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The Nationals are in crisis after suffering a record swing against them in the once-safe seat.

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They're quite simply everywhere.

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Trough west of Brisbane has potential to become severe, as south-east recovers from Saturday's storms

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Two Melbourne corrections facilities were hit by upheaval on Saturday night as young inmates rioted on a roof and a prisoner attacked four prison officers, causing a serious neck injury.

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Malcolm Turnbull was tight-lipped about how many people the US had agreed to take, and whether Donald Trump would support it.

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German discount supermarket is set to enter China, and broader Asia, using Australia as a springboard.

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A Trump presidency could have serious impacts on Australia's climate science and other research including short-term weather forecasts.

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South Korean President Park Geun-hye faces mounting calls to step down over allegations she allowed a friend to meddle in state affairs and wield influence.

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AFL great Neale Daniher has been announced as the 2016 Melburnian of the Year, for his work raising funds to combat motor neurone disease.

Colombia's government has reached a new agreement with Marxist guerrillas to end the nation's civil conflict, six weeks after voters narrowly rejected a previous deal.

As Melbourne faces yet another blustery cold day with rain, take heart, our first 30-degree-plus day is on the way.

Bonnie Markwell Mobbs, mother of victim Shelsea Schilling, publishes confronting social media post.

A violent carjacker held a knife to a woman's throat and punched her but failed to make off with her car at Chadstone Shopping Centre.

Wallabies second-rower Adam Coleman will almost certainly miss Australia's next match against France because of a knee injury.

Michael Cheika says the Wallabies were not 100 per cent switched on from the get-go against Scotland but he was relieved to see them be up for the "scrap" and grind out a one-point win to keep their grand slam hopes alive.

The 23-22 scoreline will bring back memories of last year's World Cup quarter-final, but do not buy any Scottish hard-luck stories. It was one-way traffic for the last 20 minutes.

Police continue searching in the Royal National Park for the body of 20-year-old Matthew Leveson who disappeared more than nine years ago.

DONALD TRUMP'S plan for sweeping tax cuts and deregulation will spur a US economic boom that could "last for generations" if the president-elect resists a lurch towards protectionism

"I would love to see it, I would love for the kids to see it too."

Her surgery seemed to have gone well but her family believes it was at that day clinic in regional Victoria where she picked up the staph bacteria she'd never shake.

They came in their thousands to demonstrate against President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday in New York.

An air, land and sea search is underway for a hang glider pilot reported missing off Rainbow Beach east of the Queensland city of Gympie.

The NSW Nationals are at risk of being "trumped" in Orange, with a massive primary swing of more than 60 per cent in some booths set to see preferences decide the close race.

There were plenty of cracking responses and colourful costumes

Man stabbed in the neck with broken bottle by boy thought to be about 14 years-old.

They won't quite be a Lotto millionaire but one WA player will wake up on Sunday morning on better terms with the world  - $674,350.43 better terms, to be precise.

A 29-year-old man has been charged with murder after allegedly shooting a 20-year-old in the neck in Sydney's north-west on Friday night.

The Wallabies have broken Scottish hearts once again in thrilling circumstances, with Tevita Kuridrani's 75th-minute try sealing a second consecutive one-point win between the two sides that keeps Australia's grand slam dream well and truly alive.

An explosion at a Muslim shrine in southwestern Pakistan killed at least 25 people and wounded dozens of others, local officials said.

Eddie Jones played down his achievement in becoming the first England coach to win his first 10 games in charge after their comprehensive 37-21 victory over South Africa at Twickenham on Saturday.

A man and woman found dead in a Gold Coast home unit were heavily tattooed former Bandido bikie Bronson Ellery, known to police as "Lizard Man", and his ex-girlfriend, according to reports.

A breakdown of how each Australian player performed in the Wallabies' 23-22 win over Scotland at Murrayfield.

In a conference call with her top campaign funders, Hillary Clinton has blamed FBI director James Comey for her defeat in the US presidential election.

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, a world traveler and author.

"Harold Holt, full moon. Hoddle Street, full moon ... that's the way I thought for 30 years."

Officials said Britain will have some "very difficult" conversations with Trump over his approach to Russia.

Amy Dawes was hell bent on avoiding a caesarean. She had no idea her "normal birth" could leave her so broken.

President-elect Donald Trump described Hillary Clinton as gracious in her phone call this week conceding defeat and hinted that he may take future advice from her husband, former President Bill Clinton.

"This is our first gig in Australia," James frontman Tim Booth tells the Brisbane crowd at the Tivoli on Friday night,

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) has arrested 10 people from Central Asia with links to Islamic State who planned to carry out attacks with firearms and explosives in Moscow and St Petersburg, Russian news agencies reported on Saturday.

Demonstrators are expected to gather again on Saturday in cities across the United States to protest at President-elect Donald Trump and his policies, which they say will hurt their civil and human rights, a day after a protester was shot in Portland, Oregon.

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A skyscraper proposed by the Liberal Party's federal treasurer is among the apartment towers set to be rejected by the Andrews government under strict new planning rules for the troubled Fishermans Bend development precinct.

It's boomtime for corporate childcare in Australia, with for-profit operators and the big, listed landlords who own more than half the nation's centres boasting of strong growth, increasing rental income and multimillion dollar profits for their shareholders. 

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull would not be welcome as an official guest of Sydney's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras under a motion passed at the organisation's annual general meeting on Saturday.

The Greens have named an environmental lawyer as a candidate they hope can knock the Queensland state environment minister out of the House.

Reports the Syrian army swept the suburban area for landmines after regaining full control.

Soaring prices for the metal have boosted Australia's three largest exporters. But the party is about to end, with prices tipped to plunge by 40 per cent next year.

Futures plummeted, then stocks rallied: The sharemarket is easily rattled, but it can also be easily seduced.

One person shot as thousands of protesters continue to take their frustrations over Donald Trump's election to the streets in several US cities.