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A vessel linked to one of the largest drug busts in Western Australia's history is being sold by the Australian Federal Police in Geraldton.

A 25-year-old man is charged after allegedly threatening people at knifepoint and stealing two cars in South Australia's south-east.

A man faces charges after crashing through a Melbourne school fence and into a portable building when he lost control of his car while allegedly playing the latest mobile phone game craze.

Police search for a gunman after a 24-year-old man is critically injured in a shooting in Prairiewood.

A 24-hour sexual assault response unit is operating in Townsville in north Queenslandthe first of its kind in the state.

Melbourne train travellers are thanked for "holding on" while the most complained-about toilets on the city's train network receive a welcome revamp.

Flashing lights and sirens, eight sets of handcuffs, 22 portable radios, a baton and body armour are among a list of items lost by ACT police, freedom of information documents reveal.

A residents' group reveals it will take its appeal against the contentious Dickson shopping and residential redevelopment to the ACT Civil and Administrative Tribunal.

A taxi driver suffers a cut hand after being held up by a violent passenger.

The West Australian Government will unveil the long-awaited details of its transport blueprint for Perth on Friday morning.

Police are investigating after an underworld figure at a central Victorian jail died following an alleged assault on two prison staff.

Brisbane puts on another disappointing display in a 32-16 loss to the Roosters at the Sydney Football Stadium.

Sydney's Lord Mayor is urging the New South Wales Government to extend a developer levy in order to ease the affordable housing crisis.

Tasmanian Liberal Party stalwart and socialite Edyth Langham-Goodwin dies, aged 78.

A kayaker off Western Australia's southern coast makes a mayday call to nearby whale-watching vessels as a shark takes a keen interest and circles him.

Sydney University scraps a controversial forced merger of its Sydney College of the Arts with the University of New South Wales' School of Art and Design.

Sydney University scraps a controversial merger of its Sydney College of the Arts with the University of New South Wales' Faculty of Art and Design.

A treasure trove of 160 years of seafaring history goes on display in Melbourne.

Javelin thrower Kim Mickle will be going to the Rio Olympics after a successful throw today, just 10 months after a shoulder reconstruction.

There are concerns gaps are being left in Tasmania's health system after a large Commonwealth cash injection dried up at the end of June.

Bowen teenager Rachel Antonio died due to a physical altercation at the hands of her alleged boyfriend, Robert Hytch, a Queensland coroner finds.

Water is being released from the Menindee Lakes to the virtually dry lower Darling River for the first time in eight months.

Employment prospects in north-west Tasmania are dealt a blow with a local consortium missing out on a multi-billion-dollar Defence tender.

One of regional Queensland's oldest radio stations is celebrating 85 years of continuous operationmaking it an ABC station older than the ABC itself.

A proposal is under consideration to sell the Renmark Airport and transform it into an international airport exporting fresh produce and housing an international flying school.

Labor MP Jo-Ann Miller breaks tradition and grills her own government's ministers on all seven days of estimates hearings.

A traffic bottleneck at the Oaklands rail crossing in Adelaide's south could be solved if spare federal money is diverted, the South Australian Government says.

Authorities in far west New South Wales have begun to release water to the lower Darling River for the first time since last year.

Increased production, good quality and improved prices caps off solid vintage for Australian winemakers.

Supporting young people with a disability transition into life after school has been the focus of an expo in Newcastle.

ACT police urge victims of indecent assault on public transport in Canberra to come forward after a man was arrested for allegedly attacking two people.

Former Perth Wildcats basketballer Kendal 'Tiny' Pinder denies under oath ever meeting a woman who says he raped her almost 30 years ago.

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A five-year battle over a new poker machine venue in central Victorian town of Castlemaine comes to an end.

A device being trialled by trawler operators has the northern prawn industry on track to cut bycatch by one third.

Global miner Barrick Gold confirms it will start the process of selling its half of the iconic Super Pit gold mine in Kalgoorlie.

Fire crews are sent to a site in Perth's industrial south where a pile of sulphur is smouldering.

A man is being questioned over an attack where a woman was repeatedly stabbed at Kallangur, north of Brisbane, police say.

The Tasmanian Government walks away from a controversial plan to lift the legal smoking age to as high as 25.

People seeking assistance with their migration applications to Australia are routinely being ripped off by dodgy agents.

The alleged paedophile previously questioned over the disappearance of missing toddler William Tyrell will try to stop a NSW Supreme Court trial on unrelated allegations of child sexual abuse going ahead.

The Bureau of Meteorology is forecasting above average rainfall for much of drought-affected Queensland over the coming three months.

The Country Liberal Party will turn Mataranka Station into a prison farm for juveniles if it wins next month's Northern Territory election.

The family of a South Australian motorcyclist who died in a head-on road crash say they forgive the other rider involved.

Kristina Keneally says families of stillborn children have previously felt excluded by a controversial instruction in the Census to record 'live births only'.

Sanghyun Hwang is jailed for life for murdering fellow Korean Min Tae Kim in December 2013 in Brisbane.

A Chinese national accused of enlisting a man to murder her boyfriend went to extraordinary lengths to conceal any involvement in the crime, the Victorian Supreme Court hears.

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Safety concerns hold up remediation works at the flooded Myer store redevelopment site in the Hobart CBD.

An abattoir in south-west Victoria has signed a 10-year deal to process lambs for supermarket chain Coles.