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Twenty-three people have been killed and 17 injured in a ferry accident off the coast of Jakarta.

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The Queen's Wharf site has been officially handed over to the Destination Brisbane Consortium, with road closures and works beginning on January 1.

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New information released by Victoria Police has offered an insight into why so many motorcyclists were killed on Victorian roads in 2016.

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Logan Hospital staff were kept busy throughout New Years celebrations, delivering a baby less than 40 minutes into 2017.

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A 14-year-old boy has been charged after allegedly crashing a four-wheel-drive into a Gold Coast home on Tuesday.

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Falls Festival organisers have blamed the terrifying crowd crush on a 'confluence of events', but say the exact cause is still being investigated.

Queen Elizabeth will miss a New Year's Day church service on Sunday due to a heavy cold, Buckingham Palace said, a week after the 90-year-old monarch missed a Christmas Day service for the first time in decades.

South Korean President Park Geun-hye has denied allegations of wrongdoing in a political scandal that threatens her presidency, saying the accusations against her were "fabrication and falsehood".

A two-year-old girl is in hospital in a critical condition after she was found unconscious in a backyard pool in Macquarie Fields on Sunday evening.

Christine Guzara is among thousands of injured workers who will be cut off the NSW workers compensation scheme this year despite it posting a record $1.4 billion surplus.

Portsea holidaymakers spent New Year's Day scrubbing graffiti from vandalised beach boxes on Point King Beach.

There will be fun for the kids at Summernats 30 which starts revving its engine from Thursday.

The first time Mark Parton was told he couldn't do something, he was 11 years old.

Beijing: Heavy smog in northern China on Sunday caused hundreds of flights to be cancelled and highways to shut, disrupting the first day of the new year holiday.

The pursuit of free trade agreements remains a strong priority of the federal government in the face of a rising populist protectionism, particularly from US President-elect Donald Trump.

One small town brought in the new year by Scottish dancing, playing bagpipes, sprinting ... and lifting huge stones.

Authorities are searching for a missing swimmer at Lake Eucumbene in the Snowy Mountains.

Three men have been charged and police continue their inquiries after a number of alleged assaults and robberies at Bondi Beach.

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Bakers Delight workers in Victoria, some on $8 an hour, are being kept on an outdated contract from the unpopular WorkChoices era that drastically reduces weekend penalty rates.

Gains in commodities will continue next year - at least that's what hedge funds are signaling.

Disgruntled Qantas passengers who were stuck in transit in Dubai on New Year's Eve have finally landed in Sydney, after spending the first bit of 2017 in the sky.

Paramedics have been kept busy the past 24 to 36 hours, with more than 1000 jobs attended to across Perth, including more than 80 which were drug and or alcohol related.

More women in NSW are being diagnosed with diabetes during pregnancy and more are having births induced or delivered by caesarian, new figures show.

A branch of the fast-food chain McDonald's has opened in Vatican City, the seat of the Catholic Church, despite protests from residents and cardinals.

NSW Labor has fired its first political shot of the New Year with an assault on the Baird and Turnbull governments over housing affordability.

Regional Queensland outside the south-east corner will be high on everyone's agenda in 2017 with the likely Queensland election set to start in the second half of the year.

The University of Canberra has again refused to force all users of its computer systems to regularly change their passwords, ignoring recommendations the ACT Auditor-General has urged be taken on at the institution since 2006.

China's manufacturing sector expanded for a fifth month in December, but growth slowed a touch more than expected in a sign that government measures to rein in soaring asset prices are starting to have a knock-on effect on the broader economy.

Three men suffer drug overdoses, thought to be methamphetamine, at 500-strong party on New South Wales border.

There was nothing like it really.

A man has been charged with torture and beat/cause death of animal after he allegedly stabbed a dog in the early hours of the new year.

Police were out in force in Melbourne's CBD tonight to curb New Year's Eve trouble and show safety in numbers after the thwarted Christmas Day terror attacks.

She thought no one was looking. It was the middle of the day in a busy supermarket and she reached over the counter. She was 28 years old, seven months pregnant - and off her face.

You might want to hit the beach or your local swimming pool on Monday before most of us head back to work on Tuesday, with very hot weather predicted over the next two days.

A Belconnen teenager has won the honour of striking Australia's and the world's first coin of 2017, battling rain, sunburn and food poisoning in a six-day wait outside the Mint.

A grassfire is bearing down on the community of Tangambalanga, near Wodonga, in the state's north east.

Fee increases will see full Year 12 tuition cost more than $22,000 at the ACT's top-price school.

There were a few major incidents across Queensland during New Years Eve celebrations, but police were pleased with the decrease in arrests compared to 2015.

A trickle of boats from Indochina changed Australian refugee policy for good.

It started with a big thunderstorm and was marred by Friday night's crowd crush that left scores injured, but the 2016 Lorne Falls Festival ended with fireworks, supreme music and a lot of happy campers.

It was a noisy New Year's Eve at the Lost Dogs' Home. Staff and volunteers were coming and going constantly and the cages were filling fast.

BRISBANE, Jan 1 AAP - A man allegedly six times the blood alcohol limit with his teenage son in the front of the car later jumped out of a police vehicle and began abusing officers in southeast Queensland.

If you're going to spend a bundle on a new phone, it makes sense to fork out a bit extra on a bit of protection for it.

A dog in Rockingham is being hailed as 'extraordinary' for helping alert his owner to the fact his elderly neighbour was laying injured in his backyard for two days.

A Victorian man is dead after a fireworks accident in Gippsland during New Year's Eve celebrations.

It has been the single most fraught issue in retailing over the past two decades – shopper docket fuel discounts, which helped underwrite the emergence of the two dominant retailers, Coles and Woolworths, jointly controlling close to half of the national retail sales of petrol.

Human contact is an important part of health and our prosperity.

Talk of a stop-over in the United States by the Taiwan president has further rattled Washington-Beijing relations.

Police have called for witnesses and CCTV footage after a man stole cash from a dollar store cashier at knifepoint.