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Canberra family hopes a new database project could help others facing childhood cancers.

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The Bank of England has unveiled its first plastic £10 note, featuring British novelist Jane Austen.

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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has admitted WA's share of GST wouldn't pass the "pub test" but then slammed a West Australian federal Labor MPs' submission into an inquiry into it as "complete and utter waffle".

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Supporters of refugee-friendly policies are "a bunch of cockroaches" swarming over his former electorate, Liberal says.

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Essendon captain Dyson Heppell is hoping that his former captain Jobe Watson will be a part of the club in 2018.

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Constable Kenny Koala has a new handler as he farewells his very good friend Stewart Waters.

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Geelong coach Chris Scott estimates that superstar Patrick Dangerfield is only a 40 per cent chance of recovering from a foot injury in time for Friday night's AFL table-topping clash away to Adelaide.

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A team of investigators from the Integrity Unit of the National Rugby League has descended upon the Narrabeen offices of the Manly Sea Eagles.

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A loud sound startled US police officers before Australian Justine Damond was shot at close range.

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A woman found dead in a Melbourne hotel room after a buck's party has been identified as a 20-year-old from Western Australia.

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Current equity valuations has fund managers wary, finds Bank of America Merrill Lynch's monthly survey.

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An ambitious project, financed by the US Congress, aims to hold the Kim regime accountable for decades of brutality against the North Korean people.

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Banks should not use new requirements to strengthen their loss-absorbing buffers as an excuse to hike their customers' loan rates, Treasurer Scott Morrison has warned.

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The Islamic School of Canberra board has lashed out at an "Islamophobic" federal government.

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For the past 44 years eye specialists told Lorin Nicholson there was nothing they could do for he and his three brothers, who are all legally blind.

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BHP has hit its annual production target for iron ore in the year just ended, thanks to record production numbers at its West Australian iron ore operations.

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Shares in the big banks rocket higher as investors bet they won't need to raise capital to meet APRA's new requirements.

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Queensland Rail has trained 28 of the 200 new train drivers it needs to restore reliability to the beleaguered operator.

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Muslim schoolchildren were targeted in an early morning attack in Brisbane's south on Wednesday, when a bag with a featuring a swastika and containing a severed pig's head was left at a school's front gate.

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A teenage girl was so traumatised by a sexual assault that it took her one year to report the crime to police.

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A Qantas flight from Perth to Brisbane had to return to Perth on Tuesday night because of a disruptive passenger.

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"I was sure it was going to work, but I had to see it with my own eyes."

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More than 70 residents and business owners have joined a class action against Coolaroo recycling plant SKM Recycling.

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The shy joey has emerged from its mother's pouch at a nature refuge in south-west Queensland.

Sydney Olympic Park might have the highest density in all of Sydney but there are now 15 suburbs where 90 per cent or more of us live in an apartment.

A 20-year-old man is in hospital after he was kneecapped and shot in the stomach, apparently with two different guns, outside his Toowoomba home.

• COMMENT

The markets were roiled by the RBA minutes, but they really shouldn't have been.

More than 600 prisoners are sharing cells designed for one person at a major south-east Queensland jail.

Josh Dugan and Blake Ferguson continue to cop backlash for their pre-State of Origin decider pub visit, with NSW teammate Aaron Woods expressing his disappointment.

• ANALYSIS

We're copying the battered, bandaged survivor of a hundred political fights and failures, not a gleaming modern governance machine.

Australia's fictional on-screen expert on all things infrastructure and "nation building" has weighed in on Brisbane's Cross River Rail, and it's not good news.

Quade Cooper has been sensationally left out of Michael Cheika's extended 38-man Wallabies squad ahead of the Bledisloe Cup opener in a month's time.

A new analysis found some Canberrans could save hundreds off their energy bills by shopping around.

Collingwood president Eddie McGuire is adamant he will stay "in the tough times" to rebuild the struggling club.

A Greens councillor known around the nation as "rainbow scarf man" has used his new found fame to deliver beat poetry, complete with an expletive, on live television.

What was the mysterious white flash of light over Melbourne this morning? Was it a bird, was it a plane, was it Superman?

It's been a question ever since last year's ultimately recalled Samsung Galaxy Note 7 devices kept catching fire: Will customers come back for more?

The frozen bodies of a Swiss couple who went missing 75 years ago in the Alps have been found on a shrinking glacier.

Melbourne's dams are 62 per cent full and dropping, following the state's driest June since records began in 1900.

The shock resignation of Greens senator Larissa Waters on Tuesday has triggered a wave of overseas born federal MPs scrambling to declare their Australian allegiance.

Richard Di Natale says two wrongly elected senators had "already paid a pretty high price".

Police arrested two people after they seized cash, drugs and a rifle during a raid in Gowrie.

Hundreds of mourners have descended on Sydney's Freshwater Beach in memory of US shooting victim Justine Damond.

Fremantle need to poach a few ex-WA forwards keen to head back home from under West Coast's nose to bolster up their abysmal forward line.

A security robot was an internet sensation earlier this week after upending itself in a fountain. Internet theories abounded but the truth is somewhat more tame.

Complicated circumstances justified an exception to dual occupancy policy for one Fluffy block, taskforce concedes.

A critically drug-resistant strain of gonorrhoea dubbed a "super- superbug" has been detected in every Australian state and territory by a new national surveillance system.

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The only version of the conversation provided to White House aides was that given by Trump himself.

Emerging midfielder Jack Sinclair has extended his contract with St Kilda by a further two AFL seasons.