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A new investigation into living conditions at the Alice Springs Women's Correctional Facility finds overcrowding has led to at-risk women being transferred to the men's prison.

The man who wants to replace Malcolm Turnbull is heading to Perthand like the Prime Minister, he is facing a barrage of questions about how he and his party plan to fix the GST, writes Jacob Kagi.

As Adelaide stirs the pot with some major decisions regarding energy generation, let's take a look through history at some other big decisions that haven't turned out so well for the City of Churches.

After losing her grandfather to black lung, Labor MP Jo-Ann Miller breaks down in Queensland Parliament revealing her father has also been diagnosed with the disease, as new laws are passed.

The mother who paid for an ex-lover's murder; the son who organised the hit; the accomplice who turned against his mates; and the man who wasn't there. The story of Ray Niceforo's murder exposes the inconsistences in the Northern Territory justice system.

Every year thousands of Australians take out gym memberships, but even the best-laid plans to get fit don't often last. Here's why.

The RSL's South Australian branch will not be stripped of its charity status if it meets a list of requirements outlined by the national charities regulator.

What does Singaporean billionaire James Koh and a Hobart bird lover have in common? They both have an interest in a little-known Tasmanian island.

Betty Mullaly has been on workers compensation since a serious workplace injury 10 years ago, but changes made by the NSW Government will make life even more of a struggle.

They are know as olderpreneurs, seniorpreneurs or the more flattering silverpreneurs. Retirees are starting their own businesses to boost their income and pursue their passions.

Would you use a "micro park" no bigger than the size of two double beds? It's on the cards for Garema Place and the ACT Government is willing to spend $35,000 on the portable design.

With Australia's foreign aid budget decreasing, a selection of private companies will earn billions of dollars in picking up the work the Government once did itself.

The region looks to a high-tech export future as help is brought in to address stagnating employment opportunities.

Smugglers are making fake reports of suicides and car accidents to help them illegally smuggle alcohol into Indigenous communities by tying up police resources, north Queensland researchers find.

Australia's defence minister Marise Payne has defended Australia's efforts to step-up engagement with south-east Asia.

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Trump stepped up his attacks on fellow Republicans a day after an incendiary rally.

A report says Queensland bus drivers are routinely exposed to violence and making their jobs more safe could cost $100 million over the next decade.

The first single will drop during the daytime on Friday in Australia

As Samsung launches its new consumer-focused Galaxy Note 8 in New York on Wednesday, the company will be in conversation with Australian aviation about updating any remaining warnings about its previous Note 7 phones.

Mum of teen kicked out for drugs accuses school of putting its reputation ahead of son's wellbeing.

Clinton also reflects on "letting down" the millions of people who were counting on her to win.

Britain's Prince Harry defended the way his father, Prince Charles, cared for him and his brother as they grieved for their mother, Princess Diana, in a documentary previewed by the BBC.

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Pakistan must adopt a "different approach" to ending the 16-year Afghanistan conflict.

"We​ ​will​ ​not​ ​fail -​ ​but​ ​I​ ​will not​ ​be​ ​able​ ​to​ ​say​ ​the​ ​same​ ​about​ ​you".

Wayne Rooney has announced his retirement from the England national team, ending a 14-year stint in which he became the country's top goalscorer with 53 goals.

In a beige concrete office block in Melbourne's inner-city, behind locked doors to which only eight people have access, a scientist sits watching two fighter jets marking a path towards their target - Sydney Harbour.

A fresh offensive in Tall Afar offensive follows a successful but gruelling nine-month campaign to retake Mosul.

Victorian State League teams continue their fairytale run, as Heidelberg took the spoils in Sydney and South Melbourne lit up Lakeside to go through to the FFA quarter-finals, while Melbourne Victory stumbled to a 3-0 defeat at the hands of A-League rivals Adelaide.

The NRL has halved the fine originally dished out to St George Illawarra coach Paul McGregor.

South-east Queensland's glorious Moreton Bay has more coral than the Caribbean, has the most southern populations of dugongs, is easier to access than the Great Barrier Reef and yet most of us take it for granted, a senior marine biologist says.

Test tracks for stage one of Canberra's light rail have been laid.

Victorian Family Violence Prevention Minister Fiona Richardson has died after a battle with cancer.

After decades commuters using inner-city suburban streets as parking lots, a change could be afoot.

When police pulled her car over they found 0.1 grams of methylamphetamine in a plastic bag in her handbag.

Opinion is divided over whether statues of controversial historical figures should be torn down, altered or left alone.

Former Australian of the Year and family violence survivor Rosie Batty has paid tribute to Fiona Richardson, the nation's first minister for the prevention of family violence.

Although President Trump has long been the master of reading the mood of a room and quickly adjusting his message to satisfy as many of his fans as possible, his rage last night seemed to cloud his senses.

In the wake of Prince Frederik's embarrassing knock-back at Jade Buddha, and the long list of overseas celebrities headed for our Commonwealth Games, it's time to bring all our international and interstate visitors up to speed with how things are done in Queensland.

Burying alcohol in holes, distracting police and driving without headlights are just some of the methods used by people smuggling banned alcohol into restricted communities, research has found.

Most of us have better things to do than juggling boxes of receipts.

Fired-up inner south residents have questioned the need to build a waste-to-power plant planned for Canberra's east.

The dual citizenship controversy has been a debacle for our political system.

It is being pitched as the biggest shareholder class action in the country. Commonwealth Bank on one side, and Maurice Blackburn bankrolled by IMF on the other side. Why did CBA's board wait to inform shareholders about the Austrac investigation until the genie was out of the bottle?

The town of Nannup is in limbo with the closure of a historical timber mill, with 30 jobs axed

Western Australia's Police Minister is confounded by the mentality of motorists caught speeding excessively on the same stretch of road where three people were killed in a head-on crash last week.

Do you know a tradie who could do with a health check-up? This is the month to do it.

Stuck for inspiration for a Book Week costume? Check out what the experts - staff at the National Library of Australia - went w\ith.

"I think if people are passionate about buildings like this people should fight, and they should do what they can to stop this sort of thing," Councillor Jonathan Sri said.

After a successful IPO, Canberra renewables firm Windlab began trading on Wednesday.