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Retrospective policies on profits tax and domestic reservation will hinder, not help, to bring gas costs down, according to Deloitte.

Perth barrister Lloyd Rayney was cleared of murdering his wife Corryn five years after her body was found buried in Kings Parkand is now launching a multi-million-dollar defamation case against the state of WA.

Staff are embarrassed and disgusted to work at the Fraser Coast Regional Council, according to a confidential report.

A man who drunkenly bashed the mother of his children with a chair in Darwin's Bagot community and later stabbed her in the face with a steak knife because he felt "slighted", is jailed for more than three years.

A Red Centre cattle station enjoys the benefits of soap made with camel fat thanks to their German cook.

The murder of court registrar Corryn Rayney was one of the biggest legal cases ever heard in Perth, both in the scope of its criminal investigation, and the closeness of the media coverage.

Police arrest two men following an alleged assault and kidnapping of a woman outside a Bondi Junction shopping centre on Tuesday afternoon.

A rouge government backbencher says his decision not to quit the Liberal-National Party over an agricultural dispute is due to the intervention of his state counterparts in Queensland.

Lloyd Rayney's multi-million dollar defamation case is scheduled to start amid concerns about delays in it being finalised because of ongoing disciplinary proceedings questioning his right to practise law.

Tasmanian man Klaus Neubert, who murdered his wife as she sat in her car in peak-hour traffic in Hobart, may be forced to pay the shooting survivor $1 million.

Indigenous land south west of Katherine in the Northern Territory is being offered up for a pastoral lease by traditional owners.

Some Aboriginal people are being kept in custody for longer than required because of a lack of interpreters in South Australia, lawyers representing Indigenous people claim.

A sword believed to have been used to kill a man at a Melbourne shopping centre is found by police, and investigators release more CCTV as part of a search for the victim's brother.

John Aloisi's injury-hit Brisbane Roar are smashed 6-0 by Ulsan Hyundai, while Shanghai SIPG blast Wanderers 5-1 in the Asian Champions League.

The NSW Attorney-General's office tells a law firm which makes light of drink driving on social media, including joke photo posts or "memes", to change its advertising strategy.

The Victorian Government has announced plans for 100,000 residential lots in 17 new suburbs in Melbourne's growth areasbut will it help address the city's housing affordability problems?

Gordon Wood says he was bashed in jail by a notorious rapist and killer before being acquitted of murdering his former girlfriend Caroline Byrne, a statement released by the NSW Supreme Court reveals.

With abs, an uncanny likeness to actress Alicia Silverstone and one million-plus followers on Instagram, Steph Smith has a life that glows on social media. And not just because of the backlit screen.

A woman who tripped while climbing stairs at a regional Queensland hospital has been awarded $1.6 million in damages for her injuries.

A Carwoola man says authorities left with him with no option but to run towards an out-of-control bushfire to save his home and family.

A Melbourne dog-owner discovers the ups and downs of internet celebrity after a video of her puppy sliding across floorboards attracts more than 15 million views online.

Police are appealing to the public to help locate a woman after she was allegedly assaulted and abducted near a shopping centre in Sydney's eastern suburbs on Tuesday afternoon.

An Anglican church in Perth's south, which has been opening its doors to local Muslim worshippers once a week, offers to sell part of its land for a mosque to be built next door.

Property owners say they have lost thousands of dollars after Victorian building company Watersun Homes is placed into voluntary administration.

ABC managing director Michelle Guthrie tells a Senate Estimates hearing she is confident the organisation did not breach its charter by cancelling its shortwave radio service.

Respected ABC journalist Mark Colvin's organ donation story is the inspiration for a new play about him, the kidney and its donorprominent businesswoman Mary-Ellen Field.

A Sydney man has been charged after allegedly manufacturing imitation firearmsincluding a Gloks, a Sig and two air pistolsusing a 3D printer.

Laws are hurried through Queensland Parliament to retrospectively uphold more than 11,000 rulings by the state's Mental Health Review Tribunal, after it was revealed a member did not have the proper qualifications.

Liberal MP James Patterson, Labor MP Graham Perrett and Greens Senator Nick McKim join 7.30 to discuss the recommendations handed down today by a parliamentary committee review into the Racial Discrimination Act.

The mystery of a fireball crossing the Tasmanian skyline is solved, but not before Facebook users had declared alien life had finally made it to Tasmania.

The only doctor in Mullewa, in WA's Mid West, warns of a risk to residents' health after repeated power outages caused her to discard vaccines and medication.

A man who spent two months as a member of an outlaw bikie gang is facing deportation back to the UK, where he has not been since he was two.

Paul Burgess has lived in Australia since he was 2. But two months spent with the bikie gang, The Comancheros, in 2014 was enough to see him slated for deportation. And the alleged list of crimes included an incorrect charge.

Minister for Justice Michael Keenan joins 7.30 to discuss today's arrest of Haisem Zahab, an electrician from Young in NSW, who allegedly advised IS on the development of long-range missile technologies.

A station manager in WA's Kimberley region says their internet will certainly be cut off on Tuesday night, despite completing an application to change service back in August.

Ticketmaster declines to comment on claims it is profiting from scalping on its affiliated website, Ticketmaster Resale, after thousands of Midnight Oil fans are left without passes to the band's Melbourne concert.

Dylan Voller calls for more after-hours youth services and says that would stop young people walking the streets of Alice Springs.

Gold exploration in WA hits a fresh four-year high in the December quarter.

A group of youths from diverse backgrounds are finding their voice and tackling social injustices, discrimination and the politics of division through poetry in Adelaide.

The editor of the Young Witness newspaper was in court for the first appearance of the man arrested in today's terror raids at Young, west of Canberra. Craig Thomson said the community has a sense of disbelief at the raids, and the accused was quiet for the short hearing.

Clive Palmer's Waratah Coal company lodges an expression of interest with the Clean Energy Finance Corporation to develop a "clean coal" plant in Queensland's Galilee Basin.

Australia's latest multi-billion-dollar defence spend is put on display for the first time, with the arrival of the EA-18G Growler attack aircraft marking the country's first entry into electronic warfare.

Energy Minister Mark Bailey says he deleted a personal Yahoo email account that had received emails from a union boss because he thought the Premier wanted him to.

A 60kg bundle of plastic that washed ashore in New South Wales highlights the issue of rubbish being dumped by passing ships.

A section of Constitution Avenue that recently underwent a multi-million-dollar redesign may be closed for some time after a large water pipe burst and flooded the road.

A Sunshine Coast woman who worked in high-functioning jobs says being diagnosed with dementia in her 50s was a relief.

The NSW Greens want an inquiry into the accountability of the state's roads service and the way it manages infrastructure projects.

Australia's first drone pilot training school has opened in Port Macquarie on the New South Wales mid-north coast, with lifeguards among the first to graduate.

The first genetic indicator of an eye disease which results in blindness has been discovered by an international team of researchers.

Environmentalists want the Federal Government to scrutinise Queensland's proposed Colton mine, which they say will pour a billion litres of untreated waste into waters around the World Heritage-listed Fraser Island.