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The 2017 State Of Origin series was supposed to mark the start of something beautiful for the Blues, but Queensland's pups have more bite than expected.

A group of paying tourists, volunteers and scientists have banded together to unearth a 100-million-year-old marine fossil from a dusty paddock in outback Queensland.

Single mum Nadine Carrick says her Sydney rent is now 70 per cent of her income. She joined others at a 600-strong forum who bonded over the housing affordability crisis and begged the Government to help.

Two decades after what was meant to be a safe, family friendly spectacle turned into a lethal event, the victim's family representative says there are still lessons to be learned.

In the struggling community of Beacon300 kilometres north-east of Pertretired farmers are keeping the town's spirit alive one restored tractor at a time.

Victorian police will resume the search for clues into the suspicious death of Karen Risteveski around the Mount Macedon area and are calling once again for witnesses who may have seen a black Mercedes to come forward.

A small suburban soccer side has a permanent reminder of the time English soccer giant Arsenal toured down under four decades ago.

The new owners of Van Diemen's Land Farms dairy company say financial difficulty plaguing a Chinese company it has strong links to is not hampering bold expansion plans.

Melbourne City Council plans to spend $35 million greening up one of the city's most densely populated suburbs, Southbank, with space for farmers markets, music festivals, bike lanes and green tram tracks.

It could be a decade before the southern Great Barrier Reef recovers from the destruction caused by Cyclone Debbie, scientists say.

Queensland runs over the top of the Blues to complete its comeback from a 1-0 series deficit and close it out in style. Follow our live blog of State Of Origin III.

Queensland has snuffed out any talk of a New South Wales Origin revival with extreme prejudice, crushing the Blues 22-6 in the 2017 series decider at Lang Park.

A second person is charged with the murder of Sydney teenager Brayden Dillon, who was shot in the head as he slept in his family's home in Sydney's south-west on Good Friday.

Films that were too weird, too saucy, or simply too much for Australians at the time of their release are being revived as part of a film festival in Canberra.

New South Wales has a chance to start its own winning run, but the Maroons are looking to pull off yet another miraculous escape at Lang Park. Follow our live blog of State Of Origin III.

Wimbledon greats have tried to answer an AFL question many asked at the time, did retiring Hawthorn champion Luke Hodge fluke a boundary line goal in the 2015 grand final?

A mothballed remote West Australian prison work camp, once criticised as under-utilised and a 'white-elephant', is reopened.

Darwin's infamous psychic saltwater crocodile named Burt considers the Blues before lunging his jaws of victory at a pig carcass representing the Maroons.

A self-styled financial adviser charged with stealing almost $2 million from victims including fashion designer Lisa Ho is denied bail in Waverley Local Court.

A former Australian of the Year finalist allegedly transferred tens of thousands of dollars into her sons' bank accounts and bought the youngest a motorbike using funds that were meant to help vulnerable immigrant women.

Police admit they used DNA from an unrelated crime scene to clear a paedophile priest and other suspects over the brutal cold case murder of Melbourne mother-of-two Maria James.

The directors of an embattled magnetite producer in rural Western Australia have again cast doubt over the future of the 1,000-strong workforce project as it reels from an almost half-a-billion dollar loss.

Nearly $300,000 in union funds have been retrieved by the Ambulance Employees Association of South Australia, after the money was allegedly lost in unsanctioned transactions and two employees resigned rather than answer to the secretary, documents viewed by the ABC reveal.

WA's children's health service experiences its second high-profile departure within months of a damning report calling for leadership change, with Princess Margaret Hospital executive director Michelle Dillon resigning to "pursue other opportunities".

WA's children's health service experiences its second high-profile departure within months of a damning report calling for leadership change, with Princess Margaret Hospital executive director Michelle Dillon resigning to "pursue other opportunities".

A knee injury could delay the arrival of the latest Adelaide Thunderbirds signing, former New Zealand netballer Catherine Tuivaiti.

In an Australian first, a Victorian program is aiming to close the gap between principals and education bureaucrats at Treasury Place in central Melbourne.

There is a push to strengthen laws regulating the use of compound bows, which are currently treated only as sporting equipment, after a cat was shot by a disgruntled neighbour.

Victorian police investigate state Nationals MP Tim McCurdy for alleged fraud after complaints were made that he wrongly claimed hundreds of thousands of dollars in sales commissions while working as a real estate agent.

Cyclists raise concerns for their safety after the fire brigade is called to remove oil from a West Melbourne bike trail twice in one day.

China releases 10 Crown Resorts employees, including two Australian citizens, from prison after they were convicted of illegally promoting gambling.

A mobile phone app that sends text message reminders is part of a trial aimed at reducing the amount of binge drinking among university studentsbut will the app's cyber parent-style work?

ACT rangers spend the past two days searching for an emu that was shot with an arrow after a member of the public saw the injured animal near the Cotter River.

Queensland police set up a crime scene at the Port of Brisbane after workers discover a man's body in a coal wagon hitched to a train from Chinchilla.

The Wanderers' active support group Red and Black Bloc is on its last warning and could be shut down indefinitely if members misbehave, club chief executive John Tsatsimas has warned.

A pilot who believes his light aircraft was struck by a drone ahead of landing in Adelaide's north prompts an investigation by Australian Transport Safety Bureau officers.

One young girl's drawing of her dream cubby house has been brought to life and is now helping children with hearing impairments in Sydney's inner-west.

Agricultural corporate advisory firm Kidder Williams confirms berry and citrus farms owned by the Costa family are up for sale.

Growing up on a station outside of Coober Pedy, Emma Wake has always taken a sustainable approach to the way she lived her life.

A Melbourne man has been charged over a 10-hour standoff with police at a hotel in East Gippsland.

Meet the men and women named in the Australian team to compete at the WorldSkills competition in trades like cabinetmaking, patisserie, hairdressing and 3D digital game art.

Chances are you have hosted a critter or two at your house, but have you ever willingly invited a giant cockroach to stay?

Labor party operatives are accused of stealing sensitive voter details from the Victorian Greens, after one of them bragged about going "undercover" during a door-knocking campaign.

Biosecurity Queensland impose strict quarantine measures in far north Queensland after Panama disease is found at a Tully farm.

A man who killed his neighbour's cat with a bow and arrow because he thought it would attack his chickens walks free from court after a magistrate describes the cruelty as "barbaric".

A house is sprayed with at least 27 bullets in what police believe is the second bikie-related shooting in Canberra's south this week.

Queensland detectives charge a 79-year-old man with 130 child sex offences, alleging he attacked several girls in north Queensland and Brisbane between 1972 and 1993.

It is a common dry season visitor throughout the tropical north, and now the rainbow bee-eater could hold the key to identifying the remaining varroa mite colonies that have made their way to Australia.

The Northern Territory's only alternative to youth detention in a remote area is forced to close its doors due to infrastructure and safety problems, with BushMob saying an "ongoing lack of action" has brought the trial to breaking point.

In 1948, a team of Americans and Australians travelled throughout the Northern Territory, collecting data and artefacts. But on a visit to one remote Aboriginal community in Arnhem Land, the scientific mission they also robbed graves. The bones were finally returned from the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC in 2011. But experts say there are still thousands of remains and sacred objects still to be repatriated.