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'Potential for more severe weather'

Coogee Surf Life Saving Club staff survey the damage after the big storm earlier this month.

Residents across an arc of eastern Australia stretching from Queensland to Tasmania should be on watch for more potentially severe weather this weekend as another winter storm loom, the Bureau of Meteorology said.

Anti-gay Islamic preacher leaves Australia

Farrokh Sekaleshfar, British Shiite cleric.

A British Islamic scholar who toured Orlando this year and had preached in 2013 that "death is the sentence" for homosexual acts left Australia on Tuesday after the government launched an "urgent" review of his visa because of his comments.

Labor would grab back enviro controls

Eastern quoll at the Mount Rothwell conservation centre. Labor says it will do more protect the environment.

A Shorten government would consider a national environmental protection authority as part of efforts to grab back key conservation controls devolved by the Coalition from Canberra to the states.