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A Tasmanian council's general manager will leave her post with a payout of around $180,000 after a public spat with the mayor which ended in the entire council being sacked.

The east coast grain handler GrainCorp made a $31 million profit last financial year.

North coast residents frustrated by the amount of litter coming off the Pacific Highway urge the Government to intervene.

Two people are in hospital with critical injuries after a car reversed over them in a driveway in the Brisbane suburb of Woolloongabba.

The leader of a biosecurity group in Western Australia says more sheep will be reintroduced to the state if fences are built to keep out wild dogs.

Former Queensland minister for agriculture and fisheries Leanne Donaldson says her struggle with depression contributed to her recent resignation.

A Tasmanian council's general manager will leave her post with a payout of around $180,000 after a public spat with the mayor which ended in the entire council being sacked.

The Shearing Contractors Association, National Farmers Federation, Australian Workers Union and Wool Producers Australia have come together to tackle drug abuse.

The Court of Appeal refuses to hear an application by notorious Brisbane fraudster Brian John Kelly to have his eight-and-a-half year sentence reduced.

A company contracted to Queensland Government power stations was hired with no industry experience and insignificant funds to complete the job, a liquidators report finds.

Residential foster care services should be shut down in the Northern Territory as many providers fail to give the support children need, says Children's Commissioner.

A few hours after Jobe Watson officially loses his Brownlow Medal, Essendon announces a huge financial loss

Two people are in hospital with critical injuries after a car reversed over them in a driveway in the Brisbane suburb of Woolloongabba.

South Australian's Health Minister calls on the Federal Government to add the meningococcal B-strain vaccine to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme following another three cases of the potentially deadly disease in the state.

Alcohol-related crime is costing Canberra taxpayers nearly $12 million a year according to new research that calls for new laws to deal with the increasing problem.

A 37-year-old man who rammed his car into the garage of his former partner's home in Ipswich, west of Brisbane, and used accelerant to set the house on fire dies in hospital.

Adelaide City Councillors knock back a recommendation by the council's administration to charge businesses for rubbish removal, instead opting to allow more businesses onto the free scheme.

Indonesia's Trade Minister says the government is willing to allow live cattle imports from Mexico, Brazil and Spain, in an effort to reduce the price of beef across Indonesia.

Police believe as many as three men were involved in a brazen robbery at an optometrist in Melbourne's west that was caught on security cameras.

Helen Tompkin-Puzey was raped from the age of seven to "cure" her lesbianism, and forced into marrying a paedophile when she was a teenager. After coming out at the age of 67, she's finally ready to share her heartbreaking story.

Western Bulldogs Premiership player Joel Hamling finds the lure to move home to Western Australia to be closer to his ill father too strong.

The coroner presiding over the inquest into the fate of Matthew Leveson visits the bushland site where police have spent a sixth day searching for the missing man's body.

Lord Mayor Graham Quirk accuses the Queensland Government of moving the goalposts and increasing the development rate in south-east Queensland.

Sport and Recreation Minister Mia Davies tells Parliament she was unaware her department had been in receipt of a draft safety audit for weeks before the latest death of a motorcyclist at Perth's Barbagallo Raceway.

Northern Territory's anti-discrimination commissioner says laws might need to be strengthened, following concerns about employers telling workers that their domestic violence issues are "a private matter".

A 23-year-old man is in the Royal Hobart Hospital in a critical condition after he was cut from the wreckage of his ute following a crash involving four cars on a major Tasmanian highway.

A conscience vote backs legislation which could allow same-sex couples in South Australia to adopt children.

The former police officer who was in charge of regulating firearms in the Northern Territory has fronted the Supreme Court in Darwin, charged with stealing six guns.

The numbers surrounding Australia's routine batting-order collapses make no sense to any person with a passing understanding of cricket, writes Geoff Lemon.

Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has proposed making it harder for foreign workers to perform Australian jobs.

An undercover investigation has exposed the exploitation of illegal migrant workers on farms supplying Coles and Woolworths.

A young boy is air-lifted to hospital after a crash involving two school buses at Albion Park, south-west of Wollongong.

Northern Territory's anti-discrimination commissioner says laws might need to be strengthened, following concerns about employers telling workers that their domestic violence issues are "a private matter".

With a Facebook post saying "G'day, it's me", British singer Adele announces her first Australian tour, when she will perform at outdoor stadiums around the country.

One of the WA Premier's most senior staffers and the former chief of staff to ex-treasurer Troy Buswell are given a week to apologise to State Parliament, after contempt findings against them were accepted by the Legislative Council.

A tip off to Fisheries Victoria leads to two South Gippsland men being summonsed to court for allegedly catching a critically-endangered grey nurse shark.

Consumer advocates welcome an Appeal Court decision which will allow the Commonwealth to ban Aboriginal Community Benefit Fund, a private business that provides funeral insurance almost exclusively to Aboriginals, from accessing the Government's Centrepay system.

A woman on trial for murdering her partner by striking him with a footstool during an argument at their home in Melbourne's south-east was acting in self-defence and had suffered years of abuse, a court hears.

The AFL needs to hold onto fans when the "novelty" of the new women's league wears off in three years' time, a top US official behind the WNBA says, adding for the female audience it was not "just about the game".

The physiological effect of fighting fires includes rapid weight loss and serious overheating, new research into firefighting shows.

A giant tree three centuries older than the nation's capital is chopped down and transported to a new home in the Molonglo River corridor.

Townsville police ask frustrated residents to leave policing to the experts.

A pilot suffers minor injuries after making an emergency landing 30 metres from a freeway in Melbourne's south-east.

A fight has erupted in NSW parliament about Megan Latham's future as leader of the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) after the Government announced sweeping changes to the watchdog's structure.

A man is taken into police custody after a discarded shotgun is found near an Adelaide house where an explosion had been reported, but no damage was evident to investigating officers.

An exhibition by 2011 Archibald Prize winner Ben Quilty smashes attendance records at a Bordertown art gallery.

Authorities allege Muhammad Abdul Karim Musleh, who was arrested on Tuesday morning, travelled to Syria and encouraged others to do the same.

A nine-year-old boy is air-lifted to hospital after a crash involving two school buses at Albion Park, south-west of Wollongong.

Emergency services are called in to free people after a four-car crash at Mornington, on Hobart's eastern shore.

A former provider of residential housing for young people in Canberra believes the ACT Government's tender process is "fraught with problems" and could result in less staff looking after at-risk children.