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The first AFL Women's grand final has won a prime-time Saturday afternoon schedule in round one of the AFL season.

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Shares extend their gains after the ECB tweaks its stimulus, while Sirtex plunges on disappointing sales.

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ANZ Bank has followed rivals in pushing up interest rates for property investors, blaming higher funding costs and its obligations to regulators.

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A man has died at a Williamstown property this morning and a woman has handed herself into police.

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The young apprentice who injured himself with a power sore is believed to be undergoing a second surgery to this morning.

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The City of Fremantle has backdown from its plans to hold its citizenship ceremonies on its "culturally-inclusive alternative event" on January 28 after the Turnbull government threatened to ban the city from holding them.

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A Sydney drug dealer who gunned down a man in an execution-style killing in front of his fiancee has been jailed for at least 24 years.

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​McDonald's Corp said on Thursday it would move its international tax base to the United Kingdom from Luxembourg after coming under increased scrutiny from European Union regulators over its tax arrangements in the small country.

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is suffering physically and mentally after four years holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London but takes comfort from the company of his cat, his mother says.

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Manly has snared out-of-favour Bulldogs forward Lloyd Perrett.

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Republicans have an interest in not calling into question the legitimacy of president-elect Trump, which means downplaying Russia's role in 2016 election.

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Created by Canberra man Yash Radhakrishnan, Kusa flip flops are thongs with lawn underfoot. They've been a success overseas, and now Yash wants to get them on local feet.

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Nearly one quarter of the world's children live in countries afflicted by war or disaster, according to new figures from UNICEF.

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A woman who thinks the Sandy Hook school massacre was staged has been charged with threatening a parent.

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Westpac chief executive Brian Hartzer has added his voice to calls for government to boost the economy through infrastructure spending.

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Parks and Conservation Service conducting hazard-reduction burns on Friday.

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For financial markets, the most momentous day of 2016 wasn't November 8, when US president-elect Donald Trump prevailed in the US elections, nor June 23, when the UK voted to leave the European Union.

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Catholics are downloading the Church's latest effort to approach the smartphone generation.

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Malcolm Turnbull faces pressure from state and territory leaders for an effective national energy policy on Friday, with South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill raising the prospect of climate change costing the Prime Minister his job for a second time. 

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A tsunami warning has been cancelled for parts of the South Pacific after a strong earthquake hit off the Solomon Islands in the early hours of Friday morning.

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If your telly tends to go on the fritz when the Aussies come into bat then it might be time to do something about your digital television signal.

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This darkly comic satire explores religious ideas through a devil's ideas about tempting a human being.

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Treasurer Morrison labelled this week's surprisingly low September quarter GDP number as a "wake-up call". What he didn't say is that it's a call that's been ringing for three years.

Sydney's "million-dollar" suburbs may not be as far beyond reach as the seven-figure price tag suggests.

Former AFL star Ben Cousins has admitted going through "a bit of a tough time" and revealed he has no permanent home after being bailed at Armadale Magistrate's Court.

A man who sexually assaulted a 77-year-old Gwynneville grandmother and used a hammer to cave in her skull will become eligible for parole after nine years and four months in jail.

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"Spank me if I'm wrong" is recommended sales "banter" in the customer service manifesto.

A crash between a truck and two vehicles in the Eastern Distributor tunnel at Moore Park has caused a traffic jam back through the Sydney Harbour tunnel during Friday morning's peak.

A fiery truck crash that closed the M5 eastbound at Kingsgrove has caused lengthy traffic delays on Friday morning. 

Breakfast in a place that is better known for its wine, cider, beer, chocolate and cheese? Yep. The Swan Valley is fast becoming one of Perth's go-to regions for breakfast outside of the burbs.

Police and protests continued on Thursday at the site as traditional owners met with an anthropologist nearby.

The red dingo was removed in order to restore it to its original condition.

As the protests against her have grown larger, louder and closer, and her career, reputation and presidency march inexorably toward an impeachment vote on Friday, President Park Geun-hye has kept mostly hidden from public view, gripped by self-pity and despair, and largely alone.

A Melbourne RSL located on prime real estate is the latest Melbourne services club that will shut its doors, with the sale of the property to reap a huge profit for the state head office.

WorkSafe ACT is investigating two separate serious workplace incidents from this week.

A man has died after he was assaulted in Victoria's south west.

A Rockhampton doctor has been charged with sexually assaulting five patients at two of the city's medical facilities.

A man has pleaded guilty to repeatedly bashing a service station attendant over the head with an iron bar during a vicious armed robbery earlier this year.

Markets' black swans are rapidly turning gray, and that could make for an interesting year ahead.

A nine-year-old girl could lose the ligaments in her foot after being hit by a bus in a horror accident outside her central Queensland school.

Their fans are often mocked for not wanting to travel over the Spit Bridge, but Manly's administration has crossed the famous landmark and gone a whole lot further to help a rejuvenation on the northern beaches. And it's come with the blessing of one of rugby league's sharpest minds.

NRL players trialling for NFL franchises might quickly become a thing of the past.

A fire in a Hawker unit has drawn fire services, with pictures showing the flat engulfed in flame

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The local share market is set to open higher after a solid night on Wall Street and news the European Central Bank will extend its quantitative easing program.

Glenn was the last surviving member of the original seven "Right Stuff" Mercury mission team.

Oil rebounded on growing optimism that non-OPEC producers might agree to cut output following a deal to limit production.

A man is in hospital after being stabbed during a mugging on the Gold Coast.

A legal saga took an extraordinary turn as it emerged that the actress is now being sued by her frozen embryos.