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Police are frantically searching for a man missing off the coast of Rockingham after locating a body and boat debris in the area on Monday.

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Melbourne Express is your morning primer - a live blog with breaking news, headlines, transport updates and weather.

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The AFL will look at extending the women's footy season next year following the hugely successful inaugural campaign this year.

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The owner of three dogs that "ripped apart" a Pomeranian in a fatal mauling says he is still shocked by the attack.

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Oroton Group has scrapped its interim dividend after its first-half profit slumped more than 50 per cent to $1.8 million.

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Hamilton Island recorded winds of 222km/h on Tuesday morning as the wild weather tore through the Whitsundays.

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Barnaby Joyce says he is not privy to why the Turnbull government wants to quickly ratify a 10-year-old extradition treaty between Australia and China

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A strata titled warehouse sold within a week of hitting the market for $480,000, a rate of $2000 per sq m.

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It looks like Cyclone Debbie will cross the Queensland coast around lunchtime. You can check her progress and expected path here. Debbie has been whipping up destructive winds since the early hours of this morning. Follow our live blog here. She's expected to remain a tropical cyclone until tomorrow and will continue to dump rain on central Queensland for days. Farmers are bracing for up to $1 billion worth of lost crops. You'll read or hear the term "storm surge" in relation to Cyclone Debbie. Essentially it's a very high tide, sometimes described as tsunami-like. In 1970, when a cyclone hit the coast of Bangladesh, over 300,000 people were drowned by the storm surge. Here's an explainer from the weather bureau.

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Bill Gross and Pacific Investment Management Co have settled a breach of contract suit the money manager filed in 2015.

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Even government MPs say they are "deeply unimpressed" with the Immigration Department.

• 46 mins ago

When Andrew Ong ran away from his Camberwell home on Monday, he left a long note on the kitchen table, grabbed his myki and backpack, and headed to the train station.

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"This will be giving a free ticket to racism and telling the whole world we don't care about minorities".

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Latest on the category 4 storm as it heads for the north Queensland near Bowen.

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Senior Tax Office officials have revealed they sought legal advice after hearing "bureaucratic whispers" George Brandis would attempt to shut the ATO out of the Bell Group litigation.

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Seven teenagers and a teacher from a high school mountaineering club died in an avalanche on Monday in an area of northeastern Japan that had been blanketed by unusually heavy spring snows, authorities said.

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A man is fighting for his life after he hit the side of a train, following a "wrestle" with Protective Services Officers at Preston train station on Monday night.

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1996: A 17-year-old Ben Cousins debuts for the West Coast Eagles, kicking two goals in his first game. He goes on to win the AFL's Rising Star award that same year.

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Twenty-two-year old Perth mum Kristie Porter and her partner Allen Barnsley, 25, were looking forward to finding out the sex of their second child, excited to plan a gender reveal party for their family and friends, when they were hit with devastating news

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Western Force chairman Tony Howarth says the club's efforts to succeed have been undermined by Australian rugby powers.

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The alert from Fox News went out at 5.30pm Sunday. It wasn't long until it was proven untrue.

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When Eileen Fahey realised a supposed sighting of her missing son on a busy Sydney street was false, she lost hope as fast as she had gained it.

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Two Australian children face being separated from their parents after the Turnbull government made final moves to deport the couple.

Deputy PM Barnaby Joyce described the ACT's renewable energy target as "completely insane".

Emergency services in Canberra received 24 calls for help on Monday night as a thunderstorm heading east faced its last moments.

A woman walking on a beach in Melbourne's south-east picked up a stray basketball and it exploded, leaving her with burns to her face, head and forearms.

Iron ore fell, extending its retreat from its February peak to 14 per cent, as Chinese steel inventories edge ever higher.

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Tech giant needs to have an explosive launch event for its next premium smartphone on Wednesday - speaking figuratively, of course.

Do you work like a nomad - travel from place to place for your job - and then claim it on your tax return? The ATO is watching.

Facebook has hired Michael Hillman, a 15-year veteran of Apple, as head of hardware for its Oculus VR division.

Facebook added a feature to its Messenger app on Monday to allow users to share their locations continuously for up to an hour, ramping up competition with tools offered by Apple and Alphabet's Google Maps.

Concerns about Bimberi Youth Detention Centre escalate and new program aims to boost jobs for people with a disability.

Vladimir Putin's government will face further demonstrations of public discontent after a wave of anti-corruption protests swept Russia, says Navalny

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A 45-year-old Clyde North man has been charged with attempted murder after allegedly attacking his estranged wife with an axe at a Melbourne shopping centre on Monday.

An Australian woman has died at a luxury seaside villa in Bali, after Indonesian police say she consumed more than a bottle of vodka.

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The Republican chair of the House Intelligence Committee is making it very hard for his committee to meet high standards of impartiality.

A 100 kg Canadian gold coin was stolen in the early hours of Monday morning from Berlin's Bode Museum.

News Corporation's Fox Sports has sparked a revolt from the powerful NSW and Queensland clubs lobby after proposing massive subscription increases.

North Queensland is bracing as Cyclone Debbie is set to cross the coast as a destructive category 4.

The Greens MP Adam Bandt has linked the fatal Cyclone Debbie raging across northern Queensland to a proposed new coal-fired power plant saying more people will suffer.

The Senate Intelligence Committee is expected to interview President Trump's son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner as part of a sweeping investigation into potential links between the Trump campaign and Russian officials.

Before the Bulldogs consider sacking the coach, they need to find a leader on the field who will play angry.

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What started last week as a trickle in Australia looks like turning into a mini avalanche.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was jailed for 15 days after the largest anti-government demonstrations for at least five years energised President Vladimir Putin's critics as presidential elections loom.

When Maria Thomas entrusted her son into the care of a state-funded disability emergency home, she expected him to be safe.

The parents of Zachary Bryant, the youngest victim of the Bourke Street attack, have spoken out about their loss.

Funtastic is delisting from the ASX "as it is no longer in the best interests of the company" and investors like billionaires Gerry Harvey, News Corp's Lachlan Murdoch and Melbourne's Mathieson family.

• EXCLUSIVE

Malcolm Turnbull has refused to rule out further regulating electricity prices to get a better deal for consumers as energy retailers declared his new inquiry will "bust the myth" there is any price-gouging in the market.