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The increasing number of Indigenous characters on Australian television is having an impact on Aboriginal Australia, helping youth feel they have a place in mainstream culture.

Despite a stalling world market, Australian dairy farmers are being told that their milk price will improve next season.

After a two-year closure and against the backdrop of riots and racial tension, Kalgoorlie once again has a Department of Aboriginal Affairs office, and the Minister says things will run differently this time around.

The wet season is quickly turning into one of the best on record for many parts of Western Australia's north.

One of Australia's largest fruit growing regions is on the brink of a labour shortage at its most critical time during harvest.

John Aloisi will keep Brisbane players in suspense over who heads to China for the ACL playoff and who remains in the A-League to face Melbourne City.

West Indies and Sydney Thunder all-rounder Andre Russell is banned for 12 months for failing to inform authorities of his whereabouts for possible drug tests.

The ACT's ambulance response times are slower, but still the fastest in the country, according to the latest Productivity Commission report.

In the 1970s and 1980s, a north-east Arnhem Land school pioneered the use of Aboriginal culture and language in teaching mathematics and other subjects. Where are they now and what future lies ahead for such programs?

The M1 Pacific Motorway reopens after a fiery crash caused traffic chaos, and gridlocks of almost 20km, on Sydney's main artery to Newcastle yesterday.

Divisions in the Fraser Coast Regional Council boil over amid revelations that private investigators have been looking into current and former staff.

Authorities knew a woman killed by her estranged husband on the Gold Coast was in "grave danger of being murdered", prompting questions about whether Queensland's justice system is failing to protect victims.

The 2017 Adelaide Writers' Week full program has been released and it is set to be more controversial than usual, with topics like the refugee crisis, war, feminism and cultural identity featuring heavily.

Around 250 members of South Australia's Stolen Generations apply for payments under the State Government's Reparation Fund, with two months left until applications close.

Khuzema Adamjee, who is among the more than 2,500 Toyota workers set to lose their jobs in October, is calling on both sides of Parliament to work together to create jobs.

A woman escapes serious injury after her car veers off Mounts Bay Road in Perth and plunges into the Swan River, with police saying she blamed a moment of inattention while checking her GPS.

Your money goes further when buying a house in Tasmania, compared to any other state, according to the Housing Industry Association's latest report.

One Nation's candidate for the seat of Pilbara in the West Australian election stands by an article he wrote saying taxpayers should not support single mums who are "too lazy" to attract and hold a mate.

Lawyers for Dylan Voller want him to be released from prison and sent to the BushMob rehab program.

Federal political correspondent Andrew Probyn discusses how Donald Trump might shape Australian politics.

Barnaby Joyce warns Wilmar his patience has run out as growers threaten to leave this year's cane crop in the paddock.

"One guy had a full bar on board. Another guy had a pretty good ipod dock so we had tunes going. And there was one with a horn and water cannon!"

Eighteen police officers will work in a new team tasked with working directly with would-be young offenders to prevent them from committing crimes, NT Chief Minister Michael Gunner announces.

Toyota has announced plans to close its Altona plant on October 3, a move which will cost the jobs of 2600 workers.

Essendon will look to rewrite their privileged-tenant contract with Etihad Stadium with a view to playing more home games at the MCG.

1856 - Holden saddlery business opens in South Australia.

Moree is expected to come close to breaking another weather record this week, with temperatures predicted to top 40 degrees Celsius for the next seven days.

A new high-security youth justice centre will be built by the state government in Werribee South following a string of violent uprisings, escapes and several damning reviews of existing facilities at Malmsbury and Parkville.

Car manufacturer Toyota will close its Altona plant in Melbourne's west in October, with the loss of more than 2,500 jobs.

It was 6.25 on a Thursday evening when a relative ran up the side path of Kimberley McGurk's Cremorne home screaming "there was a pop and there's blood" and that her husband Michael was hurt.

Paris Jackson – daughter of late pop superstar Michael Jackson – will make her acting debut in the TV music-drama Star. 

A Queensland HIV foundation set up by the Newman government will lose its funding despite what it claims is its success in reducing the occurrence of the disease to the lowest level since 2008.

The movie about the smuggler and scoundrel's early days is underway.

On the eve of the official election campaign kicking off, the State Government and the Opposition again turn their focus to education commitmentswith the issue emerging as a key factor in the upcoming March poll.

To be honest, who doesn't like a bit of drama at a wedding.

If there was going to be a first bounce in Friday night's historic AFLW opening at Ikon Park, Annie Mirabile wouldn't want it.

The WA Department of Health says a child has been diagnosed with meningococcal disease and is currently recovering in hospital.

The wife of murdered businessman Michael McGurk tells the Supreme Court trial for the alleged killer Ron Medich that she was threatened at her home in the months after her husband's death.

But beneath a strong headline figure, analysts expect considerable divergence between sectors.

Chuck Close and other prominent and profitable older artists face important decisions about how to secure their creations and provide for their heirs.

A 16-year-old prisoner remanded in the Barwon maximum security adult jail was taken to hospital with a fractured vertebrae after being assaulted by fellow inmates, sparking fresh calls from the teen's lawyers for the Andrews' government to remove young offenders from the facility.

He was once one of Australia's most prominent artists but while Leonard French disappeared from the public eye, he continued to paint into his eighties.

It was a night of mixed emotions as Georgia Blain won a posthumous Victorian Premier's Literary Award and playwright Leah Purcell took out the $100,000 Victorian Prize for Literature.

Stock worth more than $1 million will go to auction after 166-year-old Kozminsky jewellers closes its doors.

The City of Melbourne and the Victorian Government are considering how to best commemorate the people killed in the Bourke Street car attack. The floral tributes to the victims have been removed from outside Melbourne's old GPO building and at eight other spots in Bourke Street. The flowers will be mulched and put on the memorial garden for victims of crime at Parliament House but a permanent memorial is also planned.

Not so long ago the St Kilda Sea Baths was inhabited by squatters – now the clientele is a little different and the newest visitors to the foreshore complex could soon enjoy "unencumbered" rooftop views to the city and bay.

Victoria's teaching watchdog has conceded that closer to one in ten new teachers granted permission to work in schools has failed or not completed a compulsory literacy and numeracy test.

US President Donald Trump fired the federal government's top lawyer Sally Yates on Monday after she took the extraordinarily rare step of defying the White House.

The government inquiry into the proposed plastics to fuel plant in Hume is set to begin in March, with a final report due by the end of April.

A Gold Coast man who took his own life after stabbing his estranged wife to death this morning was on bail over an earlier domestic violence charge, it has been revealed.