Alice Baxby wasn't around to enjoy (endure) the scrunchie hair trend of the 1980s and '90s, but she's selling hundreds of the hair ties to help drought-affected families.

Bored with the nine-to-five grind, Kirrilee Dean made the decision to return to her home state and establish the Tasmanian Fighting Championship.

Time is running out for businesses and home-owners to vacate their land in Adelaide's inner east ahead of demolition works, despite accusations the State Government has effectively blocked landowners from accessing the equity of their own homes.

Running is one of the most basic and natural forms of human movement but while almost all of us can run, not everyone is doing it well.

They were on holidays on the other side of the world, or with their families, and living their lives. But when coronavirus called, they answered.

Dimi Petratos of the Jets during the Round 25 A-League match between Perth Glory and the Newcastle Jets at HBF Park in Perth, Sunday, April 14, 2019.

At Western Australia's upcoming local council elections, 37 of the 138 jurisdictions won't hold a vote because all the candidates have been elected unopposed.

Star duo Alyssa Healy and Ellyse Perry prove to be unstoppable, as they break records in guiding the Sydney Sixers to 0-199 in their WBBL victory over the Melbourne Stars.

Justin and Kate McDonald did not let full-time jobs, house renovations, and parenting three children get in the way of running consecutive half marathons for three months.

The situation in Woodford Correctional Centre, north of Brisbane, becomes "quite volatile" since coronavirus measures prevent prisoners from seeing family and friends, cutting off the illegal drug supply.

NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro may be on the verge of announcing a switch to federal politics, in an audacious bid that would diminish Labor's parliamentary numbers and put Nationals leader Michael McCormack on notice.

NSW Transport Minister Andrew Constance is expected to announce he will contest the federal seat of Eden-Monaro after NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro decided not to run.

NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro has announced he will not run for the federal seat of Eden-Monaro

NSW Transport Minister Andrew Constance says he has passion for the federal seat of Eden-Monaro and will bring "something special" as he seeks Liberal pre-selection for the by-election.

Justin Timberlake stars in this online gambling crime film that's entertaining without being memorable

With towns across New South Wales at risk of running out of water within months, there are renewed calls for an urgent upgrade of water storage infrastructure.

All non-essential travellers who arrive in Tasmania after midnight on Sunday will be placed into a Government-operated facility, Premier Peter Gutwein announces.

A stand-off in a suburban street between an armed man and police is captured on video, with officers pointing their weapons and ordering him to surrender before he is knocked down by a police car.

Australia's dairy farmers are leaving the industry in droves as drought and sky-high prices for water take their toll.

A group of southern New South Wales irrigators have pledged to give millions of litres of their own water to those who need it most, but they need help to deliver it.

Runaway by James Daryl Williams of Temora, New South Wales, is commended in the Young Writers category of the 2007 ABC Radio Short Story Project.

Melbourne, June 21, 2003. England flyhalf Jonny Wilkinson evades a tackle by Wallaby Nathan Grey during the England versus Australia Rugby Union test match at Telstra Dome tonight.

Melbourne, June 21, 2003. England flyhalf Jonny Wilkinson evades a tackle by Wallaby Nathan Grey during the England versus Australia Rugby Union test match at Telstra Dome tonight.

The long-term boyfriend of a Dutch woman who died in Melbourne last year after a hit-and-run tells her killer's court hearing that he feels completely alone and mourns the children they would have had.

On any given day in the small rural New South Wales town of Trundle, up to a dozen men can be found in an historic garage, tinkering on cars, passing on skills to younger men and taking turns pumping fuel. It's an interesting set up, but it works.

Family and friends have gathered in a Toowoomba park to unveil 'Roger Guard Lane' named after the avid runner and popular doctor who was killed along with his wife Jill twelve months ago in the MH17 disaster.

A council in far west New South Wales has started trucking water to the remote Darling River town of Pooncarie, which is expected to run out of raw water within days.

A 21-year-old who intentionally drove through a mob of emus at 80 kph, has had his prison sentence cut in half but told to volunteer with an animal charity.

The Woorabinda Aboriginal Shire Council in central Queensland gives its government-owned supermarket contractor the flick after years of battling inflated prices.

Rob Minshull produces Weekends with Warren and is an avid reader

Running With Scissors is a humourous yet disturbing account of his observations of the unhinged world he now inhabits.

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Paralysed from the neck down after a football tackle 26 years ago, Brett Morris finishes the Gold Coast Marathon Fun Run in a wheelchair in under an hour, and he's "very happy it's done".

Christmas Island tourists and locals can no longer call for a cab with its sole taxi operator, Chris Carr, saying he was forced to shut shop at the end of June because of a "logistical nightmare".

A man accused of indecently assaulting a child at a Rundle Mall shop is tracked using CCTV and arrested, after police allegedly uncover child exploitation material at his home.

An Adelaide woman who sued Channel Seven over a Today Tonight story which portrayed her as a "welfare fraudster" wins her defamation case on appeal, almost eight years after the report aired.