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The Babes Project is crowdfunding to launch a collection of empowering stories of women experiencing crisis pregnancies through to parenthood.

New Hope, the company behind the New Acland coal mine on Queensland's Darling Downs, is silencing nearby farmers in signed agreements, an environmentalist says.

Cricket is not just Australia versus England. There are many teams playing without Test status, many from developing countries and all with a passion for the game.

Cricket is not just Australia versus England. There are many teams playing without Test status, many from developing countries and all with a passion for the game.

Feral pig populations in Western Australia's south-west are now in the "tens of thousands" with authorities fighting against the animals' ability to reproduce at a rapid rate.

Hundreds of workers walk off the job at Adelaide shipbuilder ASC over an ongoing enterprise bargaining dispute that has spanned two years.

Western Australia has introduced new border controls aimed at protecting the WA cattle herd from bovine Johne's disease.

Two giant American air tankers, known as Southern Belle and Thor, have proven themselves yet again this bushfire season, the NSW RFS says.

A group of north-east Victoria residents are putting a proposal before the Victorian government to help save Australia's largest timber building- the Mount Buffalo Chalet.

Five of Australia's Catholic archbishops will give evidence today in the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. This is who they are, what they've said and their relationship to Cardinal George Pell.

Gamba Osaka inflicts an embarrassing 3-0 loss on Adelaide United in the Asian Champions League, but Reds coach Guillermo Amor is looking for the positives.

A group of young Australian singers is preparing for the musical trip of a lifetime - a performance in New York City. The Bendigo Youth Choir from central Victoria won silver at the World Choir Games in the United States a few years ago. Now the new group of talented singers is using songs to distract from the pressures of the modern world.

Legspinner Adam Zampa and allrounder James Faulkner both claim three wickets as Australia avoids a T20 series whitewash with a 41-run triumph against Sri Lanka.

A plane that crashed near Essendon Airport, killing five people, had been through a maintenance check only last month, it is revealed, as investigators continue to gather evidence at the scene.

A young woman was thrown 80 metres when she was hit and killed by a speeding drunk driver, travelling at 152 kilometres per hour through a pedestrian crossing against a red light in West Melbourne last July, a court hears.

A man who allegedly pretended to be a police officer to pull over his stepdaughter before blindfolding her, driving her to a deserted bush area and stripping her naked and photographing her is refused bail.

A plane that crashed near Essendon Airport, killing five people, had been through a maintenance check only last month, it is revealed, as investigators continue to gather evidence at the scene.

Senator Penny Wong, Labor's shadow foreign minister, joins 7.30 to discuss relations between Israel and Australia as well as how she would negotiate with US President Donald Trump.

Thousands of counterfeit prescription pills made their way into Australia's official supply chain in 2010, ending up at a children's hospital in Sydney. Now the pharmacist who supplied the fakes is fighting the cancellation of his licence.

Thirty-five new sites of Aboriginal heritage significance are discovered on Tasmania's Tarkine coastline, renewing calls for the area to be declared a national park.

A pharmacist who sold fake Viagra pills to one of Australia's biggest medical distributors is challenging the cancellation of his registration as a pharmacist in the NSW Supreme Court.

The Government is being asked to use a review of the housing sector as a trigger to ban commissions for mortgage brokers, who have been accused of encouraging borrowers to sign up for home loans they cannot afford.

The Government is being asked to use a review of the housing sector as a trigger to ban commissions for mortgage brokers, who have been accused of encouraging borrowers to sign up for home loans they cannot afford.

WA Premier Colin Barnett promises a new dedicated live export berth in Kwinana if re-elected, but proposes no timeline for when it will happen.

Follow all the stats and commentary from the third and final Twenty20 between Australia and Sri Lanka at the Adelaide Oval in our live scorecentre.

Planned changes to the South Australian Ambulance Service will not cost jobs, chief executive Jason Killens promises.

A cattle producer says a NBN satellite internet installer struggled to find her property using a helicopter, despite having GPS coordinates.

Dr Karl has an important message for you about podcasts.

After 30 years of jam making and prize winning, Roxanne Hopkins reveals the secrets of a what she calls 'a dying art'.

Australia's Ross River virus has the potential to become a global epidemic, similar to the Zika virus, researchers say.

A union questions how psychological testing of current child protection workers in South Australia will be done and what will happen to any staff who fail.

Tourists may be forced to wear life jackets while snorkelling on the Great Barrier Reef, under a plan being considered by the Queensland Government following a spike in deaths.

Queensland's cucurbit industry is on standby following a suspected case of cucumber green mottle mosaic virus in the Wide Bay Burnett.

Aviation and community groups say there are too many developments hampering pilots and putting people at risk at Archerfield Airport, on Brisbane's outskirts.

Tension is building between Australia's first publicly listed timber company and the country's largest abalone producer, over a proposed multi-user wharf on Kangaroo island.

For the people of Thebarton, the closure of Coca-Cola's bottling plant in Adelaide will be like having "your heart ripped out", a local historian says, who remembers touring the newly opened factory in 1951 as a child.

A secrecy culture of "don't ask, don't tell" could explain allegations of child sex abuse within a religious order with one of the highest numbers of alleged abusers, the royal commission is told.

A trend for barbered haircuts and cut-throat shaves has seen barber shops popping up on street corners throughout the country.

South Australian cancer patients who were given incorrect frequencies in doses of a chemotherapy drug may have had their treatment outcomes compromised, a haematology expert tells a coronial inquest.

Dozens of street signs in a South Australian town a forming a unique "open access" war memorialthe only one of its kind in Australia.

Companies show interest in growing and manufacturing medicinal cannabis in Australia as Federal Government approves sale.

Australia crashes to its lowest women's Twenty20 total in a humiliating 47-run loss to New Zealand at Adelaide Oval on Wednesday.

An Illawarra high school teacher accused of having sex with a 17-year-old student whom he groomed online remains in custody after a bid for bail is refused.

More than 500 university students would move into a 16-storey tower at Redfern's The Block under new plans lodged by the Aboriginal Housing Company.

As the Australian National University opens its new $53-million student accommodation block, other students say they are being locked out of the rental market by exorbitant pricing.

The welfare of doctors at Perth's Princess Margaret Hospital is being ignored with some unable to take leave for three years, the Australian Medical Association says, but health officials reject the claims.

Farmer suppliers to milk broker National Dairy Products have been left in limbo as the company enters into liquidation.

A man accused of attempting to extort $50,000 from a cafe manager threatened to "break his legs" if he did not pay up, a Brisbane court hears.

A Queensland farming family teeters on the brink with hopes a crowdfunding campaign will provide a water lifeline.

From Thursday February 23, Australia take on India in the Four Test Tour and ABC Grandstand's Gerard Whateley, Alister Nicholson and Prakash Wakankar will provide ball-by-ball coverage live from each ground.