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A 15-year-old Melbourne boy with dual Australian and Iranian citizenship faces missing out on an upcoming school trip to the US because of President Donald Trump's temporary travel ban.

The owner of the Heyfield sawmill in Gippsland asks the Victorian Government to fund a $40 million refit of the mill to take smaller logs.

An Indigenous organisation has received $250,000 to start up an irrigation project on Roebuck Plains Station near Broome.

Tasmania's Children's Commissioner wants young people who have "first-hand experience" of the state's out of home care system to help reform the sector, which he says is failing some children.

According to one study, sleep deprivation costs the Australian economy $5.1 billion a year. So maybe it's good that you can now take a nap class.

Suburban streets are becoming clogged with parked cars, and the problem is not helped when a new house has its garage access completely blocked by a street pole, West Torrens councillor John Woodward says.

All northbound lanes on the M1 at Brooklyn are cut, and will be for some hours yet, after a B-double truck and mobile crane collided early this morning.

A three-year-old boy who was found alone in the front yard of a home at Melton, west of Melbourne, late last night has been reunited with his family.

The magpie geese that destroyed the equivalent of 13,000 trays of mangoes in North Queensland could have flown from the Northern Territory because of dry weather there.

Pauline Hanson's One Nation party secures its fourth LNP defector in Queensland, with former Logan MP Michael Pucci joining as state campaign director.

Roger Federer pays special tribute to his Australian ties after reigning at Melbourne Park for a fifth time.

More than 15,000 people sign a petition demanding the Queensland Government and Queensland police drop an appeal against a landmark discrimination case.

Adelaide will host several international shipbuilders in coming weeks ahead of a major increase in local defence construction that will start next year.

The Byron Bay woman accused of murdering a Bali policeman says she did not see her boyfriend hitting the officer and had no idea he had been badly injured.

Police nab 12 times more Canberrans for drug-driving than four years ago, but the number of drunk-drivers moves in the opposite direction.

Australia's chief scientist says he hopes there will be the political will to implement the recommendations of the review into the national electricity market. Dr Alan Finkel began a fortnight of public consultation meetings in Adelaide last night in a bid to help map out a blueprint for the future of the nation's energy policy.

Western Australian wildlife rangers search for a bottlenose dolphin in the South-West which appears to have had a T-shirt or singlet deliberately pulled over its head.

A former director of a Bunbury property management company is jailed for at least 16 months, after stealing more than $500,000 from the family business.

A 33-year-old woman has become the sixth person to die following Melbourne's Bourke Street attack 10 days ago, Victoria Police say.

The Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party will field a record number of candidates at the looming WA election, with leader Rick Mazza hoping they can win up to five seats in Parliament.

Labor MP and counter-terrorism expert Anne Aly joins 7.30 to discuss Donald Trump's immigration ban.

Sydney developer Ron Medich paid $500,000 for Michael McGurk to be murdered and his wife to be intimidated after their business relationship soured, a jury is told.

Residents from a remote Northern Territory town say their concerns about asbestos exposure from abandoned demountable housing are being ignored.

The Northern Territory Government plans to introduce legislation to help police in their efforts to crack down on motorcycle gangs.

A widowed pensioner searching for a "fishing mate" bags some new friends after his call-out online "went bloody viral".

Wild weather set to continue in WA's Wheatbelt and Great Southern regions

A possible tornado swept across the WA countryside close to a property at Wyalkatchem, 109km east of Perth.

Canberra United is unhappy its W-League semi-final has been moved from its home ground to Canberra Stadium as a forerunner to a match between two visiting men's teams at the bottom of the A-League ladder.

An alleged marriage scam likened to reality television show Married at First Sight operated out of a Brisbane house for more than a year, a District Court jury hears.

A former director of a Bunbury property management company is jailed for at least 16 months, after stealing more than $500,000 from the family business.

The Northern Territory Government promises to introduce legislation this year to help police in their efforts to crack down on outlaw motorcycle gangs, after a spike in criminal behaviour.

New South Wales' Minister for Women Tanya Davies is criticised for her pro-life stance on her first day in the job.

Tasmania's Anti-Discrimination Commissioner Robin Banks says changes to the racial discrimination law could allow people to say others are more likely to be terrorists or child molesters based on their race.

The Federal Opposition says the Prime Minister should have the courage to join other world leaders in criticising the US President's decision to temporarily ban migration from seven majority Muslim nations. Malcolm Turnbull says he won't provide a running commentary on the domestic policies of another nation, but the shadow foreign affairs minister Penny Wong says the US policy is having a global effect.

A career criminal confesses to decades-old unsolvable crimes in an effort to provide closure to his victims, after converting to Islam.

A high-definition camera and drone capture an aerial view of Western Australia's Ningaloo Reef, the largest fringing reef in the world, in an effort to monitor the health of the pristine region.

A mentally ill man pleads guilty to sparking a 12-hour siege in Bunbury, during which a hostage was threatened with a spear gun, chained around the neck and falsely told he was going to be blown up.

Jillaroos player Kody House says the team's training has been more focused this year as they head to their camp on the Gold Coast ahead of the Auckland Nines.

The Adelaide Football Club is the latest in the AFL to find a new apparel provider following uncertainty surrounding supplier BLK, whose parent company, World Rugby Specialists, went into administration.

Perth Wildcats veteran and former Olympian Shawn Redhage announces he is retiring from the National Basketball League at the end of the season after a glittering 13-year career and three championships.

After almost 30 years in operation the Gold Coast's iconic Broadbeach monorail runs its last circuit.

Street Swags founder Jean Madden is charged with six new fraud offences, six months after she was initially charged for allegedly taking over the charity's bank accounts.

When Nick Cave returns to Melbourne there is always a sense of pride that one of our greatest heroes has returned, the prodigal gothic prince back to where it all began.

A grieving mother had to contact the Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages more than 20 times following the death of one of her premature twin boys, Victoria's ombudsman finds.

Bubble wrap can act as a cheap alternative to double glazing, according to a scientist that specialises in designing homes to suit Canberra's climate.

US President Donald Trump's trillion-dollar infrastructure plan drives confidence in WA's mining industry.

A grieving mother had to contact the Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages more than 20 times following the death of one of her premature twin boys, Victoria's ombudsman finds.

A decade on new proposed draft regulations will change the way home schooling is delivered in Victoria.

Tears and nervous excitement are in equal measure as more than 8,000 young Canberrans kick off their first year at school.