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This week the US dollar is set to stay strong and yield stocks are expected to continue to suffer.

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Roof collapses as fire crews protect nearby houses

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The police will allege that the five-year-old girl mistakenly attended the male public toilets at a park in Orange. 

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Aldi's archrival Schwarz Group is investigating setting up Kaufland stores in Australia.

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There are reports the Green Lantern Ride has become "stuck" at Movie World on Sunday.

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WA has two new Lotto "half-millionaires" after Saturday night's division one prize pool of $4 million was split eight ways across the country.

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Fourteen coaches of a passenger train have rolled off the track, killing at least 30 people and injuring more than 100 in northern India.

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Rival groups are gathering in Melbourne as far-right groups blame Friday's Springvale Commonwealth Bank fire on Australia's refugee policy.

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The third of a three-part series ahead of next week's national draft.

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The multi-million footbridge across the Swan River from East Perth to the new stadium at Burswood is expected to blow out to a whopping $70 million.

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President-elect Donald Trump took to Twitter on Saturday to demand the cast of Hamilton apologise for comments made to VP-elect Mike Pence as theatregoers booed him.

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The first generation of university students with an autism diagnosis is fanning out to campuses across the United States - and with them unusual challenges.

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Schapelle Corby will be free to leave Bali after more than 12 years on the island.

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NSW and ACT emergency services are trying to put out a building fire in Queanbeyan.

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Three police officers have been allegedly assaulted attempting to break up a brawl outside a hotel in Ipswich, west of Brisbane.

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Premier Daniel Andrews has urged calm in the wake of Friday's alleged arson attack on a Springvale bank, saying the incident was a "tragedy" and not an act of terror.

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Will Setterfield couldn't quite believe it. He was walking through the halls of Caulfield Grammar and teachers would come and stop him. "You're in the paper!" they would say.

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The Queen's baton relay will launch from Buckingham Palace from March 13, 2017 and will travel across Commonwealth countries before arriving on the Gold Coast opening ceremony on April 4, 2018.

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Michael Cheika has refuted suggestions from French media he deliberately played mind games by pulling Quade Cooper out at the last minute from Saturday's match at Stade de France.

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France lacked the cohesion Francois Trinh-Duc would have given them, but for the second week in a row they proved they have some very good individuals capable of giving any team a fright. They are over the worst, and that makes the Wallabies' 25-23 win in Paris very good indeed.

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There are fears a far-right rally being held on Sunday in Melbourne become a flashpoint between rival groups as tensions rise in the wake of the Springvale Commonwealth Bank fire.

Glencore is seeking to raise $550 million from investors via a debt issue guaranteed by oil from Iraqi Kurdistan in an attempt to secure a big slice of the high-risk – and high-reward – market in a region at war with Islamic State.

Assisted suicide group Exit International said on Sunday it planned to make use of a drone to deliver euthanasia drugs to a nursing home in Melbourne.

Wallabies coach Michael Cheika concedes his team were beaten at scrum-time by France and may have some things to tweak but says he was immensely proud of his troops after they hung on for a 25-23 win at Stade de France and kept their spring tour streak intact.

A breakdown of how each Australian player performed in the Wallabies' 25-23 win over France at Stade de France.

Immigration Minister Peter Dutton has continued the "Australia-first" jobs pitch, seized upon by both major parties in the wake of Donald Trump's election, confirming the Turnbull government will condense the number of occupations eligible for a 457 visa.

A man is being treated in intensive care after a suspected one-punch attack in Sydney's CBD.

A Sydney barrister is claiming almost $6 million in allegedly unpaid fees and interest from a solicitor dating back more than a decade, in a costly legal battle occupying an armoury of the city's lawyers.

A man is in a critical condition in hospital after being found in a pool of his own blood in Coolbellup.

A 41-year-old woman has died after a head-on crash near Mandurah on Saturday night.

Australia Zoo's Terri Irwin has called on all Queensland MPs to rule out a crocodile cull, saying people need to better understand how to co-exist with the apex predators.

Nearly 30 people have been injured, six seriously burnt, in a fire at the Commonwealth Bank in Springvale, in Melbourne's south-east.

The Wallabies have once again prevailed in a nail-biter as they maintained their unblemished spring tour record with a 25-23 win over France at Stade de France.

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Daniel Andrews was warned six years ago about the inadequacy of the Melbourne Youth Justice Centre in Parkville, including one suggestion that the precinct had so many design flaws it ought to be shut down.

We are living in interesting linguistic times, says Monash professor Kate Burridge, a specialist in swearing, and how languages and taboos evolve.

Despite the arrests, police were generally happy with the behaviour of the 25,000 schoolies.

The sun's out and it's a crisp 15 degrees at the MCG. At 8:15am the first of 9500 participants of the Sunday Age City2Sea presented by Westpac set off for a 15km fun-run.

US president-elect Donald Trump is not philosophically opposed to free trade and may even be persuaded to reverse his opposition to the giant Trans Pacific Partnership deal, according to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

An elderly man was bashed by a teenage boy at a train station in south Sydney on Saturday after he attempted to stop another boy from applying graffiti to the station's platform.

After a short-lived, accidental but not insignificant stint in the Senate, Ricky Muir has learnt two lessons.

The second of a three-part series ahead of next week's AFL national draft.

A learner driver who led police on an eight-minute chase on the Hume Highway near Goulburn has been refused bail.

Brisbane's first puppy picnic started as a simple idea to hand out a couple of flyers into a park. 

A nine-year-old boy who went missing after a jet-ski crash at a Mt Isa lake has been found dead by police divers.

Melbourne's weather is expected to sizzle over the next few days with the mercury set to near 40 degrees on Monday.

The packet arrives in the mail. Two little cotton-tips in a test tube.

BRISBANE, Nov 20 AAP - A bus driver has died two days after he crashed with a truck in south-east Queensland.

New Zealand took revenge on a brave Irish side with a three-try 21-9 win in Dublin as the world champions put their first defeat by Ireland in a century behind them.

One Nation senator Rod Culleton has penned a bizarre conspiracy-laden letter to the High Court.