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Veteran player agent Peter Jess expects Jobe Watson to be stripped of his 2012 Brownlow Medal after Essendon players lost a last-ditch appeal against their doping ban.

Perth doctors will trial peanut clinics in a bid to reduce rising rates of allergy among infants and children by exposing them to peanut products early.

Victoria Police's bikie taskforce is raiding five properties at Donvale, Pakenham and Officer in Melbourne's south-east.

The Cabonne Council says it will use the Orange by-election to leverage political support for overturning a bid to merge it with Orange and Blayney.

Former racing greyhound Snazzy is one of the lucky ones. After five years on the track, she's being prepared for life as a pet. But racing bosses admit they're breeding thousands more dogs than they needcondemning many to an early death as soon as their career is over.

A four-day police search for the person responsible for a fatal one-punch attack in South Brisbane ends in a 38-year-old man charged with unlawful striking causing death.

Integrity in politics becomes a focus with just three days to go until the ACT election, as the Greens announce a plan to crack down on lies in elections and the Liberals refer FOI documents to police.

The idea of building an underground, second velodrome in Adelaide divides city councillors, but a vote favours spending thousands of dollars to investigate the proposal.

Domestic violence orders will apply for a minimum of five years, and Queensland Government and community groups can share information about violent offenders under new laws passed overnight.

Australia coach Ange Postecoglou criticises his team for a glacial start in its 1-1 draw with Japan, slowing the home side's progress to the 2018 World Cup in Russia.

Past and present Essendon footballers have failed to overturn their doping bans after an appeal was dismissed by the Swiss Federal Tribunal. The decision means the AFL will consider the unprecedented step of stripping the club's captain of the game's highest individual honour, the Brownlow Medal.

Find out what Labor, the Liberals and the Greens are promising to do in key policy areas if they win government.

Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion puts forward a proposal to the NT Government to remove children from juvenile detention centres, suggesting a well-known pastoral station as an alternative place for young offenders to serve their sentences.

Several hundred mainly Indigenous people have staged an emotional rally in Sydney to coincide with the first day of hearings at the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children.

The potentially deadly black lung disease has now spread to the open cut coal mining sector in Queensland, with a 55-year-old man becoming the latest confirmed case of the disease.

The Socceroos are below their best in a World Cup qualifying draw with Japan. Relive the action as it happened in our live blog.

A last-ditch appeal to overturn the AFL doping bans stemming from the Essendon supplements debacle fails, with the Swiss Federal Tribunal ruling against 34 current and past Bombers players.

Australia and Japan play out another exciting chapter in their rivalry, drawing 1-1 in their World Cup qualifier at Docklands Stadium in Melbourne.

In a significant win for the West Australian Government, agreements for new pay deals are reached with the state's doctors and nurses as they agree to accept a rise of 1.5 per cent per annum.

The WA Government is pressing ahead with its Roe 8 transport project, which now looms as a key issue ahead of the state election next March. But what is it and why has it proved so controversial?

The Northern Territory Department of Children and Families was "impenetrable" and "secretive", a former NT ombudsman tells the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children.

A Victorian man arrested in western Sydney has been accused of using the internet to try to procure what he believed was a teenage boy for sex, police say.

Two women are in hospital after being injured by a falling gate at a construction site in Adelaide.

A Royal Commission into the treatment of juveniles in the Don Dale Detention Centre in Darwin gets underway. But there are concerns it could devolve into an expensive talk-fest and that authorities believe they already have the answers.

NSW Premier, Mike Baird, has reversed his decision to ban greyhound racing in the state. And it's been revealed he dined with influential broadcaster, Alan Jones, the night before it was announced.

The potentially deadly black lung disease has now spread to the open cut coal mining sector in Queensland, with the Government revising the number of confirmed cases.

The South Australian Government is looking for a private provider to prop up medical imaging services due to a shortage of radiologists at Adelaide's Lyell McEwin Hospital.

A ferry has collided with a jetty at Circular Quay, injuring a number of people, including tourists, and leaving one man with suspected spinal injuries.

A problem with predicting the output of South Australia's wind farms was "the major contributing factor" in a major spike to the wholesale electricity price in mid-July, the Australian Energy Regulator says.

As Jim Maxwell continues his recovery from a stroke ahead of a return to the commentary box, Grandstand colleague Karen Tighe pays tribute to the ABC broadcasting legend.

The Socceroos face a huge World Cup qualifying test with rival Japan in town for a blockbuster match in Melbourne. Follow the action in our live blog.

A couple closes their business after the local council reportedly tells them their rent would increase by 1,718 per cent.

Australia's first privately-built airport announces a weekly international freight service to begin next month.

One of Australia's largest wine companies is set to invest millions of dollars into its existing Riverland winery.

Cattle prices are set to stay high for the next few years with supply at the lowest level in decades.

New Victorian Nationals MP Luke O'Sullivan will be sworn in at a joint sitting of the Parliament tomorrow, in a bid to resolve a tit-for-tat political dispute so Labor can replace former federal senator Stephen Conroy.

The Federal Government's plan to hold a plebiscite on same-sex marriage next February is all but dead. As expected, a meeting of the Labor caucus in Canberra today formally decided to block legislation to set up a plebiscite when it gets to the Senate. While the Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is not yet conceding defeat, the Attorney General George Brandis seemed to - accusing the Opposition of driving a stake through the heart of marriage equality.

There are growing fears the potentially deadly disease, caused by breathing in coal dust, may no longer be contained to the underground sector of the mining industry.

Two banana plants are found after growing for six months undetected in a Darwin nature reserve.

A former school teacher is jailed for 12 months for sexually abusing students at a Gippsland school more than 30 years ago.

Caulfield Cup favourite Jameka, one of three horses being prepared for the 2,400m contest by Ciaron Maher, draws barrier 13 for Saturday's $3 million race.

The Basin Sustainability Alliance calls on the Queensland Government to scrap the state's GasFields Commission.

Environmental groups opposing the controversial Roe 8 project believe the Premier will expose WA to huge financial risks by signing construction contracts before a potential High Court challenge has been decided.

Two bottles of shiraz, a team of international lawyers and one committed walker are responsible for attempting to change Australian legislation around going to war.

Timber-based prefabricated apartments being built in Adelaide could give momentum to the SA Government's push for more inner city development, the Housing Industry Association says.

NSW emergency services are on the scene after 18 people are hurt in a ferry accident in Sydney, including one with a suspected spinal injury.

A group of endangered carnivorous marsupials have been released on an island near Esperance in an effort to expand a small population established last year.

A group of endangered carnivorous marsupials have been released on an island near Esperance in an effort to expand a small population established last year.

Contracts worth $450 million for the controversial Roe 8 project, stage one of the Perth Freight Link which will connect the city's industrial east to Fremantle Port, will be signed this week, Premier Colin Barnett announces.

A group of endangered carnivorous marsupials is released on an island near Esperance in an effort to expand a small population established last year.