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Police are investigating after two women were killed on a busy Melbourne highway while reportedly enacting a devastating deed of kindness.
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Brisbane residents will have one day to exchange a single Velocity point for prizes worth thousands, after hundreds queued for Sydney's event.
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The winning numbers for Thursday night's Powerball have been drawn with four division one entries splitting the $80m jackpot.
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After 15 years in prison, baby killer Keli Lane faced a reporter who grilled her on the street about her daughter's disappearance and her claims of innocence.
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Australians owe a shocking $50bn to the tax office, with the ATO issuing a warning and vowing to chase down the biggest tax dodgers.
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AFL finals fever is here and a Hawks megafan and his family have jagged free flights and tickets to this Saturday's hotly anticipated battle with the GWS Giants.
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Police are investigating after two women were killed on a busy Melbourne highway in what appears to be a devastating act of kindness.
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The Nationals maverick was called out" for making inappropriate schoolyard" comments to Energy Minister Chris Bowen during a rowdy question time.
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The ASX 200 has bounced back from its worst trading day since April, surging 1 per cent as the big four banks dragged the market higher on Thursday.
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New Zealand's Prime Minister has waded into the controversy over neo-Nazi leader Thomas Sewell, as calls grow for him to be deported from Australia.
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Police have charged seven men following a dramatic cross-border operation into a barbershop stabbing that shocked witnesses.
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Labor has backed the Australian-Indian community, after a surprise claim by Liberal senator Jacinta Price.
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Safety concerns have prompted the AFL to issue a recall of an item supplied to Superkick participants, with instructions to dispose of it immediately.
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The daughter and victim of a convicted sex offender has spoken out after he was given the easy way out" and allowed to end his own life.
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A 22-year old man has died after he crashed on the slopes at Thredbo Resort.
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A former prime minister and former foreign minister has blasted the Anthony Albanese as reckless and dangerous".
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Some of the richest landowners in one city have been overcharged $1m in council rates, a mistake that's been acknowledged as unacceptable".
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The Opposition Leader rejected a surprise claim by Jacinta Price, who said Labor was allowing more Indian migrants into Australia to boost its voting base.
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New Zealand's Prime Minister has waded into the controversy over neo-Nazi leader Thomas Sewell, as calls grow for him to be deported from Australia.
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Footage has emerged showing what happened before neo-Nazis became involved in a vicious brawl, and the shocking scenes that followed.
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A man who lived the seemingly perfect life killed his mother to gain access to life insurance policies he set up against her in the days before her death.
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Thieves have brazenly ram-raided a Mecca store, smashing up the front window and making off with valuable cosmetics.
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A veteran crime reporter has begged police to deploy an old-school" tactic - starting today - to flush out accused cop killer Dezi Freeman.
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The most expensive suburbs in one capital city are awash with an unwanted sight, although others on the food chain are having a field day.
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The federal government will fork out hundreds of millions to Robodebt victims after a historic class action settlement.
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A man who police believe was the subject of a targeted attack" has died in hospital after arriving there in the early hours of the morning.
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With $80m on the line in Thursday night's Powerball, Aussies are being warned their lucky numbers could end up costing them millions.
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Police have revealed plans for another march across the Sydney Harbour Bridge linked to anti-vax and conspiracy theorist groups.
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Footage has emerged showing what happened before neo-Nazis became involved in a vicious brawl, and the shocking scenes that followed.
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A former AFP boss has revealed why the public has been kept in the dark about specific operational details in the search for Dezi Freeman.
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Police are hunting the driver of a car that struck a 66-year-old road worker on a highway, leaving them with life-threatening injuries.
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A shocking claim has emerged about the family of Lanlan Yang, the 23-year-old heiress who was allegedly drunk when she crashed her $1 million Rolls-Royce.
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Some changes have been implemented one year after the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide revealed harrowing stories from Aussie heroes and their families.
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One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has taken aim at the Greens in a fiery outburst, claiming they are afraid" of the Australian flag.
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Senators Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Pauline Hanson were ordered to stop wearing Australian flags in the Senate, after a heated chamber debate.
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In a first for the Victorian Supreme Court, the sentencing of mushroom killer Erin Patterson for the murder of three people will be broadcast live.
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A Sydney woman is among the ISIS brides praying to be repatriated to Australia in a mission so secret that even her family claims they've been left in the dark.
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Home Affairs officials have told a senate committee there is no guarantee Nauru will accept all or any of the NZYQ cohort.
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Anthony Albanese was resolute when asked about whether he would attempt to change laws which would create fixed election dates every four years.
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Brisbane radio station 4BC referred to Senator Fatima Payman as a Gen Alpha slag" in a headline criticising a speech she had made to parliament.
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Ten days after a 56-year-old vanished from suburban Brisbane, police have made a grim discovery in bushland while two men face torture charges.
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A neo-Nazi thug charged with assaulting of members of an Indigenous protest camp is accused of inciting his followers to charge" before the violence erupted.
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Junior doctors have launched a class action lawsuit against public hospitals in an Aussie state, alleging widespread wage theft.
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Queensland Police have charged a 16-year-old boy after a horror shopping centre stabbing that left a female rideshare driver fighting for life.
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Home Affairs officials will face a tough grilling over Labor's $408m deal to deport former criminal detainees to a tiny Pacific island nation.
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Thousands of older Australians waiting for at-home care will be able to access new care packages, after Labor conceded to a key demand.
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A grim discovery in remote Queensland has prompted police to contact the family of a Brisbane man who disappeared without trace.
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The leader of Australia's largest superannuation fund has called for urgent reforms to the system, describing one key issue as stupid".
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Grim new details have emerged after a horror shopping centre stabbing that left a female rideshare driver fighting for life.