• 6 mins ago

Waiting for the baggage to arrive on the carousel at the Canberra Airport was most definitely not a chore this week.

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"I've been in the service 27 years. It was the most scariest day I've ever worked. The anger and the violence was massive.We had no control at all... we were lucky there were not more injuries."

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Finally, the wait is over for Jamie Elliott. Collingwood have immediately turned to the small forward for senior selection one week after he bagged five goals in the VFL. Sunday's match against St Kilda will be Elliott's first AFL game in nearly 600 days.

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Embattled Wallabies captain Stephen Moore will rediscover his form in time for the June Test series, according to Michael Cheika.

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The teenage parents who disappeared from a Sydney hospital with their three-day-old baby have been located.

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Wallabies coach Michael Cheika says the ARU will make sure all but a handful of players from the yet-to-be-named axed team will be found a new home in Super Rugby.

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Tension between Brisbane and Cronulla escalated beyond the issue of Jack Bird's defection on Thursday with the Broncos lodging a complaint to the NRL about the premiers.

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At one school, parents says there are 60 girls to a toilet and children access the playground in shifts.

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Rebels coach Tony McGahan says his players need to show their passion for their team when they face the ACT Brumbies on Saturday night.

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The former managing director squares up ARU board and management over the sorry state of the sport.

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Donations to the Cyclone Debbie appeal have come in at $2.8 million so far - a small drop in the ocean compared to the 2011 floods.

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Internet giant Google is back in the hunt for new digs.

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New plans for St Kilda Road bike lanes that would see cyclists riding down the middle of the boulevard are unsafe and should be dumped, Port Phillip Council says.

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Few people outside of Indonesia would have heard of Palangkaraya. Most of it is jungle with boat tours, prayer hills and opportunities to see orangutans.

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Bali: With just weeks to go until she will be deported to Australia, Schapelle Corby has asked Bali immigration and corrections chiefs when she will be allowed to return to Indonesia.

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A raft of punitive measures including lifetime bans for racially abusive football supporters will be debated at the AFL Commission table next week as the game looks to up the ante in its fight against racism.

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The newly-appointed NSW police commissioner has lambasted a view propagated among some Muslim Australians that Muslim husbands are permitted to hit their wives.

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Monique Conti, international basketballer and inaugural AFL women's academy member, wants to play both sports at the top level.

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Australia has raised concerns with the Kremlin over reports men had been rounded up, tortured and killed as part of an anti-gay crackdown in the semi-autonomous Russian province of Chechnya.

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Will the last person to leave Perth please turn out the lights?

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Bird, who burst onto the State of Origin scene with NSW last year, was weighing up offers from Brisbane, Newcastle and the Sharks.

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Linda Tse's Qantas flight was minutes from landing in Hong Kong when the plane began to violently shake before it dropped from 22,000 feet.

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It seems that United's management had not spent enough time and energy on effective scenario planning.

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Sydney cancer specialist Dr Kiran Phadke has been cleared to return to work after spending almost 12 months at the centre of a gruelling investigation by health authorities.

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Government MPs are escalating their attacks on the Queensland senator and her party.

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One of Australia's largest container companies SCF Group will be restructured after its major backer appointed receivers to the parent of the group.

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The purebred desert dingo took first place in the World's Most Interesting Genome Competition.

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Traffic is currently worst at Macksville, a notorious pinch point south of Coffs Harbour.

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Hospitals are putting violent patients into comas as a last resort to protect staff who are being sprayed with blood, held hostage, and bashed on the job, a leading doctor says.

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The founder of one of Melbourne's most exclusive and secretive clubs, The Brotherhood, has been charged by WorkSafe over allegations he failed to stop a culture of bullying and intimidation at his private security firm.

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The man had recently been told he had lost his job after more than 10 years with the company.

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With the clock ticking, and North Asia on edge, carrot and stick diplomacy are being deployed to dissuade North Korea from a nuclear test or missile launch.

The federal government is expected to kill off a proposal to allow first home buyers to use their superannuation to buy a house, with cabinet ministers lining up behind Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to pan the idea.

A car has caught fire on the Eastern Freeway, near Bulleen Road.

St Kilda are set to hand a debut to young forward Ben Long in Sunday's crucial clash against Collingwood at Etihad Stadium.

The battle for cashbox, Molopo Energy, is getting a little testy.

Lucky Gattellari was once applauded for his violence. But after the ring, Gattellari's career took a dark turn, ending in a jail sentence for his role in the murder of Sydney businessman Michael McGurk.

A man who falsely claimed his pet pug dog was stolen at knife-point in Sydney Olympic Park, sparking a Sydney-wide search, has been fined $1000.

Local party members have voted in favour of running endorsed candidates for the new Northern Beaches Council

Plunging iron ore prices and a renewed focus on geopolitical tensions sent the ASX lower on Thursday, erasing the gains made earlier in the week.

The Director of Public Prosecutions will now decide whether the property developer will face a new trial.

Three prison guards have been hospitalised after they were bashed at a south-east Queensland prison as concerns about overcrowding continue to escalate.

Activist investor Elliott Associates has accused BHP Billiton of taking a "do nothing" approach to its manifesto for creating greater value for shareholders.

There have been six confirmed cases of Legionnaires' disease, the Victorian department of health and human services has confirmed.

An 30-storey Moonee Ponds apartment tower has been approved by Planning Minister Richard Wynne, despite even the local Labor MP for the area saying it will be too high.

Relations between the US and Russia have grown so tense that it was unclear whether Mr Putin would agree to see his old "friend".

Each grease-mountain contains triple beef, triple cheese, plus ketchup, mustard, onion and pickles- all on a toasted brioche bun and a basket of fries.

This time last year, Travis Cloke was struggling in the Collingwood forward line and was on the cusp of being dropped - and not for the only time in his very own annus horribilus.