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​Brazilian iron ore miner Samarco Mineracao expects to receive a preliminary environmental license in the first quarter.

A woman is in a critical condition after nearly drowning while diving off Cape Conran in East Gipplsand.

A Thomas the Tank Engine train, a Minion toy rifle and 45 other dangerous toys will be destroyed by a steamroller as part of an annual product safety blitz.

The Victorian government is expected to accept recommendations to legalise voluntary euthanasia within days and take the issue to a conscience vote next year.

A year ago Steve Regterschot and his neighbours in the northern suburb of Tapping complained to council rangers that parents picking up kids from the local primary school were parking on their front lawns and driveways.

A "shocked and scared" Sara Connor and her British DJ boyfriend hired a scooter in Jimbaran after the Byron Bay woman learned police were looking for her.

Hawthorn star Brendan Whitecross says his "scary" encounter with up to five men who broke into his home as his children slept and stole his fiancee's Porsche could have been a lot worse.

Common drug found to trigger the development of new eggs, an outcome previously thought to be impossible.

Australian high school students are up to two school years behind their peers in the world's best performing countries, a major global test of student achievement has revealed.

Brisbane women were on edge in the mid-1960s after two rapes and four attempted rapes.

As the Coalition backs away from a pledge to consider a climate change policy that the energy industry says it needs, a new study is projecting a rapidly growing mass electricity generator for Australia in the decades ahead: the public.

Environment minister Josh Frydenberg has been forced into an humiliating u-turn on climate policy, less than 48 hours after releasing details for a pending review.

The Andrews government's equal rights agenda has suffered a major blow with micro parties and the Coalition uniting against proposed laws to weaken discrimination powers for religious bodies and schools.

Parents of the man who was shot dead at his Watson unit last month have made a plea for information leading to his killer.

René Konrad's Model S Tesla turns a lot of heads, and it's not because he can drive from Melbourne to Brisbane without spending a dime to fill up.

New Zealand Prime Minister John Key's sudden resignation was perfectly timed to to give a boost to one small community.

Adani's Carmichael mine and rail project has been touted as a massive boost for Queensland's economy.

Melbourne City Council will build a $5 million elevated greenhouse nine metres above Queen Street, to provide space for fruit and vegetable traders during the $250 million redevelopment of the Queen Victoria Market.

Can you imagine flying through the Australian landscape like a peregrine falcon gliding at high speed through some of the country's most striking scenery?

Try these questions from the 2015 PISA science test.

The 12 young Hawthorn players who walked the Kokoda Track last month were each asked to lead the group for half a day or longer.

An elderly man tried to light a police station watchhouse on fire in Melbourne's inner north, police say.

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Motorists slugged by the government's increasingly rapacious speeding fine frenzy won't be pleased with the latest antic of the Queensland Police.

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"This is business as usual," Malcolm Turnbull declared this morning, as he defended the decision to release a set of broad terms of reference for a climate change policy review that has been Coalition policy for years.

Australian students are up to two school years behind their peers in the world's best performing countries.

A Coroner's report has found there were a "number of shortcomings" in Robina Hospital's management of a mental health patient, who took his one life after being discharged.

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On the 10-year anniversary of becoming leader, Kevin Rudd has hopped into the modern ALP, Bill Shorten and more.

Victorian students are bucking the national trend when it comes to their achievements in science, maths and reading.

Adam Wilson is 28 year old, the manager of energy and sustainability for the University of Queensland, and is an avid mountain biker.

"He's not a team player at all. We can't work with him, you can't reason with him," the One Nation leader says.

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Physically, it was in well-heeled Chevy Chase, where Connecticut and Nebraska Avenues cross, that the cops captured a gunman after he opened fire in the Comet Ping Pong pizzeria on Sunday.

Brisbane 's Victoria Bridge may become a green-bridge only - scrapping cars - and Brisbane City Council on Tuesday launched a major campaign to have the Queensland Government approve the change.

A $2.8 million dollar upgrade to Wellington National Park has added 54 new campsites and a new bike track for the popular South West tourist destination.

A man accused of giving two hired hitmen $20,000 and a gun to kill a Gold Coast woman's ex-husband has been denied bail because he may interfere with a witness and reoffend, a court has heard.

The lightning storm that swept NSW on Monday night saw lightning strikes injure several people and take the life of one man camping near Murwillumbah.

Two lanes of the Monash Freeway are closed after a truck and a ute collided.

A fly-in fly-out Perth worker who raped a drunk woman at his home and got her pregnant has lost an appeal against his sentence.

Natasha Stott Despoja says her three years as Australian Ambassador for Women and Girls have been confronting at time, showing her the best and worst of humanity

Savas Guven, the Mosman chief executive with a violent past, has been slapped with two fresh charges of intimidation after an alleged "parking rage" incident saw him charged with assault in July. 

The Brumbies are going into uncharted Super Rugby territory after linking with a new major sponsor.

A jet-lagged Jordan Turner was left breathless and almost passing out after his first Raiders session.

Chris Latham has challenged former Wallabies teammate Stephen Larkham to dust off his boots once more.

Colin Barnett's opinions on Fremantle's fireworks saga sound like those of an "uneducated redneck" rather than a state premier, says an Aboriginal community leader.

Financial market analysts believe the economy went backwards immediately after the July election, ending 5 years of continuous growth and calling into question the government's repeated promise to "deliver jobs and growth".

Five buildings at RMIT's city campus have been reopened five hours after students and staff were evacuated due to a threatening email.

Last week in front of 1400 people at a Fairfax Media subscriber event I was outed as a "pathological optimist" by an anonymous reader, who wanted to know how I got that way.

Chinese property heavyweight Dahua Group has outmuscled local developers to snap up a billion-dollar land pipeline.

Sombreros, Hawaiian shirts and thongs aren't usually the appropriate attire for an overcast Canberra day, but when international cricket rolls into town the dress code goes out the window.

Former NSW deputy police commissioner Nick Kaldas has launched legal action to stop the state's ombudsman's publishing his report into the police bugging scandal.