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Former Queensland Labor MP Wayne Wendt is expected to be appointed Ipswich's new deputy mayor today, as council moves to tighten rules over conflicts of interest and procurement.

In a new exchange program, two nurses who have only ever worked in country hospitals move into Logan's emergency department, while a husband-and-wife team leave the city for the bush.

If you live in Canberra and leave your body to science, Hannah Lewis could well be the person who looks after you in the lab after you die.

A children's birthday party organiser stands by her decision to sack an entertainer who edited her own Facebook profile to read "it's OK to vote no" in the same-sex marriage postal survey, saying the woman could have been assigned to work with gay parents.

Behind closed doors, political forces are getting ready for a vital by-election in Barnaby Joyce's seat of New England that is currently purely hypothetical.

A "massive challenge" awaits South Australia's new Health Minister, according to peak doctor's group the AMA, as the health system struggles with overcrowding.

There is more to bike share schemes like oBike than first meets the eye. As they grow in global popularity, the economic models behind them become increasingly diversified.

It is the Red Centre destination that has featured in many a movie and TV show, and now Ooraminna Station Homestead is in new hands.

Hinchinbrook Shire dramatically reduces the damage caused by feral pigs, through a concerted effort by landholders and the council.

Three former presidents of the Australian Medical Association Victoria issue a plea to the state's Parliament, calling on members to reject legislation that would legalise euthanasia.

Jessica Mauboy will perform and the Chief Minister will deliver one of five eulogies for the humble man praised for bringing songs sung in Indigenous languages to global recognition.

Australian health experts say the Federal Government must do more to protect children and adults from obesity.

In the hourly contest between cyclists and cars on our roads it's not just civility that can go out the window, it's the knowledge that when metal meets flesh and bone there can be only one outcome.

Senior Labor Government figures in Queensland are pushing for a state-wide ban on developer donations over concerns council decisions are being improperly influenced.

Concerns cruise ships using the Gold Coast's proposed $450 million oceanside terminal could "be pushed to shore" by strong winds and waves is one of the warnings about the development that is blacked out in a publicly released report.

Behind closed doors, political forces are getting ready for a vital by-election in Barnaby Joyce's seat of New England that is currently purely hypothetical.

Aboriginal elders in the Northern Territory who regularly visit prisoners believe many are not ready to reintegrate into community life upon their release.

Pauline and Hilton Carrigan's son took his own life at just 24. They've set up a foundation called Where There's A Will that aims to save young lives through education and they've convinced the whole Upper Hunter region to get onboard.

If the Government's higher education package passes the Senate, it'll saddle students with greater debt and could make universities even more reliant on international students.

A fire near backburning operations in Darwin destroys a property housing up to 150 cars and several boats.

A fleecy fugitive from a bluegum plantation in WA's south finally meets its match in the shearing shed, losing its 18-kilogram coat.

The builder of the problem-plagued Perth Children's Hospital will be forced to pay tens of millions of dollars to the WA Government as a result of project delays, the state's top legal adviser says.

An estimated 2,000 residents and mine workers have hit the streets of Kalgoorlie to protest against the Government's planned increase to the gold royalty.

A psychiatric patient has been waiting in the Royal Hobart Hospital's emergency department for a bed in the mental health ward for six days, according to unions, but the Government says the person was attended to "in a private cubicle".

Police charge a 25-year-old man with the murder of a 50-year-old woman who was found with stab wounds inside a home on Sydney's affluent northern beaches.

A 17-year-old Canberra boy is jailed for nine months for playing a key role in a scam that targeted users of gay dating site Grindr, and led to a man taking his own life.

An endangered North Queensland flying possum is getting a stepping stone to recovery under a program to help with its habitat pathways.

Port Adelaide coach Ken Hinkley denies reports he has reached a deal with the club but insists he will remain with the Power at least until the end of 2018.

Will Carrigan was a "fun-loving larrikin" who "loved his sport and loved all his mates". His parents never saw his suicide at age 24 coming. Now, they are on a mission to improve children's mental health through education.

Cronulla coach Shane Flanagan apologises for his costly outburst against NRL match officials following the Sharks' exit from the finals.

In another twist in the 42-year-old unsolved murder case, a former prison guard tells a coronial inquest how ex-police officer James Boland confessed to killing Perth brothel madam Shirley Finn.

The closure of a pathology laboratory at Alice Springs Hospital after health authorities detected asbestos there has led to renewed calls for better government policy around the potentially deadly building material.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has inspected the latest upgrades to the Pacific Highway on the Mid North Coast and said the Government wanted to drive down the road toll to zero.

A 41-year-old man who was extradited from Western Australia to the Northern Territory is charged over an alleged rape that occurred more than 20 years ago.

Pilbara-wide full-strength beer ban proposal met with caution by WA Government.

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The Turnbull government must take responsibility and invest more in frontline mental health services due to the same-sex marriage postal survey, says Bill Shorten.

​Cronulla coach Shane Flanagan has issued an apology for his criticism of match officials after the Sharks' exit from the NRL finals.

Ken Hinkley has received a three-year contract extension at Port Adelaide, ending speculation that he will join the Gold Coast Suns as coach.

Strong appetite for the banks on Monday bolstered the ASX with investors taking their lead from a record-breaking Friday night on Wall Street.

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'It's completely unnecessary, expensive and it will not do anything that our teachers aren't already doing'.

An eight-year-old girl has died from the flu in Melbourne.

As power companies and the Federal Government try to find solutions to high power prices three people try to find their own solutions.

A successful exhibition of artwork by photographer David LaChapelle has put Ballarat on the cultural map.

US President Donald Trump has mocked the leader of nuclear-armed North Korea as "Rocket Man".

Asian sharemarkets are proving to be the unexpected winner in what many expect to be the final days of easy money.

Political donations and spending are to be capped in Victoria and taxpayers asked to pick up the bill.

A man who had sex with a 14-year-old co-worker when he was 21 is berated by a Canberra judge for claiming there was a "degree of unfairness in the charges" he faced because the intercourse had been consensual.

Kane Linnett's milestone jersey for the Cowboys has just about been ripped to shreds, yet he has somehow lived to have another crack at his old club the Roosters in North Queensland's unlikely grand final push.