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Pineapple prices are recovering after the second-hottest summer on record brings on twice the amount of early winter fruit.

American soldiers say it takes a unique type of personality, with a mix of resilience, cockiness and humility, to be part of the United States' specialised military unit, the Marine Corps.

An online photo collection at the State Library of Western Australia is helping Aboriginal people discover pictures of their families.

The Federal Environment Department and Minister Josh Frydenberg are making "urgent enquiries" into the clearing of more than 100 hectares of bushland on Cape York Peninsula.

Statements of claim are lodged against a Hunter Valley nursing home on behalf of the families of two residents after they were murdered by a staff member.

A trip from Sydney's northern beaches to the south coast will cost about $20 each way in 2024, thanks to a likely $10 toll on the proposed F6 extension, according to leaked documents.

One year ago, the NSW Government promised to build access lifts at each end of the Sydney Harbour Bridge but now they are saying there is no money in the budget.

A five-year-old girl reported missing from a day-care centre on the Gold Coast has been found safe and well in NSW, police say.

US President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior White House adviser Jared Kushner claims he "did not collude" with a foreign government.

A few weeks after a controversial article things changed at the Ultimo studios, writes Jenna Price.

Emma Telfer, executive director of Open House Melbourne, shares her hot tips and takes on living in Melbourne. 

One Nation voters are the only group preferring Mr Abbott's leadership qualities, the poll found.

Armenian is a cuisine that owes as much to where it is now as where it's from.

The stunt evokes the film Point Break, in which a gang don masks of ex-presidents while robbing banks.

Cardinal Pell could find himself rubbing shoulders with drink-drivers and drug users on Wednesday.

Veteran Liberal confronted by young rising star for calling refugee activists and environmentalists "a bunch of cockroaches"

The Philippine president wants all minerals extracted in his country to be processed domestically.

The Turnbull government has denied inequality is worsening in Australia and dismissed Labor's latest tax change push as the "politics of envy".

Police say the attacker rode into the gathered police on a motorcycle before detonating the bomb.

Mother said her little boy could have had a chance of getting better, but the hospital disagreed.

More frequent severe droughts, coral bleaching are on the agenda with more extreme El Nino events predicted even with ambitious climate goals.

Robo-advice is the new black – or the new gold – with former Wallabies captain Stirling Mortlock joining Chris Brycki at Peak Advisors.

A former 7-Eleven franchisee who underpaid his staff has been fined $168,000, following a Fairfax Media investigation that found systemic underpayment and the complicity of head office.

Justine Varga's prize-winning portrait of her grandmother provokes debate about the nature of portraiture and photography.

Each side has some 3000 front-line troops at the disputed border area, and the Chinese have carried out live-fire drills to intimidate their rival.

Collingwood president Eddie McGuire says fighting wins over the past fortnight won't influence the call on Nathan Buckley's future, declaring the coach's full body of work will determine whether he is reappointed.

After years of messy, legal battles it appears sisters Bianca and Ginia Rinehart have reconciled.

The possibilities of quantum computers are much-hyped but even the search for breakthroughs promises lucrative spin-offs.

More than 200 sheep have died after they hurtled over the edge of a cliff in the French Pyrenees.

AFL umpires boss Peter Schwab admits his department concentrated on two games during their weekly review, after an unusually high amount of free kicks across the weekend.

More than 40 per cent of the 795,000 students in NSW's public schools do not list any religion on their enrolment form, according to new data.

Barrie Kosky's Saul and Belvoir Theatre's The Drover's Wife dominated the 2017 Helpmann Awards, announced in Sydney on Monday night, taking home several gongs each, including best opera and best play, respectively.

A 13-year-old girl who was missing for four days in central Victoria has been found safe and well by police.

A Straddie icon is up for sale with an asking price of $3,495,000.

The Australian government is demanding urgent updates from car makers undertaking a massive recall program.

Melbourne's Diana Chan has taken home the 2017 MasterChef crown in a surprise nail-biting finish that came down to just one point.

The Opals took the court against the Philippines on Monday afternoon and won comfortably.

A former mining union official allegedly involved with the January shutdown of Victoria's biggest power plant has unreservedly apologised to the court.

​A Sikh father is fighting for his five-year-old son's right to wear a turban at a Christian school.

She takes more than 30 tablets a day, and will take about 12,000 tablets in total this year.

When the popular breaks empty out at the end of summer, this small band of hardy locals surfs on.

In the past two years, Canberra 12-year-old William Grame has visited NASA, started his own company and interned with a national chain.

As all about them are losing their heads, the eunuchs rise to the occasion. Mostly.

A five-year-old girl taken by a man she knew from a Carrara day-care centre may be "at significant risk", police say, as they appeal for help in locating her.

Money should be used to communicate, not pocketed in salary, says Labor secretary.

A man found dead in a torched Jeep had a long knife protruding from his neck.

Aboriginal group blasts indigenous contracts going to mainstream organisations.

Neither have been seen since and police believe the child may be at significant risk.

Negotiations on a new enterprise agreement for Catholic systemic teachers have reached an ironic impasse.

A review of the guidelines for opioid prescribing in the ACT was more than three years overdue when an indigenous man died in custody last year.