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After months of negotiation and speculation, OPEC meets on Wednesday to hammer out an oil production deal while investors will also be keenly awaiting the US jobs report on Friday.

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A man has survived falling more than three metres off a Surf Coast balcony.

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It looked just like her baby. And yet the mother became convinced her daughter had been replaced.

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A Cirque du Soleil acrobat has been injured on Sunday afternoon after falling during a Brisbane show.

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The air quality in Bunbury reached levels worse than Beijing on Sunday due to the large amount of smoke spread across WA's South West.

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A man is in custody after allegedly pushing four women, including one in her 80s, from a Melbourne train platform onto the tracks in bizarre daylight attack.

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Queensland tourism operators and businesses have been backed as major stars in a $90m advertising campaign .

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A man is dead and a passenger seriously injured after a car hit a gas main then rolled on to its roof in Melbourne.

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So popular are weekend penalty rates that a startling 76 per cent Australians who don't get them want them to stay.

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NSW will face an influx of lessqualified teachers from other states, the state government has warned, unless national minimum standards are adopted to prevent students from flooding into university degrees.

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Cambodian police say their investigations have revealed that surrogate mothers were already married and there is no evidence they married Australians.

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Sydney's booming economy is delivering low unemployment in many parts of the city

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Emergency departments in Western Australia will have additional specialist nurses to help with drug-affected patients, as the state government continues its fight against methamphetamine use.

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Christine Anu joined an impromptu choir of 900 on Sunday to add her voice to the lobby against domestic violence.

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The first eSports company to list on the Australian share market gained 27 per cent on its first day of trading, ending the day 1 cent higher at 3 cents. 

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Two people suffering from minor injuries with paramedics on scene.

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There is a threat to lives and homes as an unpredictable bush fire burns inside the Nannup State Forest.

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Looking for a new apartment in inner Melbourne that's close - as in really close - to public transport?

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Drone racing and Sexpo made strange but exciting bedfellows at the weekend.

A Perth father was shocked to discover a substance he believed was methamphetamine in a bowl of ice-cream he had just given to his five year old son.

A severe thunderstorm is heading up south east Queensland with large hailstones and damaging winds likely.

Another teenager was charged on Sunday after a car chase in which police say a stolen vehicle was driven at speeds of more than 150km/h for almost an hour.

Michael Cheika deliberately steered clear of talking about the elephant in the room all tour but has admitted he is bitterly disappointed the Wallabies fell short of becoming the first Australian outfit to win a grand slam in 32 years.

A prominent DJ has fronted court on serious drug trafficking charges following a major police investigation of Melbourne's nightclub and dance party scene that has resulted in more than a dozen arrests over the past year.

New ambulance stations will be built and hundreds more paramedics hired under a $500 million expansion of the ambulance system.

John Grant wanted to sort out his differences with the seething NRL clubs this week. The clubs' answer is not one he will want to hear.

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Fidel Castro died at a time of great uncertainty. Cuba's regional benefactor, Venezuela, is collapsing economically. What happens next?

'The reputation of the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund investing ethically would be tarnished by ongoing investment in these camps'.

275,000 civilians face starvation within days unless convoys of lorries filled with aid are granted entry, the United Nations warns.

Bushfire alerts have now been issued for parts of Mount Barker, Meekatharra, Wiluna and Dumberton.

The Greens' push to have some illicit drugs legalised appears to be friendless.

You have the right to remain funky. A police officer, in full uniform and with gun in holster, busted out some moves alongside leavers in Dunsborough.

Gold miners in Australia, motivated by a weak currency, are overcoming inclement weather to dig deeper for more bullion, quarterly production figures released on Sunday show.

The clubs are supposedly united about getting rid of John Grant. But are they united in the reasons for getting rid of him, or are their motivations completely contradictory?

In a poor omen for Iraq's hopes of a new era, Sunni Arab MPs boycott a parliamentary vote that brings militias into the ranks of the defence forces.

A new $90 million advertising campaign featuring the natural side of queensland has been launch to get Australians and the world to Queensland.

A woman's body has been found after a house fire at Hughesdale in Melbourne's southeast on Saturday.

Fast-food chain is tipping at least 5 per cent growth in sales this financial year to $500 million, thanks to home-deliveries and new flavours.

Several people have died after a boat capsized in the Kaipara Harbour on Saturday afternoon.

A sixth person has died from thunderstorm asthma, after an outbreak of the event on Monday.

Police are on the hunt for a registered sex offender with "an appalling criminal history" who absconded from a Melbourne residential treatment facility on Tuesday evening.

Tony Abbott tells Malcolm Turnbull he needs to revisit the 2014 budget and play harder on power prices if he wants to do better.

Young Collingwood forward Darcy Moore hopes an "eclectic" forward set up in 2017 will have the Pies looking like the semi-finalist Adelaide Crows.

Archbishop Denis Hart called for Father John Walshe's resignation long before the Cardinal George Pell associate stepped down, a spokesman for the Melbourne Archdiocese has confirmed.

UWA Nobel Laureate Professor is developing a new drug aimed at ramping up the human immune system and reducing incidences of asthma and food allergies in children.

Monica Azzopardi loves Christmas. So for the last eight years, Ms Azzopardi's house on Patterson Lake in Schooner Bay Drive has been spreading the festive cheer to all who come by.

Clinton campaign says it will participate in recounts across three battleground states crucial to putting Donald Trump in the White House.

England coach Eddie Jones has lobbed more grenades ahead of the Wallabies' season- ending Test, declaring it will be his team's "best win of the year".

Nigella Lawson had nothing but praise for Western Australia following an appearance at Margaret River's Gourmet Escape food festival.