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A survivor of the 1977 Granville train disaster speaks of her bond with her rescuer, the man who she says "could feel my pulse when everything else was cold".

Australia's three-pronged pace attack of Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood and Jackson Bird asked some searching questions of Pakistan's batsmen on day two of the first Test at the Gabba.

Brisbane author John Birmingham likens his break with trade publishing to jumping out a window, but says he has landed on his feet.

Emmanuel Irra has gone from war-torn Uganda to the rookie list of the Port Adelaide Football Club in the space of 11 years, since moving to Australia as a child.

A new appointment at Booderee National Park, on the New South Wales South Coast, moves the park closer to transferring management back to the local Indigenous community.

Peter Handscomb scored the runs and the seamers took the wickets, but all eyes were on Nathan Lyon on day two at the Gabba.

Newcastle is in the A-League top six after downing Adelaide 2-1 despite an embarrassing own goal by keeper Jack Duncan.

Changing conditions have always influenced the results of Test matches, but nothing quite like the impact of the pink ball under lights.

Pakistan is trailing Australia by 332 runs after day two of the first Test at the Gabba after a final-session capitulation left them 8-97 at stumps.

The young Aboriginal woman whose death in police custody was described by the WA coroner and "appalling" and "inhumane" was an affectionate and intelligent "happy-go-lucky" woman who came from a loving family.

An alleged Mongols bikie club member becomes the first to face a charge under the Queensland Government's reworked anti-bikie laws, for wearing gold and diamond "bikie rings".

Tasmania's East Coast has a choice to make between tourism and salmon farming, or it risks facing another 'forestry war-type scenario', millionaire environmentalist Graeme Wood says.

Julian Assange's lawyer, Jennifer Robinson, joins 7.30 to discuss his claim that emails leaked during the US election did not come from the Russian Government.

West Australian Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan joins 7.30 to discuss the findings into the death of Ms Dhu.

Distressing accounts of gang rape and of a five-year-old girl infected with gonorrhoea are contained in a submission to halve the amount of takeaway alcohol sold in WA's far north.

The death in a police lock-up of a 22-year old Indigenous woman known as Ms Dhu left a family devastated. Today the coroner released her findings about how three days in jail for unpaid fines became a death sentence. CCTV footage of her final hours was also released.

A Brisbane man becomes the first to face a charge under the Queensland Government's reworked anti-bikie laws, for wearing gold and diamond "bikie rings".

Lawyers for retired deputy police commissioner Nick Kaldas say the NSW Ombudsman's report into illegal police bugging is a "stitch-up".

Major improvements are announced that will make the coastline around Sydney's spectacular Northern Beaches more accessible for cyclists and pedestrians.

Six months after Tasmania's devastating floods, some north-west residents are still unable to return home for Christmas.

The family of Ms Dhu, whose 2014 death in custody a coroner ruled was preventable, pledge to make her death a rallying point for international racial justice campaigns.

A mentally ill man who attacked his parents with a knife and barbecue fork, believing they were aliens, is placed under a 10-year psychiatric supervision order.

While the 2016 human census will go down in infamy, happily it can be said the elephant seal census on Macquarie Island was a roaring success.

A group of migrant women in the WA Goldfields are finally taking the plunge and learning to swim.

Overindulgence is in keeping with many Christmas celebrations, but eye-popping retail prices for lobster could mean it is an indulgence too great for many people this festive season.

A central Queensland coal miner is awarded more than $1 million in damages after being injured in a car crash while driving home from work, in case tipped to change the way mining companies deal with fatigue.

Tasmania's East Coast has a choice to make between tourism and salmon farming, or it risks facing another "forestry war-type scenario", millionaire environmentalist Graeme Wood says.

The WA coroner delivers a damning assessment of the treatment of an Aboriginal woman who died in custody, releasing shocking CCTV footage of her final hours and saying her life could have been saved.

Geraldton woman Tamara Thompson is sentenced to 10 years' jail for killing her daughter Destiny, who was last seen alive in May 2015 when she was about three months old.

There are not too many people who can walk around their hometown, pointing out people they helped keep alive81-year-old Ian Snow Neilson is one of those people.

Ian 'Snow' Nielson standing in front of the SES truck in Smithton

Ian 'Snow' Nielson from Smithton

A magistrate dismisses charges against a man accused of assaulting police, and throws doubt on officers' evidence that the accused started the fight.

Federal Labor MP Terri Butler settles a defamation suit with a Queensland university student, agreeing to a "modest payout" over comments she made on the ABC's Q&A program.

A massage therapist is sentenced to more than three years in jail for the rape and sexual assault of an elderly woman in East Gippsland.

The Federal Government defends its decision to fund the Northern Territory and South Australian chapters of a specialist women's legal service but not its sister service in Queensland.

The younger sister of murdered Canberra woman Daniela D'Addario writes about the pain she experienced in the wake of her sister's shocking death.

A recent study finds about one-third of people can, if prompted, 'remember' events that never actually happened to them.

The Department of Education says it has finalised inquiries into complaints relating to staff at Wilcannia Central School, in far west New South Wales.

Eggs on a conveyor belt passing below chooks in cages.

Egg farmers across the production spectrum are readying themselves for new welfare laws that will govern their industry.

The federal and NT governments agree to extend the Royal Commission into the Protection and Detention of Children in the Northern Territory by four months.

Eggs on a conveyor belt passing below chooks in cages.

Caged egg producer Andrew Postregna from Tamarix Poultry Farms.

Chooks inside a barn at Tamarix Poultry Farms.

A hen inside a cage at Tamarix Poultry Farm.

Married for six decades but forced to live apart for six years, an elderly couple has been reunited and is now able to live in the same room due to a renovations at a nursing home.

David Moodie, the former chairman of Racing Victoria, resigns after an investigation finds he inappropriately disclosed information about cobalt investigations to a horse trainer.

The defence team for a New South Wales doctor accused of assaulting his patients applies to move the matter to Sydney, saying it is impossible to get a fair trial in Newcastle.

Bees and other insects may be able to transfer an infectious plant virus found in melons, research by the Northern Territory Department of Primary Industry finds.