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After losing most of his crop over the last couple of years, a Central Australian bush tomato farm is expecting a promising harvest this season.

After losing most of his crop over the last couple of years, a Central Australian bush tomato farm is expecting a promising harvest this season.

A former NT chief minister and the doctor who spearheads the euthanasia campaign say if Victoria's law passes it will open the door for the NT to attempt to revive its 20-year-old legislation that was overturned by the federal government.

The Fremantle Dockers have built a strong off-field platform in recent years, but the time is now to convert that success on the field, writes Clint Thomas.

A would-be serial killer, a mum of three with a fetish for BDSM and a vulnerable teenagerthe three lives that collided in suburban Perth with murderous consequences.

Many Australians start their work day by putting on a uniform or name tag, but Weika's begins very differently.

The Queensland Liberal National Party tries to block the release of documents detailing breaches of political donation rulespicked up during recent electoral commission audits.

The Queensland Liberal National Party tries to block the release of documents detailing breaches of political donation rules - picked up during recent electoral commission audits.

The ABC understands a Chinese state-owned enterprise is in negotiations with Adani, and if the deal goes ahead it could see Australia providing big direct and indirect subsidies to a company effectively owned by an Indian billionaire and the Chinese Government.

Three Tongan workers have died and others are being forced to live and work gruelling hours in pitiful conditions on a Federal Government-backed program, a parliamentary inquiry has heard.

A Queensland political analyst says Katter's Australian Party's power in the Parliament will be under pressure this election, after electoral boundary changes force it into new territory.

Meredith Wilson experienced three of life's biggest events in the space of a week and now has the chance to help her daughters know the father they will never meet.

Australia's surviving Kokoda veterans meet in Canberra to remember the campaign to recapture Port Moresby, 75 years on.

Environmental issues, particularly the Adani mine project in central Queensland, top an ABC Facebook poll on what people rate as their most important issues for the state election.

Annette Calder is a third generation 'showie' who has been travelling with her laughing clowns for more than half a century and shows no signs of stopping.

A curfew will be trialled for children under the age of 16 in Townsville, and welfare payments could be frozen for parents whose children are in detention, under a radical LNP plan to curb youth crime in the north Queensland city.

A Hunter Valley Council tells a Senate inquiry that most of its recyclable waste is sold to China, but it feels uneasy telling ratepayers.

Politicians will today debate the fate of ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr in a motion of no confidence in the Legislative Assemblybut what does that actually mean?

Plastic fishing nets, some the size of football fields, are washing up on Australia's northern coastline, slowly killing endangered turtles and creating a "global hotspot" for plastic pollution.

Not far from Sydney Cove is a little-known harbourside parkland called Balls Head, where thousands of years of history are visible in the art of our First Peoples. Curious Sydney delves into the death of an Aboriginal woman whose remains were found at the site in the 1960s.

Three Tongan workers have died and others are being forced to work gruelling hours in pitiful conditions on a Government-backed program, a parliamentary inquiry into modern slavery has heard.

Tasmania's Supreme Court is under strain and the state's prisons are so overcrowded that inmates are double and triple bunked in cells that are too small, according to reports tabled in Parliament.

Eight people from South Australia and Western Australia lose hundreds of thousands of dollars as scammers use hacked information to pose as conveyancers.

A fresh internal investigation is launched into three West Australian police officers who were filmed punching and kicking two people they were arresting.

A woman with a fixation on serial killers and torture methods, and a mother of three with an interest in BDSM murdered 18-year-old Aaron Pajich by fatally stabbing him before burying him under a slab of cement, a court has ruled.

Three bikies are convicted for walking to a car on the side of a Brisbane road, under Queensland's VLAD laws that ban gang members congregating in public. The trio made sure to leave the court separately after sentencing.

With the Pembroke by-election three days away, an E. coli outbreak in Risdon Vale stirs up debate over who is fit to control Tasmania's water supply.

An all-female naval crew from India that is being watched by millions of people around the world reaches Fremantle during an attempt to circumnavigate the globe.

A 29-year-old Collingwood woman is charged with the murder of a 38-year-old man in a stabbing incident at Abbotsford on Monday night.

The government's apology to men convicted of having gay sex in Western Australia before 1990 is a bittersweet moment, but there is hope those who died as criminals will finally get their names cleared.

Sara Chivers was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer in March. Six months later her life took another heartbreaking twist, when her 18-month-old son was diagnosed with a different type of brain cancer.

An Adelaide woman who pretended to have terminal cancer to con a nun, a priest and another woman into giving her more than $180,000 for treatment is sentenced to more than five years in jail.

A 51-year-old teacher is arrested and charged over alleged indecent assaults of young girls at a Sydney school, with shocked parents describing him as a "fantastic" educator.

A former South Sudanese resident hopes he will be a trailblazer for his community after becoming one of South Australia's newest community constables.

A challenger has unexpectedly stepped forward to take Nick Xenophon's South Australian Senate seat, Premier Jay Weatherill tells State Parliament.

A Canberra man who died after police fired a Taser on him to prevent him harming himself is remembered by friends and family as a genuine and much-loved man.

Determined bidders push Brahman bull's auction price to an Australian record of $325,000.

Determined bidders push Brahman bull's auction price to an Australian record.

A man accused of being a member of the "evil 8" paedophile ring says his client's admissions to police about having sex with a 13-year-old girl can't be relied upon because of his distressed state.

Adults should pay only a flat $1 fare for public transport in Queensland and people under the age of 18 should travel free, the Greens say, under their state election transport policy.

A man accused of being a serial killer by a key defence witness in the appeal bid of convicted murderer Susan Neill-Fraser tells the court he intends to sue for defamation.

The mother of Tyrell Cobb left court visibly shaken and remains on bail after pleading guilty to manslaughter over the death of her four-year-old son on the Gold Coast in 2009.

After six months walking across the harsh Australian outback from the west coast to the east coast, former Navy medic Tristan Harris reaches his final destination in NSW.

The ACT Government would kill animals that seriously injure humans as a default response, under legislation tabled by the Canberra Liberals one week after a woman was mauled to death in her home.

Cricket Australia's newest guidelines aim to prevent cases like the oft-injured James Pattinson's by managing the amount of bowling kids as young as 12 are able to do.

Australian Wool Innovation director David Webster has rejected accusations the organisation has a "toxic culture" and insisted there was no need for changes.

What once would have been science fiction is now being used to teach children from remote Aboriginals communities their traditional languages.

Climbing Uluru is set to be a thing of the past after the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park board decided unanimously to ban the activity, starting in 2019.

Victoria's Premier defends a Minister who encouraged people to avoid scammers by "automatically" telling anyone with an Irish accent to leave their property.

Townsville's Mayor says ratepayers will get value for money when the council funds an airstrip for the proposed Adani coal mine. But the decision has come under fire from locals, who say the company could "afford at least two dozen of them and then gold plate them".