Concerns have been raised in Australia over the online sale of accessories that turn handguns into automatic weapons.

A 60-tonne truck carrying part of a wind turbine rolls over in Tasmania's central highlands, leaving a 68-metre blade across the road.

As Tasmania heads towards its busy summer tourist season, residents in popular locations are bracing themselves to share the road with tourists.

With the imminent arrival of a new salmon processing ship in Tasmania, and another even larger ship next month, some in the local sailing community fear there is "an accident waiting to happen" on the already very busy waterways.

A high school PE teacher cuts his long hair in honour of his mum, as donations of human hair for medical wigs increases.

Port Lincoln, on South Australia's west coast, celebrates four decades of a tuna-tossing competition that commemorates the city's fishing history and is proving popular with hammer throwers.

About 500 locals turn out in Cummins, on SA's Eyre Peninsula, to farewell one of the final trains passing through the town as the region prepares for more trucks on the road.

Charities are turning to technology as they struggle to source enough food to feed a growing number of people going hungry in rural and remote communities.

South Australia's Emergency Services Minister says the Country Fire Service's new chief officer has "experience right across the world", as volunteers criticise their new head for his lack of experience of catastrophic fire conditions.

After 25 years without a hairdressing salon the locals of Wedderburn in central Victoria finally open their own community enterprise.

The only nursing home in Pyramid Hill will close by the end of November, leaving 30 locals out of work.

The lockdown of a youth correctional facility in central Victoria continues after two alleged violent attacks on staff in as many days saw workers walk off the job.

Talks between the union and justice department officials produce new "zero tolerance" rules on the behaviour of offenders and more powers for staff in violent situations, after alleged attacks on workers sent the centre into lockdown.

A collective of industrious Gippsland knitters has banded together to 'yarn bomb' Walhalla's historic train, in the hope of raising $230,000 to bring the vintage engine back to service.

The Victorian Government has announced it will protect 4,000 hectares of farm land from mining exploration in the state's east in an area near a controversial mining proposal.

Wellington Shire Council in Victoria's Gippsland region gives eligible farmers $700 pre-loaded debit cards to provide some financial relief and stimulate the local economy.

Teachers will be offered up to $50,000 to relocate from Melbourne to rural and regional schools desperate for qualified teachers, as part of a new Victorian Government plan to tackle flagging results.

If the 'Star of the South' wind farm is approved, you will see the turbines off the pier

Storms and erosion at Inverloch reveal never-before-seen parts of a 155-year-old shipwreck, the Amazon.

A local government council in Melbourne's inner northeast has voted to stop recognising January 26 as Australia Day. Yarra City Council has also decided to scrap citizenship ceremonies on the date, despite threats from the Federal Government that politicising such ceremonies is a breach of federal law. The move has angered some locals but Indigenous groups say Yarra City Council had an obligation to act.

CJ looks into Australia's new blockade of copyright-infringing websites, and a smartphone film festival.

A prominent French journalist and his television crew are charged with trespass after being arrested while filming protesters near the Abbot Point coal terminal in north Queensland.

For Luke and Mary-Anne McNeven, participating in polocrosse takes serious dedication averaging a two-day, 1,700-kilometre journey for each competition during the season.

Fire-weary residents in Queensland's Scenic Rim are being told they need to prepare to leave again, as the Sarabah bushfire rears up for a second time. It's one of 55 fires burning across the state.

In the north-west Queensland town of Ravenswood, two heritage-listed buildings at a school have been moved due to an expansion of the local gold mine.

Questions are being asked about what will be done to keep visitor numbers up once the option of ascending the ancient monolith is axed.

One of Australia's biggest table grape companies is threatening to rip up vines and scrap its million-dollar plan to expand in the Northern Territory.

Two young South Australian entrepreneurs launch their own social enterprise selling sanitary products whose profits will go to disadvantaged women fighting period poverty around the world.

A random survey of people living in the Murray-Darling Basin shows support for reallocating water from irrigators to Indigenous communities.

The group representing Victoria's councils calls for organisations like independent schools, pokies clubs and churches to pay their fair share of rates because "mum and dad homeowners" are unfairly cross-subsidising private and commercial enterprises.

Documents tendered in the Northern Territory Supreme Court allege the five-storey complex in Darwin which is now advertised as "the epitome of waterfront living" almost collapsed before its completion in 2017.

Almost five years after the Arnhem Land community of Galiwin'ku was battered by Cyclone Lam, the NT Government is yet to spend $20.3 million of disaster relief funding for rebuilding housing.

Despite objections from Aboriginal traditional owners, thousands of Australians have flocked to Uluru to climb the rock before it officially closes this week. We travelled to Uluru to ask a few of them why they decided to make the journey.

You'll need a week's worth of supplies, plenty of spare tyres, and a sturdy four-wheel drive would you take on this epic, ancient journey?