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The average price of taxi licences in Australia's most populous city has fallen below half what it was at the launch of ride-booking app Uber.

Labor appears set to end eight years of Liberal-National rule in Western Australia, with the latest Newspoll suggesting the party will win more than a dozen seats and take government in today's election.

There are claims Melbourne's theatre industry is being damaged by ticket reseller sites, with one insider saying he is sick and tired of how patrons were being treated.

Not even injury scares to Matt Scott, Antonio Winterstein and Lachlan Coote, or a possible suspension to Jason Taumalolo, could dampen the Cowboys' spirits after their win over Brisbane.

A Tasmanian police officer is suspended on full pay on a charge relating to the alleged possession of child exploitation images.

The doors of the Islamic College of South Australia will remain open until the end of term one after the State Government agrees to give it conditional financial support.

Police investigate the death of a female cyclist who was hit by a truck in Yarraville last night.

Australia's last commercial pottery is deeply concerned about what national gas uncertainty could mean for business.

As the ABC marks 70 years in the Northern Territory, former and current broadcasters share their memories of reporting on definitive Top End moments.

NSW Health will look to seize the house of a man accused of defrauding four of the state's hospitals over 11 years by posing as a doctor.

An Abel is a mountain in Tasmania that is 1,100 metres or higher. There are heaps of them. Bill Wilkinson has written two books about them and these are his favourite three to walk.

Lawns are growing out of fashion, but there are ways to keep the Australian dream alive without irrigation or fertiliser.

Imagine a future where you use an app to order a driverless car. It knows the traffic conditions and avoids congestion, adjusts its speed to catch all the green lights and allows you to read or watch TV while it takes you to your destination. It might not be that far away.

A branch of Britain's chief health authority says the alleged identity theft of one of its doctors by a man working in four New South Wales hospitals for a decade is a "diabolical fraudulent act".

The forestry operation that Tiwi Islanders have hoped for six decades will lift their communities out of poverty denies it is about to collapse because it is unable to repay its debts.

Tesla's offered to fix South Australia's electricity woes with battery storage within 100 daysor it's free. And Australian public policy think tank, the Grattan Institute, says we should be giving the idea some serious thought.

A man who allegedly attempted a carjacking in central Sydney was trapped and arrested after his intended victim jumped out of his ute and locked the doors.

"It's a funny game we play," says John Gladdis of Maryborough, a man febrile with gold lust.

Afghans who worked for the US military and government are being told that they cannot apply for special visas to the United States, even though Afghanistan is not among the countries listed in President Donald Trump's new travel ban, according to advocates for Afghan refugees.taf

Unlike his audience, the Canadian superstar was expressionless through much of his sold-out performance at Etihad.


A helicopter carrying an executive of the Turkish Eczabicasi group and four Russians, including the firm's Russian operations chief, crashed in Istanbul on Friday, killing all seven people on board, the city's mayor was quoted as saying.

Police are hunting two gunmen who opened fire in a cafe in the Swiss city of Basel, leaving two people dead and a third critically wounded.

Several people have been injured in an axe attack at Dusseldorf train station.

When Colin Barnett was elected, George W Bush was President, iPhones had just hit the market and Amy Winehouse was cleaning up at the Grammys.

Is it acceptable for someone to blast music at a beach?

Plans for a free trade agreement between Australia and the European Union have hit another big delay, which trade minister Steven Ciobo has blamed on the EU.

Amid accusations that it is spreading misinformation and acting as Russia's agent, WikiLeaks made an offer of help to tech giants, but they were less than impressed.

Emergency services are responding after a light plane crashed at Oakdale in Sydney's south-west.

The young Brumbies had to scrap their way to a win against the Force, but the morale-boosting result could set up their season.

The Brumbies and the Force played in a 'desperation cup' on Friday night. Here are all the talking points.

How many fans watched the Brumbies on Friday night? The second lowest in the club's history.

Gai Waterhouse reckons Global Glamour will glide across the Rosehill wet in Saturday's Coolmore, Australia's best race for fillies and mares.

Hugh Bowman might be riding arguably the world's best horse, but in his first column for Fairfax Media he explains why a trip back to his fire-ravaged home has put it all in perspective before his return to riding this weekend.

The Giants' women are chasing a second-straight AFLW triumph and a first ever footy win for the club over Collingwood.

US employers added jobs at an above-average pace for a second month on outsized gains in construction and manufacturing.

As flames crash towards the Canberra zoo as loud and fast as a steam train, Richard Tindale knew the sight all too well.

Hawthorn's new-look leadership group felt they needed to make a stand, even if meant three-time premiership captain Luke Hodge took to Ikon Park on Friday afternoon wearing the No. 62 jumper of Box Hill.

Australia's hopes of achieving mission impossible in India have been dealt a devastating blow with star paceman Mitchell Starc to be sent home after breaking down with a stress fracture in his foot.

Few will give South Sydney any chance of challenging for a premiership without Greg Inglis but the Rabbitohs are using the example of Melbourne last year as inspiration.

Melbourne Storm embraced the wet conditions in Auckland for a comfortable win.

Canterbury may turn to exciting youngster Marcelo Montoya after Will Hopoate was taken to hospital and Kerrod Holland suffered a shoulder injury in Thursday's loss to the Sydney Roosters.

Latrell Mitchell wandered back into pre-season training at a weight almost reserved for a front-rower than a free-running centre.

The former partner of a man accused of raping and torturing a succession of women he lived with over more than two decades says he pummelled her with a piece of wood when she was pregnant.

Electrical contractor Peter Georgiou will replace his brother-in-law Rod Culleton as a West Australian senator.

Coalition MPs want the ban extended to all unions, think tanks, lobby groups and "political actors".

Fremantle goalsneak Hayden Ballantyne appears set to miss the start of the AFL season after injuring his hamstring in Friday night's 21-point win over Carlton at Domain Stadium.

One of Domino's Pizza's biggest and most powerful franchisees is being investigated by the workplace regulator amid allegations of worker exploitation.

What can you say after the Broncos and Cowboys produce yet another "one for the ages" at Lang Park? Here's what we learned.

There are bands and (mostly male) artists who have built careers out of being a representative "everyman": one of us, just a bit better paid and housed. There's a couple of generations of Australian frontmen who would never have dared being anything else.

Who said sequels never work? The beauty of Monkeygate 2.0, or Monkeygategate as we call it here, is that it incorporates all the learnings from the original.