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Adelaide City councillors label the South Australian Government's intervention to allow more food trucks in the CBD as "rude" and "playing politics".

Lovers have three months to remove their locks from the Adelaide University footbridge after the city council votes to remove more than 1,000 padlocks.

The grand champion fish is expected to join the livestock parade when more than 55,000 people head to the Ekka for People's Day.

Tucked away in a back street of the Melbourne suburb of Brunswick, Dale Cornell's business is one of the few remaining players in Australia's rapidly shrinking clothing manufacturing industry.

ACT Policing search for two men after a school, local shops and cars are graffitied in Canberra's south.

Two men are taken to hospital with gunshot wounds after an incident in Melbourne's north-west.

The NT coroner makes a direct plea to the sister of the prime suspect in a stabbing death investigation to speak to her brother who has gone into hiding.

Police charge two men with drug offences after finding dozens of cannabis plants in a van in Melbourne's south-east.

The Tasmanian Government is trumpeting an influx of private money to help develop two World Heritage-listed sites, as the Greens call for greater transparency around private developments on public land.

This year's Census has been embroiled in controversy. What do the changes really mean?

The RSPCA rescues 18 puppies and seven dogs from an "irresponsible" backyard breeder in a southern Perth suburb who failed to sterilise the mixed-breed dogs.

A court hearing date for former Labor MP Eddie Obeid and his son over a $30 million coal deal is delayed after Mr Obeid suffered a series of small strokes last week.

A Sri Lankan-born doctor who bludgeoned her sleeping husband to death with a mallet in Geraldton after years of abuse will not apply for parole because she fears being taken into immigration detention.

The AFL says it wants to start a conversation about discrimination against LGBTI people ahead of its first pride match, between the Sydney Swans and St Kilda, on Saturday.

Liverpool Mayor Ned Mannoun announces he is quitting politics, just weeks after his Sydney offices were raided by the Independent Commission Against Corruption.

Mobile phone footage shows paramedics and bystanders treating the injured after a shooting at a Hornsby shopping centre.

Student accommodation is damaged by fire at the UniLodge complex in Adelaide's CBD.

A failure by South Australian welfare agencies to get a clear picture of a child's home life almost led to his death, a royal commission report reveals.

Leading Australian designer Alex Perry shares his thoughts on the state of the industry, dealing with knock-offs and his advice to help young designers.

The 16-year-old who killed pregnant mother Sarah Paino when he crashed a stolen 4WD into her car in central Hobart earlier this year will be eligible for parole in two-and-a-half years.

Police bugged telephone calls made by alleged far-right extremist Phillip Galea for eight months, a Melbourne court hears.

With the mining industry facing challenges, could fostering start-ups help diversify the Hunter's economy?

A third man charged over the murder of Peta Fairhead, who was pushed out of a car at the entrance to a Perth hospital, makes a brief appearance in court.

Researchers of Australia's four species of rare sawfish develop an easier way to find the estuaries the fish exist in.

Convicted killer Liam Humbles and police were in contact several times but he was never searched for a gun before he shot dead 18-year-old Lewis McPherson, an Adelaide coroner hears.

Sensors and robots are being developed to maximise the value of meat during processing.

Students at Woonona High School in Wollongong have stepped into the shoes of a refugee to learn about their living conditions, access to education and health as part of the second annual Refugee Challenge.

There is a call to 'clean up' ALP branches ahead of the Wollongong by-election.

The discovery of 400 disused utilities, including underground pipes and cables, will push out work on the light rail network in Sydney's CBD by up to five months.

The fire-ravaged Western Australian town of Yarloop is set to reopen to the public this week, seven months after a bushfire that reduced 181 buildings to rubble and killed two people.

Councils across Sydney successfully reduce the number of urban foxes in the past 12 months as part of a coordinated fox control program.

Animal rights group PETA takes issue with the name of southern Tasmania's Eggs and Bacon Bay and is lobbying for it to be changed to a vegan alternative.

A man charged with murdering a mother and her two children at a property in Adelaide's north will not be required to enter a plea for at least another 12 weeks while forensic reports are prepared.

Yellow Wiggle lends his voice to speech program for pre-schoolers.

With the mining industry facing challenges, could fostering start-ups help diversify the Hunter's economy?

The Queensland Government appoints former solicitor-general Walter Sofronoff to conduct a "thorough examination" of the state's parole system in the wake of the death of Elizabeth Kippen.

George Orwell is best known as the author of classic literature such as 'Animal Farm', 'Nineteen Eighty Four' and 'Down and Out in Paris and London'. Orwellian phrases like 'cold war', 'doublethink', 'thought police' and 'big brother' are now part of the language. But what sort of person was he? Where did his ideas come from and what was his life like? Joining Trevor is Dr Luke Seaber, Tutor in Modern European Culture atUniversity College London.

Police believe two arson attacks on the same south-western Sydney fruit shop are linked and officers have released CCTV footage in the hope of identifying the culprit.

We've just commemorated the 100th anniversary of the bloodiest day in Australia's military history - when our troops, under orders from the British, made a suicidal charge across a French field. Peter FitzSimons, author of Fromelles & Pozieres: In the Trenches of Hell, takes us through the fascinating stories from this gruesome campaign.

Self-proclaimed 'fish nerds' are celebrating a record number of entries in this year's pisciculture section of the Royal Queensland Agricultural Show.

The number of cattle slaughtered across Australia drops by almost 20 per cent compared to this time last year.

A report that led to greyhound racing being banned in NSW contained a number of factual errors and was based on flawed calculations, the barrister representing the industry tells a court.

For Maree Smith and her family, shearing is in the blood. The work is tough, physical and taxing on the body, but it is a lifestyle the family proudly embraces.

Work begins to repair the damage to a section of Wyomi Beach coastline that sustained significant erosion during storms in July.

In 25 years someone will open a time capsule placed in the foundations of the State Library of Victoria this week, but they may find it difficult to access the contents.

Five of Queensland's YouTube stars win the State Government's inaugural Creator Original awards, taking home $110,000 worth of prizes.

The NT's Top End was once part of the Amazon jungle and there are similarities between the two regions.

Hikers in Western Australia experience a rare snowstorm, after a strong cold front and continuous showers leave Bluff Knoll in the state's south dusted with white.

Feral deer are a nemesis of the small community of Moranbah in central Queensland, but could they be about to get their comeuppance?

A Victorian farmer has invented an automated alert system that sends text messages to a list of pre-programmed numbers, detailing when and where a quad bike tips or rolls.