missed a chance to move to the top of the ANZ Championship Australian conference when they lost 58-57 to West Coast Fever at Newcastle Entertainment Centre on Saturday night.

Labor failing to make inroads in Queensland marginals.

Access to cheap finance and reduced activity by overseas buyers is encouragingfamilies to upgrade.

Geelong emphasises its flag credentials with a 31-point win over Nth Melbourne at Docklands, while Adelaide stuns West Coast in the west.

One woman's battle to save her family of elephants in Africa.

Two suicide bomb attacks have struck close to the Syrian capital Damascus, killing at least eight people and wounding more than a dozen others, state television and an opposition activist group say.

When the man dubbed 'Britain's worst paedophile' was arrested at Gatwick Airport in December 2014, it was thanks to officers from the Queensland Police.

1.88 million tourists visited the Great Barrier Reef in 2014.

Eddie Jones' England have beaten the Wallabies 39-28 in a Suncorp bruiser that puts the visitors 1-0 up in the series.

Melbourne winger Suliasi Vunivalu scores a hat-trick of tries as the Storm destroy the Roosters in Sydney.

Scientists have found dangerous drug-resistant "super bacteria" off beaches in Rio de Janeiro that will host Olympic swimming events and in a lagoon where rowing and canoe athletes will compete.

The 1970s may be back with a vengeance in the fashion world – think flares, jewel tones and velvet – but when it comes to ski gear, the fashions of the disco age are best left in the past.

Canberra's men and women prove too strong for their Sydney counterparts.

A man is being questioned by police after the death of a 21-month-old boy.

The family of Australian traveller Rye Hunt have spoken out, following the discovery of his body in Rio de Janeiro.

The large majority of mature aged workers have done no career planning despite the likelihood of working longer and in new jobs, a recent national survey has found.

Parramatta have snapped Gold Coast's four-game NRL winning streak with a 22-12 win in Darwin.

Nine years in the making, the Friends of the Albert Hall have praised the introduction of a management plan that will restrict development - and any permanent cafe - on the 88-year-old hall's block.