Australian manufacturers face court over claims about "flushable" wipes.

The reopening of the Dreamworld theme park on the Gold Coast, called  "Open Hearts-Open Doors" on the weekend helped raise $157,225, which will be given to the Red Cross.

The Prime Minister will give a major speech on one of the issues with which he is most closely associated - an Australian republic.

Ahead of a coronial inquest, lawyers for Steven Freeman's family are looking into the role an untreated brain injury played in his death.

The day after thousands of revellers left Meredith Music Festival, 140 firefighters and two water-bombing aircraft are battling a bushfire in Meredith State Forest.

The company at the centre of a wages uproar at a premier racetrack redevelopment where two workers died has gone under owing millions of dollars.

Three Liberals absent for the first sitting week

Yellow Cabs in 2017 will offer fixed fares for cab customers who telephone for a cab in the first return volley since ride-sharing schemes like Uber were legalised.

An activist group has hit out at proposed laws to ban 100 per cent fly-in fly-out projects, claiming a loophole would allow mines to circumvent the requirement.

Live coverage of the 2016 VCE and ATAR results.

The ACT government must spend $120 million over the next four years to upgrade Canberra's disintegrating cycling infrastructure, the territory's peak cycling body says.

China expressed "serious concern" on Monday after US president-elect Donald Trump said the United States did not necessarily have to stick to its long-held stance that Taiwan is part of "one China".

Canberra students have topped the nation in NAPLAN once again and will lead the way for the transition to online testing.

Michelago villagers have expressed anger and frustration at Transport NSW's plans to demolish a landmark bridge without community consultation.

An entire new apartment tower was evacuated in the middle of Melbourne's CBD after a balcony fire.

​More than half of NSW year 9 students would fail at the first hurdle to get their HSC based on this year's NAPLAN results, released in full today. 

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Australia's immigration chief has conducted a secret trip to the United States to reach out to Donald Trump's officials.

The election of Donald Trump broke new ground in the way information has been used and abused, presenting a historic challenge to the media.

The secretive German supermarket paid $71.56 million in tax in the 2014-15 financial year, in figures disclosed by the Australian Taxation Office.

Fox Sports announced on Monday that experienced and revered sports broadcaster Kelli Underwood would spearhead its commentary team for the inaugural AFL Women's competition. The term "comeback" was bandied around after that disclosure.

A woman has been sexually assaulted by two men outside her home near Albany.

A special report examining mental health support for Melbourne's firefighters has been blocked for release by the firefighters union, who argue the report vilifies an already under-siege workforce.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk should reject a $1 billion taxpayer concessional loan for the Adani Carmichael mine's rail line, the Queensland Greens say.

Police are hunting for a man who smashed a till over a cashier's head on Monday during a violent hold-up at a southern suburbs deli.

Having sown seed of Tommy Toe tomatoes and covered them with glass cloches as night frost protection, on our first 31C day in November I dashed out and forgot to uncover them. Sun-dried tomato seedlings had been "cooked".

Police have identified the bones found in a septic tank at the back of a property in Brisbane's north last month as the remains of Wayne James Youngkin who went missing in 1986.

Passengers flying non-stop between Perth and London on Qantas can expect to pay up to 40 per cent more for a fare, according to an aviation expert.

Oil prices are set to rise above US$60 per barrel but analysts warn that higher prices will be met with more drilling by US shale producers.

The Lowy Institute has proposed opening Australia to workers from Pacific nations including Fiji, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands as a way of easing some of the shortages predicted as a result of changes to the backpacker tax and as a way of helping workers from those nations far more powerfully than could foreign aid.

Rafting through a rugged sub-Antarctic landscape, surrounded by colonies of penguins frolicking and playing in the water: this is the immersion that Sydney Aquarium is offering in a world-first experience.

Australia may have tougher laws aimed at recouping more tax from multinationals, but that won't stop the incoming US President Donald Trump to tell us to "get stuffed" in the fight for more revenue, a KPMG tax expert says.

Hundreds of truckies and travellers began moving again on Monday evening after an out-of-control bushfire forced the closure of Eyre Highway for a second time in a week, leaving many stranded.

Two people have died after their car collided head-on with a road train in WA's great southern region on Monday afternoon.

Russell Smith arguably has the greatest job in the world.

Queensland's most senior road policing officer is mystified and alarmed by driving practices after a deadly start to the Christmas holiday period in the Sunshine State.

A "sadistic" father who tortured, terrorised and sexually abused four children at a remote South Australian property has been jailed for up to 25 years.

West Coast utility Simon Tunbridge will miss the entire 2017 AFL season after rupturing the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee.

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Fairfax is calling it dirty. At the very least it's intriguing.

Northern Territory prisoner staff forced a teenage detainee to endure a 15-hour road trip to hell with little water and no toilet stops, the royal commission into juvenile justice has been told.

A home in Melton South was surrounded by specialist police for about seven hours on Monday, attempting to bring a "person of interest" out of the property.

Cricket just got a lot more interesting.

Cricket Australia is offering $20 "twilight session" tickets as day-night Test match cricket comes to the 'Gabba for the first time.

For five excruciating days, Natasha Kennedy resisted the temptation of opening her VCE results.

A Perth beautician who was jailed for touching clients' genitals during hair removal treatments has lost an appeal against his conviction.

The NRL has asked the Penrith Panthers for information over a string of vile social media posts aimed at State of Origin star-in-waiting Bryce Cartwright.

Fremantle skipper David Mundy insists it's too early to "pull the trigger" on Shane Yarran and Michael Johnson, saying the leadership group can't dish out any punishment until the duo's court cases are conducted.

Campbell Rider is one of thousands of students in the public school system who watched on, as news of the VCE results at the state's top private schools rolled in.

With his baseball cap pulled low, sunglasses on inside and wheeling a pushbike, Matthew Osborne did not look like a man interested in a $185,000 ring. 

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Two new wind farms that be built in NSW next year will power 90,000 ACT homes with renewable electricity.