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A Melbourne team is ranked number one in the world, but will roller derby continue to attract talent with the rise of women's AFL?

A free monthly vet service is introduced into the small Cape York town of Coen in a bid reduce the number of wild dogs roaming the streets.

Undeterred by controversy over bikes cluttering public spaces, the world's biggest bike sharing company will put hundreds of yellow bikes on Sydney streets.

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Thor: Ragnarok stands or falls depending on how you respond to director Taika Waititi's relentlessly daggy sense of humour

The widow of Sergeant La David Johnson said she had "nothing to say" to President Donald Trump, whose condolence call pulled the grieving widow into the centre of a national controversy.

Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is joining the long line of sceptics saying bitcoin is a bubble as the digital currency continues to set record highs.

A test to determine the future risk of breast cancer could be available to women within five years, a Queensland researcher says, after a breakthrough identified more than 70 gene markers pointing to a higher chance of the disease.

A survey by brokerage Bernstein showed that demand for the device will be substantial, but not exceptional, with about a quarter of the respondents planning to buy the phone.

Who’s to blame for the omnishambles of the NBN? Pretty much everyone. But mostly, successive governments composed of morons, villains and butt-ass incompetents with humpty-dumpty hands and no more sense than a chocolate tea pot.

The Senate has passed only $24 billion of the government's $50 billion program of company tax cuts.

In the midst of a brutal campaign, it is tempting to wonder: where are the better angels of our nature? They're with Magda Szubanski, writes Neil McMahon.

A failed entrepreneur under investigation for more than $1 million in irregular transactions has been employed by a Brisbane IT company specialising in online banking. Within three hours of the ABC contacting the company, Jonathan William Parker was no longer an employee.

A Perth woman accused of stabbing 18-year-old Aaron Pajich to death has explained the discovery by police of personal notes and pictures depicting torture as research for books she was writing.

A mystery that has troubled Belgium for over 30 years may be solved after a deathbed confession by a former policeman that he was one of the "Crazy Brabant Killers".

The Bundaberg region features regularly in tornado stories and the Bureau of Meteorology says Australia's vast coastline experiences many more of them than people realise.

Canberra baseballer Mitch Edwards is weighing up scholarship offers following a tour of the USA.

How do you deal with breast cancer when all the things you want, including a big family, are still in front of you? One woman is determined to find out.

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Rio Tintowill cover the legal costs of its former CEO and CFO after US authorities charged them with fraud, sources said.

Doszpot says ill health has forced his resignation but he still has work to do.

The Hobart City Council formally joins the push to change the date of Australia Day and will back aldermen who want to take part in the annual Invasion Day march.

As North Korea's nuclear capability grows, the world is hostage to the duelling vanities of two leaders. There is an Australian alternative.

Wool leaders face a Senate Estimates grilling amid allegations of a "toxic" corporate culture.

Protecting the National Broadband Network from private sector competition would be a "disastrous" move that would inflict higher internet costs on households, according to Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairman Rod Sims.

Recently we told the story of social cyclist Calvin Treacy, who was seriously injured after colliding with a car. His harrowing recollection of the moment of impact brought back many other cyclists' memories of their own brush with death on the open road.

Sydney's workforce is dominated by professionals and managers.

Our love of social media and pursuit of personal happiness may have unexpected implications leading us away from our "biological destiny", says leading psychologist and social researcher Hugh Mackay.

He said there was nothing untoward in his correspondence with the Institute of Public Affairs.

Instagram filters and cosmetic surgery has meant that it's become rare to see skin as it's meant to look.

Solomon Lew is set to use his 10.8 per cent stake in Myer to not only vote against against the appointment of three Myer directors but also the pay package for chief executive Richard Umbers.

So popular is Melbourne with the rest of Australia that the locals are moving out to regional Victoria

Speaking at a press conference, Zeman held up a mock assault rifle with an inscription that can be translated as "Toward journalists" or "At journalists."

Sydney is running a ''population deficit'' with the rest of the country, new census figures show.

An extra 57 full train loads of Melburnians are catching the train to work than there were five years ago, new Census data reveals.

Catalan separatists are mobilising a human shield to block efforts by the Spanish authorities to take control of the breakaway region as both sides prepare to escalate the political conflict.

Aboriginal leaders calling for a referendum urge the Federal Government to put constitutional reform back on the agenda or risk it being "forever sidelined".

Former Fox News star television host Megyn Kelly waded back into territory she vowed to leave behind on Tuesday, saying on her new NBC morning program that she complained about Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly while she was an anchor at the conservative US station but was ignored.

An assailant stabbed a senior editor at Russia's Echo of Moscow radio station on Tuesday in a brazen break-in and attack at one of Russia's most prominent and politically outspoken talk stations.

Aboriginal leaders calling for a referendum urge the Federal Government to put constitutional reform back on the agenda or risk it being "forever sidelined".

​The online platform is launching a curated fashion marketplace ahead of Amazon's arrival.

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says US President Donald Trump has changed the game with North Korea. It does indeed seem that his wild man approach to diplomacy – contradictory, aggressive, manipulative – has at least altered China's thinking a little.

An image and health-obsessed Australia has provided a jobs boon for fitness instructors and beauty therapists.

A crackdown on polluting industries in northern China for an unprecedented five months over winter is not a one-off and is set to hit Australian iron ore and coal exports.

This year, more than 58,500 students - or 75 per cent of the year 12 cohort - are enrolled in at least one maths course.

Daniel Handler - aka Lemony Snicket - says his publishers were hesitant to brand his new novel as young-adult fiction because of the risky content it explored.

Edward Purcell told the court he arrived at the hotel with friends, and began chatting to Warren Ryan about Donald Trump.

The last time Jarryd Hayne played for Fiji at a Rugby League World Cup he resurrected his career.

Brisbane City Council has finalised the resumption of the final 10 of the 49 properties required for a $115 road-widening project

Brit Gary Corcoran says he'll be returning to London with the WBO welterweight belt later this year. And he'll keep it in his caravan.