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As Evandale Football Club celebrates its 125th year, new female teams are giving the northern Tasmanian club renewed life.

Evacuations are ordered in coastal towns and communities in north Queensland as Tropical Cyclone Debbie bears down, with authorities warning of damaging tidal surges and an impact on a scale not seen since Cyclone Yasi in 2011.

Pocket-sized experiments and steams trains could be the unusual combination to help draw disillusioned children back into science, educators hope.

As little as five minutes of colouring in a day can have the same influence on the brain as an hour of practising conventional meditation techniques, according to a cognitive neuroscientist who has coined the term "colourtation".

Premiers' Plate winners Sydney FC cruise to victory at Perth Glory to set a record for most points in an 27-round A-League season.

A depleted Wellington Phoenix find late-season goalscoring form with a 5-0 A-League victory over the hapless Newcastle Jets.

Victoria is already well placed to win the Sheffield Shield for the third successive season after a one-sided opening day of the final against South Australia.

Wine drinkers at this year's World Science Festival in Brisbane are given the chance to explore how the beverage's taste can be altered by different genres of music.

Ferrari shows it will be a contender for the championship in 2017 as Sebastian Vettel romps to victory in Melbourne, ahead of Lewis Hamilton.

Daniel Ricciardo sees his car give up the ghost in a luckless F1 season opener in Melbourne, with grid penalties, pit-lane starts and a DNF making for a nightmare Australian Grand Prix.

Sebastian Vettel took out the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, but it was a nightmare race for the luckless Daniel Ricciardo. Look back at how the action unfolded in our live blog.

Australian television personality and Gold Logie nominee Grant Denyer walks away from a rally car crash in Victoria, while his co-driver sustains a suspected broken leg.

A silk waistcoat that once belonged to Captain James Cook fails to sell at a Sydney auction despite strong interest, with bidding prices well below expectations of over $1 million.

The Australian Government says they are in contact with Chinese authorities after a university professor and critic of growing Chinese Government influence in Australia is prevented from boarding a flight from China back home to Sydney.

Female AFL players have a responsibility to continue to grow the sport after exceeding most people's expectations about the national league's first season, Adelaide Crows premiership player Erin Phillips says.

A new six-week training program is underway for youth justice officers in the Northern Territory which aims to better educate those on the frontline of youth detention.

Round four wraps up with the Tigers against the unbeaten Storm and Dragons hosting the Warriors. Follow all the live scores, stats and commentary.

Evacuations are ordered in coastal towns and communities in areas of north Queensland as Tropical Cyclone Debbie bears down, with authorities warning of damaging tidal surges and an impact on a scale not seen since Cyclone Yasi in 2011.

Two 155-metre chimney stacks come crashing down as part of a planned demolition at the Munmorah power station on the NSW central coast.

Asbestos control is set to become the responsibility of the Northern Territory Government after a motion passes the 2017 NT ALP conference to include the issue in the Public and Environmental Health Act.

Nick Riewoldt delivers the news all footy fans were hoping to hear, with scans confirming no damage to his ACL after sustaining a concerning injury in St Kilda's loss to Melbourne.

Cataract surgery can change people's lives, but until recently anyone in western Queensland with the eye disease had to travel to Brisbane to undergo surgery.

Cameron and Jayden Caulfield and their two siblings will be handed Australian Bravery Awards for disarming their drunken stepfather after he shot their mother and tried to strangle her.