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A severe weather warning has been issued as giant hailstones" potentially lead to property damage, travel disruptions and power outages.
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Technical chaos at an Airport has forced travellers into massive queues as staff scramble to process luggage through alternative channels.
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A one-year-old girl has died in hospital after being struck by a freight train while walking along a road in northern NSW.
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A police officer has been raced to hospital after allegedly being speared in the leg during an alleged horror confrontation at a Sydney home.
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Australia risks losing a generation, with new data revealing most young people considering a move abroad to escape housing costs.
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Tributes are pouring in for former Labor powerbroker Graham Richardson who has died aged 76, just days after vowing to hang on till his son finished his HSC.
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Millions of Australians are in the firing line as severe storms are forecast to sweep across the east coast.
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A former Labor senator and powerbroker who served as a cabinet minister in the Hawke and Keating governments has died aged 76.
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The Ferntree Gully Cricket Club has named 17-year-old Ben Austin as 12th man during a memorial round in his honour.
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A measles outbreak is continuing to spread in one Aussie state, with two new infections in returned travellers.
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The Pentagon has made its strongest public comment on AUKUS in the wake of a review that threatened to knock the deal off the table.
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Police have executed search warrants and charged two men alleged to be connected to a 2021 shooting that left a man dead in a driveway.
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Dingoes could soon be seen in backyards and dog parks, as one state considers reclassifying them as domestic pets, but experts warn the move could have serious consequences.
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A 31-year-old woman has been charged over a crash with a truck that killed a three-year-old girl.
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A tradie has been stabbed in Melbourne's CBD performing a citizen's arrest on a man allegedly armed with a knife.
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After a lengthy legal battle, a former Queensland farmer is now a free man, with all sexual offence charges against him dismissed.
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The Ferntree Gully Cricket Club has named 17-year-old Ben Austin as 12th man during a memorial round in his honour.
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A new report has put a dollar figure on the cost of crime to the Australian economy, including billions lost to the illicit tobacco trade.
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An Australian TV star has been found guilty of performing a gesture which could be confused for a Nazi salute while mocking a newspaper article about him.
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An Australian TV star has been found guilty of performing a banned Nazi gesture while mocking a newspaper article about him.
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Bruce Lehrmann faces fresh legal drama as his no-show at a Hobart court over a car theft charge triggered an arrest warrant threat.
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An Australian TV star charged after allegedly delivering a banned Nazi salute during a speech has told a court he was mocking a newspaper article about him.
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A teenager remains in a serious condition after being stabbed in what police believe was a targeted attack by two offenders.
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Millions of Aussies are bracing for more thunderstorms and rain this weekend, after a wild start to storm season.
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Three men are fighting for life after being struck by a car that mounted a kerb after crashing in Western Sydney.
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Qantas is one step closer to launching record-breaking ultra-long-haul flights, with its first Project Sunrise aircraft now on the assembly line.
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A man has died after being hit by a vehicle in a horror incident at a NSW construction site.
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New details have been revealed about suspects in the fatal shooting of the 21-year-old son of a former police officer.
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A plane's brakes have caught on fire just moments after it landed at a major Australian airport with almost 180 people on-board.
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A manhunt is under way after a teenage boy was stabbed at a Queensland home, leaving him in a critical condition.
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A major search is under way as authorities continue to investigate a mystery that has remained unsolved for 37 years.
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A 54-year-old man is in hospital in a critical condition after he was mauled by several of his own dogs at his home in western Sydney earlier this morning.
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A special portrait has been unveiled for legendary Aussie parliamentarian Bob Katter to salute his 50 years of service to the Queensland and federal parliaments.
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Investigators have charged a teen with terror and firearms offences, seizing chemicals, gas masks, military-style clothing and an imitation firearm.
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The pilot was found in a critical condition after the NSW incident, and was taken to hospital in Melbourne but later died.
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A male nurse has been charged with raping two elderly patients aged in their 80s at a Brisbane hospital.
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A special portrait has been unveiled for legendary Aussie parliamentarian Bob Katter to salute his 50 years of service to the Queensland and federal parliaments.
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The NSW government has splashed millions on renovating the ageing Tangara trains, some of the oldest and least reliable in the network.
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Sydney's North Shore Rapist has admitted to sexually touching a teenage girl at a pharmacy in Sydney's CBD.
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Australia is one step closer to listing an infamous arm of Iran's military as a terrorist organisation after it was linked to attacks on Australian soil.
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Gangland kingpin Tony Mokbel will not be sent back to jail after one of the country's highest courts dramatically slashed his sentence for drug trafficking.
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A man has been charged with murder after another man died and other people were injured in a wild brawl on a remote highway.
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One of the most senior figures in the Liberal Party has made a grim call on the state of the Coalition.
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Sydney's North Shore Rapist" has admitted to sexually touching a teenage girl at a pharmacy in Sydney's CBD.
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Microsoft has apologised and promised refunds after the watchdog accused the company of misleading millions of Aussies.
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Australia is one step closer to listing an infamous arm of Iran's military as a terrorist organisation, after they were linked to attacks on Australian soil.
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NAB has reported steady FY25 earnings and returned $5.2bn in dividends to shareholders and millions of Australians via super funds.
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Police are expected to ask a court for an arrest warrant for former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann, after he failed to appear in court in Hobart.
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One judge set to decide a convicted murderer's appeal has raised the prospect that prosecutors could seek to retry him over a camper's death.
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The teenager who stabbed doctor Ash Gordon to death during a home invasion last January is the son of a senior Victoria Police investigator.