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A grass fire burning near Wamboin has been brought under control by firefighters, however units are being diverted to a fire near Tarago.

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Born eight weeks premature, Kirilly Lam was a fighter from the start. Eighteen years on, she's first person in her family to do the HSC and will soon start a nursing degree at Western Sydney University.

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Embattled Tigerair deserves a "spanking" for its handling of Bali flight cancellations, according to a disgruntled customer missing work as a result of delays.

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Nine directors have been formally accused of working against the interests of members by engaging in a cover-up.

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Sightings of the stereotypical ugly American usually are reported from abroad, but this

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Bra shopping. It's never easy. But for a stressed mum with toddlers in tow, a healthy dollop of shame can push you to the edge.

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The exact size of the salaries of the top executives at the body overseeing Sydney's WestConnex motorway project will remain a secret.

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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has schooled Andrew Laming on the importance of teachers, in the wake of the backbencher's ill-advised social media post questioning teachers' work ethic -  after his daughter delivered her own assessment over the comments.

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The Philippines has filed a low-key diplomatic protest over reports that China has installed anti-aircraft and anti-missile weapons on seven artificial islands in the flashpoint waters of the South China Sea.

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A man who damaged prestige cars during a drunken bender has been spared a conviction so he can return to work in Afganistan as a private security guard.

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Police are hunting a man who tried to hold up a post office and liquor store with a syringe in the southern and northern suburbs.

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The smartest state school students from across Victoria's could board for the first time at a new academy for gifted children, with the Andrews government investigating its construction next to Melbourne High School.

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An Australian woman and her family missing from a ski resort west of Tokyo have been found.

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North Melbourne expect big man Majak Daw to recover from knee surgery in time for the start of the AFL season.

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Police will provide an update on the investigation into the murder of 11-year-old boy Gerard Ross in Rockingham in 1997.

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Police will release new security camera footage as they ramp up their hunt for a man who savagely attacked a young Polish nanny north of Brisbane.

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For months there has been excitement among the cat cognoscenti about the Catterbox, described in a viral video as 'the world's first talking cat collar'.

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Melburnians will no longer have to endure a sweltering 38 degrees on Tuesday, with the Bureau of Meteorology dropping the forecast by three degrees, with a cool change to hit sooner than expected.

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Who is the player with the most to prove in the upcoming NRL season.

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A woman who escaped from a Gold Coast prison on New Year's Eve is back in jail.

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Government looking to claw back more than $1 billion from Australia's pensioners.

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The world's chief executives are shrugging off worries around global volatility and are increasingly confident their businesses will grow in the next year.

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Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk will be seeking assurances the new Queensland Rail timetable is up to scratch when she meets with Transport Minister Stirling Hinchliffe on Wednesday.

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Two women have been allegedly bashed, one with a rock, in a home invasion in the Perth Hills on Monday.

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Maritime security and trade have been key themes during Abe's other stops - in Indonesia, the Philippines and Australia.

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Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has ruled out splitting Queensland into two time zones to allow for daylight saving, even though she would personally like to wind her clock forward.

The man who killed dozens of people in a shooting at an Istanbul nightclub on New Year's Eve has been caught by police, local media reports.

An Australian man who narrowly avoided being shot in a beachside nightclub in Mexico believed there may have been more than one gunman firing into venue, which was packed with hundreds of revellers at the time.

A woman has died four days after she was injured in a bicycle accident on the Gold Coast.

Queensland police and the RSPCA have seized more than 100 dogs from an alleged puppy farm in outback Queensland.

Japanese researchers say they have successfully copied fingerprint data from a digital picture of a person flashing a two-fingered "V" or peace sign, raising questions about the potential theft of such information.

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Combustible cladding plastered across a Docklands high-rise will be stripped from the building after it was found the imported material posed a "significant and unacceptable" risk to hundreds of residents.

NRL officials and Brisbane are investigating claims that troubled Broncos centre James Roberts forcefully pulled a young woman by her hair at a Gold Coast nightclub.

Three people died from drug overdoses across Melbourne at the weekend, a court has heard, as police investigate the distribution of a bad batch of ecstasy.

Clearly modelled after a grim nanny-state vision of Russia, 'Beholder' tasks players with balancing two opposing goals: run an apartment building as a respectable landlord who is liked by his tenants, and keep your government employers happy by constantly monitoring, reporting and spying on said tenants.

In a protest to show that Switzerland's new rules on Swiss-Made are too lenient, a luxury watchmaker has built what it calls a 100 per cent Swiss timepiece, composed only with locally produced natural resources, such as a strap of cowhide rather than alligator leather, plus a more unusual ingredient: cheese.

An analysis of more than a decade of Australian bites and stings has found that the bee poses the biggest public health threat.

A bid to by energy company AGL to force workers at its Gippsland power plant to work overtime to ensure the site can operate fully has been dismissed by the industrial umpire, as the relationship between the company and the union further deteriorates.

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Shares sink, led down by the big banks as investors turn wary ahead of UK Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit speech and Trump's inauguration.

A new exhibition in Sydney showcases a range of exciting and provocative portraits of the legendary British musician, David Bowie.

The first sign something was wrong with little Annabelle Potts came at Christmas when she began bumping into walls and stumbling as she walked.

Elizabeth Gaines and Holly Kramer will step down from the board of Nine Entertainment, the company announced to the market on Tuesday morning. 

A Melbourne personal trainer says she's "lucky to be alive" after a kangaroo attacked her while she was going for a run in Templestowe on Saturday morning.

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This is not the first time that president-elect Trump has criticised either the EU or NATO. The latter especially was on high rotation in his campaign.

There is a coffee war brewing in Perth

A 24-year-old graphic designer is facing court after allegedly stealing online fashion retailer Showpo's entire customer contact list and giving it to a rival.

A furious alleged victim of Rolf Harris' wandering hands 40 years ago has challenged him in court to admit his guilt and apologise to everyone he has attacked.

A group of friends from Perth visiting Mexico managed to escape alive after a gunman opened fire at a music festival on Monday, killing four people and injuring 12 others.

Two men and a young boy were pulled from the water in Western Port Bay after their boat capsized and partially sank while fishing at night.