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Floodwaters have continued rising this morning at the New South Wales Central West town of Forbes, where around 1,000 residents have been ordered to evacuate their homes. While the Lachlan River system has hit its peak, emergency authorities say residents may yet see waters further encroach on their properties today.

Spending on injury prevention and management is key to reducing the amount the New South Wales Government spends on insurance for paramedics, according to the Health Services Union.

The United Nations says ignoring antibiotic resistance will mean common diseases will become untreatable.

A 24-year-old central Queensland man is charged with child abduction after allegedly snatching a 12-year-old girl from her bed in Gladstone.

A leading lawyer specialising in miscarriages of justice casts doubt on the conviction in an historic Brisbane murder case, almost 70 years after an accountant was sent to jail for killing his typist.

Forbes' Lachlan River in central west New South Wales has peaked, the State Emergency Service says, with at least 100 properties inundated with floodwater.

A Perth woman is given 20 demerit points in less than two hours after twice being caught driving while using a mobile phone.

A Perth woman loses 20 demerit points in less than two hours after twice being caught driving while using a mobile phone.

With the music festival season and leavers celebrations only months away, the West Australian Government announces a new training and resources package for workers at the frontline who deal with meth-affected people.

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The smartphone app replaces a traditional ECG machine to detect atrial fibrillation, which is responsible for one third of all strokes in Australia.

The flood-hit area of Forbes in central-western NSW is readying itself for the worst of a slow-moving flood, with the peak expected to hit after midnight.

Melbourne is already turning red, white and blue in support of the Western Bulldogs, who will play in their first AFL grand final in 55 years on Saturday.

A prisoner involved in a brawl with guards at Yatala Labour Prison in Adelaide's north is "brain dead" and "has no life left", his family says on social media.

Up to 1,000 classic and vintage cars make their way from the coast to the Adelaide Hills for the annual Bay to Birdwood Run.

Hundreds of people travel to the small town of Muradup in the Great Southern to visit Western Australia's oldest War Memorial.

A long-kept secret to keeping grass green helps Bob and Val Ford take out the gardening competition at Toowoomba's Carnival of Flowers for the second year in a row.

A long-kept secret to keeping grass green helps Bob and Val Ford take out the gardening competition at Toowoomba's Carnival of Flowers for the second year in a row.

Melbourne captain Cameron Smith is pleased long-time nemesis and rival skipper Paul Gallen will get a shot at an elusive premiership for Cronulla in the NRL grand final.

Three workers left hanging by their safety harnesses inside the boom of a crane that collapsed atop a North Sydney building site are rescued, with one suffering serious injuries.

A plan by Tasmania's water corporation to run a sewage pipe through the Peter Murrell Reserve, south of Hobart, angers residents and community leaders.

More than a dozen memorial plaques appear at closed-down music venues around Sydney over the weekend as part of the Keep Sydney Open campaign.

Threeworkersleft dangling by their safety harnesses in midair when a crane collapsed ontopofabuilding inNorthSydney are rescued.

All signs point to Patrick Dangerfield for the 2016 Brownlow Medal, but could an upset be on the cards? Check out all the frontrunners in our preview.

Commuters in Melbourne's east will face months of disruptions from next month, when work begins to remove four level crossings on the Belgrave line.

Farmers in the NSW central west are expecting heavy losses, with many of their crops already completely submerged and flood waters expected to peak later today.

An expert panel will work with the Queensland Family and Child Commissioner to analyse the child protection system and the circumstances surrounding the death of Tiahleigh Palmer, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announces.

The Aboriginal community of Scotdesco on South Australia's west coast pins its hopes on farming saltbush to overcome shockingly high levels of unemployment.

They are braced for a fast and furious grand final, but the Western Bulldogs hope their grit in clutch moments can propel them past Sydney to their first AFL premiership in more than half a century.

A four-year-old mare with blue eyes and a distinctive bald face is quickly developing a cult following just two races into her career.

A mysterious and growing scourge of Queensland sugarcane is prompting some long time canegrowers to diversify to stay afloat.

Samoan performers are set to take to the stage in Melbourne to tell the Samoan creation story, in one of the biggest productions by the Pacific Islands theatre community in Australia.

About half a million people lined the Brisbane River on Saturday night to hear the roar of a jet engine and witness more than five tonnes of fireworks light up the night sky.

An actor has been found murdered at the rented home of Canadian talk-show host George Stroumboulopoulos in the Hollywood Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, police and the TV personality said on Friday.

Who knew death could be so lucrative? An apparent turf war has erupted over the right to cremate our bodies.

Floodwaters descending on the Central West NSW town of Forbes are expected to peak on Sunday night after the emergency evacuation of 1000 residents.

The accolades are given for studies and findings that "make people laugh, and then think."

Former Brumbies chief executive Michael Jones reaches a settlement with the University of Canberra, ending a lengthy legal battle between the parties.

ACT Labor announces it will no longer accept donations from property developers in Canberra, and it will legislate to make the practice law if re-elected.

Police caught two drivers breaking almost the same traffic laws at the same time in the early hours or Sunday morning.

Print media around the world is facing difficult times but a tiny newspaper in Queensland's outback is going from strength to strength.

A prisoner involved in a brawl with guards at Yatala Labour Prison in Adelaide's north is "brain dead" and "has no life left", his family says on social media.

A twisted piece of guard rail that pierced the cabin of a car when it rolled on Melbourne's Western Ring Road traps two men briefly, before they are freed and taken to hospital, one with critical injuries.

When Adelaide entertainer Bev Harrell went to entertain the troops in Vietnam, little did she know it would lead her on a mission that would take almost 50 years to complete.

Finding Corporal Powell should have been easy, but tracking down the man who handed his dog tags to an Australian singer in 1967 took almost 50 years, writes Simon Royal.

A motorcyclist has died in a crash on the Logan Motorway south of Brisbane.

A man armed with a firearm robbed the Woolworths supermarket in Kippax on Friday, police revealed on Sunday.

The grand final awaits with Sydney and the Western Bulldogs the winners from prelim final weekend. Sift through the wreckage to see who were the weekend's heroes and villains.

The flooding event in the NSW town of Forbes is "unique", the SES says, with residents warned to leave as the Lachlan River nears an expected peak of 10.7 metres, half a metre higher than anticipated.

Regulations in the once stridently Catholic Ireland are among the strictest in the world, but there is growing pressure for a national vote to boost access.