Police have charged a man with the wilful murder of Sarah Spiers, a victim of the so-called Claremont serial killings in Perth in the 1990s.

A retired Canberra surgeon is among 15 Australian veterans returning to England to commemorate Bomber Command during World War II.

The Fair Work Ombudsman releases a report revealing widespread breaches of workplace laws by Caltex franchisees.

Johannes Frerck was a friendly man who sold sausages and sauerkraut from his Darlinghurst shop he was also a staunch supporter of Adolf Hitler and branded a spy who threatened Australia's security.

Temperatures in parts of NSW are expected to exceed 40 degrees including the outskirts of Sydney.

Emails obtained under freedom of information reveal Adani demanded the names of all federal agency scientists reviewing its contentious groundwater plans so it could check if they were "anti-coal" activists.

Clive Palmer's multi-million-dollar payments to his father-in-law and a mysterious woman in Kyrgyzstan are among the funds he misused from Queensland Nickel coffers before its collapse, a court is told.

On a small bush block some 50 kilometres out of Bowen in north Queensland, a group of anti-coal activists are living harmoniously while also training for civil disobedience.

The Queensland Ethical Standards Command will review an incident after a "disturbing" video emerged showing a police officer appearing to strike a woman several times in the face.

A massive new prawn farm to be built at Proserpine in north Queensland could herald a new era in aquaculture, but some commercial fishers are concerned.

Minor premiers Melbourne finish on a high as they beat the Cowboys at AAMI Park, after the Eels down Manly to claim fifth.

The case against Queensland man Ronald John Toft, who was accused of trying to kidnap a six-year-old girl at an Adelaide caravan park earlier this year, is dropped.

A man is airlifted to Townsville Hospital with wounds to his hand and abdomen after being shot by officers while trying to break into Bowen Police Station in north Queensland.

Pastoralists west of Alice Springs haven't seen this many camels on their station in years, and say their neighbours should be doing more to prevent a boom in the feral population.

One of the world's most dangerous desert tracks claims a victim, with five-time champion Toby Price bowing out due to mechanical problems paving the way for a hometown hero to take the gold.

Prosecutor Stephen Robson says he does not accept the version of events given to police by Mr Deighton that he went to answer the door while changing baby Michael, returned to find him falling from the change table and then caught him.

A businessman and his pastoralist partners launch court action against Origin Energy over its plan for gas exploration on a Northern Territory cattle station.

An Alice Springs paraplegic man is pulled over by police for using a NDIS-funded wheelchair aid deemed illegal in the Northern Territory.

A man is in custody after a woman was stabbed multiple times at a home in the Northern Territory town of Katherine, just streets away from where another woman was found dead last week. Meanwhile, the Alice Springs Women's Shelter says 500 more people have sought its help this year.

Aboriginal traditional owners, politicians, and local community members are renewing calls for the Aboriginal flag to fly on Alice Springs's Anzac Hill 365 days a year, after it was raised on Monday morning solely to mark NAIDOC Week.

In a ground-breaking collaboration, Melbourne fashion label Gorman teams up with Indigenous artists whose work depicts places where sacred cultural knowledge has been passed down for thousands of years.

A fatal crash following a police pursuit near a community north-east of Alice Springs is being treated as a death in custody, with police declining to say what prompted them to chase the 42-year-old man.

Christopher Malyschko was serving a life sentence for arranging the murder of his mother's partner in Katherine in 2011. On Tuesday morning he was found dead in his cell in Darwin's prison.

Authorities are trying to find a 59-year-old man buried under soil and rock after a wall collapsed at a manganese mine in the central Northern Territory.

A 59-year-old employee of the company that operates the Bootu Creek mine was killed when a wall of soil and dirt collapsed on him on Saturday afternoon, the Singapore-based parent company says.

NSW resident Sonia Smallacombe says she was racially targeted by a police auxiliary stationed outside a bottle shop who demanded she produce hotel receipts to prove where she was staying.

The 41-year-old man from a remote Central Australian community was found guilty of two counts of "sexual intercourse without consent" for a sustained assault in which he raped and punched his aunt and then brandished a shovel at her as she tried to flee.

The financial, emotional and psychological effects of the crime on the business directors of Alice Springs Helicopters and their families was significant, the prosecutor says.

Aboriginal leaders on South Australia's remote Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands should consider suspending their manager Richard King while an investigation is carried out into the use of Commonwealth funding, an independent report has found.

A heavily pregnant Alice Springs woman is sentenced to five years and three months in prison for stealing $486,000 from her former employer, leaving the business almost bankrupt.

A pet deer fatally attacks a man and injures his wife during feeding. The couple's son had to beat the animal with a lump of wood to save his mother, the ABC has been told.

Police charge a woman with common assault after the Prime Minister is egged while meeting with delegates from the Country Women's Association in Albury, on the NSW-Victorian border.

A group of nine irrigators has lodged a class action in the NSW Supreme Court against the Murray-Darling Basin Authority, claiming its negligent water management has caused $750 million in losses.

As the water dries up in drought-affected Australia, so does the money that keeps many country towns afloat.

Amber Holt, who is accused of throwing an egg at Scott Morrison during a CWA meeting in Albury earlier this month, pleads guilty to possessing a prohibited drug but her lawyer says a charge of common assault requires "further representation".

Relatives are mourning the death of a 23-year-old Melbourne woman who died on Saturday when a microlight flown by her uncle crashed into the waters of Lake Eildon in central Victoria.

Police recover the body of a 23-year-old Melbourne woman who was a passenger in a microlight aircraft that had crashed into Lake Eildon, in central Victoria. The pilot was rescued by a fishing boat and taken to hospital.

Two teenagers accused of killing a man in north-east Victoria admit they "bashed" him because he offered to pay one of their girlfriends for sex, a court hears.

A New South Wales woman pleads guilty to common assault for throwing an egg at the Prime Minister's head during the election campaign.

Consumers turn to goat meat as an alternative, but tough seasonal conditions, wild dogs, and destocking, see producers struggling to keep up with demand.

The court heard the 67-year-old Victorian man, who carried out a series of "chilling and vile" sexual attacks on his granddaughter, also posed online as a female, teenage victim of child abuse.

New analysis of water prices in the southern Murray-Darling Basin finds water prices sitting at levels only previously seen during the Millennium Drought.

End-of-year formal costs can be huge and for many farming families, it's a cost they struggle to afford. So a NSW woman is doing something about it.

Alpine real estate is getting more expensive at Australia's ski resorts, seemingly shrugging off concerns about the impact of climate change on natural snowfall.