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The traditional owners of Uluru are today expected to make an announcement on whether or not they will close it to climbing permanently, as interest from visitors wanting to ascend the sacred site wanes.

A man who was tasered by police in Melbourne's CBD after he allegedly used his car to ram into theirs is charged with conduct endangering life.

Queensland Energy Minister Mark Bailey denies keeping a report hidden because it outlines the benefits of a new coal-fired power station in north Queensland, saying he only learned of the report yesterday.

The Kimberley's Yougawalla Pastoral Company is sold to Hong Kong billionaire Hui Wing Mau.

A celebrity game of touch rugby leaves men's 400m world and Olympic champion Wayde van Niekerk out of the Commonwealth Games with a knee injury.

Sam O'Donnell, 27, overdosed after waiting for weeks to get into rehab. His mother welcomes Victoria's safe injecting room plan, saying it would have saved her son's life.

Violent assaults and death threats are just some types of abuse Canberra parking inspectors reportedly suffer at work, showing they cop far more than the snide remarks expected to come with their job.

A man who allegedly rammed a police car in Melbourne's Bourke Street before being tasered by officers is charged with conduct endangering life.

'Stuck on a satay stick': Locals have soft spot for Ballina's big tourist attraction.

Minor parties are once again set to be in a powerful position if, as polls suggest, Labor and the LNP fail to win a majority in the Queensland election.

Vampires, ninjas and ghosts run amok on the streets of Melbourne as thousands turned out to celebrate Halloween, with naysayers told it's all a bit of harmless fun.

After being diagnosed with kidney cancer and undergoing surgery, basketball coach Chris Lucas returns to help lead last year's wooden spooners, Adelaide, to a 5-1 record so far this season.

Queensland's leaders accuse each other of having "secret plans'one to clip a campaign's wings, the other to sell assets.

Much domestic violence remains hidden behind a veil of shame, but Dixie Link-Gordon is determined to break the cycle.

Australia has it tough in the world of eSports. But with some signature Aussie grit, Blank Esports has taken Australia to the Overwatch World Cup finals. And they're not done yet.

Honoured today by the Australian Geographic Society, a Wollongong-born adventurer has climbed Mount Everest, kayaked oceans and walked across Australia unassisted.

Meet three of Australia's most exceptional adventurers and conservationists, who have done everything from battle three-storey waves, to changing the way people treat this planet.

Loretta Gabriel, who lost her son to a heroin overdose, says people opposed to injection rooms did not understand how the facilities could help the community.

The difference in standard between the NRL and the Super League? Sean O'Loughlin reckons it isn't as big as you might think.

Bizarrely, Labor is not salivating at the likely demise of Liberal senator, Stephen Parry - no less than President of the Senate.

Julie Bishop's first utterance as acting Prime Minister originated in her own portfolio, but was anything but safe.

Sydney pianist Emma Stephenson has won the 2017 Freedman Jazz Fellowship thanks to her striking flare for composing.

A 60th birthday is often seen as one of those events that it is better to quietly skate over, perhaps with only a small celebration involving close friends or a partner.
But in the case of Elena Kats-Chernin, one of Australia's most eminent composers, that particular milestone was never going to be allowed to slip by unnoticed.

The world must do more to curb climate change, with Australia among those singled out by the UN to do more.

A former Mater Hospital anaesthetist faced court last week after allegedly taking fentanyl from operating trollies and replacing it with saline solution.

A seven-month old Tasmanian devil named Hurricane has made an unlikely friend while being hand-raised by zookeeper Elyshia Wignell.

The Trump adventure has moved a step closer from being shockingly unconventional to being criminal. 

A car has mounted the footpath outside a McDonald's outlet in Melbourne's CBD.

Residents in Richardson are warned to stay away following a gas leak on the corner of Ashley Drive and Johnson Drive.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull recalled on Tuesday the words of trooper Ion Idriess, who rode in Australia's great cavalry charge at Beersheba, 100 years ago.

An custom-built three-bedroom apartment overlooking the Brisbane River in Kangaroo point has sold for $1.2 million, well above the vendor's expectations.

A man who demolished a circa-1870s weatherboard house near the Bendigo hospital in violation of a council heritage overlay has been convicted and fined $20,000 plus court costs.

The ugly and potentially violent standoff marks another dark episode in the history of Australia's offshore processing regime.

Two tiny homes will go under the hammer in Melbourne this month — the first auction of its kind.

You don't expect to hear the local football club's theme song in October, let alone at Costa Hall – Deakin University's concert hall on the waterfront.

Health insurance premiums have been going up by about 5 per cent each year. Funds are now under pressure to limit it to 2 per cent.

Private Walter Turner was only 19 when he was ordered to charge towards Turkish forces.

A Canberra man has died after police use stun gun in Waramanga.

One Melbourne school has resorted to an unlikely stress buster ahead of VCE exams – a golden labrador called Sonny.

Gould's Book Arcade, for 50 years the last word for Sydney's discerning left-wing readers, has been priced out of gentrifying King Street, its future uncertain.

The Northern Territory's meningococcal vaccination program will be expanded to cover all children from four strains of the disease, the Government announces.

The Western Bulldogs have every right to bleat about losing the coveted Good Friday fixture, but an assessment of the 2018 draw gives fans of the red, white and blue every reason to smile.

Carlton were one of the worst teams this year again and yet the AFL has promoted them into more prime time slots.

Without wanting to state the obvious, it's about to get hot in Queensland.

The Bureau said 12.3 million survey responses had been received as of last week, as the window closes for voters to post their forms.

US prosecutors filed an easy-to-prove criminal case against Paul Manafort, leaving him with a stark choice: cooperate or fight the charges and, if he loses, face years in prison.

Socceroos captain Mile Jedinak will make his long-awaited return for the national team after being named in the final 23-man squad to play Honduras next week.

The estranged husband of a NSW woman murdered in Kenya and his cousin have been released in Nairobi without charge a week after their arrest.

Even today, the size of the glass plate photographic negatives produced by 19th-century gold miner Bernhardt Otto Holtermann in 1875 to capture the beauty of Sydney Harbour defy belief.

A Perth court hears harrowing testimony from a 13-year-old girl, who says her father stayed in the room while she was sexually abused by strangers because he was making sure she was "OK" and "calming her down."