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Three men are injured in a shooting in Melbourne's north, just 48 hours after a man was shot dead in the same suburb.

Drivers who steal produce from roadside stalls in south-west Victoria are being caught on camera.

The face of the 2017 Archibald Prize is more than just that: Agatha Gothe-Snape is thought to be redefining Australia's contemporary art scene and has just made her mark on a Surry Hills laneway.

A hemp farm in southern Tasmania plans to launch a range of food products after regulations change in November.

A trial of a specially developed slow release fertiliser is impressing pineapple farmers on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.

For many of us, the ease and expediency of email has made letter writing a thing of the past. But for some it is being used to better their future.

Victorians are struggling with rising power prices, with some refusing to turn on heating and scrimping on food to get bybut there are a few things government could be doing about it according to a new report.

Veteran political campaigners predict an advertising and social media blitz, worth tens of millions of dollars, will target voters between now and the close of voting in November for the same-sex marriage plebiscite - assuming it's not cut short by today's High Court challenge. Both sides are already claiming underdog status in the plebiscite debate.

A mobile art therapy service for traumatised children will be introduced next month in regional Victoria. The national first pilot is aiming to help isolated young people affected by family violence.

Emotions are high among same-sex marriage campaigners - and it's sparked debate about a possible boycott of the postal vote. The Human Rights Law Centre has launched legal action against the Federal Government over the constitutional validity of the vote. But some within the LGBTI community just want a win for same-sex marriage, no matter what the process.

It will be an emotional last game at the Penguin football ground on Saturday after 112 years at the heart of a small Tasmanian town.

While a day at Brisbane's Ekka could leave your wallet a quite a bit lighter, ABC Queensland weather presenter Jenny Woodward has tips for the free fun on offer.

A couple of weeks after he lost the prime ministership, Tony Abbott was enjoying a seaside lunch in Sydney when a burly bloke came bearing a gift.

The Indian mining giant Adani's Abbot Point coal terminal in northern Queensland avoids a multi-million-dollar fine, but is slugged $12,000 for releasing sediment storm water during Tropical Cyclone Debbie at a level many times higher than allowed.

The AFL and NRL's sheer, frustrating futility in trying to establish professional sports franchises on the Gold Coast is continuing apace amid the Suns and Titans' ongoing foibles, writes Richard Hinds.

Four Queensland underground coal mines risk closure after allegedly failing to meet their dust-monitoring obligations, Mines Minister Anthony Lynham tells State Parliament.

Passengers needing taxis at Adelaide airport are forced to make alternative arrangements as drivers protest over a new deal allowing Uber drivers to operate at the site.

Canterbury slumps to its 10th loss from its past 12 matches, with South Sydney trumping the Bulldogs 28-14 at the Olympic stadium.

Tasmania's first female full-time coroner, Olivia McTaggart, returns to her old school to inspire a new generation of students and reflects on the emotional case of baby Bjay Johnstone's death.

An alternative private school at the centre of a measles scare in Perth's south agrees to have a Health Department clinic on-site to offer vaccinations for measles, mumps and rubella.

A chance encounter with an octopus confronting an army of spider crabs puts a nature photographer in the spotlight.

Carers in the Northern Territory say their views are not being heard during consultations into reforms of a government scheme many rely on financially.

The secret owners of a "Panamanian shelf company" lose a legal bid to stop Victoria's environmental watchdog from clearing the notorious Stawell tyre stockpile, in the state's west.

A beautiful image that unearths the mysteries of embryonic lung development is one of the the winners the Art of Science competition, which focuses on the human body in microscopic detail.

The 23rd round of the NRL season kicks off with the Rabbitohs taking on the Bulldogs at the Olympic stadium. Follow all the action in our live NRL ScoreCentre.

Labor's controversial plan to tax the major banks to the tune of $370 million wins the support of former Liberal MP Duncan McFetridge, but remains unlikely to succeed.

A vial of testosterone and an unlicensed rifle was found by police in the home of murderer Dane Andrew Pilcher during a search two days after the killing of his ex-girlfriend Corinne Henderson, a court is told.

A new report on the Perth Children's Hospital lead saga is to provide little solace for the McGowan Government, with Health Minister Roger Cook conceding it is not "pretty reading".

A tactical response unit using a tear-gas type substance has brought an eight-hour standoff with inmates to an end at Hobart's Risdon Jail. The incident began yesterday when about 40 prisoners refused to return to their cells after lunch. The union, prisoner rights advocates and the opposition say the jail is overcrowded and understaffed but Tasmania's Correction's minister says it's got more to do with a new smoking ban.

Two more men are sentenced over a $1.6 million fraud of the ACT Public Trustee Office - one receiving jail time, another handed a suspended sentence.

As many as 91 cruisegoers have been struck down by a norovirus aboard the Sun Princess cruise ship, the same vessel that experienced back-to-back norovirus outbreaks in February.

Australia's largest energy supply retailer, AGL, plans to build a gas import jetty and pipeline at Crib Point on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula by 2021, in a bid to prevent summer blackouts in the south-eastern states.

A series of severe cold fronts that have swept across the southern half of Western Australia this week bring snowfall to Bluff Knolland the even more unusual sight of quokkas frolicking in the icy whiteness.

Some are decrying the onselling of lands titles data in SA, but the privatisation highlights the value of big data to commercial players.

Bendigo Health's board sacks its chief executive John Mulder.

Canberra woman Gabrielle Woutersz pleads guilty to manslaughter with diminished responsibility over the 2014 killing of her mother Norma Cheryl Woutersz.

Just one woman presented at this year's Diggers and Dealers Mining Forum, highlighting the lack of women in high-profile mining positions.

Four people are arrested in the wake of a mob attack on police at an Alice Springs town camp on Tuesday night that left one officer in hospital.

Lands titles data in SA will be on-sold over the next four decades to a private consortium including an arm of the Macquarie Group at a cost of $1.6 billion, with the Treasurer conceding jobs could be lost.

More than a third of Middle Island's famous penguin population, highlighted in the movie Oddball, is wiped out in a fox attack in south-west Victoria.

Makarrata is much more than just a synonym for treaty. It is a complex Yolngu word describing a process of conflict resolution, peacemaking and justice.

A proposed merger between two of the nation's largest after-school care companies could result in higher fees and lower quality care, the competition watchdog finds.

James Hird accepts an invitation to present the Norm Smith Medal at this year's AFL grand final, a move set to spark debate in light of the Essendon supplements saga.

An outback mayor is unhappy mail between two neighbouring towns now travels almost 3,000 kilometres because of changes Australia Post has made to deliveries in his community.

October, November and February still the likely favourites for the Queensland election but the starting gun could be fired for September, unless the Government is throwing more red herrings.

Detectives from Victoria Police's major collision unit investigate whether the driver who slammed into a car, killing a woman and her teenage daughter, had been in an argument before the incident.

Lands titles data in SA will be on-sold over the next four decades to a private consortium including an arm of the Macquarie Group at a cost of $1.6 billion, with the Treasurer conceding jobs will be lost.

New data that shows housing oversupply in WA is getting worse is good news for renters, but not so great for owners looking to sell.

After witnessing widespread poverty in Malawi on a trip to the Central African country last year, grain farmers Gary and Kerry Butcher returned to Australia determined to do something to help.

The tomato potato psyllid has not been found in Carnarvon, but its presence in WA is causing local growers problems.