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Mental health disorders are not more common in rural and regional Australia, but they are harder to treat. The Royal Flying Doctor Service is helping people like Brendan Cullen, who says their clinic changed his life.

Geelong lays down a marker for the rest of the season with a strong 22-point win over a disappointing Adelaide Crows side at Kardinia Park.

The Warriors cross the Tasman to take on the Eels after the Storm made short work of the Knights. Keep across the commentary, stats and plays with our NRL ScoreCentre.

New South Wales' first drug detox and rehabilitation centre dedicated to helping youth opened today and one of its first patients talks about how it has turned her life around.

Margaret Court's nephew says people have bashed on his door and attacked the children at his junior tennis academy following his aunt's divisive comments on same-sex marriage.

The City of Perth is moving closer to a ban on plastic bags, after instigating a review of what it would mean for shoppers and businesses and how any significant issues could be mitigated.

The ladder-leading Crows travel to Kardinia Park to take on third-placed Geelong. Follow every moment with live commentary and stats in our ScoreCentre.

Owners of supported residential facilities are demanding clarity from the SA Government about what impact the NDIS will have on future funding.

A family puts their home on the market and turns to crowdfunding to pay for life-saving surgery in the US, for a condition their daughter caught in an Australian hospital.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian announces the route and a funding boost for a new bridge at Dubbo that will improve freight movement and ease congestion.

As a coroner investigates the deaths of two stroke patients, an inquest is told the Royal Adelaide Hospital persisted with only two stroke specialists despite a 2013 recommendation that an extra specialist be employed.

Great Southern war veteran Murray Maxton describes revisiting the Lancaster bomber he flew 73 years ago as an "unreal experience".

The Tasmanian Government sues the construction group in charge of the Hobart city Myer redevelopment over the 2016 collapse of a wall, which inundated the site with water from an underground river.

With the price of goat meat continuing to increase, there are calls for relax guidelines around the management of feral goats in South Australia to be relaxed.

The 44-year-old wife of missing Hobart tattoo artist Dwayne Robert 'Doc' Davies, suspected to have been murdered, tearfully pleads not guilty to being an accessory after the fact.

A witness tells a Perth court how he tried to help a man in the moments after he was fatally stabbed in an alleged mob attack at the Esplanade train station after Australia Day celebrations last year.

A Perth-based lupin food company welcomes the classification of lupins as an allergen as a good thing for the industry.

Eddie Peters, nephew of the late Eddie Mabo, helps to celebrate his uncle's legacy at Adelaide's first official celebration of the anniversary of the landmark High Court decision.

Aid agencies estimate around 20 million people are on the verge of famine as conflict and natural disasters wreak havoc on parts of the world.

An alleged assault at the Box Hill Hospital that left a heart surgeon with life-threatening injuries is a "tipping point" when it comes to safety, according to the organisations representing Victorian doctors and nurses.

Cinemagoers are usually urged to switch off mobile phones when the lights dim for a movie, but a new app for the vision-impaired will enhance their film-going experience.

A far north Queensland town is rebranding itself as the art deco capital of Australia in an attempt to boost visitor numbers through architectural tourism.

Introduced cats and foxes are finding native animals easily exposed by a loss of habitat due to fire and it is pushing some species to extinction.

The Queensland Premier makes a pitch for northern votes with a $386 million investment in electricityincluding $200 million for a hydro-electric power station.

A north Queensland seafood wholesaler and retailer blames white spot disease for turning consumers away from prawns.

North Queensland MP Bob Katter calls for a royal commission into the gas industry, citing concerns for farmers' wellbeing amidst a battle between a Chinchilla farmer and a coal seam gas company.

Former NSW Labor minister Ian Macdonald is sentenced to 10 years' jail over the decision to grant a mining licence to a company run by former union boss John Maitland, who will spend at least four years behind bars.

The Victorian Government asks the state's chief psychiatrist to urgently investigate the care provided to a Sri Lankan man who hours after leaving a mental health facility allegedly threatened to blow up a plane over Melbourne.

Former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters said the only way to hear his new album is atop the Sydney Harbour Bridge. So that's exactly what Mark Bannerman did.

Volunteers for Isolated Students' Education will fold after more than 35 years of service bringing education to outback children.

Australian grain production is expected to drop this year despite a similar area of land being planted to winter crop, according to agricultural lender Rabobank.

House prices in Sydney and Melbourne are cooling, approvals are up, and everyone's wondering if Australian banks have been lending too much. The real question is if we have hit peak prices, what does the other side of the curve look like?

A hand-held imaging device aimed improving the accuracy of breast cancer surgery is set to be launched on the global market after securing funding for medical trials and approvals.

A man who murdered his girlfriend and buried her body under a concrete slab near Mannum in South Australia is sentenced to at least 22 years' jail, with the Supreme Court Justice condemning the "controlling and abusive" belief "he owned his partner's life".

Police praise the actions of a truck driver who prevented a "catastrophic" accident with a bus carrying 15 schoolchildren in Sydney's south-west.

Gold Coast surfer Mick Fanning has a new claim to fame, with a new and "very distinct" species of water spider being named after him following a public vote at the recent World Science Festival in Brisbane.

As community libraries face increasing cost pressures and a trend towards bigger, centralised hubs, Geelong residentsincluding author Gideon Haighare campaigning to save them from closure.

Southern Cross University researchers find rising sea temperature affects seafood quality.

A date farmer volunteers to help move trees weighing 6 tonnes each to have his palms on display at one of Adelaide's historic parklands.

A successful crowdfunding campaign has ensured the survival of a national newspaper for childrenfor now. What will Crinkling News do next?

One of the largest suppliers of worm farms in Australia is struggling to cope with the increase in orders since the War on Waste.

A new report's list of affordable suburbs reveals first home buyers in Sydney and Melbourne need to be searching as much as 100 kilometres from the CBD.

As the next deadline arrived today for the residents of Urban Food Streets at Buderim to obtain a permit for their verge gardens, a Western Australian councillor is urging the Sunshine Coast Council to reconsider its position.

After bowing out of elite volleyball, Olympian Becchara Palmer signs to play for the Adelaide Crows when they defend their AFLW premiership next season.

The Lord Howe Island land lobster is a flightless stick insect. It was thought extinct until scientists found a tiny population on a remote ocean outcrop. Now they're trying to bring it back.

Gardening guru Costa Giorgiadis offers some holistic advice to people in Latrobe still battling one year after the floods.

A far north Queensland man charged with taking a crocodile's head from its carcassan offence that could draw a $27,000 finewas keeping it as a "trophy", police say.

A 40-year-old man and a 44-year-old woman charged over the alleged murder of Hobart tattoo artist Dwayne Robert Davies plead not guilty.

Tasmanian Liberal Senator Eric Abetz has gives Hobart City Council a serve for its push to change the date of Australia Day.

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