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Wildlife officers will set traps for a crocodile thought to have taken 79-year-old Anne Cameron in the far north Queensland town of Port Douglas.

Senior executives of corporations could be charged with industrial manslaughter if someone dies at their workplace under new laws the Queensland Government says will ensure that no-one is above the law.

Sebastian Kennett, 20, is arrested and charged over a hit-and-run that killed Melbourne cardiac nurse Lynda Hansen, who died after her car was slammed into on Monday.

It is believed to be one of only five in the world, has been valued at $100,000 and is kept under lock-and-key in a secret locationmeet the Queensland Museum's newly acquired meteorite.

Supermarket demands for unblemished fruit leads to a high level of waste in the tomato industry, researchers say.

A mother and child are recovering in hospital after spending 10 days lost in bushland in the NSW Hunter Valley.

In an era of travel and transient lifestyles, it is hard to imagine what it would be like to have a slice of land to call yours for more than a century, but for the Whitehead family, 103 years is just the beginning.

The legacy of the Maralinga atomic bomb tests continues to resonate on the APY Lands, where locals have turned to art to express their feelings.

"But you look so good and so healthy," people say. I don't look like the stereotype of a cancer patient, but there's no cure, writes Elaine George.

Victoria Police confirm they have charged a 20-year-old man following a fatal hit-and-run that killed a Melbourne nurse.

Fire destroys the Pialligo Estate restaurant building in Canberra less than 18 months after a separate blaze destroyed the venue's award-winning smokehouse.

Liberal Pembroke by-election candidate James Walker distances himself from two controversial Facebook posts his party wrote in support of his campaign.

Sebastian Kennett, the man wanted by police in connection to a hit-and-run that killed a Melbourne nurse, is arrested after a three-day search.

Federal Opposition Leader Bill Shorten is set to confirm a Labor government would help fund the proposed train line to Ellenbrook during a visit to Perth tomorrow.

Police raid seven massage parlours on the Gold Coast that were allegedly operating as fronts for illegal prostitution, with detectives also examining potential links to organised crime.

A teenage boy helped his mother and her "freaky" housemate lay tiles in the backyard of their "creepy and weird" house where the women are alleged to have murdered Aaron Pajich, a Perth court hears.

A swarm of bees descends on one of Perth's main city streets, with one beekeeper estimating it was more than 20,000 strong.

Police in Western Australia appeal to the public to find a criminal who "knows what they're doing with a knife" after 10 lambs are shot and butchered on a farmer's property over the course of a month.

"I will fear you but respect you, I see you as my dominant"just one of the messages allegedly exchanged on social media between two women on trial for the murder of autistic Perth teenager Aaron Pajich.

A truck driver says he gave 17-year-old hitchhiker Hayley Dodd a lift to the WA town of Badgingarra on the day she went missing, telling the Supreme Court she seemed a "very bubbly" and "happy" girl.

A much-loved pony is fatally shot by arrows in a paddock in Darwin, the latest in a string of animal cruelty attacks in the area.

The Northern Territory's police union is accusing the jurisdiction's government of "playing politics" with pay negotiations and drawing out the process.

After opening up an early lead in the 3,000 kilometre World Solar Challenge race from Darwin to Adelaide, Dutch solar team Nuon powers home to complete another win.

A parliamentary committee says it's "confounded" that the case of a couple who were unlawfully detained and tasered by police in Fremantle has not been investigated by the Corruption and Crime Commission.

The AFL's governing body in the Northern Territory will appeal against a tribunal's decision to find Aisake O'hAilpin not guilty of a serious misconduct charge that would have killed off his semi-professional career.

A world-first medicinal cannabis research centre will help users like Ben Oakley who have to resort to the black market to find relief.

As the banana industry battles its biggest biosecurity threat, now even the electricity meter reader will not go past the farm gate.

There's a popular perception that investing in bricks and mortar is a one-way bet, but that hasn't been the case for many Australian home ownersjust look at Brisbane.

Handmade wooden hot rods, semi-trailers and helicopters are weaving their way across the world to Angola, thanks to a passionate Men's Shed members and keen nursing home residents.

Rewind to the days of film, typewriters and overflowing ashtrays in this clip from the ABC archive.

A man who used a hunting knife to kill his ex-partner's date in a Sydney restaurant is sentenced to at least 30 years' jail, in an attack described in court as "extreme domestic violence".

Said to be the fastest ship of its kind, a custom-built conservation vessel moors in Darwin after a campaign to save sharks in East Timor.

A sergeant with the WA Police Force is charged with child sex offences after allegedly sending a boy "inappropriate images of a sexual nature" and encouraging him to perform an indecent act.

The Royal Launceston Show has a rich heritage of romance and tradition but organisers fear the 144-year-old event is in its dying days.

Veterinarians are in need greater mental health support to curb suicide rate statistics.

NSW Police targeted a group of homosexual police officers in an internal drug investigation because they frequented well-known gay bars and were "notoriously promiscuous", court documents reveal.

Lawyers for a former Canberra Marist Brother accused of sex offences against several students ask for a permanent stay of proceedings, arguing their client's cognitive decline means he is too unwell to participate in court.

Peter and Sayuri Innes have brought more than sushi to Phillip Islandtheir son Youki is a much-loved town identity.

The AFL's peak body in New South Wales steps in after a complaint female players at a regional club were pressured to run around in their underwear during post-season celebrations.

Farmers and processors are increasing production to meet the Christmas ham demand.

The union representing South Australian naval shipbuilders says jobs in the industry are sill drying up, despite Defence Industries Minister Christopher Pyne's claim.

Looking confused, Clive Palmer's Bulgarian-born brother-in-law arrives 10 minutes late and wheels in three boxes full of documents to the Federal Court as part of the examination into Queensland's Nickel's collapse.

Residents in regional areas are being urged to prepare themselves mentally for bushfire season, as well as physically and materially.

Northern Territory mangoes are sent direct from Darwin to Singapore by air this week for the first time in around a decade.

"This is Mike Hayes reporting for ABC News in the wreckage of what was once a bloody great place to live."

The former Moreland councillor who moved a controversial motion to abandon Australia Day celebrations has been appointed the new leader of the Victorian Greens.

After blocking the Government's proposal to raise gold royalties, leaving a $400 million hole in the budget, the Opposition tells Labor to scrap its public transport plan.

The New South Wales woman and her partner will both spend three decades behind bars for torturing and killing the boy in a case so horrific it led traumatised police officers to quit the force.

It's being called toxic, vitriolic and insulting. A group of "obsessed" residents in Denmark have been attacking council candidates and each other onlinewith concerns the trolling could deter voters.

With One Nation hatching a plan to place all sitting Queensland MPs last on the party's how-to-vote cards, state political reporter Chris O'Brien explains why the major parties are taking it so seriously.