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Richmond players and fans put on a raucous show celebrating the Tigers' first flag in 37 years but it was premiership star Jack Riewoldt crashing The Killers' post-game set for a rendition of Mr Brightside that took the cake in revelling.

A Canberra man opens up about his guilt over a crash that left him and his wife with broken backs, skulls and necksand shares how the "miracle" of his two-year-old daughter escaping unharmed kept him going.

If you go to a synagogue, you'll probably find a rabbi or a cantor, but what about a priestess? Keshira haLev Fife is rewriting the role of women in the Jewish faith.

Forensic science is being used in a fresh examination of reported Aboriginal massacre sites in WA's north, in an effort to prove alleged atrocities from almost 100 years ago.

French violist Antoine Tamestit says the responsibility of travelling with a world-famous 345-year-old viola is similar to "taking care of a small child" that never leaves his side.

Here are some places you can take your dogs, and the human children, hiking or camping these school holidays in Tasmania.

Meet the people making a concerted effort to work out which way you are voting, and urging you to return your same-sex marriage postal surveys.

Anyone can lose their job. So if it happens to you, what do you do? The ABC speaks to three people who are being forced to figure that out.

A mother has been arrested after she left a gun on her bedroom shelf and her four young children to fend for themselves, and jetted off for an 11-day vacation in Europe.

Donald Trump lashed out at the mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, who has been critical of the federal response to the devastation on the island, saying on Saturday that she was showing 'poor leadership'.

Jack Riewoldt joined The Killers on stage after the Tigers' epic grand final win against the Crows.

Kara Crawley wanted to become a doctor like her mother to help others.

Three victims of the so-called "playboy rapist" Simon Monteiro have broken their silence to issue a warning.

Los Angeles: OJ Simpson could be freed as early as Sunday from a prison in Nevada, where he has been held since 2008 for a botched robbery, but the time and place of his release remain secret, his plans largely unknown.

Socceroos midfielder Aaron Mooy's Huddersfield have been given a Premier League wake-up call.

There are Spoonbills and Manchesters, cigarettes you have never heard of, and loose-leaf from the Victorian Riverina for the first time in a decade.

Former All Blacks coach Laurie Mains doubts whether Sonny Bill Williams will ever return to his best.

Queensland's first premier, Robert Herbert, shared a house named "Herston", a blend of his surname with that of his friend, barrister John Bramston.

Canberra firefighters put out a house fire in north-west Belconnen on Saturday night.

The Crime and Corruption Commission investigations have allegedly uncovered ice distribution via rental vehicles and mail.

Richmond becomes a giant party as Tigers fans mark the end of their team's 37-year premiership drought, in a dominant victory many supporters feared they would never witness.

Six Egyptian men arrested for "promoting sexual deviancy" and "debauchery" on social media will be subjected to anal examinations ahead of their October 1 trial, Amnesty International said on Saturday.

Richmond are premiers. No, you are not crazy, nor is this an April Fool's joke six months late. This really happened.

Damien Hardwick had a gatecrasher towards the end of his AFL grand final media conference. The door to the room burst open and a familiar voice shouted "could you hurry up, lad?"

Swan Street in Richmond's heartland is hosting a massive street party for grand final celebrations.

Macklemore has indicated he will donate his portion of Australian proceeds from his song 'Same Love' to the Yes vote campaign.

It was only fitting that this most remarkable and unexpected of AFL seasons finished with a remarkable and unexpected grand final.

Lewis Hamilton has snatched pole position for the Malaysian grand prix by the narrowest of margins.

The Melbourne halfback was linked with another club on the eve of Sunday's grand final against North Queensland.

These are worrying times around the corridors of Australia's gossip magazine offices, once a far off land of florid prose and questionable journalism where fantasy and reality collided on a weekly basis in a cacophony of salacious headlines and front covers, from Princess Diana's marital woes to Bec and Lleyton's Hewitt's endless baby bonanzas.

The dead tell no tales says the adage, but in the twilight world of property hustler Henry Kaye, they do run companies.

Richmond's Dustin Martin has capped perhaps the greatest individual season in AFL history by claiming the Norm Smith Medal in the grand final victory over Adelaide.

Robert Walls rates the grand final players. Richmond's Trent Cotchin and Dustin Martin both got nines, just for starters.

Provided the man who appears to be Ben Stokes in the released video is indeed he, he deserves to be suspended for at least three months.

Richmond coach Damien Hardwick said he was 'stunned' by the Tigers' "surreal" premiership but declared there was no guarantee his team would even return to the finals next year.

With the one-day international series already lost, Australia can find inspiration from the most unlikely source: Indian skipper Virat Kohli.

It took 37 years. It took the blink of an eye.

Having steered his team to a second grand final appearance in three years, Paul Green has cemented his place as an elite coach.

Here's something all you climate change deniers should look into.

A massive 20-minute fireworks display set to hit songs of the past two decades caps off the annual Brisbane Riverfire, seen by an estimated crowd of more than 500,000 people around the city. See the best photos from the day here.

Men are allowed to cry, and the Adelaide Crows didn't waste a moment. What else do you do when you lose the grand final by eight goals when many thought it was there for their taking?

It was supposed to be Adelaide's third-ever flag, a cap on a brilliant finals seriesbut it all went wrong from the second quarter onwards.

Richmond premiership player Josh Caddy has described himself as "the luckiest bloke in the world" after helping guide the Tigers to their drought-breaking premiership against Adelaide on Saturday.

Lightning struck twice in the same place, and even more incandescently than last year.

When Toby Nankervis left Sydney last year, winning a premiership was not on his mind. The Tasmanian big man had been craving opportunities at senior level but they were scarce at the Swans.

Richmond broke a 37-year premiership drought by trouncing the Adelaide Crows by 48 points at the MCG. Relive all the magic yellow and black moments.

The marine watchdog is using the tool to protect the Great Barrier Reef.

There are the issues of God, climate change, and a Richmond premiership. In relation to all three, both fervent believers and vehement sceptics exist.

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop is attending her fourth AFL grand final in as many years at the taxpayers expense after being the star attraction at two Liberal party fundraisers since she arrived in Melbourne on Thursday.

Trent Cotchin says his initial feeling as he became a Richmond premiership captain was "emptiness", but pride soon took over as the siren sounded on the grand final.