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A social media video of star Gold Coast Titans recruit Jarryd Hayne with an alleged bikie, who is holding up $5,000 cash he says Hayne gave to him, is passed on to the NRL's Integrity Unit.

Cut backs on local coal production in China and increased steel output pushes coking coal prices to unexpected highs.

Hawthorn veteran Sam Mitchell is backing team-mate Isaac Smith to rebound quickly from his crucial miss at goal in last Friday's qualifying final loss to Geelong.

The daughter of the late former New South Wales premier Neville Wran is released from prison, two years after she was arrested over the death of a Sydney drug dealer.

A man who was left at the Whyalla hospital with a number of stab wounds is flown to the Royal Adelaide Hospital in a serious condition.

Off-duty police officers will be among about 110 motorcyclists setting off from Fort Largs in Adelaide this morning to ride to Canberra in remembrance of those killed on duty.

Scientists make a major breakthrough in the battle against antibiotic-resistant superbugs by creating molecules which are able to kill the deadly bacteria.

Construction work at a southern Tasmanian primary school continues with only minute levels of asbestos detected in land fill on the site.

Forestry Tasmania increases prices for sawmillers by up to 30 per cent as a restructure of the state-owned company is finalised.

The Federal Government has spent almost $10 billion on offshore processing and mandatory detention since 2013, according to aid organisations Save the Children and Unicef.

Crime and Corruption Commission chairman Alan MacSporran says it makes sense for the Queensland Government to phase in some of its proposed new laws against organised crime.

Brayden Davidson has delivered gold for Australia at the Rio Paralympics with victory in the T36 long jump.

An officer at the Banksia Hill Juvenile Detention Centre in Perth has received a broken arm and a dislocated elbow trying to restrain a 17-year-old detainee, a union says.

Police charge a 19-year-old man with murder following the stabbing death of a teenager in Bendigo in Central Victoria on the weekend.

Catholic church officials were strongly opposed to the ordination of John Joseph Farrell who was later accused of molesting children and who was repeatedly transferred despite concerns from clergy and parishioners, a royal commission hears.

The proponents of a $650 million solar thermal project planned for Port Augusta in South Australia say it will be difficult to get off the ground without government help.

A man who was fatally bashed on the Sunshine Coast in 2013 was called a "sleaze" by the men accused of his manslaughter, a Brisbane manslaughter trial hears.

Catholic church officials were strongly opposed to the ordination of a priest who was later accused of molesting children and who was repeatedly transferred despite concerns from clergy and parishioners, a royal commission hears.

A inmate is found dead in his cell at the maximum security Port Phillip Prison at Truganina.

Osamah Sami and Shabnam Safa chat about what it's like to be a migrant Australian.

A number of regional communities across Western Australia are growing increasingly concerned their tap water is unsafe to drink and are becoming more reliant on bottled water.

The wallets of North Queensland players Jason Taumalolo and Tautau Moga are $2,500 lighter after being fined for allegedly throwing eggs at cars in Townsville.

There has been a marked increase in corruption complaints against police lodged with Queensland's Crime and Corruption Commission, possibly because statutory declarations are no longer required by complainants.

Noel Pearson's uncle is the lead claimant in a class action involving 300 Aboriginal people who say they were not paid for years of labour as stockmen or domestic workers.

Tributes are laid for a pilot killed in an accident involving two light planes at Parafield Airport in Adelaide's north on Sunday.

A towing company is threatening to take legal action against the Queensland Police Service for debts allegedly accrued for storing vehicles forfeited under the state's anti-hooning laws.

Six months into the trial of a cashless welfare card in Ceduna, some people still feel they are being unfairly targeted, while the council reports positive changes in the town.

Losing a forearm as a young teenager did not stop a promising young sportsman from breaking an athletic world record in 1984.

A teenager has been charged with attempted murder after allegedly setting fire to her boyfriend in Cherbourg, west of Gympie.

While doctors are in the care-giving profession, they were often unaware of their own well-being let alone their colleagues', and many avoid seeking support, fearing it will hamper their career.

Central Victorian private school Girton Grammar says it is "shocked" one of its students was arrested and questioned over alleged drug offences.

One Nation Senator for Western Australia, Rod Culleton is expected to appear in a New South Wales court in October over a larceny charge from 2014.

Four people are found guilty of murdering a Perth man who was bashed unconscious at his home before being dumped in the boot of a car and burnt alive.

Elders' decision to leave the live export sector is due to economics, but it is also about company image, according to an industry analyst.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull speaks of the bravery of the victim and bystanders of the alleged terrorism-inspired stabbing in Sydney's south-west over the weekend.

New wreckage that may be from missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370 could be the first proof for the theory that the missing plane was exposed to intense heat or fire, a self-styled investigator says.

A Perth-based Red Cross nurse says that five years into the war in Syria, the situation for millions of displaced people there seems "hopeless".

Asylum seeker advocates call for better support for people leaving immigration detention, following the death of an Iranian man in Hobart.

Steve Johnson is set to miss GWS's preliminary final after being offered a one week ban for his hit on Sydney's Josh Kennedy.

New NT Minister for Primary Industry and Resources Ken Vowles says he will take a sensible approach to the complex situations that affect agribusinesses and fisheries.

Researchers and farmers have teamed up to tackle halo blight, a bacteria that can destroy valuable mung bean crops.

Sheep farmers need to adjust their tail-docking procedures in accordance with best practice, a study shows.

West Australian Nationals Upper House MP Paul Brown is refusing to remove campaign signage from his car, despite being warned it breaches parliamentary rules.

A group of 12 Queenslanders in the Northern Territory on a hunting expedition lose their vehicles and property, as well as six dogs to a fire at Pine Creek campsite.

A man who was fatally bashed on the Sunshine Coast in 2013 was called a "sleaze" by the men accused of his manslaughter, a Brisbane manslaughter trial hears.

Taxpayers could be left with a $6 million bill to clean up hundreds of abandoned boats along Queensland's coastline.

Meet the Australian women logging on to a dating site that offers to connect them with wealthy men who want to pay for them to travel the world.

Australian Davis Cup captain Lleyton Hewitt says the unique personalities and playing styles of Nick Kyrgios and Bernard Tomic can be a boon for tennis in Australia and around the world.

The Islamic School of Canberra must meet strict conditions in exchange for more than $1 million a year in public funding, the Federal Government says.

Frost damage could prevent Western Australian grain growers from enjoying record yields this year.