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Five young minds share their stories of how they've pushed beyond boundaries to excel in science and maths and what support helped them get there.

The western Tasmanian ghost town of Dundas is still yielding its secrets to its only two residents.

Horton becomes the first man since his childhood idol Grant Hackett in 2008 to complete the domestic 200m, 400m and 1,500m freestyle triple. Much to the Rio 400m champion's surprise.

The Byron Bay woman convicted over the killing of a Bali police officer says her four-year jail term is fair, and has urged the High Court in Denpasar not to increase her sentence on appeal.

The West Coast Eagles recover from last week's loss to beat the winless Sydney Swans by 26 points in a tight contest at Subiaco Oval.

Have you ever wished you could turn the tables on online scammers? English comedian James Veitch has done just that, building a successful career with a book and online videos that beat the con artists at their own game. James Veitch spoke to Hamish Fitzsimmons.

A Sydney doctor will no longer be able to treat patients with blood-related conditions, after he was implicated in a cancer treatment saga.

A man is in hospital with a gunshot wound after police pulled over a car in the Perth hills suburb of Darlington.

A new research project is about to trial the use of virtual reality technology to add to the wellbeing of seriously ill children.

New plans for St Kilda Road bike lanes that would see cyclists riding down the middle of the boulevard are unsafe and should be dumped, Port Phillip Council says.

Details are still emerging but the incident happened around 5.40pm on Thursday evening in the vicinity of Pine Terrace and Owen Road.

Hospitals are putting violent patients into comas as a last resort to protect staff who are being sprayed with blood, held hostage, and bashed on the job, a leading doctor says.

The suicides of young doctors, such as Chloe Abbott who was doing herphysician training when she took her own life, prompts calls for a review of mandatory reporting laws, which many health professionals believe are stopping doctors from asking for help.

Emergency crews have been called to North Dandalup following reports of a collision between a vehicle and the Australind train.

Waiting for the baggage to arrive on the carousel at the Canberra Airport was most definitely not a chore this week.

"I've been in the service 27 years. It was the most scariest day I've ever worked. The anger and the violence was massive.We had no control at all... we were lucky there were not more injuries."

Former Australian foreign minister Gareth Evans joins 7.30 to discuss his speech to the National Press Club, in which he criticised Donald Trump and encouraged Australia to form closer ties with China.

Finally, the wait is over for Jamie Elliott. Collingwood have immediately turned to the small forward for senior selection one week after he bagged five goals in the VFL. Sunday's match against St Kilda will be Elliott's first AFL game in nearly 600 days.

A single verse in the Koran is at the centre of an angry debate about a video produced by a group of Muslim women in Sydney. The women from radical Islamic group Hizb ut-Tahrir claim that Muslim men are allowed to hit their wives, but not to cause harm or pain.

Slain property developer Michael McGurk. Photo: Supplied

A raft of punitive measures including lifetime bans for racially abusive football supporters will be debated at the AFL Commission table next week as the game looks to up the ante in its fight against racism.

Embattled Wallabies captain Stephen Moore will rediscover his form in time for the June Test series, according to Michael Cheika.

Lucky Gattellari was once applauded for his violence. But after the ring, Gattellari's career took a dark turn, ending in a jail sentence for his role in the murder of Sydney businessman Michael McGurk.

A frustrated Lucky Gattellari wrote in his prison diary that his plan had "hit a brick wall" thanks to "2 f---wits."

The teenage parents who disappeared from a Sydney hospital with their three-day-old baby have been located.

Wallabies coach Michael Cheika says the ARU will make sure all but a handful of players from the yet-to-be-named axed team will be found a new home in Super Rugby.

The Director of Public Prosecutions will now decide whether the property developer will face a new trial.

Some of Perth Zoo's inhabitants are treated to a trial run of an Easter egg hunt with a difference, as part of the facility's behavioural enrichment program.

Tension between Brisbane and Cronulla escalated beyond the issue of Jack Bird's defection on Thursday with the Broncos lodging a complaint to the NRL about the premiers.

At one school, parents says there are 60 girls to a toilet and children access the playground in shifts.

Rebels coach Tony McGahan says his players need to show their passion for their team when they face the ACT Brumbies on Saturday night.

This time last year, Travis Cloke was struggling in the Collingwood forward line and was on the cusp of being dropped - and not for the only time in his very own annus horribilus.

The former managing director squares up ARU board and management over the sorry state of the sport.

Donations to the Cyclone Debbie appeal have come in at $2.8 million so far - a small drop in the ocean compared to the 2011 floods.

Internet giant Google is back in the hunt for new digs.

Round four of the 2017 AFL season gets underway as West Coast plays host to the Sydney Swans. Follow all the scores, stats and streams in our live ScoreCentre.

The Dalys stand to score six times what they paid when they bought from the property 20 years ago.

Few people outside of Indonesia would have heard of Palangkaraya. Most of it is jungle with boat tours, prayer hills and opportunities to see orangutans.

Ethereal folk from Julie Byrne, background sounds from the Chainsmokers and a box set from Sviatoslav Richter.

Australia has raised concerns with the Kremlin over reports men had been rounded up, tortured and killed as part of an anti-gay crackdown in the semi-autonomous Russian province of Chechnya.

West Coast key forward Jack Darling is a late out for the Eagles crucial clash against the Swans at Domain Stadium on Thursday night.

Retrospective exhibitions reveal the pain and pleasure of an artist's life.

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Bali: With just weeks to go until she will be deported to Australia, Schapelle Corby has asked Bali immigration and corrections chiefs when she will be allowed to return to Indonesia.

A coroner decides to hold an inquest into an Adelaide man's nursing home death, almost a decade after the elderly patient was allegedly killed by another resident with dementia.

The newly-appointed NSW police commissioner has lambasted a view propagated among some Muslim Australians that Muslim husbands are permitted to hit their wives.

There have been six confirmed cases of Legionnaires' disease, the Victorian department of health and human services has confirmed.

Monique Conti, international basketballer and inaugural AFL women's academy member, wants to play both sports at the top level.

Will the last person to leave Perth please turn out the lights?

Government MPs are escalating their attacks on the Queensland senator and her party.