Latrobe Regional Hospital in Victoria's Gippsland has been ordered to pay more than $31,000 to a former security guard who was sacked last year.

While many dairy farmers in northern Victoria are downsizing and selling up due to drought and the cost of water, in South Gippsland they are investing in their businesses.

The cabin and avionics specialist Diehl Aviation announced that it has delivered the largest, fully 3D-printed part for passenger aircraft to date.

There has been widespread disruption and confusion for passengers at Adelaide Airport as taxi drivers protest against Uber offering its services there. The airport announced yesterday that it reached a deal to allow ride-sharing services to collect people from the terminal, ending a monopoly by the taxi industry. But with most taxi drivers refusing to accept fares, weary passengers are being left stranded and told to catch buses or find other transport.

AWI leader tells ABC reporter to "f**k off" at industry event north of Adelaide [LANGUAGE WARNING].

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

When Dave Suter donated the 'innocuous' wartime artefacts he had once used as bookends, he was shocked to learn they were unexploded WWII bombs.

Prominent French journalist Hugo Clement says his arrest in north Queensland this week will now feature heavily in the documentary he is filming, with the incident sparking a strong international reaction.

Townsville resident Bronwyn Creedy says she feels like a "first-world refugee" after six months of living away from her flood-ravaged home, and hundreds of people are in a similar position.

Witness AAA tells the disability royal commission her daughter was "screamed at" by teachers in Year 1, not given access to the curriculum and did not receive permission forms for excursions and other activities.

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.

As the dust settles over the outcome of the controversial running of the iconic race, questions remain over exactly what happened, and who benefitted.

Residents in Mount Isa, Cloncurry, Longreach, Barcaldine, Blackall, Karratha and Kalgoorlie can expect to benefit from the new scheme, pricing airfares to the nearest capital city at a maximum of $800.

Airlines around the world grounded their Boeing 737 MAX 8 passenger planes after two crashes which killed 346 people. Now, as investigations continue, six of the planes are flown to Alice Springs for storage.

By the time the young platypus was discovered in a river in Victoria's Alpine Shire, the bands had worn wounds down to the bone.

More than 700,000 people could lose their primary connection to the outside world as the NDIS rollout leaves Vision Australia Radio without essential government funding to stay on air.

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.

The Albury community rallied in the middle of the night to guide an aircraft to a safe landing after it became lost in a thunderstorm on the final leg of the famous London to Melbourne Air Race.

DNA testing has confirmed that a "seriously cute" little dog that crash-landed into a Victorian backyard is an endangered breed of dingo.

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.

Embattled regional airline Airnorth is in for a run for its money as competitor airlines line up for the NT Government-subsidised contract.

An advocate and author whose work was pivotal in exposing the history of the removal of Aboriginal children in the Northern Territory has been remembered for her strength and fierce commitment to social justice.

The Coalition's cashless welfare card is compared to the intervention and "mission" times by Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory

The results of this year's public service survey show only a third of Home Affairs staff think it is a good place to work.

Australia's consumer affairs ministers agree to consider laws boosting people's ability to repair their phones and other electronic goods, rather than send them to the dump.

The Secretary of the Department of Home Affairs tells the Senate Intelligence Committee that he's never handed over classified information to the press.

Peter Beattie is the latest NRL figure to back the controversial reversal of the "six again" call in the NRL grand final, but he promises an end-of-year review will consider the incident.

The Opposition Leader acknowledges the mountain his party must climb if it hopes to end 19 years of Labor government.

Disability royal commission chair Ronald Sackville said commentators were discouraging people from telling their stories to the commission, but critics say the real discouragement is the absence of appropriate supports.

A hipster's heaven in regional Queensland is putting the sword to counterculture capitals such as Sydney and Melbourne by embracing its man buns, skinny jeans and coffee shops.

A Cairns apprentice's charges are upgraded to unlawful striking causing death after a man he allegedly hit during a fight outside a bar on the weekend dies in hospital.

Police have released new images of a fugitive's tools in a fresh appeal for information to find one of the country's most wanted, on the run for nine years.

Health authorities urge more than 500 patients of a dental clinic in Far North Queensland to be tested for HIV and hepatitis as the clinic is investigated over its infection control practices.

The survival of a tourist allegedly stabbed in broad daylight at a busy backpacker hostel in Far North Queensland is a "pure fluke" after major arteries in her neck were missed by "mere millimetres", police say.

The massive yacht crushed several smaller boats as it came to a juddering halt at the Cairns Marlin Marina in Queensland.

A luxury superyacht has crashed while attempting to moor at a Cairns marina, narrowly avoiding a potential disaster on the busy tourist strip.

Matthew Ross White pleads not guilty to the murder of Donna Steele, as the Supreme Court in Cairns hears her killing occurred when she fought back during a botched extortion bid.