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Question: What is the biggest ant?
The man chosen to play Captain America will carry a shield custom-made in Russia.
The ACT budget hit builder who converting homes to townhouses and units with a big new tax.
The Canberra Raiders have bolstered their forward depth with the signing of Queensland Cup player Bill Cullen.
A Bunbury magistrate has taken the unusual step of requesting that a convicted sex offender, who pleaded guilty to indecent dealing with his six-year-old granddaughter, pay his victim $1000.
Residents were told to stay inside their homes as a 500-metre exclusion zone was established in Bellambi Street, Toogoolawah.
He might be a loyal Queenslander, but Australia coach Mal Meninga is licking his lips over his Kangaroos.
'This is not the end of the matter,' says Victoria's Chief Justice.
Korda Mentha held 50 meetings with Network Ten's management, directors, advisers and shareholder guarantors in recent months a bid to help the broadcaster stay on its feet, according to a letter sent to employees on Thursday.
Perth's maverick "Spud King" Tony Galati has been fined $40,000 for contempt of court after growing more potatoes than he was allowed.
Increasingly drawn into the investigations swirling around the President, Vice President Mike Pence has hired outside legal counsel.
A man armed with a handgun is holding police at bay after barricading himself in a house in Melbourne's north with a woman and four children inside.
Treasury's costings for the $6.2 billion tax on banks assume they will pass on some of the impost to their customers, despite the government urging lenders to "absorb" the levy.
The claim is contained in a political memoir by former Labor minister Carl Scully
The first victim of the Grenfell Tower fire has been identified as a 23-year-old Syrian refugee.
Channel 7's Today Tonight reported it had found elevated lead levels '18 times the normal amount' in Whiteman Park water sources on Wednesday.
Michael O'Loughlin played alongside some famous names at Sydney but when it comes to producing his best every time he pulls on the red and the white he has seen no player do it more regularly than Josh Kennedy.
Independent Queensland MP Rob Pyne has once again used the legal protection of parliamentary privilege to attack the Ipswich City Council.
A man accused of heroin trafficking says he made $400,000 from gambling and work income.
The overcrowding crisis in Sydney's primary schools is now hitting high schools, as the baby bonus generation starts secondary school and the growth in apartment living puts pressure on areas already battling enrolment booms, new data reveals.
A brawl is building inside the Turnbull government over the creation of a British-style Home Office that would bring together major intelligence, police and security agencies.
Australian shares posted their strongest weekly advance in more than two months, led by a rebound in the big banks.
Wallabies attack coach Stephen Larkham says he has never seen a player perform so well on such short notice at No.12 in the way Karmichael Hunt did last weekend against Fiji.
 It began with a sudden, frantic knocking on a door, late at night. This is a story that has many revisions to come.
The Maroons indulged in some role play in their first full training session, making it clear what one of their top priorities will be when they set foot on ANZ Stadium on Wednesday night.
Detectives have released new CCTV footage which could unlock major breakthroughs in the death of Karen Ristevski
Australia's 17th richest individual is scared of being found out as an impostor.
Shares lose most of their early gains but remain on track for their best week in two months as investors snap up some bargains.
Liberal MLA Steve Doszpot is holding his final fundraising trivia night.
The Turnbull government has made a series major concessions to the Greens on school funding in a bid to secure the Gonski 2.0 package in the Senate. The proposed deal would be a major breakthrough for the beleaguered government. Education Minister Simon Birmingham has written to the crucial cross bench party granting almost all of its demands for extra funding guarantees etc...
New money has been announced for the Barton Highway but the full duplication of the crash-prone road seems still a pipedream.
The US will tell dozens of refugees held in PNG's Manus Island detention centre whether they will be offered resettlement in America within six weeks.
Penrith Panthers general manager Phil Gould knew from Eto Nabuli's first training run at the club in early 2013 that his gamble had paid off.
Proof again that Canberra has the best bosses.
Desperate families and friends have told of their search for missing loved ones - including children and the elderly - in the Grenfell Tower inferno.
Mining giant BHP Billiton has named famed former Australian packaging executive Ken MacKenzie as its next chairman.
The ACT government has confirmed flammable aluminium cladding is widely used throughout the ACT.
They've soared higher than the mines at the peak of the iron ore price surge. Faster than the bank stocks as the Trump trade inflated the world's financial stocks. And they've done better than utilities and other defensives as the economy slowed down.
Nick Maxwell may have inadvertently brought about the extinction of the AFL runner. AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan confirmed on Friday the league will look at abolishing runners altogether at the end of the season.
Solar power, once so costly it only made economic sense in spaceships, is becoming cheap enough that it will push coal and even natural-gas plants out of business faster than previously forecast.
ANU scientist Dr Graham Farquhar has become the first Australian to win a Kyoto Prize.
It's been three decades since Manny Waks last spoke to the man he alleges abused him as a child back in the late 1980s.
Logan mayor Luke Smith has slammed independent Queensland MP Rob Pyne for attempting to smear his election campaign dealings under the protection of parliamentary privilege.
Perth Lord Mayor Lisa Scaffidi is appealing findings that she repeatedly failed to disclose gifts and travel before the State Administrative Tribunal has even handed down its penalty.
The corporate watchdog is banning an increasing number of financial advisers over misconduct, but wants more power to go after the banks that hire them.
"We got it to the boat about three or four times and every time we would get within a hundred metres it would dive back down five hundred metres."
Donald Trump has launched a scathing new Twitter attack on Special Counsel Robert Mueller and the team he is assembling to investigate "this Russia thing".
The ACCC has taken Thermomix to court over allegations it misled customers and engaged in misleading conduct regarding the safety of its TM31 device.
If you had to distil the essence of Melbourne into one scent, what would it smell like?
Few people would know within the corrugated iron rabbit warren of the Yarralumla Brickworks, an artist has been creating work for almost 30 years.
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