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The world's biggest space agency plans to send rockets into space from a site 700 kilometres east of Darwin as soon as next year.

Andrew Barr is setting up next week's budget as a good news story for Canberra — but a $45 million surplus is masking a forecast deficit for the coming financial year.

An election-eve email urging Pentecostal church members to vote for the Prime Minister is criticised by a religious commentator, who says the message presented a "narrow view of Christianity".

A former nursing assistant admits to stealing credit cards from cancer patients in her care, and using the stolen funds to buy thousands of dollars in cigarettes, groceries and alcohol.

An amateur astronomer has stunned experts with his photos of the Great Red Spot — a centuries-old storm raging above Jupiter.

Hospital buildings where flammable cladding posed a major fire threat to the public in Sydney and across the state are identified in NSW Health safety documents, with Sydney's St Vincent's Hospital the only one where potentially combustible panels still need to be removed.

Julie Bishop's sister says the former foreign affairs minister would have done an "amazing job" as South Australia's next governor, but has "another career ahead of her" outside of politics.

Animal activists who brought central Melbourne to a standstill recently have vowed to step up their campaign of civil disobedience and raids on abattoirs and farms.

Former prime minister Kevin Rudd says he had always been one of the "biggest opponents" of the "factional dimension of Labor politics" and there should be room for both Ed Husic and Kristina Keneally in the new shadow cabinet.

A man who allegedly sent Instagram messages to an 11-year-old girl about wanting to see her "nude body" claimed when confronted that his account had been hacked, the girl's mother tells a Canberra court.

A woman whose baby died in his cot admits to taking heroin when she was pregnant with the child, in an inquest into the boy's 2017 death.

A woman who thought she had lost a set of priceless family heirlooms has them returned to her, after they were discovered by a family of asylum seekers in a pair of socks picked up through a charity clothing drive.

Canberra man Gilian Lee, who fell into unconsciousness while attempting to summit Mount Everest, was coughing "continuously" and encouraged to turn back, according to his sherpa guide and a fellow climber.

Last year, the ACT became the first state or territory to mark National Reconciliation Day with a public holiday. But what does the day actually mean, and does it achieve what it stands for?

North Queensland centre Justin O'Neill is taken to hospital for emergency surgery after rupturing his spleen in an NRL match against the Raiders in Canberra.

Indigenous Australians make up less than 1.6 per cent of Canberra's population but represent one in five inmates at the jail. A holistic program is trying to break that cycle with a holistic approach.

New South Wales State of Origin hope Adam Reynolds limps off the field with an injury in the Rabbitohs' victory over the Tigers, while the Broncos and Cowboys claim wins on the road.

If you've been following the AFP's Facebook page for a while, you might have participated in their Game of Thrones poll or laughed at their Justin Timberlake post — but the LOLs form part of a much bigger strategy.

After months of living with "brown, swamp-smelling water", hundreds of residents from a southern NSW town call on their local council to rebate water usage and pay for damaged laundry.

A man whose dog viciously attacked a female officer as she came to retrieve a stolen mobility scooter yells abuse at police in the public court gallery, as he is sentenced to four years in jail.

ACT Education Minister Yvette Berry, who has been charged with the issue of violence in Canberra schools, says she has removed potential conflicts of interest, after her 15-year-old son is suspended for fighting outside of school hours.

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