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In scenes reminiscent of a 12th Man record, England's pace stocks are dealt yet another blow with Jake Ball going over on his ankle in a warm-up match.

For more than 10 years, Nixon the guide dog helped Adelaide doctor Susan Beal get around, but doctor and dog are now enjoying their respective retirements.

An 18-year-old man and a 17-year-old boy are arrested over a fiery hit-and-run that killed a motorcyclist, as the victim's family pays tribute to the 33-year-old father and police search for two other people.

Darwin's oldest alcohol rehabilitation service is celebrating 50 years, but co-founder Kathy Mills hopes to one day see it closed down.

The head of Queensland's Weapons Licensing branch says the onus is on farmers to demonstrate a genuine or special need for a handgun after refusing to renew permits.

Imagine walking out to bat in the Women's Ashes in North Sydney. It is two years, two months, and 29 days since your country last played a Test match. It will be a year and nine months until the next, writes Geoff Lemon.

The family of a motorcyclist killed in a fiery hit-and-run in Melbourne's east say his shocking death is being felt by loved ones around the world, as police continue to hunt four youths wanted over the crash.

When Ballarat-based artist Dillon Naylor began drawing comics in the early 1990s, it was akin to wearing a dress. But now popularity for this social scene is seemingly unstoppable despite the digital challenge.

As she campaigns for another term, Queensland's Premier opens up about the family that gives her strength, her regrets, childhood dreams of pop stardom and TV guilty pleasures.

Pouched lamprey have travelled hundreds of kilometres from the ocean into the lower Murray-Darling Basin in South Australia's Riverland to breed, but they won't bite.

Pouched lamprey have travelled hundreds of kilometres from the ocean into the lower Murray-Darling Basin in South Australia's Riverland to breed, but they won't bite.

Regional Australian men are turning to social media and in particular, a 'secret' Facebook group, to seek support and share life experiences.

When Richard Evans made the mercy dash from New York to visit his ailing father Max he unearthed a trove of film from key moments in West Australian history.

The Evans family has decades of WA history captured on old Super 8 film.

Richard and Max Evans are digitising old Super 8 films which captured Perth in the 70s and 80s.

Former WA politician Max Evans loved using his Super 8 camera in the 70s and 80s and captured many moments in history on film.

A man is on the run after robbing a taxi driver with a knife in the Launceston suburb of Mowbray.

Australian soccer referee Paul Cetrangolo is about to hand back his FIFA badge, but his time as a top official in the game he loves has been a rich and rewarding experience.

The coral colonies of the Great Barrier Reef simultaneously mate and give birth in what is expected to be the first of two spawning events of the year.

Social media, fitness challenges, and unrealistic expectations are behind the dangerous use of sports supplements warns a former international bodybuilder turned academic.

One of the country's largest donor banks for breast milk, which many mothers of premature babies rely on to feed their infants, is concerned the supply will dry up without more donations soon.

Tasmanian man Matthew Davey did not enter a plea after being accused of breaching a restraint order by phoning his alleged victim from Risdon Prison.

Tom Tate received international flights and accommodation from a development business linked to a $1.3-billion Chinese high-rise project in Surfers Paradise.

Qualified teachers of Indigenous languages are hard to find, but artists believe they can be kept alive through the use of songs, dances and children's games.

A Hunter Valley student too tall to be an astronaut has landed an internship at NASA in a different field.

The family of a man who went missing almost one year ago is hoping a community-driven search will reveal why he disappeared.

A freakish Ellyse Perry caught-and-bowled late in the session brings Australia back into the crucial day-night women's Ashes Test at North Sydney Oval.

The Southern Stars take control in the final session to come out on top on day one of the Women's Ashes Test at North Sydney Oval. Look back at how the day-night Test started in our live blog.

She won Young Talent Time at nine years old. Now Danielle de Niese is an internationally acclaimed soprano known for glamorous, sexy roles, and is making her Australian debut.

The Victorian Government steps in to get a profoundly disabled man out of jail who was left there because, under the transition to the NDIS, market operators refused to provide care for him.

A shortage of life-saving EpiPen devices has seen experts recommend patients use out-of-date stock to treat the severe allergic reaction anaphylaxis.

The father of a boy killed on Tuesday in the horrific Sydney school car crash appears on social media alongside an undertaker saying the family forgives the driver and would be happy to sit and talk with her.

Patriot Blue and other far right groups in Australia are making keen use of the internet to further their publicity-seeking stunts.

The military background of the NSW RSL's state council may have contributed to their failure to question their leader's conduct, a lawyer for a corruption inquiry into the charity says.

Patriot Blue and other far right groups in Australia are making keen use of the internet to further their publicity-seeking stunts.

Channel Nine makes a financial call to opt out of broadcasting the Women's Ashes Testin a changing media landscape CA is streaming the contest online.

Pinot beats the rest of the fillies to win the Oaks at Flemington for Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott, as favourite Aloisia finishes out of the placings.

Still images from key moments in Australian filmmaking have been brought together at the National Portrait Galleryfrom Muriel's Wedding to Crocodile Dundee.

Michael Diamond's shooting gold medal from the Sydney 2000 Games, which he was forced to sell to pay his legal fees and support his children, is sold at auction to a fellow Olympian who never won gold himself.

A 41-year-old woman is charged with dangerous driving over an alleged hit-and-run that left a 13-year-old girl in a critical condition.

Heath Lance Chatters, who is one of Australia's worst criminals and has served at least 68 separate prior jail terms, is sentenced to 10 years in jail for the abduction and rape of a Devonport woman in 2015.

The girlfriend of a man due to be sentenced over the violent death of Lynette Daley on a remote NSW north coast beach says he is "not the monster he has been made out to be".

John Osborne, the 33-year-old pilot who survived a horror helicopter crash that killed veteran flight instructor Roger Corbin at Hobart Airport, is released from hospital.

The military background of staff at the NSW RSL may have contributed to their failure to question their leader's conduct, a lawyer for a corruption inquiry into the charity says.

Police charge four activists who scaled the Sydney's Opera House and unfurled banners complaining about the treatment of refugees on Manus Island, despite a recent security upgrade at the tourist hot spot.

Labor promises to spend $150 million to fix 35 of Queensland's new trains, which are being manufactured in India and need significant modification to be able to operate properly and meet disability access standards.

One high school is trying out an unconventional way to support and ease the difficulties experienced by new refugee students.

Police say no child was at risk, despite earlier issuing an Amber Alert after a man walked into a petrol station on the Gold Coast and claimed he was carrying a child in a gym bag.

A Melbourne man who was seriously injured in a fiery hit-and-run in the city's east on Wednesday dies in hospital from his injuries as police warn the four youths involved they will be arrested and go to jail.

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