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Peter Nevill made a statement with his bat about his desire to return to the Test stage at the same venue which hosted his axing, writes Grandstand's Scott Rollinson.

The Orbost Secondary College band gets a surprise when Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull becomes an impromptu conductor.

A broad Parliamentary inquiry into South Australia's primary industries is to address the "imbalance of power between producers and retailers".

Tasmanian patients with no way to get home from hospital are being put in taxis, with some racking up fares of more than $600 to cross the state as taxpayers foot the bill.

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Yingiya Mark Guyula seeks to remove restrictions on speaking languages other than English in the NT's Legislative Assembly, saying he feels "stronger and more powerful" when he uses his native tongue.

The Palaszczuk Government passes a key legislative priority by overhauling the state's organised crime laws and scrapping many of the former government's controversial bikie measures.

Two people who were hurt allegedly doing burnouts on the salt pans at Port Gawler got out of the car before the accident occurred, police say.

Police will investigate after an inner Canberra restaurant, which had previously operated as Avesta, is badly damaged by a fire that broke out early this morning.

Regional counsellors call for services that target perpetrators of domestic and family violence to achieve long-term change.

An 80-year-old woman suffers a stroke after being attacked during a home invasion in the Perth suburb of Embleton.

A 70-year-old woman is strangled and bashed before having her wedding ring stolen during a robbery in Brunswick, in Melbourne's inner north.

RSL Care, which operates nursing homes and retirement villages in Adelaide, appears safe in the near future after the RSL fails to take control of the board.

A West Australian think tank says traffic congestion in Perth will worsen unless both major political parties commit to more public transport in key parts of the city.

The South Australian Liberal Party did not consult the oil and gas industry before announcing its policy of a 10-year moratorium on fracking in the state's south-east, a lobby group claims.

An economic survey has found Darwin's agricultural zone is worth more than double the Ord Irrigation Scheme.

Gary Ablett ends his six-year tenure as Gold Coast captain, saying he made the call before a drama-filled off-season at the Suns.

Queensland prostate cancer sufferers will try a new GPS system to track the position of their tumour during radiation treatment, in a breakthrough designed to avoid organ or tissue damage.

An inner Canberra restaurant is badly damaged by fire, the cause of which remains unknown.

A man who was rescued after being pinned under farm equipment for more than 24 hours in Victoria's south-west is in a critical condition in a Melbourne hospital.

Ellyse Perry closes in on her own world record by smashing a fifth straight half-century to help lead Australia to a decisive 43-run victory in the fifth and final women's one-day international against South Africa.

South Australia's troubled electronic patient records system is under fire again after it deleted treatment appointments for 258 discharged patients just weeks after several outages at hospitals.

This school turned its Indigenous students' performance around. Can the rest of the country follow suit?

Tasmanian patients with no way to get home from hospital are being put in taxis, with some racking up fares of more than $600 to cross the state as taxpayers foot the bill.

New research finds suicide rates among young Australians are at their highest level in 10 years, despite a range of prevention strategies, with calls for a new approach and national leadership.

More than a dozen people, including two children, are injured in a gas explosion in Sydney's Chinatown area, officials say.

A man in his 60s is found alive after being trapped by the legs under a hay baler machine near Geelong, south-west of Melbourne.

Bowen Basin councils are struggling with millions of dollars' worth of unpaid rates amid the mining downturn, forcing one to consider repossessing homes.

The State Government is standing behind its anti-arson campaign, despite it failing to reduce the number of deliberately lit fires in WA.

The driver of a ute which crashed into a cafe at Ravenshoe in far north Queensland, causing a fatal explosion, is charged over the 2015 tragedy.

The Northern Territory Correctional Services Department confirms there are currently no rehabilitation programs being run for high-risk sex offenders inside prisons, due partly to a lack of staff.

The Victorian Government's decision to move a group of Indigenous children out of adult jail but leave other children there is causing concern.

The Victorian Government's decision to move a group of Indigenous children out of adult jail but leave other children there is causing concern.

A man in his 60s is found alive after being trapped by the legs under a hay bale machine near Geelong, south-west of Melbourne.

Medical professionals at a West Australian university are a step closer to a simple test that will allow them to identify different strains of the gastro-causing parasite giardia.

Code-hopping Parramatta Eels star Semi Radradra arrives back in Sydney after failing to appear in court for domestic violence-related charges, the day after it emerged he had signed a $1-million contract to play rugby in France.

Local workers are being overlooked for jobs at a Geelong construction site because the contractor is using foreign workers on 457 visas, the manufacturing union claims.

A team of high school students from Norfolk Island are making final preparations ahead of the Premier's debating challenge finals tomorrow.

Labor and the Greens say senator Nick Xenophon has "sold out" South Australians after he agrees to a deal with the Coalition on the Murray-Darling Basin plan which may see him vote for the Government's key industrial relations bill.

Police arrest a 15-year-old boy over a wild high-speed car chase through communities north of Melbourne last week.

A disease better known for killing millions of sailors centuries ago is discovered among a group of diabetes patients at a major western Sydney hospital.

Locals are being overlooked for jobs at a Geelong construction site because the contractor is using foreign workers on 457 visas, the manufacturing union claims.

The WA coroner confirms the deaths of three men who went missing after making a raft to escape a sinking asylum seeker boat in 2013, ruling their deaths were caused by misadventure.

Police in the Great Southern say they are flabbergasted by the actions of motorists who continue to ignore basic road rules.

Abuse victims at Yeshiva Melbourne and Yeshiva Bondi were let down by rabbis and their "confused" adherence to the principle of the Jewish law, the royal commission finds.

The Supreme Court inspects alleged defects at the New Royal Adelaide Hospital, as the State Government refuses to back down on a push for compensation from the builders involved.

Norfolk Island, almost 1,500 kilometres from the mainland, and inhabited by just over 2,000 people, is a different kind of remote. Against the odds, the local highschool's year seven to eight debating team has come to Sydney this week to compete in the Premier's debating challenge.

Norfolk Island, almost 1,500 kilometres from the mainland, and inhabited by just over 2,000 people, is a different kind of remote. Against the odds, the local highschool's year seven to eight debating team has come to Sydney this week to compete in the Premier's debating challenge.

A 51-year-old Perth man is found guilty of beating a fellow drug dealer to death with a metal pole, before his body was cut up with a chainsaw and dumped in bushland north of Perth.

A coronial inquiry into the workplace death of 21-year-old Ben Catanzariti in Canberra in 2012 will reopen in the continued search for justice.