Sydney news

In what is believed to be a first for the sport, a north Queensland rugby league club is forsaking valuable sponsorship dollars in order to promote suicide prevention on the front of its jerseys.

Anglers line-up to catch a barramundi in Victoria, as Hazelwood Pondage fishery opening date set.

A man loses fingers and a woman suffers serious stab wounds during an altercation in the Western Australian port city of Geraldton overnight, while a teenager is found with a stab wound to his stomach outside a kebab shop in Fremantle.

A man is found dead in a house at Launceston in Tasmania's north.

About 200,000 South Australian homes and businesses lost power overnight due to an outage affecting the interconnector from Victoria.

The legacy of artists is a big subject, and even concentrating on only a few Australians from the recent past throws up a lot of vital questions.

An Albury mother writes a children's picture book to raise awareness of autistic children.

A language recovery project in Western Australia helps to preserve Noongar cultural heritage and promote healing.

Prominent small business spokesman Nick Behrens resigns from the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Queensland and is believed to be planning a move into state politics as an LNP candidate.

A northern New South Wales farmer returns to horse power to tackle dangerous weeds on his property at Maules Creek.

A young rural woman learns to knit beautiful wool blankets without needles after two vehicle accidents left her paralysed on one side of her body.

South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill is set to issue a formal apology to the state's LGBTIQ community in the State Parliament today, but some community members say this needs to be followed by changes to discriminatory laws.

Australian captain Steve Smith does a U-turn and is now endorsing the prospect of an historic day-night Ashes Test against England.

A farmer who was rescued after he became stuck inside his hay baler at Mount Duneed near Geelong dies.

Queensland scientists use GPS technology to confirm long-held suspicions that migrating dugongs swim close to the shore, with the research raising questions over whether shark nets need to be removed from their paths.

New industrial relations laws that strengthen the power of public sector unions in Queensland have been passed in State Parliament.

Socceroos legend helps Melbourne City lift the first trophy in the club's history with 1-0 triumph in the FFA Cup final thanks to his 53rd minute goal.

Researchers at the University of Adelaide invent an optical fibre probe that could help surgeons distinguish between breast cancer and healthy tissue during operations.

Environmentalists want a proposed new limit on salmon farms in Macquarie Harbour to go even further to give the waterway a chance to recover.

There is more evidence of a worsening ice scourge, with a biohazard cleaning service saying it now gets daily clean-up and testing requests relating to meth lab activity.

An Aboriginal Mural on the side of Sydney's Wayside Chapel at Bondi, which is described as a key symbol of reconciliation, is painted over and destroyed by the Chapel's management.

Former Labor candidate for the federal seat of Fremantle Chris Brown takes his case to the Equal Opportunity Commission.

A man dies after being found with a stab wound to his neck 30 kilometres from the remote Aileron Roadhouse in the Northern Territory.

Tim Cahill brings success to Melbourne City at long last, scoring the only goal of the FFA Cup final against Sydney FC as the A-League upstarts claim the first trophy in their seven-year history.

Economists respond positively to the planned partial sale of Western Power, saying the Government has structured the deal in a way which will attract a premium price and avoid any electricity price rises.

New laws to legalise growing industrial hemp are introduced to the South Australian Parliament by the Greens as politicians are told "it cannot get you stoned".

Protesters in Parliament caused Question Time to be suspended after the ABCC bill passed the Senate.

An increasing number of Perth residents are resisting large homes in suburbia and opting for higher density living close to public transport, WA's land agency says.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull tells Leigh Sales the passage of the ABCC bill vindicates the decision to go to a double dissolution election.

Lawyers for two Canberra men charged with importing a marketable quantity of cocaine in 2014 urge a jury to find the drugs were for personal use.

Nationals leader Brendon Grylls rejects suggestions from WA's Chamber of Minerals and Energy that he cannot be trusted not to raise gold royalties.

One of Western Australia's oldest private boys' schools will be fully co-educational by 2020, to better prepare students for life in the workplace.

Three Queensland university students accused of racially vilifying an Indigenous woman may now face an appeal, with papers lodged almost a month after the $250,000 case was thrown out of the Federal Court.

A six-year-old giraffe named Kitoto is on the final leg of an epic 4,200-kilometre journey across the Nullarbor to Perth Zoo.

A resources taxation specialist says the Federal Government should consider a royalty as well as a Petroleum Resources Rent Tax.

A man jailed for at least 20 years for murdering a fellow psychiatric patient at a hospital in Adelaide's south wins an appeal against his conviction.

The jury in the trial of Canberra woman Gabrielle Woutersz, charged with killing her mother in 2014, is told it has three choicesguilty, not guilty or not guilty by reason of mental impairment.

A young child and an older teenager are diagnosed with meningococcal disease, caused by a strain that Australians are not routinely vaccinated against.

For just $US20, a group of Sydney high school students recreate the key ingredient used in the drug Daraprim, which retails in the tens of thousands in the United States.

Despite seemingly every batsman in Australia being just a few good knocks away from the Test side, Travis Head's focus is on limited-overs cricket.

Police lay multiple charges against a Hobart man who allegedly shot at officers during a 14-hour standoff at a Moonah house on Sunday night.

Fraser Coast Mayor Chris Loft describes the actions of several of his councillors as "tantamount to a coup", and has pointed the finger of blame at the Labor Party.

Amputee requests for prosthetics, including from a Paralympic gold medallist, are rejected as the South Australian Government tightens rules to provide just one general-purpose artificial limb through its funded scheme.

A truck catches fire just outside Canberra causing traffic delays for several hours on the Federal Highway.

A man is charged with throwing a brick at a firefighter who was battling a blaze at a house in Bunbury, south of Perth.

In what is believed to be a first for the sport, a north Queensland rugby league club is forsaking valuable sponsorship dollars in order to promote suicide prevention on the front of its jerseys.

ABC presenter Ian Henschke announces his retirement after 34 years with the national broadcaster, including six years on local radio in Adelaide.

A traffic controller is struck by lightning and a teenager is hit by a falling tree, as severe storms passed through south-east Queensland this afternoon.

Sex crime detectives investigate a report of a teacher hypnotising students at a Catholic school at Mulgrave in Melbourne's south-east.

In a slightly different type of pork-barrelling, farmers, rural women and footy players will push a giant papier-mch pig through country NSW to raise money for country kids' futures.