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WA residents can now look up their suburb's crime rate on an interactive map of the state.

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Resource stocks are set to push the ASX higher, while the US dollar slumped following Donald Trump's first press conference since his election.

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A truck rolled over on Sutton Road near the Federal Highway.

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A man is wanted by police for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman at a bar in St Kilda on Saturday night.

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Leicester have announced new contracts for former Waratahs and Wallabies winger Peter Betham and lock Graham Kitchener.

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A motorist has died after his car crashed into a tree in the Sunshine Coast hinterland overnight.

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Demolition has started on four Narrabundah duplexes the community fought to save.

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The Afghan Taliban has released a video showing an Australian and an American hostage pleading with the US government to negotiate with their captors

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Inbound flights from Singapore about are half full with Canberra passengers while those from Wellington are about a quarter full.

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Finance Department flexed its muscles against flag-ship project of agile government.

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Obama having given his farewell speech, the rhetoric of Donald Trump via twitter and news outlets now becomes very real.

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A jury heard that Harris assaulted girls aged 12, 13, 14 and 16, and three adult women including one who was blind and physically disabled.

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Radradra stands at the intersection of two basic philosophical arguments regarding professional sports.

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A teenager has appeared in court charged with murdering a seven-year-old girl whose mother broke down in tears as she tried in vain to save the life of her daughter found seriously injured on a playing field.

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A fire swept through a group of factories in Melbourne's west overnight, destroying a jumping castle hire company and causing damage to at least two other businesses.

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Some relief today for Sydney after yesterday's scorcher. It'll be a top of 29 in the CBD with only a slight chance of rain and only one degree higher out west.

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Facebook has announced that it's launching its own journalism project, continuing its efforts to change the way media organisations work with the social network. The move could be seen as an extension of its vow earlier this year to crack down on fake news on the site.

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When Phoenix-based Ratnesh Mishra came across a picture of an Indian flag doormat on Amazon's Canadian website, he was incensed.

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Five men have been charged over an alleged torture involving 16 people at a mechanic workshop on the Gold Coast.

Four young children were allegedly left inside a locked car in Sydney's west on Wednesday afternoon, as the mercury hit its peak at 40.9 degrees.

US President-elect Donald Trump acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that he believes Russian operatives hacked the Democratic Party during the election, but he continued to dispute intelligence reports that Moscow acted to help him win.

The transit of the aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, came amid rising tensions between Taiwan and China.

A two-year-old boy who was found unconscious in a fish pond at a house in Sydney's west last week has died in hospital, the latest victim in a spate of tragic drownings to plague the state this summer.

Volkswagen took a major step toward resolving one of the darkest chapters in its history Wednesday, pleading guilty to an emissions-cheating scandal and agreeing to pay $US4.3 billion ($5.8 billion) in criminal and civil charges as the US announced charges against five new individuals.

Few international passengers stopping in Canberra, how the Turnbull government killed its digital dream and a sprinter with albinism's battle against the sun.

What did the president-elect say in his first news conference since July?

Donald Trump plans to transfer all his business assets into a trust and putting his two sons in charge, a Trump lawyer said.

President-elect tells press conference he was recently turned down a $US2 billion deal in Dubai. 'I don't like the way that looks, but I would be able to do that if I wanted to.'

A wage negotiation at the world's top copper mine is showing the downside for producers of recovering prices.

Iron ore and steel futures in China advanced for a third session on Wednesday, hitting their strongest in three weeks

Missing man Alan Langdon and his six-year-old daughter were found alive in Ulladulla, a coastal town in New South Wales, on Wednesday afternoon after weeks at sea.

Several Anzac Day marches have been cancelled in the Blue Mountains because RSL groups say they cannot afford to pay for anti-terrorism measures required by police and the state government.

The bus in which a Brisbane bus driver was burnt to death last October has been destroyed, and its fleet number retired, out of respect for slain Manmeet Sharma.

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 Professorial to the end, President Barack Obama finished his farewell speech to Americans with a brief lecture in language and tense – "yes we can" became "yes we did."

Parents can discover whether their child's school has asbestos present - and where - in new Queensland state school data.

Brisbane commuters will have to keep waiting to find out what their train timetable will look like in two weeks' time.

Shane and Sharon have made the list for top baby names in Victoria. Just kidding. That was 50 years ago.

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The tidal wave of apartment construction in Melbourne's city centre has, for the most part, been heralded as a great thing for the vibrancy of the CBD. But could these 19,000 new homes be the start of a dangerous trend, one that is much more difficult to fix?

Former One Nation senator Rodney Culleton has threatened a High Court challenge to his disqualification from federal Parliament for being bankrupt.  

A secret search for the remains of Matthew Leveson in dense bushland south of Sydney has failed to unearth any trace of him.

An eight-year-old boy has drowned at Lake Hume in north-east Victoria.

"Papillion a deux taches bleu" - A tribute to Sophie Collombet, by Senior Constable Bruno Masot

New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra is in the box seat to control the future of infant milk products group Bellamy's with an effective ''poison pill'' arrangement.

Micro-sleep may have killed a man whose car crashed into a tree at Anakie in Victoria's west on Wednesday morning.

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Fire and emergency services have responded to a chemical spill in Welshpool.

A midfielder nicknamed "Juddy" has been appointed captain of Fremantle for their inaugural AFLW season, with Kara Donnellan handed the responsibility of spearheading the franchise's premiership hopes.

The travel plans of hundreds of Australian holidaymakers are uncertain with Tigerair cancelling all flights in and out of Bali.

Power cuts, sizzled tennis players and runaway grassfires featured in another scorching summer's day in and around Sydney, with only a limited respite before the heat returns.

Two new tall towers will bookend Pyrmont bridge within a few years as developers push to complete the facelift of Sydney's Darling Harbour precinct in over $ billion of further redevelopment.