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The sugar lobby group Canegrowers says a joint announcement by Australia and Indonesia to reduce import tariffs will improve competitiveness.

Anna Plains Station in the Kimberley has a new 20ha sub-surface irrigation trial plot.

Fletcher's International Exports general manager Greg Cross says foreign investment is the answer to stop falling numbers in Australia's livestock industry.

Melbourne taxi drivers are crawling into the city at 5 kilometres an hour to again protest against industry reforms, causing havoc for morning motorists.

A group of Alice Springs residents gather to learn about managing buffel grass, which has flourished thanks to recent desert rains.

Hobart Lord Mayor Sue Hickey backs the State Government's decision to forcibly acquire council land to help the Mount Wellington cable car project.

A search is due to resume for a kayaker who is missing and feared drowned in a remote part of the Murchison River in Western Australia's Mid West region.

Former ABC Managing Director David Hill will give evidence about the sexual abuse of British child migrants sent to Australia between 1913 and the mid-1970s to an inquiry into institutional child abuse in Britain this week.

A mother tells her story about raising a baby inside Victoria's Tarrengower Prison, where the other inmates are the child's immediate family, if only temporarily.

Maningrida is a remote community living with heartbreak and shame, as the Department of Territory Families continue to remove Aboriginal children at a rate almost 10 times higher than non-Indigenous children.

The owner of a piece of land crucial to Tasmania's Mount Wellington cable car development is still considering "what, if any support" it will give the project.

Police are negotiating with occupants of a house in Melbourne's west after shots were fired at officers during a drug raid, police say.

A bladder cancer survivor teams up with his urologist to create a new charity and deliver free Australian education resource for patients after frustration about the lack of local information available.

A man is attacked with a hammer and robbed by two men after they ran into the back of his car in Melbourne's north-east early this morning.

In 1975 an exhibition of sculptures was held in Commonwealth Park.

Despite being warned of "potential conflicts of interest", the Queensland Government appointed an Adani company director to chair the authority overseeing the Abbot Point coal port.

The Northern Territory Police is investigating allegations hundreds of thousands of dollars has been misappropriated from one of the Territory's most important alcohol rehabilitation programs.

Support for One Nation and the Liberal National Party is neck and neck in the Queensland seat of Dawson, which is currently held by fractious LNP MP George Christensenwho has repeatedly threatened to leave the party if it does not return to its conservative roots.

Adelaide keep its unbeaten streak in the AFLW alive with a come from behind 23-point win over the Fremantle Dockers.

After a slow start, the Perth Wildcats hit top gear to overcome the Illawarra Hawks in a 89-77 win in game one of the NBL finals.

Central Coast comes from behind to draw 1-1 with Newcastle, denying the Jets a return to the A-League's top six.

Labor announces it will introduce a specialist meth task force if elected, the Liberals promise to build floating fishing platforms, and Colin Barnett has a crack at the media on today's election hustings.

The Queensland Government is hoping financial incentives will help to bring working families into the foster care system as it seeks to find more homes for the rising number of children in urgent need of placement.

A 70-year-old pensioner wants Housing Tasmania to "wake up" and do the right thing by removing a wasp nest outside his bedroom window.

Sandy Baraiolo, a former One Nation candidate for the southern Perth seat of Thornlie, says she has been threatened over the phone after being dumped by the party.

A Gold Coast high-rise endurance run attracts more than 800 people to take the stairs up 77 storeys to the top of the Q1 building, in a bid to raise money for Surf Lifesaving Queensland.

Residents of Victoria's Latrobe Valley are stressed and anxious about the looming closure of the Hazelwood power plant, warning there will be catastrophic consequences for the local economy.

Melbourne's famous brown river, the Yarra, will be protected under new legislation regulating the height of buildings along the riverbank and the distance from the water.

Margaret River locals are up in arms over the education department's plans to pave over a public garden to expand the local high school.

A Greens plan to legalise hemp cultivation for industrial use in South Australia will now have backing from the Labor Government, provided slight amendments are made to the bill.

The Tasmanian Government announces plans to compulsorily acquire land on Hobarts Mount Wellington to help facilitate the construction of a cable car.

Politics in the far-north seat of Kimberley is breaking new ground, with both major parties fielding Aboriginal candidates for the first time.

Researchers discover what could be one of the worst cases of mine pollution in the world in the heart of New South Wales' pristine heritage-listed Blue Mountains.

Adelaide's food trucks gain a permanent trading venue at the showgrounds, but the South Australian Government is still fighting for statewide council regulation of street trading permits.

The only Australian tall ship to sail in the 1988 First Fleet re-enactment voyage for Australia's bicentenary celebrates 30 years on the water.

The resignations of the Victorian Speaker and Deputy Speaker over the abuse of parliamentary entitlements is the "right decision" and changes will be made to ensure the rules are black and white, Premier Daniel Andrews promises.

Researchers discover what could be one of the worst cases of mine pollution in the world in the heart of New South Wales' pristine heritage-listed Blue Mountains.

It took a team of overseas doctors to discover why Sofia Belmonte had a stroke at just eight years old and now she is concerned PBS changes could put her at risk of another.

A monthly clinic is helping transgender people previously overlooked by the NT's health system, yet its long-term future is uncertain due to funding concerns.