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This week's Spot on the Map is Port MacDonnell in South Australia. Veronica Jenkin is on the Committee of the Port MacDonnell and District Maritime Museum. She speaks to Rod Quinn.

Brent Harvey celebrates his record 427th AFL match with a convincing 23-point North Melbourne win over St Kilda.

Melbourne does what no other has done this season and won in Townsville, albeit against a Cowboys side without Johnathan Thurston.

A Liberal MP wants the Western Australia Government to fast-track plans for a rail tunnel to Morley, saying it is a better project than the dumped MAX Light Rail.

A Liberal MP wants the Western Australia Government to fast-track plans for a rail tunnel to Morley, saying it is a better project than the dumped MAX Light Rail.

A Melbourne mural of US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in a revealing, stars-and-stripes swimsuit makes international headlines after it was reportedly deemed offensive.

Young Wests Tigers playmaker Luke Brooks picks up a knee injury in his side's hard-fought 23-8 win over Parramatta.

Collingwood further tarnishes West Coast's AFL premiership credentials with an upset 19-point win over the Eagles at the MCG.

The Queensland Firebirds boast a secret weapon that has helped make them one of the strongestand fittestteams in the trans-Tasman netball comp.

A man is airlifted to hospital with injuries after he crashed into the side of a cliff while paragliding south of Sydney.

In the remote Western Australian Aboriginal community of Warburton, fashion is being used to drive social change.

It is third time lucky for the Warriors as they beat Penrith 20-16 in their third-straight golden-point game.

Racist vandals target an Adelaide mosque, covering the entrance in swastikas and neo-Nazi slogans.

Greater Western Sydney records its first AFL win over Richmond and puts a scare through the competition with an 88-point belting in Canberra.

The battle for the West Australian seat of Perth heats up ahead of the state election, with high-profile Labor candidate John Carey accusing sitting MP Eleni Evangel of trying to oust him as City of Vincent Mayor.

Hundreds of protestors gather outside Sydney's Town Hall in response to the treatment of children in detention exposed on the ABC's Four Corners this week.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull accurately reflected the mood of the federal Cabinet when he rejected Kevin Rudd's bid to lead the United Nations, according to deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights says conventions on the rights of the child and torture may have been breached by bashings and torture in the Don Dale Youth Detention Centre.

Police have released clues about a hit-and-run in Warnbro on Friday night which left a motorcyclist with serious injuries.

A brave attendant at a Stafford Heights newsagency refused to cooperate with an axe-wielding thief on Saturday morning.

For the seventh year running the Canberra Brick Expo puts some of the country's best block-based creations on display, attracting crowds young and old.

Police charge a 21-year-old man over an alleged hit-and-run in Melbourne that killed a young woman.

The first Australian satellite built in almost 20 years will collect more data during its first day in space than has been collected in history to dateand it's all been done on a shoe-string budget.

A nationalist media outlet in China has lambasted Australia as a "country with an inglorious history" that doesn't rate being called a "paper tiger" following Canberra's decision to support an international tribunal that ruled against Beijing's territorial claims.

Jess Trengove was injured before the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow then she won bronze. She knows what it is to lift for the big stage.

Ken Barrie, who provided the voice of affable animated letter-carrier Postman Pat, has died. He was 83.

A landslip at Boat Harbour in Tasmania's north-west threatens to completely cut off the coastal town via road.

An appeal by a convicted paedophile who argued a juror in his trial may have been coerced into giving a guilty verdict is again rejected by the West Australian Court of Appeal.

All lanes have reopened on the Hume Highway near Jugiong after two crashes in the area in an hour.

From the outside they appeared to be two parents dedicated to doing everything they could to help their children achieve their Olympic dreams. 

For the 20 players of Lakemba's all age division nine team, all they ever wanted was an identification card. 

It pays to keep an eye on your neighbourhood. Wollstonecraft father of four, Tony Damian, had always admired Clydon, a low-rise block close by his family home. On Saturday, he shelled out $1.26 million to take a top-floor apartment in the 1967 block.

It was a couple of months ago connections wondered where it was all going wrong with Esteban. And if they could ever turn it around.

A man is due to face court after NSW Police found $200,000 stashed in the passengers airbag cavity of his car.

​Australian women's basketball coach Brendan Joyce is happy with the progress the Opals have made after two wins on their Olympic warm-up tour, but sees plenty more improvement.

Holiday makers have been left stranded following the collapse of Global Plus Holidays based in Northbridge, Perth.

The Western Bulldogs' heartbreaking injuries have helped them to gel together as a group and tough out each game until the end, Liam Picken said.

The Tigers play for respect, Hawthorn aims to maintain a long Launceston streak, Collingwood fights to keep the Eagles grounded at the G, and Boomer's games record. And that's just a taste of today's five-match action here. Don't miss a moment.

Tablet stargazing, a planetarium show and $50,000 telescopes: Astrofest had it all.

Pair not seen since July 16 in Kuranda.

A homeless man and his pet ram have resisted repeated attempts from the council to force them out of Treasury Gardens.

They were close to perfect against the Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic, but the NSW Swifts know they will need to exceed those lofty heights in their grand final against the Queensland Firebirds on Sunday in Brisbane.

A new rugby training camp is aiming to spark young girls' interest in the sport, with hopes of establishing a competition specifically for teenage girls.

New claims of brutality emerge from a Queensland juvenile detention centre with a former worker saying she regularly witnessed the physical and emotional abuse of young people at the facility that "stripped them of all their self-esteem".

After working as a Sydney escort for the last five years, Samantha X, real name Amanda Goff, has started a school for prospective sex workers.

For the 20 players of Lakemba's all age division nine team, all they ever wanted was an identification card. 

Cricket has dragged itself into the modern era in many ways in recent years but when it comes to lighting, it can still have a tendency to live in the dark ages.

Detectives are interviewing a man after a 22-year-old woman is killed in a hit-and-run in West Melbourne.

Farmers in Walgett are are planting again after four years of drought.

Champion ploughmen need a good eye and a steady hand.