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Micro-parties and preferences dominate discussion on the WA election campaign, with Pauline Hanson wading into the preference deal debate.

Super Netball is a new product of a long-standing popular code about to join the growing landscape of women's sport.

Think sport and art don't mix? The artists behind a PIAF show described as "a large-scale public artwork that culminates in a huge party" in Fremantle want you to think again as they celebrate women in football.

The vexed issue of internet speed, mobile phones and loss of landlines may be addressed with new trial.

Host: Ellen Fanning
Panel: Michael Pascoe, Dee Madigan, Ming Long and Jim Molan
The panel discusses the Government’s threat to increase taxes if the omnibus bill doesn’t pass, Adani coal mine protest plans and Australia’s alliance with the US.

Mike Fitzpatrick reflects on the ups and downs of his 10-year reign as AFL chairman, including Essendon's doping saga, the AFL's expansion plans, gambling and the new women's league.

An Uber driver is found guilty by a Sydney court of raping a female passenger, after picking her up at a Kings Cross nightclub in 2015.

Champion swimmer Grant Hackett has been released from police custody after a disturbance at his parents' house on Queensland's Gold Coast.

Loghman Sawari, the 20-year-old Iranian refugee deported from Fiji to Papua New Guinea, is granted bail by a magistrate in Port Moresby.

A Queensland's sugar industry report warns that the pain from increasing electricity prices under a new tariff proposal is almost guaranteed.

A stoush about housing affordability erupts in Parliament after the Premier announces she has hired former Reserve Bank governor Glenn Stevens to advise her Government on the issue.

More than 60,000 mines have been abandoned across Australia and there is evidence that only a handful have ever been fully rehabilitated, according to a report, raising concerns about how the land will be managed as the mining boom ends.

Hear the story behind an amazing photo that's proving to be a big hit on social media - A fox stranded in a tree watching farmers using a dinghy to save sheep from floodwaters.

Livestock producers in flood affected areas of Western Australia anxiously waiting to check on the condition of the state barrier dog fence.

A wild dog that terrorised a sheep property in the New South Wales Upper Hunter for the last seven years finally meets it maker.

A Kununurra farmer who has recently returned from a study tour of Brazil talks about some wet-season cropping options that could suit farms in the Ord Irrigation Scheme.

Despite the fact some areas of Australia have broken harvest records for the 2017/17 season, recent CSIRO research shows Australia's average wheat yield did NOT increase from 1990 to 2015. Climate change is to blame.

The Australian Export Grains Innovation Centre's Ken Quail recommends Aussie farmers should be planting better quality wheat varieties to meet demands from south east Asia.

Just over 12,000 sheep sold at Katanning today with most prices holding firm.

Origin Energy finally bites the bullet and wipes more than $1 billion off the value of its stake in the $25 billion APLNG gas export project in Queensland.

Rabbit owners are being urged to make sure their pet is vaccinated, as the South Australian Government prepares to release a new strain of the calicivirus.

As the Northern Territory grapples with an increase in property crime, particularly involving young perpetrators, the Government announces it will seek to pass legislation on urgency so GPS tracking ankle bracelets can be used to reduce crime.

An Australian vegetable grower plans to target export market for capsicums, Lebanese cucumbers and potentially zucchinis in the Middle East and Asia.

Western Australia's South West braces for flooding as rivers continue to swell following record rainfall in the state, with storms claiming two lives on the weekend.

The new-look Cooma saleyards officially open to the public after $650,000 worth of upgrades to serve the growing calf market.

Des Bettany arrived in Singapore in 1941 carrying a kids' art set and a talent for cartoons which carried him through his years as a POW.

Clive Palmer tells a Brisbane court he cannot remember details of multi-million-dollar payments made by his mining empire while he was chairman.

Hobart firefighters bring a blaze near Lindisfarne under control after it burnt 25 hectares of scrub and bush and came close to homes.

Olympic swimming champion Grant Hackett has struggled to adjust to life in retirement like many other sportspeople, writes Mary Gearin.

Electricity load shedding in South Australia last week, which affected 90,000 customers, was three times the level ordered by the Australian Energy Market Operator, a report into the blackouts finds.

In Indonesia, millions of Jakartans will head to the polls to elect a new governor in what has become a bitter campaign revolving around religion and race.