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A deli in the southern Perth suburb of Baldivis has its roof torn off by strong winds during another night of wild weather across the city and the South West region.

Fremantle Port is being forced to comply with more than a dozen restrictions on its management and operations amid a push to privatise it.

Canberra's local politicians received almost $57,000 worth of gifts including free legal work, airfares and promotional videos last financial year.

Southern Tasmania might have its edgy Dark Mofo winter festival, but Launceston is staging its own quirky celebration of the arts.

Hobart's waterfront is set to be awash with colour as thousands of penguin models decorated by school children go on display, with the hope of raising money for Mawson's Huts in Antarctica.

Trying to imagine a time when dinosaurs roamed the country is not too difficult with some of the best dinosaur footprints in the world right here in Australia.

A taxi company in Western Australia's far north has been issued a show cause notice for allegedly helping welfare recipients misuse the Federal Government's healthy welfare card. The card is being trialled in the Kimberley town of Kununurra and can't be used to buy alcohol.

Cannabis with a street value of $2.3 million is seized from a house in Tasmania's north-west, in what police say is one the state's biggest drug busts.

Detectives arrest four men after seizing large quantities of dangerous drugs and a stash of illegal items in south-east Queensland

A regional showcase of military ideas and hardware in Adelaide provides a perfect platform for SA to sell its case to build the Army's new armoured vehicles.

Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison discusses Labor senator Sam Dastyari's resignation from the frontbench, and the release of Australia's latest national account figures.

A Northern Territory Aboriginal health service is working to improve the way Indigenous mothers access health care during their pregnancy and is improving generational health practices along the way.

Hundreds of Victorian primary school children pay tribute to Australian service men and women who died during World War II in what is being called the Battle for Australia.

What would it be like to be deaf and blind? A new, unique theatrical performance is hoping to give audiences an insight.

A media adviser to WA Premier Colin Barnett sent an email that referred to Transport Minister Dean Nalder using "colourful language", Mr Barnett confirms.

A 24-year-old man who posed as a lawyer on Queensland's Gold Coast is fined $1,500 and has a conviction recorded.

A calf injury means speedy West Coast winger Lewis Jetta won't play in the elimination final between West Coast and the Western Bulldogs on Thursday.

A calf injury means speedy West Coast winger Lewis Jetta won't play in the elimination final between West Coast and the Western Bulldogs on Thursday.

7.30's Political Editor, Sabra Lane, discusses the resignation of Labor senator, Sam Dastyari, after a week of criticism over his decision to ask a Chinese-linked company to pay some of his travel expenses.

Queensland Police withdraw a charge against an officer accused of firing his revolver during a pursuit on the northern Gold Coast last year.

Hamilton Island's social media pages are inundated with angry messages and pleas from people upset at mass animal culls at the resort destination.

The jury in the murder trial of Danny Jack Deacon leaves the Supreme Court in Darwin for a third day without delivering a verdict.

A woolly art installation using more than 1,000 hand-knitted pieces stitched by people around the world goes on display at the Ballarat Art Gallery.

A man in his 60s was the sole occupant of the plane that crashed near Yarram airport, in Victoria's south-east, police say.

The owner of Chinese coal carrier Shen Neng One that ran aground in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park in 2010 tells a court remediation is not necessary.

Controversial anti-protest laws are unlikely to go ahead before the WA election in March, the state's Police Minister has all but conceded, as time runs out for the Barnett Government to push through its legislative agenda.

A haul of cannabis with a street value of $2 million is seized from a house in Tasmania's north-west, in what police say is one the state's biggest drug busts.

The former principal of a Marist Brothers high school in Newcastle tells the child abuse royal commission a notorious paedophile admitted to him he had abused children 40 years before he was charged.

A man in his 60s was the sole occupant of the plane that crashed near Yarram airport, in Victoria's south-east, police say.

The findings arising from the coronial inquest into the Sydney siege will not be handed down until next year, New South Wales state coroner Michael Barnes confirms, but it appears ASIO's involvement will remain confidential.

Harry Coffey has more to overcome than most jockeys if he is to achieve his dream of riding in this year's Melbourne Cup.

The son of a key person of interest in the 1982 disappearance of West Australian backpacker Tony Jones in north Queensland says he believes his father is innocent of killing him.

A senior public servant's appointment less than seven months before next year's state election was "political" and "jobs for the boys", WA Labor says.

Liberal MP Angus Taylor urges Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to throw his support behind a shake-up of the party's NSW branch, warning change needs to come now.

A five-year-old boy dies after falling on stairs at a Wodonga primary school in Victoria's north-east.

The sister of a Canberra man who killed his ex-partner tried to warn the victim to lock her door minutes before the killing, the ACT Supreme Court hears.

A Canberra man jailed for assault causing grievous bodily harm has the conviction overturned, after the ACT Court of Appeal finds CCTV did not actually show whether he threw the punch in question.

The Newcastle Jets sacks their head coach Scott Miller after just one season, ending his tenure three months after a wealthy Chinese businessman took control of the club.

South Australian irrigators fear they will become uncompetitive if the state's soaring power prices are not brought under control.

There continues to be confusion over what constitutes a shoulder charge in the NRL after Canberra Raiders fullback Jack Wighton was cleared by the judiciary.

Rain and record high cattle prices continue to impact on the number of cattle on feed across Australia.

The Federal Government's long-awaited farm ownership register would be more helpful if it looked at land value, rather than size CBRE Agribusiness regional director says.

The jury in the murder trial of Danny Jack Deacon leaves the Supreme Court in Darwin for a third day without delivering a verdict.

Police release video showing two men armed with a sledgehammer and a handgun smashing their way through a jewellery store at Elsternwick, stealing items before fleeing.

One of the most polluted natural environments in New South Wales undergoes a lengthy remediation.

Former SANFL footballer Nicholas Murphy is found not guilty of rape in a majority verdict by a District Court jury.

The Sydney Opera House transforms into a giant book swap and performance space as children from across Sydney, and as far away as outback WA, drop in to mark Indigenous Literacy Day.

Inmate Dylan Doughty escaped Eastern Goldfields Regional Prison by tying his sheets together and scaling the prison fence, investigation reveals.

A man in his 60s was the sole occupant of the plane that crashed at Yarram airport, in Victoria's south-east, police say.

The men and women who fought to defend Australia from Japanese invasion in the Battle for Australia are recognised at a memorial service in Western Australia for the first time.