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South Australia's Opposition wants to introduce new legislation to crack down on ticket scalping for major events in Adelaide, which could see organisations that use "ticket-bot" software fined up to $100,000.

With far superior travel arrangements, a number of gun players coming back into the side and strong home support, Australia has all the weapons to overcome Honduras, writes Matildas star Sam Kerr.

You've got a young child asleep in the back of a car, you've just filled up with petrol at the servo, and the time's come to go inside and pay. Here's what the law says about what you do next.

South American beetles and bugs are being used as biocontrols in the battle against a serious environmental weed that is spreading through coastal Queensland and New South Wales.

A unique collaboration between a Gold Coast aged care home and a school sees residents living with farm animals.

Every few weeks the ABC gives its audience the chance to vote on what stories it should cover as part of Curious Canberrabut this week's winning question was helped by 1,500 fraudulent votes from a rogue ABS employee.

A man accused of trespassing at a top secret US intelligence facility in Central Australia was there to sing and pray for the traditional Indigenous people of the area, a court hears.

Tasmanian salmon farming giant Tassal backs away from its plan to dump treated wastewater extracted from its Macquarie Harbour pens back into the waterway, after "extensive community and stakeholder consultation".

Pioneering physics professor Michelle Yvonne Simmons is recognised for her work in the "space race of the computing era" by being named the 2018 NSW Australian of the Year.

When one thinks of Sydney they think Opera House, Harbour Bridge, Bondi Beach and nowFerry McFerryface.

Tasmania's Labor Opposition rules out supporting three key pieces of legislation, despite its leader saying she would negotiate with the Government.

The parents of two boys who inherited an intellectual disability say they can move on with their lives now they have reached a settlement with a Sydney IVF clinic.

Former policeman Louis James Mahony is sentenced to life behind bars for murdering his de facto partner Laine Coldwell in south-western Queensland in 2009.

Tasmanian salmon farming giant Tassal reverses its plan to dump treated wastewater extracted from its Macquarie Harbour pens back into the waterway, after "extensive community and stakeholder consultation".

The WA Government temporarily bans junior drag racing as police investigate the death of a girl while driving her dragster, an accident her father described as a "one-in-a-million event".

An eight-year-old boy suffers critical injuries after being found unresponsive in his parents' car near Newport Gardens Primary School in Melbourne's west.

An ice addict who stole an SUV outside a school not knowing there was a baby inside is jailed in what a judge called the "stuff of nightmares" for the child's mother.

Risdon Prison inmates know what life is like on the inside and use that experience to bring to life convict times in a series of monologues.

The Tasmanian Director of Public Prosecutions seeks to have a Risdon Prison inmate with a history of assaulting guards and other prisoners declared a dangerous criminal.

WA Government temporarily bans junior drag racing across the State as police investigate the death of a girl while driving her dragster at the Perth Motorplex.

In dramatic vision not often seen in Australia, police chase two wanted men through Wollongong, south of Sydney, on foot and by helicopter.

A boy has been taken to hospital with critical injuries after being trapped in a car in Melbourne's west in hot conditions, police say.

It's taken 13 years, thousands of dollars and countless missed opportunities, but a WA shearer has finally been cleared of a crime committed by a man with his name.

Student Ashleigh Mounser, who exposed mass underpayment of young workers in the city of Wollongong, says the federal watchdog's advice videos do not go far enough.

Former Australian Defence Force Academy cadet Harlan Agresti faces trial for a second time accused of raping a colleague who was allegedly too drunk to give consent.

Stretches of astro turf laid on a football oval and half-time entertainment from Yothu Yindi were just some of the highlights of north-east Arnhem Land's first-ever cricket match under lights.

Melbourne primary school student Amelia Fox edges out more than 1,000 other kids in an invention competition and will soon be heading on a trip to the world's most famous space agency.

The SA Government says it just takes 12-and-a-half minutes for nine new generators to start supplying power to the grid, should blackouts strike this summer.

A man accused of murdering a motorist by deliberately driving into her car on the Bussell Highway near Capel earlier this year had signs of drugs in his system, a court has heard.

A man who stabbed his neighbour to death with a kitchen knife referred to the victim as a "maggot" in conversations with police immediately afterwards, a sentencing hearing is told.

ACT Planning Minister Mick Gentleman refuses to say it is safe to visit Ainslie shops when questioned, amid ongoing asbestos concerns.

St George The Martyr looks like a postcard from a faraway island, but sits next to a fast food outlet in South Hobart. Inside it's covered in coloured icons.

A 55-year-old man is charged with murder after his wife, who he was separated from, was found dead on a residential road on Queensland's Gold Coast.

An Adelaide Hills man who was badly beaten and put into the boot of a car over a missing pair of sunglasses was chased down and murdered by three men when he tried to escape, the Supreme Court hears.

The mother of two boys who inherited an intellectual disability is suing a Sydney IVF clinic arguing it had failed to identify that she was a carrier of the Fragile X syndrome.

The parents of the second boy killed in last week's Banksia Road Primary School crash describe the pain of losing their son as hundreds of people pay their respects during his funeral service.

A new cage that reverses the usual viewing experience opens at Monarto Zoo near Adelaide, enabling visitors to walk right into the habitat of one of Australia's largest lion prides.

A skateboarding koala is teaching dogs the importance of protecting Australia's native species, and pet owners are reaping the benefits of well-behaved dogs.

As nearly 40,000 Queenslanders wait to see a specialist in the public system, Labor has announced a $145 million cash injection in a bid to reduce the time Queenslanders spend on the "waiting list for the waiting list".

A local doctor in the Top End town of Katherine says the NT Government has not provided medical professionals with enough information to advise their patients about the potential health risks from exposure to water contaminated by PFAS chemicals.

The owners of Victoria's Hazelwood brown coal mine are committed to stand trial, accused of causing air pollution during a mine fire that was later blamed for contributing to deaths.

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.

Australia's greatest ever goal-scorer Tim Cahill says he is over his ankle injury and is ready to help Australia beat Honduras, and qualify for the 2018 World Cup.

Expert light painting photographer Denis Smith creates stunning images of orbs in some of Australia's most picturesque locations, saving himself from a nervous breakdown in the process.

If your neighbours have a luscious mango tree, and its fruit overhangs your fence, does that mean you can pick it?

Voters in John Alexander's seat of Bennelong will head back to the polls for a by-election on December 16, after the Liberal MP resigned over concerns he may be a British citizen.

Swim coach Scott Volkers has his bail conditions revised, allowing him to keep his passport so he can travel overseas for work, at a hearing in a Queensland court over five indecent treatment of a child charges.

How's the serenity? Not great according to Dunalley residents, who say they were not consulted about major flight path changes affecting communities still recovering from devastating bushfires.

A 55-year-old man is helping police with their inquiries after his wife, who he was separated from, was found dead on a residential road on Queensland's Gold Coast.

A driver remains on bail after facing court for the first time charged over a hit-and-run crash involving a 13-year-old cyclist at Coburg, in Melbourne's north.