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Former Adelaide Crow polls 23 votes to win the SANFL's highest individual honour, four votes ahead of Port Adelaide's Brendon Ah Chee.

Despite playing for the Tigers, who finished 14th out of 16 teams in the NRL this season, full-back James Tedesco is awarded the Rugby League Players Association's award for player of the year.

Australia has the lowest rates of first-aid training in the world, according to the Australian Red Cross, with less than 5 per cent of people training in how to handle an emergency situation.

The Indian sandalwood industry has been plagued by negative stories this year, but there is more to the industry than just Quintis.

A Queensland couple helps the economic revival of the Mary Valley with a chemical-free produce store.

Court proceedings challenging the federal green light for Tassal's Okehampton Bay fish farm are on hold while the applicants await the publishing of the Federal Environment Minister's reasons for approving the project.

The NSW central west towns of Blayney and Oberon are both renowned for being a tad chilly, but which one has the dubious honour of being colder?

Outback kids from drought-stricken towns travel 1,200 kilometres to swim in the ocean, marking for many their first time in the surf.

A Civil War-era rifle, Queensland police gun and World War I pistol are among hundreds of guns surrendered to ACT police.

These Australians did not think twice before putting themselves in danger and saving others from flames, sharks and a hoax collar-bomb.

Dustin Martin's amazing year continues, as the Richmond star wins the AFL Players' Association's Most Valuable Player award.

A man is charged with impeding the investigation into the alleged murder of trucking business owner David Norris, who had links to the Hells Angels.

Imagine discovering asbestos dust all through your house after a simple repair job. When it happened in a share house in Melbourne the tenants had to fight for months to get compensation.

Imagine discovering asbestos dust all through your house after a simple repair job. When it happened in a share house in Melbourne the tenants had to fight for months to get compensation.

A shark that came ashore at Manly Beach on Monday has been released back into the Pacific Ocean.

Li Cunxin says he is petrified to come out of retirement for one night only in Brisbane, for The Nutcracker, the first ballet he performed in the West.

Melbourne drug and alcohol counsellor Anthony Dieni appears in court charged with drug trafficking and other offences including allegedly concealing a woman's drug taking and giving false evidence so she could avoid jail.

Cronulla coach Shane Flanagan is fined $30,000 for comments against NRL referees last weekend, while Manly coach Trent Barrett is also sanctioned by the league.

After complaining for more than six months about a leaking shower tap, Ella Gleeson and Morgan Russell finally had a plumber turn up. But the repair job wound up exposing the tenants to potentially deadly asbestos dust.

A long-awaited Senate report says the Cattle Council of Australia should be disbanded and calls for the Government to revoke its status as the official representative of cattle producers.

Adelaide Zoo's lioness Yizi dies after a medical procedure to determine why she was growing a mane detected a large tumour.

Northern Territory Chief Minister Michael Gunner says he is shocked and upset after a video emerged showing a person outside a tour company spraying a hose towards an Indigenous man sitting on a busy footpath in the centre of Darwin.

Western Australia's 20 million dollar wild dog action plan will be reviewed by the state's agriculture Minister.

A South Australian detective is alleged to have shared sensitive information from the Major Crime squad with two journalists.

Confidential documents from Queensland's Crime and Corruption Commission relating to a Melbourne property developer's appearance at a CCC hearing were found during a raid of Brisbane barrister Sam Di Carlo's house, a court hears.

There is a two-stroke economy in Queensland's property market, with the state's south-east booming while many regional markets struggle, a Real Estate Institute of Queensland report reveals.

Scientists already knew flowers used special colours to attract the right bees, but it turns out they are also combining complex fragrances to create a combined signal.

Hurricane conditions in Georgia force engineers from the Illawarra to cut short a trip to inspect John Travolta's Boeing 707, which he donated to a NSW aircraft museum in May.

Indigenous students accuse the University of New England of failing to stop bullying, racism and intimidation.

Queensland Opera artistic director Lindy Hume is moving to the bush to join a growing regional arts movement she describes as a restless giant.

In an NT first, researchers find that Indigenous adults living in remote communities lack the basic English skills to cope at work or school, and that there are no resources available for those seeking further adult education.

District nurses will replace paramedics on some callouts in Adelaide due to unprecedented demand on hospitals, with record admissions to emergency departments, SA Health says.

The rise of massage parlours illegally offering sexual services is causing a decline in brothel attendance, says Brisbane sex worker "Charley", a mother of two who entered the industry to improve her income and family life.

A father-daughter winemaking team replace their more established vines, including shiraz, with an ancient vine few have heard of.

The buses are air-conditioned and the trains have carpet, so why do Perth residents prefer to stay in their cars?

The Queensland Opposition suggests duplicating a large stretch of the motorway on the Gold Coast, but stops short of promising to build the road if it wins government.

West Australian retailers will be barred from giving shoppers single-use plastic bags from next July, with the state becoming the latest Australian jurisdiction to announce a ban.

A "very happy" group of engineers launches a 3D-printed rocket engine from a rural paddock in Kyneton, Victoria.

Government payments to keep Australia's oldest coal plant running would amount to a carbon subsidy. It's worth looking at the financialand carboncost.

Kasey Chambers is currently on her Dragonfly tour and is looking forward to returning to Wangaratta where she wrote a few songs early in her career.

Autographs collected by a 1950s Sydney teenager are now on the national record.

A man who threw a Molotov cocktail at a teenager, causing his victim horrific burns, is sentenced to three years and seven months in jail for what the sentencing judge described as a "cowardly and downright stupid" crime.

Sydney aquarium staff are preparing to return to the ocean a shark that came ashore at Manly Beach to the surprise of beach-goers

After months of controversy and debate, security fences are now being installed around the grassy slopes of Parliament House, keeping patrons off the iconic and once-traversable roof.

All metropolitan hospitals have again been on the extreme "code white" rating, with ramping occurring across the system. But what does it mean for our health system?

Director Greg McLean (Wolf Creek) joins CJ to discuss his latest, a horror / comedy hybrid called The Belko Experiment, opening September 21.

The often difficult process of getting state or federal government approval to disperse flying fox colonies is in the sights of a NSW mid-north coast council.

Southern Cross University researchers say they have made a breakthrough that could help save the Great Barrier Reef.

The international body which named Perth Lord Mayor Lisa Scaffidi the world's second-best mayor in 2012 now says it would not have even considered her for the title given her breaches of ethics.

Homebrewer creates device that measures how much beer is left in a keg, the temperature and how long it has been away from the brewery.