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Worried about your power bills? A new app that allows you to monitor your electricity consumption and pay your account using a mobile phone-style plan is being touted by WA Energy Minister Ben Wyatt as the "way of the future".

Queensland firefighters say a Darling Downs man would have confronted a "horrible scene" as he dragged his two young boys from their burning house near Dalby overnight, with the children suffering burns to nearly 90 per cent of their bodies and all three airlifted separately to Brisbane hospitals.

Denmark's Christian Eriksen got a hat-trick in a 5-1 thrashing of Ireland in their play-off second leg on Tuesday to help secure the final European berth at next year's World Cup.

The head of the Northern Territory's only bush rehabilitation program for youth says the Government is more interested in establishing "shinier new prisons" than residential diversion programs which are more effective and cheaper to run.

A Current Affair's love of the on-camera ambush has led to a dramatic moment for Nine reporter Chris Allen.

Paramedics were treating the woman, believed to be in her 30s, for serious head, chest and leg injuries.

ASX poised to fall again as global investors look for reasons to sell after the recent global rally, ahead of key wage price data.

You are safer driving your car than you are at home, a statistical fact that underlines the many perils facing you every time you walk into your house.

North Melbourne's Jamie Macmillan says recent criticism aimed at his club is "disrespectful" and has left Kangaroos players "pissed off".

The rising power of female consumers can't be ignored.

Culture is almost never considered as the driving force that is permitted to shape the emergent structure of organisations.

The 34-year-old man and two boys, 3 and 4, had made it out of the home suffering serious burns but needed immediate treatment.

The stone, the centrepiece of an asymmetric gem-studded necklace, was the largest of its kind ever auctioned.

Two-weight UFC champion Conor McGregor has apologised after being involved in an angry altercation with a referee at an MMA event in Dublin.

The show examines 111 garments and accessories that have had a lasting impact over the past century, including nails designed by manicurist Bernadette Thompson.

The law on this is very clear, and tested up to the High Court.

Argentina's Sergio Aguero was taken to a hospital for checks after he fainted during halftime of the team's friendly match against Nigeria.

Tennis rankings, betting fields and the AFL draft order are taken to be immutable measures. In fact, they are judgements of the moment, and might already be wrong by the time they are made. The same applies to the Australian Test team.

The All Blacks have staved off a rugged midweek examination from a French selection and held on to win 28-23 in Lyon.

The same sex marriage survey had a higher turnout than for practically any voluntary ballot measure undertaken in a Western democracy in modern history.

Straight out of 1800s England, Mona Farm in Braidwood is a majestic piece of land.

Families in Victoria will need to provide more proof their child has been vaccinated in order to attend kindergartens and childcare centres under tougher "No Jab No Play" laws.

At least five people have been killed and two children wounded in a shooting near an elementary school in northern California, according to multiple media outlets.

Join us for our live coverage of the same-sex marriage postal survey verdict.

Sometimes it takes a TV show to put a place on the map. Sylvania Waters is a case in point; suddenly everyone was talking about living in a canal estate in 'The Shire'. And in the 70s, there wasn't a kid alive who watched Skippy, that didn't want a tour of 'Waratah Park' in Terry Hills.

A plan for a residential treatment centre for soldiers and emergency services workers in Darwin is under consideration, with the veterans advocates saying it couldn't come soon enough.

Making peace with princess culture.

The former prime minister made the comments at a book launch in Canberra on Tuesday.

It's complicated, but ABC election analyst Antony Green believes Jacqui Lambie may have a way of returning to the Senate if the man slated to replace her decides being a grandpa is more important.

A father and his two young boys are critically injured with extensive burns after a house fire overnight near Dalby on Queensland's western Darling Downs.

Another Hollywood identity has been accused of sexual misconduct.

Despite further subdued moves in US equities, which ultimately sets Asia up for quite a soggy start, there have been a number of interesting macro factors worth exploring.

Seventeen days of the state election campaign have passed and both the Premier and Opposition Leader have been dodging questions on hot topics.

Does the away goals rule make your brain keel over and give you something extra to panic about ahead of a crucial Socceroos match? Here's a quick explainer of how the World Cup qualifying play-off is poised.

A case of serendipity twice over led to a crowd gathering to mark the final resting place of Forbes Strachan at Toowong Cemetery on Saturday.

The female cast of One Tree Hill joined with the show's crew to write a letter accusing former showrunner Mark Schwahn of "traumatising" sexual harassment on the set of the popular TV drama.

Elderly and bedridden residents will lose their homes before Christmas as a scandal-ridden retirement village prepares to close.

History, happenstance and a little marketing know-how all played a part in the creation of Australia's most Scottish town.

'It's really important to me'. Couple take day off for sex marriage verdict.

The couple appeared on the front page of The Canberra Times in 2013 when the ACT government passed the nation's first same-sex marriage laws.

Melbourne's unpredictable weather is continuing its four-seasons in a week kind of theme with wild thunderstorms and possible flash flooding predicted in parts of the state.

The world's largest carbon market is ready and waiting on Chinese government approval, but may miss a goal of launching in 2017.

Emmanuel Macron is facing his first internal revolt since his lightning rise to the French presidency.

Australia waits on same-sex marriage results and Bunnings is on the move.

In 1988 on a remote Western Australian sheep station, Diane Sherwood answered a call on the radio and suddenly her life changed forever.

The ABC hits the streets to hear what the locals think about former premier Kristina Keneally running for the seat of Bennelong

The use of Twitter and Facebook during the Queensland election campaign may amuse the "political junkies" but is off-putting for most voters and a sign politicians are just constantly fighting among themselves, says one observer.

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Tape recordings preserve the desert life of Indigenous peoples before Western Desert pre-settlement by white people.

The laws were sold as a further measure against child exploitation material, but the Greens worry they are being expanded to cover offences such as fraud, drug dealing or cyber bullyingand to uncover journalists' sources.