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Families with newborns have been evacuated from the maternity ward along with a number of other patients at St John of God Hospital after a fire broke out on Sunday afternoon - the second at the Mount Lawley hospital in a matter of months.

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Raiders prop Shannon Boyd labels Dave Taylor "quite a big human".

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A program begun in the US links local businesses with students in an effort to foster employment in science, technology and engineering, but critics say there is a lack of evidence that it works.

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The Turnbull government is making further moves toward establishing a government backed-bond vehicle for affordable housing as Treasurer Scott Morrison heads to Britain to seek guidance on Australia's housing affordability crisis and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull prioritises the issue.

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Australian shares are set to rise 0.5 per cent on Monday, futures show, the first session of the Trump era.

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Firefighters were working to extinguish an out of control blaze south of Tharwa on Sunday afternoon, the Emergency Services Agency has reported.

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The Justice Department has issued a fresh opinion declaring that Jared Kushner's appointment does not violate federal anti-nepotism laws.

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The AFL are seriously considering moving the women's season opener between Carlton and Collingwood from Olympic Park to the Blues' famed home Princes Park.

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The self-proclaimed counterpuncher woke from his first sleep at the White House to find the streets of the capital flooded with people protesting against him.

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An 8.0 magnitude earthquake has struck 47km west of Arawa on Bougainville island, Papua New Guinea, the United States Geological Survey reported on Sunday.

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A man will face court next month charged over a fire that destroyed a house in Brisbane's northside.

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Victoria's beleagured mental health system will face scrutiny from a coronial investigation into the deadly rampage in Melbourne's CBD last week, amid claims the tragedy could have been avoided if Dimitrious Gargasoulas' apparent mental health issues had been treated earlier.

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(Bloomberg) -- OPEC and Russia said they are ahead of schedule implementing their historic agreement to curb oil output and boost prices.

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The initiative to force Jammeh out could set a precedent in a region where democracy advocates have spent decades pressing for fair elections.

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Water police are searching for a man who has gone missing while diving in Port Phillip Bay.

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Premier Daniel Andrews has stopped short of announcing changes to bail laws in the wake of the Bourke Street tragedy but promised to make changes where needed, with resources and cost not an issue.

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For a little girl who had just survived an extraordinary ordeal, trapped for two days beneath snow, ice and rock, it was a disarmingly ordinary question.

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Australia's national leaders have joined the sombre memorial for victims of the Bourke St rampage, with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull declaring all Australians stood in solidarity with mourners.

A car bomb exploded late on Saturday close to the recently reopened Italian embassy in the Libyan capital, a security official said.

Inauguration met with a tidal wave of protest, with hundreds of thousands flooding Washington DC and huge crowds in other cities across the United States.

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Melbourne is in mourning after a three-month-old baby boy died in hospital last night, taking the Bourke Street attack death toll to five.

Reclaim Australia is planning an Australia Day rally in Fremantle to protest against the local council's cancellation of the traditional Australia Day celebrations.

Axiom Mining not daunted by recent upheaval in the nickel as Indonesia has eased export bans while the Philippines ramps up moves to force some producers to close.

The last time Paul Antaw's family saw him he was on his way to the Sydney CBD to stay with friends.

Tasmania is well-established as a producer of fine wine, craft beer, wagyu beef and endangered marsupials. But rugby players? 

A WA Lotto player should shout his mates and families drinks this Australia Day after snaffling a cool $2 million after becoming the state's latest division one winner.

The last few months have been ones to forget for biotech investors with a rotation of funds out of high PE stocks in many markets which has left stocks in the sector well down on their 2016 highs

The state government has launched a fundraiser to assist the families of those killed during Friday's rampage at Bourke Street Mall. 

More used to marching penguins, it was a different kind of movement that swept across one of the most remote places on the planet in recent hours.

He is always smiling, loves fashion and is adored by his friends.

A four-metre bull shark is believed to be the animal which mauled a scuba diver on Saturday afternoon.

Hundreds of Dunsborough residents have hit the streets again to protest against another petrol station to be built in the heart of South-West town.

Victoria Police are still waiting to interview suspect Dimitrious "Jimmy" Gargasoulas over the Bourke Street Mall car attack.

Police Commissioner Ian Stewart describes incidents as a part of a "very disturbing trend"

Swiss prosecutors will question Beny Steinmetz in Geneva amid an inquiry into allegations of bribery involving a $US20 billion mining project in the Simandou hills in the west African country of Guinea.

Australia's No.1 supermarket chain launches a "charm offensive" on suppliers left nervous by a court ruling that it did not act unconscionably by demanding up to $60 million from suppliers.

WA prisons could soon be bursting at the seams with the Barnett party's plans to jail motorists who flee from police, with a mandatory six-month sentence under radical new pursuit law launched on Sunday.

The mother of the man accused of mowing down pedestrians on Melbourne's busy Bourke Street, killing five, says she's ashamed to be his mum.

The girlfriend of the accused Bourke Street killer said he vowed to run down people in the Melbourne CBD before she escaped from his car.

While Donald Trump's inauguration was distinctly lacking in the celebrity department, the opposite has proven true at the Women's march. 

The President of Guinea is disputing public statements made by Rio Tinto about the firing of a senior executive for a $US10.5 million payment made to the president's friend Francois de Combret.

A woman has been left with serious leg injuries and her pet Chihuahua killed after a hit-and-run in western Sydney.

He is always smiling, loves fashion and is adored by his friends.

Three people have died and a car has ploughed through the front yard of an Ipswich home in separate accidents.

Warriors halfback Shaun Johnson says Kieran Foran is well on the way to returning to his best, but is not across the line just yet.

A Gold Coast man is expected to be charged with a large number of offences relating to up to 12 sex attacks dating back more than a decade.

A three-month-old boy has become the fifth person to die after Friday's Bourke Street car rampage.

A 10-year-old girl killed in Friday's Bourke Street car rampage was a student at a private Jewish school in St Kilda East.

Amid the glitz of President Donald Trump's inaugural festivities, one item stood out in particular late Friday night: a spectacular nine-tier cake that the new president and Vice President Mike Pence cut into with a sword.