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A new report suggests Aboriginal people are facing enormous pressure to lose their traditional culture in order to be successful in Australia.

Leaders in the Northern Territory will today make their final pitches as voters head to the polls in an election pundits say will likely see a change of government.

The West Coast Eagles upset the Crows in Adelaide for a 29-point win that sends the top eight placings into disarray.

Brisbane continues its late-season resurgence with a 26-16 win over the ladder-leading Melbourne Storm at AAMI Park.

The head of the Australian Sports Commission says some Olympic sports 'require major change' and it is worth investigating a lottery system to fund teams.

Two men are on the run after an armed robbery and several high speed chases in Victoria's south-west.

Simon Hollingsworth, CEO of the Australian Sports Commission, joins Matt Wordsworth to discuss Australia's performance in Rio.

A Melbourne writer whose book about immigrant life in Australia wins the nation's top prize for fiction with his debut novel, Black Rock White City.

Tomorrow's election in the Northern Territory is likely to decide the future of its controversial mandatory alcohol rehabilitation scheme. 7.30 was given exclusive access to one of the mandatory treatment centres.

Greens leader Senator Richard Di Natale joins Matt Wordsworth to discuss his party's decision not to support a plebiscite on gay marriage.

The former directors of Storm Financial breached the law by allowing inappropriate financial advice be given to vulnerable clients, the Federal Court finds.

A team of scientists accidentally made a breakthrough in the treatment of koalas with chlamydia, a disease which effects up to 70 per cent of all koalas.

A maths teacher from one of southern Queensland's most disadvantaged areas wins a national award for inspiring female students.

The Federal Assistant Cities Minister travels to Tasmania telling the community it will not be disadvantaged by July's election result, and confirming he is keen to see money start flowing on a $300-million plan to relocate two UTAS campuses.

A woman who was crushed under a small crane at a residential property in Kinross is taken to Royal Perth Hospital for treatment.

A country police officer describes what it's like to be the first on the scene of a fatal traffic crash.

There are calls for a new shark detection device called a Clever Buoy to be trialled at popular West Australian surf breaks by the State Government.

Some South Australian primary students act on their concern for the desperate struggles faced by refugees by visiting some new Adelaide arrivals.

The CLP swept to power in 2012 off the back of winning five bush electorates. Will Labor cruise to victory this weekend or will the pollsters be proved wrong? Here's what to look out for ahead of tomorrow's NT election.

The new Royal Adelaide Hospital may not be open until this time next year after the consortium building the $2.3-billion medical facility reveals the site's technical completion has been pushed back.

The ACT Government will spend up to $100,000 taking over funding for the controversial Safe Schools program, to counter changes imposed by the Federal Government.

New packaging delivers healthy nutritious food in plastic pouches, but are we raising generation suck?

A man and his 93-year-old father have been left traumatised by a violent home invasion in Geelong.

Clive Palmer has been rapped over the knuckles by a Federal Court judge for providing a "salacious" affidavit containing "irrelevant" assertions in his bid to avoid questioning next week over the collapse of Queensland Nickel.

A man is fined and given a suspended jail term over an incident in which a Perth toddler was fatally run over by a stolen car.

The world's largest producer of Indian sandalwood gears up for its first shipment of wood to China, with a ship due out of Darwin Port next month.

A mother charged with the criminal neglect of her four-week-old daughter tearfully tells the Adelaide Magistrates Court she does not know how her baby became injured.

The best way to end the working week. This week Richard is joined by Tommy Dean, Rebecca de Unamuno and Subby Valentine.

A portrait of Tasmania's first female premier Lara Giddings takes its place on the wall in State Parliament.

A Canberra man who admitted to a string of crimes last year including bashing a woman on the ground, stealing her handbag and trying to steal her car, will serve his sentence in the community.

Banana growers across Australia vote in favour of a levy increase to fund the buy-out of the farm at the centre of the Panama disease tropical race 4 (TR4) outbreak.

Squatters occupying homes in inner-Melbourne compulsorily acquired for the dumped East West Link project are spared eviction for another three weeks.

Managers of an accommodation village for people with blood cancer awake to find $50,000 worth of goods missing, just weeks after the facility's grand opening.

Local councils in Western Australia's north want a State Government investigation into the factors driving high airfares for customers in the North West.

Fremantle's on-field struggles take a severe toll on Dockers crowd figures, with the AFL club set to record its lowest average home attendance in more than a decade.

Bo Liu, from China's CBA team the Shenzen Leopards, will join the Kings, taking advantage of a rule change allowing teams to sign a player from the FIBA Asian Zone and not lose one of its three import spots on the roster.

Three residents of Broome's Anne Street precinct, locally known as the Bronx, have called for an urgent public meeting due to claims the government housing three-strikes policy is leaving people in danger.

A man who fled the country after a fatal crash near Newcastle 15 years ago is sentenced to 30 months' jail.

Bill Camp plays Sgt. Box on the HBO / Foxtel crime drama that is approaching its anticipated conclusion. He joins CJ from Cincinnati where he's filming his new movie.

A former commanding officer of the Tasmanian air force cadets says he regrets waiting weeks to tell a 15-year-oldwho ended up taking her own lifethat she would not be forced out of the organisation.

Australia is finally cleared to resume live cattle exports to Japan after a three-month ban is lifted.

A Canberra child molester wins an appeal against a set of convictions for an alleged plot to kidnap witnesses due to give evidence in his trial over the abuse of three boys.

Country Liberal Party-authorised signs instructing voters to "just vote one" at Saturday's election are unlikely to help the party at the polls, experts say.

CLP authorised Just Vote 1 signs in the country town of Katherine.

A 93-year-old Catholic nun is celebrated for her pioneering social work in Central Queensland.

A new report will look at the impact of the ongoing drought on towns and communities in western Queensland.

West Australian Transport Minister Dean Nalder must overcome his political navet and express clear and unwavering support for Premier Colin Barnett, according to senior Liberal Minister John Day.

A former inmate at Darwin's prison tells a murder trial that Danny Jack Deacon confessed to him that he killed Carlie Sinclair in 2013.

At-risk Indigenous youths in Horsham learn to customise and build bikes as part of a new deadly bike project.

The AFL strikes a deal to allow the Sydney Swans to play their home finalsexcept a potential derby against GWSat the SCG.