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An energy company proposes what would be the biggest solar power plant in New South Wales on the state's southern tablelands.

Less than two months before council elections, the entire Palmerston council was sacked. Residents say they're now happy as there has been a lack of community consultation and transparency in decision-making.

Her paintings have been exhibited in Paris, London, New York, Tokyo and Milan. But in her old age, renowned Aboriginal artist Kathleen Ngale lives on a mattress outdoors, unable to walk, kept warm during cold desert winter nights by about a dozen dogs who sleep alongside her.

If you're trying to avoid plastic this July, perhaps you've considered making your own toothpaste. If so, here are some things you need to consider before you get started.

The South Australian Government should move its billions of dollars in business away from the big five banks, one minister suggests, as tensions over the proposed bank levy intensify.

Hobart's performing arts scene rallies to help some underwater hockey players from Columbia after money they raised for their Australian trip was stolen.

The technology used in the 'Droid Racing Challenge' event could be the future of driverless cars and their designers, the next generation of roboticists who will develop them.

Melbourne forward Tom Bugg's AFL career is at a crossroads after his six-game ban for knocking out Sydney's Callum Mills.

Queensland's residential homes for children in care are set for a shake up with the State Government requiring all workers to have formal qualifications within two years.

Confidential documents reveal the F6 freeway extension through southern Sydney would cost about $18 billion, and recommend a new road through the Royal National Park.

The NSW Ombudsman's office says it is keeping a close eye on national disability service provider Lifestyle Solutions. It comes after it was revealed the Victorian Government cancelled its contracts with the organisation over concerns about "shortcomings" in oversight.

The City of Perth's media policy is updated to include a provision allowing individual councillors to speak to the media, but Lord Mayor Lisa Scaffidi denies a so-called "gag order" ever existed.

A family lashes out at police after hearing crucial case files on the disappearance of an Indigenous woman in the Kimberley almost 20 years ago went missing, and an initial investigation was shut down prematurely.

A man aged in his early 50s dies at Rio Tinto's Yandicoogina mine in Western Australia's Pilbara region, following what the company describes as a "serious incident on site".

About 700 women have launched a class action against Johnson and Johnson, claiming mesh pelvic implants have caused them severe pain and other side effects. Desperate for relief, some women have tried to have the mesh removed and many are pinning their hopes on a doctor who claims Australia has been too slow to act.

The brother of Islamic State terrorist Mohamed Elomar has his bail revoked and returns to jail in New South Wales after being charged with stalking and intimidation.

A Virgin Australia plane bound for Proserpine becomes the second Queensland flight in 24 hours to be turned around due to a suspected bird strike, after an AirAsia plane was grounded in Brisbane.

A taser is deployed as police seize two vehicles and raid properties after the arrest of three people over a fatal shooting at Wyong on the New South Wales Central Coast yesterday.

A leading gynaecologist says Australia has been slow to act on the health concerns caused by pelvic mesh implants.

The Northern Territory Government will retain a 20 per cent stake in the Darwin port that was sold to the Chinese-owned Landbridge group in 2015. The Northern Territory Government won't receive a financial return for its share, but will have input on executive-level appointments for Landbridge in Australia. Under the terms of the 99-year lease, a 20 per cent stake in the operations of the port had to stay in Australian hands.

Aboriginal students help Moonah Primary School in Hobart explore Indigenous history, culture and languagewith many of those dialects at risk of being lost as elders pass on.

Melbourne's Tom Bugg is given a lengthy six-match AFL suspension for striking Sydney's Callum Mills at the MCG last Friday night.

The West Australian Government is not taking seriously the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder, a clinical researcher tells an inquest into Indigenous suicide.

A 28-year-old woman tells an ACT drink-spiking and attempted rape trial she met 46-year-old Juswan Mokmargana on a so-called sugar daddy website when she was looking for help after becoming unemployed and broke.

The NT Government strikes a deal to keep a 20 per cent interest in Darwin's port, which is currently leased to a Chinese-owned company for 99 years.

The price of grain surges this week as farmers in Australia and North America battle dry conditions.

Police will use heavy machinery to dig up parts of a north Queensland dump to decide if a full-scale search would uncover clues into the disappearance of teenager Rachel Antonio.

The Sydney Film School faces an exodus of students after the Federal Government removes their access to Commonwealth loans, meaning prospective students will have to pay $19,000 in fees upfront.

The sugar war may be over but the battle to survive in the new sugar marketing landscape has only just begun for Queensland Sugar Limited.

The last-chance bid for freedom by convicted Tasmania murderer Sue Neill-Fraser is adjourned indefinitely by the Supreme Court in Hobart after her legal team said they were not ready to proceed.

New opinion polling suggests there is evenly divided support and hostility toward South Australia's planned levy on five major banks.

The prospect an Adelaide woman could be deported and her children left in Australia persuades a judge to spare her a jail term over her role in a multi-million-dollar drug operation.

Businessman and former MP Clive Palmer claimed $1,400 in taxpayer-funded airfares at a time when his political career had ended, an expense report reveals.

A start-up incubator aimed at helping businesses in rural and regional areas is unveiled in Bathurst by the NSW Government.

Biosecurity authorities vow not to give up the fight to eradicate imported red fire ants, after the discovery of a new nest on the Sunshine Coast.

A Nowra-based helicopter pilot becomes the first Australian-trained Navy pilot to reach 10,000 hours in the air, towards the end of his 47-year career.

The Australia A squad is still preparing for their South Africa tour as if it will go ahead amid the bitter pay dispute engulfing cricket.

First Girl I Loved writer/director Kerem Sanga joins CJ from LA; review of It Comes At Night.

Victorian authorities say they will remove painted art from concrete security bollards after a Melbourne street artist says he was stopped by police while adding to his graffiti art on one of the concrete anti-terrorism blocks in the city.

A Queensland rugby league player who died following an on-field clash had injuries that were "very rare", a doctor tells a coronial inquest.

Police arrest a two men and a 17-year-old girl on the New South Wales Central Coast in relation to a fatal shooting yesterday.

A rugby league team with a history of sparking change in their remote NSW community is given a $230,000 cash injection for new facilities, which will allow the club to put in new dressing rooms to replace the existing structurean old cricket net covered by some tarps.

Few people in WA have as much on their plate this week as Roger Cook, who is currently Acting Premier and overseeing 20 portfolios as the State Opposition questions why so many senior Government figures have taken leave two months out from its first budget.

Police find a six-year-old girl taken from her Caboolture home with a woman known to her on the Sunshine Coast.

Daly Cherry-Evans believes he could have done the job at five-eighth for Queensland in place of the injured Johnathan Thurston after missing selection for the deciding State of Origin match against New South Wales.

Former Parramatta Eels chief executive Scott Seward has become a "shell of his former self" since fraud charges were laid against him in relation to the club's salary cap breach, a Sydney court hears.

Solicitor John Sutton with former Parramatta Eels CEO Scott Seward outside Downing Centre Local Court

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An appeal of a teenager's sentence over the death of an Adelaide motorist would be "nothing more than a stunt" under current legislation, the Attorney-General says, flagging changes that would allow young offenders to be sentenced as adults for serious crimes.

An early morning jogger finds an elderly woman's body on the beach at Port Noarlunga in Adelaide's south.