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An Alice Springs quandong grower says yields are significantly down this year, thanks to the high number of grasshoppers in summer.

It is hoped a new program employing wild dog controllers over a large area of the NSW Upper Hunter will provide some relief for producers and inspiration for people in other areas.

Donna Gates has received tens of thousands of dollars in donations from developers and property industry firms, and declared nearly 30 potential conflicts of interest since March 2016. Each time she's voted in favour of the applications.

In the midst of thick machine gun fire, Private Patrick 'Paddy' Bugden carried five wounded soldiers to safety and rescued a corporal by killing his captors with a bayonet.

Two brothers of Sydney nightclub figure John Ibrahim are expected to face a Sydney court, having been extradited from Dubai to Australia over their alleged involvement in an international drug and tobacco importation syndicate.

Sales of nitrate-free bacon are on the rise, but is there a health benefit to buying the more expensive processed meat?

The number of ice addicts seeking treatment across Brisbane has increased dramatically, leaving the Salvation Army's local rehab centre with a months-long waiting list.

The Top End mango season is one for the record books, according to a packing shed manager in Darwin's rural area.

Australian actress Kiruna Stamell has dwarfism. But she refuses to be typecast, instead using her career as a chance to encourage more meaningful roles for short-statured actors.

Opponents of same-sex marriage, including Senator Cory Bernardi and a Federal Government Minister, officially launch the No campaign in Sydney, saying they're on the "right side of legal and moral history".

The Matildas want another win over Brazil to send a message to the football world they mean business at the next World Cup.

Former prime minister Tony Abbott's sister Christine Forster accuses same-sex marriage opponents of fearmongering, as a string of high-profile Yes campaigners stage rallies across the country to urge supporters to remember to return their survey forms.

Hundreds of opposing protesters are kept apart in central Melbourne as police test new powers to prevent violence by masked offenders.

An orange-green light streaks across the sky over a wide region in Central Australia, sending some scrambling for cameras and leaving others awestruck.

Working on their school's oyster farm gives Tasmanian students valuable real-life work skills and opens their eyes to one of the state's growing industries.

A bushfire is no longer threatening lives and homes in the remote West Australian Kimberley community of Egret.

SA Health Minister Jack Snelling quits Cabinet less than two weeks after the new Royal Adelaide Hospital is opened and will resign as a MP at the March election.

The body of 88-year-old hiker Leslie Southwell is found outside a tent in the Mount Bogong area in Victoria's Alps after he was separated from his friends three days ago.

Opponents of same-sex marriage, including Senator Cory Bernardi and a Federal Government Minister, officially launch the No campaign in Sydney, saying they're on the "right side of legal and moral history".

A bushfire is threatening lives and homes in Egret, a remote community in Western Australia's Kimberley.

When a Western Australian man dragged a hollow log on to the roof of his farmhouse and strapped it to the chimney with old fencing wire, he hoped endangered cockatoos would come home to roost.

SA Health Minister Jack Snelling is quitting Cabinet less than two weeks after the new Royal Adelaide Hospital is opened and will resign as an MP at the March election.

A flotilla of watercraft takes to the waters of Tasmania's east coast to protest against salmon giant Tassal's expansion into Okehampton Bay.

The Socceroos will go into their two-match World-Cup playoff against Syria next month as overwhelming favourites, but for the underdogs, just getting this close to Russia 2018 is a major achievement.

A boom in the value of black jewfish swim bladders, which are prized as a delicacy and aphrodisiac in Asia, has Top End fishing authorities worried the soaring prices could fuel a black market.

Tourism operators at Tasmania's Mount Field National Park welcome further government spending, saying the park's facilities have been somewhat neglected.

The body of a man, believed to be missing hiker Leslie Southwell, is found in the Mount Bogong area in Victoria's Alps, police say.

Advocates push for permanent adoptive homes for Canberra's foster children, who often find themselves bouncing from carer to carer.

The body of a man, believed to be missing hiker Leslie Southwell, has been found in the Mt Bogong area in Victoria's Alps, police say.

By day, Robert Titterton reads through pages and pages of contracts as a lawyer, but in his spare time has the "terrifying job" of turning pages of music for pianists.

Tourism operators and environmentalists say the Federal Government's new draft plan for marine parks almost halves the protections from commercial fishing set five years ago.

Organisers of the City-Bay Fun Run are re-evaluating the event's future, following a significant drop in numbers and increased competition from similar events.

Labor pledges $3 million for greater protection and management of a conservation area in Tasmania's north-west, but the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre is critical of the party for not making its position clear on controversial four-wheel drive tracks.

Greens senator Janet Rice and her wife, scientist Penny Whetton, made the decision that they still love each other and are going to stick together, keeping their legal marriage in Australia going for more than 30 years.

The crowd at the Eels v Cowboys semi-final dwarfed the one that turned out just down the road to see GWS win its AFL semi-final against the Eagles.

After almost 10 years of empty promises and political handballing over the Ellenbrook rail line, local residents must surely be the least trusting of politicians in Western Australia.

By day, Robert Titterman reads through pages and pages of contracts as a lawyer, but in his spare time he turns pages of music for the pianists of the Omega Ensemble.