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The Australian Maritime Safety Authority calls off its search for a fisherman missing off Fraser Island in southern Queensland, but police say they will continue to try and find him.

An agriculture broadcaster in the United States says a Donald Trump presidency will be good for American farmers, who have struggled with "onerous" regulations under the Obama administration.

American agriculture journalist Max Armstrong says US farmers will mostly welcome Donald Trump, with some slight reservations

A 20-year-old Melbourne woman has been killed while on a diving tour in Mozambique, the ABC understands.

Brisbane residents will get an early taste of summer, with the city forecast to swelter through its warmest day since February as the mercury soars to 36 degrees Celsius.

The Queensland Government succeeds in passing laws to tighten groundwater licence requirements for mines, while also appeasing Indian mining giant Adani.

A food-centred charity in Newcastle says people need more support in learning how to have a healthy lifestyle.

The shift begins into the Royal Hobart Hospital's temporary unit but unions remain concerned 15 fewer beds in the ward will exacerbate shortage issues.

Former Australian cricket captain Bill Lawry backs incumbent Steve Smith and rates David Warner as one of the best opening batsmen of his lifetime.

A cattle ship which left Broome port this week is expected to be the last live export shipment from the Kimberley this year.

Researchers using aerial drones to photograph coastline in a search for dugongs partner with Queensland artificial intelligence experts to speed up the identification process.

Industrial action at Adelaide-based ship and submarine builder ASC looks likely, as workers resist what they say are attempts to have existing industrial conditions taken away.

As the country falls silent tomorrow to observe Remembrance Day, the Australian War Memorial (AWM) will mark 75 years since it opened its doors so that those who served the nation will never be forgotten.

The New South Wales Opposition says the Government can more easily privatise and sell off public spaces, including beaches and parks, under new laws changing the way crown land is managed.

Former Australian ambassador to the US, Kim Beazley, joins 7.30 to discuss what Donald Trump's win might mean for Australia.

Former Australian ambassador to the US, Kim Beazley, joins 7.30 to discuss what Donald Trump's win might mean for Australia.

What went so wrong for Hillary Clinton in the US election.

President Donald Trump will declare economic war on our biggest customer, wipe unprecedented amounts off global stock markets, usher in extraordinary financial instability, and risk turning the the world's biggest economy into a basket case by pushing its national debt past 100 per cent of GDP.

Donald Trump's victory reveals that many of the assumptions that people have long made about who we are as a country and what we want out of our politicians, our political system and each other are, frankly, wrong.

World leaders have been bewildered, but also muted.

Investors dumped shares and fled to the relative safety of bonds and gold as they braced for Donald Trump winning the US election.

Australian woman Sara Connor and her British boyfriend face court for the first time over the alleged murder of a veteran police officer on a Balinese beach in August.

In a rare defeat to Prime Minister Viktor Orban, MPs in Hungary on Tuesday rejected a proposed national ban on refugees from the rest of the European Union.

In a stunning late surge in the early hours of Wednesday, insurgent Republican Donald Trump has amassed just enough voter support to push him through the door of the White House.

As Europe wakes and looks across the Atlantic, there will be little shock. There will be a lot of grim recognition.

Brisbane-based principal Mike Ennis has been appointed to lead education in the indigenous community of Aurukun from 2017.

The success of rogue Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has forced the Turnbull government into a furious recalibration of policy.

The news and results as America decides on who will be their 45th President.

If we do not watch this with a mixture of fear and awe, all is lost.

The Australian sharemarket lost more than $30 billion in value as Donald Trump looked increasingly likely to be the next US president.

Byron Bay woman Sara Connor destroyed the identity cards of the police officer whose bloodied corpse was found on the beach in Kuta because she was worried about them falling into the wrong hands, her lawyer says.

The Prime Minister called him "loathsome". Christopher Pyne said his rise was "terrifying". The Opposition Leader deemed him "entirely unsuitable" for the job. Now he's got it.

A tram overturned in south London on Wednesday police said, with media reporting five people had been trapped and 40 others injured in the incident.

It won't be viewed as quite the same type of sign of an apocalypse as a Trump presidency, but Perth residents are going to need to break out their umbrellas in November - with up to 10 millimetres of rain predicted to fall in some southern suburbs on Thursday.

The father of an accused murderer shed tears in court as he recalled his daughter's changing mental state in the years before she allegedly beat her mother to death with a hammer at the family home.

There is nothing unusual about Queensland Rail recruiting internally for new train drivers, Transport Minister Stirling Hinchliffe says.

A man who assaulted a security guard, dislodging three of his teeth, during a brawl at an Adelaide McDonald's restaurant is sentenced to three months' jail.

Last year Jake Nagle hit the opening drive of the NSW Open in honour of his late grandfather and legend of Australian golf Kel Nagle.

CSIRO researchers at the World Heritage listed Ningaloo reef make a surprise discovery of a ship's anchor that may be up to 150 years old while mapping the ocean's floor.

Fortescue chairman Andrew Forrest says he will defend the company's approach to executive pay "all day and every day".

The Aussie dollar plunged almost two cents on Wednesday, radically reversing a morning surge, as Donald Trump scored an unlikely victory.

Darling Downs man Robert Trebeck is imprisoned for life for the murder of Goondiwindi mother Alexis Jeffery, whose body was found dumped on a riverbank.

Gabriel Mascaro's has a throwaway quality, a string of vignettes that never quite add up to a plot.

Melbourne United have released one of their star recruits in import point guard Cedric Jackson.

Having spent a season in the English Premier League with Sheffield United, Central Coast Mariners captain Nick Montgomery thinks Canberra star Tom Rogic is good enough to play there.

At a party at the US embassy, as hopes for a Clinton win faded, smiles were replaced by resigned disbelief.

Former Federal Sports Minister Kate Lundy is part of a committee that's narrowed the field for ACT Brumbies chief executive down to two, with a decision potentially made by the end of the week.

Once the dust from the shock of Donald Trump's unlikely victory to become the 45th president of the United States of America settles, he faces many economic challenges.

Millions of Americans have said we want our country back and we couldn't care less about your global values.

One thing is for sure. It will once again truly be the White House.