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Crowned with spiky feathered headdresses and daubed with face paint, scores of protesters gathered outside the Jakarta offices of an American mining giant last week, chanting, waving signs and throwing uncertainty into global commodities markets.

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St George Illawarra have continued their impressive start to the year to move into second position, however the victory against the Wests Tigers may have come at a price.

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Canberra Raiders recruitment boss Peter Mulholland confident they'll have no troubles with salary cap uncertainty.

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The NSW Waratahs became the fourth Australian side to fall to a New Zealand franchise on the weekend with a 41-22 defeat to the Crusaders on Sunday afternoon.

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An elevated cycling freeway will be built above Footscray Road, transporting cyclists faster into Melbourne's CBD.

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A motorist ripped a motorcyclist off his motorbike by the neck, before punching and kicking him in a vicious road rage incident at a busy intersection in Preston on Sunday morning.

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This was the kind of game Melbourne of recent years have tended to lose, but they're now two from two after beating Carlton by 22 points.

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In nearly a decade, just one of 45 AFL teams that have begun a season 0-2 have recovered to make finals. Can Sydney and Hawthorn reverse that trend?

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An alleged high-speed rampage in Melbourne's CBD has left the driver in hospital and dozens of cars damaged.

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The Wests Tigers are expected to announce Ivan Cleary as coach on Monday after notching up their fourth consecutive loss of the season against the Dragons.

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Canberra Raiders and former Gold Coast halfback Aidan Sezer backs Jarryd Hayne to make any NRL team better.

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The Canberra Raiders not only boast the biggest forward pack in the NRL, but they have a second pack as well.

Nelson Raebel was wading through floodwaters near his Logan property when he went missing on Friday.

The homicide squad is investigating the death of a woman taken to hospital from a private boarding house in Frankston that was previously investigated by the local council over complaints it had contributed to soaring crime rates in the area.

Skills guru Mick Byrne's comments during the week about Australian sides needing to work on their unstructured skills played almost to the word as the Waratahs succumbed to the Crusaders ensemble play on Sunday.

Geelong have stormed back to beat North Melbourne by one point in an epic match at Etihad Stadium.

Mike Hall has been remembered as genuine and generous as more than a hundred mourners cycled in his memory in Canberra on Sunday.

Thousands of residents in Lismore and Northern NSW were given the all clear to return to their homes on Sunday as the full extent of the floodwater carnage became clear.

The artist and the subjects involved in a new exhibition on child Holocaust survivors hope it will shine a light on the experiences of today's trauma victims.

Passengers of the Joondalup and Mandurah train line will have to make alternative arrangements at night time from Sunday until Thursday due to maintenance work.

Law firms used to get just a trickle of calls about historical child sex abuse four years ago. Now it's being described as a tsunami.

The recently-installed CFA board has been warned it will be sacked if it disrespects volunteers' rights under a Victorian Coalition government.

It seems moving mountains for cancer patients starts with moving wheels.

It's a night out dancing, eating and drinking, but there's a catch. Everything has to be white.

Trucks will be banned from detouring through key suburban streets in Yarraville and Footscray.

Former Geelong premiership player Jimmy Bartel feels sorry for ex-teammate Gary Ablett but doubts the Gold Coast will allow the veteran star to return home.

A 25-year-old man who's alleged to have dragged a Perth police officer for several metres with his car has been charged over the incident.

Follow our live match tracker as the Power host the Dockers to close out round two.

Vedanta Resources Chief Executive Officer Tom Albanese will leave the $US2.7 billion Indian resources giant by the end of August after three years in the job, with billionaire Chairman Anil Agarwal leading the search for his replacement.

A man was seen running from a ute shortly after the vehicle's interior caught fire and was later destroyed in the blaze.

Paramedics and police said the party-goers were lucky to escape with only minor injuries.

Julian Wilson's hopes of a maiden Margaret River Pro surfing crown have been extinguished after Sunday's fifth-round loss to Tahiti's Michel Bourez.

Two-and-a-half months since announcing his exit from politics former Premier Mike Baird teamed up with his successor on Sunday and praised her decision to partly dismantle one of his key policies.

Richard Hargreave, sommelier at momofuku in Las Vegas, says diners in his restaurant rarely think of Australian wines.

Almost five years after he was involved in the alleged hit and run, he has refused to meet prosecutors.

President Donald Trump promised to revive manufacturing in the United States, but there's one once-burgeoning sector poised to shrink under his watch: the gun industry.

Indian Pacific Wheel Race rider Nick Skarajew won't complete the route that took the life of British racer Mike Hall - he just cannot put his parents through it.

The Australian government March 31 announced a crack-down on a tax scam in the gold trading industry, with new legislation to apply retrospectively from April 1.

Former deputy mayor of Auburn council Salim Mehajer has been charged with allegedly assaulting a taxi driver at the Star Casino in the early hours of Sunday morning.

An all-in honesty session at the Giants last week provided the catalyst for Saturday's form reversal.

Five women have received payments totalling about $US13 million from either Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox or television host Bill O'Reilly in exchange for agreeing to not sue or talk about their accusations against him, according to a report in The New York Times.

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Follow our live match tracker as the Dees host the Blues at the MCG.

A search has resumed off the coast of Denmark in WA's Great Southern for a 31-year-old man swept off rocks into the sea on Saturday afternoon.

A 16-year-old boy has died after a traffic crash in Kewdale on Saturday night.

Four-time Hawthorn premiership defender Grant Birchall will miss around a month of football after scans confirmed he suffered a fractured jaw early in his side's loss to Adelaide on Saturday.

A boat tied to a jetty in east Fremantle has been badly damaged by fire on Sunday morning.

Family Services minister Pru Goward has been accused of hypocrisy over her announcement of a new carer's payment for foster families who provide "a forever home" for kids; as it can be revealed Ms Goward was the minister who abolished the same payment just five years ago.

Indonesian rescuers have found one body and are looking for 28 other people feared to be buried after a landslide triggered by heavy rain on Indonesia's Java island.

A 14-year-old US boy has been arrested over the sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl that was streamed live on Facebook.