The man accused of deliberately running down and killing Aboriginal teenager Elijah Doughty in Western Australia's Goldfields region wants to have his trial heard in their home town.
Escapism was the strategy for many advertisers at Super Bowl 51 as brands tried to provide an antidote to the weighty issues facing the United States.
Six men have been arrested following the largest seizure of cocaine in Australian history.
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Shares in fast-food chain Domino's Pizza Enterprises continued to fall on Monday, amid revelations the Fair Work Ombudsman is investigating stores for alleged underpayment of staff.
A jury has retired to consider its verdict in the case of an alleged sexual assault by a Gold Coast cosmetic surgeon.
Two men have pleaded guilty to shooting a police officer in the head with a shotgun during a pursuit through Melbourne's north-western suburbs.
Victorians have been urged to steer clear of all of Melbourne's 36 beaches after the city received one month's worth of rain overnight.
The days of TV journalists and photographers using helicopters to get a bird's eye view are fast fading. Drones, big and small, are increasingly being used to get stunning aerial images most of us thought were out of reach.
Four intruders, some armed with baseball bats, are believed to have smashed their way into a house where four footballers were sleeping - stealing their cars.
Former prime minister Kevin Rudd has hit back at Rupert Murdoch's News Corp Australia, accusing the company of a "bullying culture".
Australians spent more than $25.6 billion in December, but sales for the month dipped 0.1 per cent, confounding hopes for bumper Christmas sales.
Parts of Australia's farming industry are rushing to recruit a new generation of tech-savvy graduates as the sector swaps its bucolic past for a future of drones, robots and automated sensors.
An Emergency Services Agency spokesman described the fire as "quite significant".
Shares lose their early momentum and struggle to remain in the black, as losses in miners offset gains in banks.
All NSW students in year 11 and 12 will be offered free meningococcal vaccination to combat the rise in W strain cases and protect them against the potentially fatal disease.
Donald Trump boasted during the campaign that he knew more about Islamic State than the current military generals.
The history of presidents tangling with the court shows that they'll do it but only up to a point.
A man is believed to have been been injured in an electric shock at a business in Annerley in Brisbane's south.
A man captured on CCTV footage at the departure gate at Sydney Airport's international terminal could hold vital information about the suspicious disappearance of a restaurant manager from Sydney's west nearly four years ago.
A new, 224-bed, high-security juvenile prison will be built in Melbourne's west to ease the pressure on Victoria's embattled youth justice system.
A Melbourne woman's worst nightmare came to life on Sunday, when a snake wound itself around her car's windscreen wipers, as she was driving through the city.
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National Australia Bank has been forced to pay $36.5 million in compensation after the regulator revealed it had ripped off hundreds of thousands of superannuation members and knocked back insurance claims to seriously ill customers.
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Brumbies scrumhalf Tomas Cubelli to undergo surgery after tearing his patella tendon.
A man has died in hospital on Sunday after being seriously injured by a boat propeller south of Perth on Saturday.
The timing of a potential new Scottish referendum would be determined by the process of Britain's exit from the European Union.
Cory Bernardi is set to upend centre-right politics in Australia and announce on Tuesday that he is resigning from the Liberal Party.
Outspoken Coalition MP says he has no plans to join a new breakaway party but warns things have to change.
Research undertaken by the sex abuse royal commission has revealed the extent of alleged crimes in Catholic institutions for the first time.
Hawthorn have announced that they have employed recruiting firm Pacific Search Partners to help find the club's next chief executive.
It's 10am on a Wednesday morning and I'm about to do something I've only done twice in the six years I've lived in Canberra - catch a bus.
At least 50 people have died and dozens more are missing after an avalanche buried a village in Nuristan, Afghanistan.
Donald Trump may not have forged peace in the Middle East, but he's doing wonders for relations between Jews and Muslims in the United States.
Wales overcame a poor start to cruch Italy 33-7 in their opening Six Nations encounter in Rome on Sunday.
Amber Harrison has reported her former employer, Seven West Media, to the market and corporate regulators, claiming a company statement last week had misled the sharemarket.
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has echoed Donald Trump's praise for Russian president Vladimir Putin, calling him "a strong leader" and entertaining the prospect she could become prime minister of Australia.
NSW stalwart Rob Horne rejected the big money lure of Europe once before, but a deal with a UK Premiership club has proved too good to resist.
A trio of Republican senators have reacted sharply to President Donald Trump's latest apparent defence of Russian President Vladimir Putin, rejecting Trump's suggestion in an interview that America cannot claim moral superiority to Putin's Russia.
Sydney Boys High School student Daniel Cai is the winner of the Student Clique launch challenge "Student Life".
Cystic Fibrosis Australia is staging a rally at Parliament House on Tuesday to draw attention to the need for access to life-changing drugs to extend and improve life.
Sydney is becoming a lopsided city as some suburbs approve thousands more new developments than required and others only a fraction of their share, a new analysis shows.
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Free Wi-Fi is a windfall, but you do have to care about security when you're out and about. Here's how to surf safely, on any device.
The state's endangered animal emblem and others will be extinct unless the Victorian government protects ash forests in the central highlands.
After a long pause, the auctioneer commissioned to sell a northern Sydney beach-side apartment for in excess of $800,000 puts his gavel away, unable to entice a single bid.
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