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What changes from New Year's day?

Mid-air turnarounds happen more often than you might think.

A teenager has been sexually assaulted in a mosh pit at the Tasmanian arm of the music festival.

Passers-by have made two grisly discoveries on Victorian country roads within a few hours.

From the start of next year, Victorians will be able to pay off outstanding fines in instalments or by doing volunteer work. Victims of domestic violence will also be able to get fines waived under the changes, which come into effect on January 2.

Sydney's Observatory Hill has witnessed a few storms over the years, and not all of them were meteorological.

After decades of buying codeine over the counter, many Australians who have unintentionally become addicted to the drug will face literal withdrawals once it becomes prescription-only from February.

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New Year’s Eve revellers have been urged to “stay out of the CBD” and instead watch Melbourne's firework show from afar.

A Queensland police officer has been charged after allegedly breaking into a home and damaging property.

When the Sydney Opera House's Joan Sullivan theatre reopens on Sunday after extensive renovations, the theatre's staff won't blame concert-goers who could not spot too many changes.

A man is seriously injured after being thrown from the bonnet of his ute during a robbery near Brisbane.

The Royal Australian Navy has seized almost eight tonnes of hashish and 69 kilograms of heroin from drug smugglers in the Arabian Sea, in a Christmas season operation which turned up a bounty with an estimated $415 million value.

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Former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr and Bee Gees singer Barry Gibb have been knighted in the Queen's New Year's honours list.

Canberra's top 10 sport stories of 2017: Lealiifano's cancer comeback, Bling salutes and Mouncey rejected.

Relatives of murdered Australian Stephen Richardson are becoming increasingly frustrated with Australian and Indonesian authorities as his killer remains free.

A lot more will change than the date when midnight hits .

Defence personnel were operating under "increased readiness" in Darwin earlier this month after Russian bombers reportedly flew out of an Indonesian military base and close to Australia, it has been revealed.

A man was arrested and charged with lighting a fire after earlier being arrested for brandishing an axe in Westfield Belconnen.

'We've got 3000 electrical circuits on the show, so there's quite a bit to test.'

Police said the situation escalated quickly, with one of the men pushing the officer whop had been punched, causing him to fall backwards and strike his head on the road, knocking him unconscious.

ACT Policing have seized and estimated $100,000 worth of stolen goods, illegal fireworks and ammunition in a raid on a storage facility.

Tina Tian thought she paid $126 for fuel. When she checked her statement she was shocked.

Since the start of summer there have been nine rescues on south coast beaches.

Australian rugby union player Karmichael Hunt is once again in trouble with the law after being charged with drug possession.

Police in WA's Kimberley region have charged two teenage boys with animal cruelty after video emerged allegedly showing them striking a kangaroo joey.

The gofundme page created by Alan Ahern is titled the Charlie McCarthy Family Trust, and has far exceeded its goal of $30-thousand dollars since its inception on Thursday, raising just over $46-thousand dollars.

The blaze burnt more than 2.5 hectares of grassland on Saturday afternoon.

The crash happened just after 2pm on Saturday.

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An apartment building fire that killed 12 people - four of them children - was sparked by a young child playing with a stove in a first-floor unit, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Friday.

Video released of the incident by police shows an officer with service pistol drawn arresting the driver and hand cuffing him on the ground.

In addition to three high-range drink-driving cases, a man was arrested for drunken behaviour at a fast-food restaurant drive-through south of Brisbane.

Bitcoin investors are claiming Australia's banks are freezing their accounts and transfers to cryptocurrency exchanges.

Police issued more than 375,000 traffic fines last year, largely to motorists who had been speeding, driving while unlicensed or using their mobile phone while at the wheel.

Two women will face court after they were caught driving more than five times the legal alcohol limit in separate incidents in Sydney's northern beaches.

Making medical decisions for a hospitalised older relative can take a serious toll on mental health, a study has found.

A workplace shooting in a quiet neighborhood of Long Beach on Friday left at least two people dead, including the shooter, officials said.

Medications that can inhibit the growth of two "catastrophic cancers" will soon be made available to Australians at a tiny fraction of the original price.

"They're trafficking drugs; they're engaging in criminal behaviour and often corrupt activities as well."

Australian rugby union player Karmichael Hunt is once again in trouble with the law after being charged with drug possession.

Northcote man Antonios Crocaris, 83, has died in hospital from injuries after he was hit by an alleged car attack in Flinders Street last week.

Police call for witnesses after two road fatalities on Friday night.

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A team of 50 literacy and numeracy experts will be recruited to support NSW teachers as the government axes the controversial $50 million Reading Recovery program, which is used in more than 900 schools but was found to be ineffective.

Fire swept through a rooftop restaurant in the Indian financial hub of Mumbai early on Friday, killing at least 14 people, most of them women attending a birthday party, including the celebrant who had just turned 28, police and family said.