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Traffic is set to resume along a major road near Sydney Airport, over 24 hours after an overturned tanker spilling fuel caused detours in the area.

West Coast beats Hawthorn by 25 points but star ruckman Nic Naitanui ends the game on crutches.

With just two games remaining before finals, seventh-placed Penrith solidifies its place in the NRL's top eight with a thumping 40-10 win over Wests Tigers.

A tanker carry sulphuric acid runs aground off Victoria's coast, but authorities say it poses no environmental risk.

Police searching a home in Perth's north seize a critically endangered western swamp tortoise, with wildlife authorities describing the find as "massively significant".

Paralympic Chef de Mission, Kate McLoughlin, joins Matt Wordsworth to discuss the upcoming Paralympics in Rio.

Five years ago we reported on a community-based program helping mothers struggling with homelessness and mental health issues. One of the women featured in that story is now giving back to the program she believes saved her life.

A man is charged over the return of a $75,000 Ben Juniper sculpture, which was stolen from the front yard of a home in the affluent Perth suburb of Peppermint Grove.

Scott Sio and Allan Alaalatoa's dads helped Western Samoa make the 1991 Rugby World Cup quarter-finals. Tomorrow the young rugby players will run out together for Australia.

Treasurer Scott Morrison confirms the decision to block the sale of New South Wales power network Ausgrid will not be reversed.

Older Australians isolated in their communities face greater loneliness if senior citizen club numbers are not replenished, a SA country group says.

In a delicate operation, an eight-tonne dead yellow box tree is given a new home on the other side of Canberra, in a bid to create an "artificial forest".

A showcase of Northern Territory prisoner artwork on display as part of the Darwin Festival is more than an exhibition to some of the the Fannie Bay Gaol artists.

Testing is underway across the country to ensure next year's online NAPLAN exams do not suffer similar issues to the census.

A 73-year-old man dies after apparently falling 10 metres onto rocks from a cliff on South Australia's Kangaroo Island.

"The words poured out of me, verse after verse"

For the first time in its 127-year history, the United Grand Lodge of Victoria appoints a woman as chief executive.

Some 39 beds are closing at the Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH) at a time when its emergency department is already under significant pressure, the doctors' union says.

The protest led not just to equal wages, but also the Indigenous land rights movement.

An man who allegedly attacked a group of four men with a machete on Christmas Eve tried to run them over "GTA style" after the incident, the ACT Magistrates Court hears.

The best way to end the working week.

A man is charged after petrol was allegedly thrown at a visiting school staff member and a classroom door set alight on the Charles Darwin University Casuarina campus.

Treasurer Scott Morrison confirms the decision to block the sale of New South Wales power network Ausgrid will not be reversed.

Alannah MacTiernan hits back at WA Government Upper House whip Phil Edman after he said she was a "dinosaur" whose return to state politics posed no threat to the Liberals.

Coulrophobia, otherwise known as the fear of clowns, is explored in a new performance in Bendigo.

The RSL is funding a training program to help doctors recognise the physical signs of post-traumatic stress disorder among Australia's combat veterans.

A Sydney personal trainer is sentenced to five years prison for drug dealing, after being recorded by police saying if he was raided police would find "nothing", court documents reveal.

A regional Queensland festival this weekend will include special commemorations for the centenary of the country's most fatal floods.

The conduct of an Ashley Youth Detention Centre employee in restraining a young person during an incident is "of such gravity" there will be a formal state service investigation when a Tasmanian police probe finishes.

For years mutton has been seen by many as inferior to lamb, but dry ageing mature sheep meat is changing that as restaurateurs seek out the product in the meat's revival.

The chief executive of the Shire of Brookton resigns weeks after being told not to attend work while an investigation into workforce-related issues was being undertaken.

Allegations of mistreatment inside a Townsville youth detention centre, which were revealed by the ABC, prompt Queensland Attorney-General Yvette D'Ath to order an independent review.

Police call on Victorians to drive with caution after 12 people die in a horror week on the state's roads.

Fisher Nathan Rynn & net committee chair, Qld Seafood Industry Association

Authorities investigate an oil spill across a large area of Darwin Harbour that they say will be difficult to contain.

The second round of voluntary fishing net licence buybacks will ruin the Queensland fishing industry and make it harder to buy local fish claims Nathan Rynn, net committee chair with the Queensland Seafood Industry Association.

A fishing industry spokesman says the second round of voluntary fishing net licence buybacks will make it harder to buy local fish.

A Perth magistrate grants a request by West Australian One Nation Senator Rodney Culleton to have his trial for stealing delayed, with the charge over an incident involving a hire car now due to be considered next month.

An Adelaide man arrested in Dubai after sharing a post on Facebook about a charity is charged with fundraising without permission and reportedly faces up to a year in prison.

An independent review of Queensland's youth detention centres is ordered by State Attorney-General and Justice Minister Yvette D'Ath.

Two former members of the Rebels bikie club are banned from associating with bikies from any other clubs, after they pleaded guilty in an ACT court to their part in an attack on two Finks members.

The Queensland Government concedes it did not act on recommendations to prevent council fraud a year before public money was lost to scammers by Brisbane and Townsville councils.

Tunnels built after the bombing of Darwin form an ideal acoustic backdrop for a cast of singers and musicians for a week-long festival of music.

Yolngu songman Jason Gurruwiwi in Darwin as part of Tunnel Number Five Festival of Underground Music.

West Papuan singers in Darwin as part of Tunnel Number Five Festival of Underground Music.

Sarah Hopkins plays the whirlies in Darwin as part of Tunnel Number Five Festival of Underground Music.

Tunnel Number Five Festival of Underground Music.

Anne Norman is the artistic director of Tunnel Number Five: Festival of Underground Music.

Two train strikes, including one as thousands of footy fans travel to watch the Crows play at Adelaide Oval next week, are planned.

Mandarin and Cantonese-speaking Australians meet once a week at a community hall in Wollongong to eat, drink and enjoy each other's company.