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'Marine growth' strands cruise ship off SA

January 01, 2023 02:57 PM AEDT| By AAPNEWS

Luxury cruise passengers have been at sea off Australia for six days, with the ship unable to dock until marine creatures are removed from its hull.

WA riot sparks calls for youth justice fix

January 01, 2023 02:46 PM AEDT| By AAPNEWS

Western Australia's opposition has blasted management of the state's youth prison, saying detainees' "only vehicle" to seek improvement was to riot.

Hat passed around for Qld rodeo rider

January 01, 2023 02:31 PM AEDT| By AAPNEWS

A novice bull rider from NSW has died from his injuries in hospital after falling from an animal at a rodeo event in southern Queensland on New Year's Eve.

Body of missing kayaker found

January 01, 2023 02:26 PM AEDT| By AAPNEWS

The body of a Tasmanian man who failed to return from a late-night fishing trip in a remote area has been recovered after a two-day search.

Eight injured in five-car Gold Coast crash

January 01, 2023 02:22 PM AEDT| By AAPNEWS

Three people have been left seriously injured after a pile-up on the Gold Coast Highway allegedly triggered by a driver police say is still on the run.

Timing for Indigenous voice vote revealed

January 01, 2023 02:15 PM AEDT| By AAPNEWS

Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney says a referendum on the Indigenous voice to parliament could be held in August.

Australia welcomes 2023 with a bang

January 01, 2023 01:22 PM AEDT| By AAPNEWS

Australians partied well into the night during the first New Year's Eve celebrations without COVID-19 restrictions in three years.

Chinese travellers to face COVID tests

January 01, 2023 01:13 PM AEDT| By AAPNEWS

Travellers from China will need to undergo mandatory testing for COVID-19 before boarding a flight to Australia, the health minister has announced.

Evacuated outback town faces record floods

January 01, 2023 12:46 PM AEDT| By AAPNEWS

Floodwaters in the far western NSW town of Menindee are expected to break records after residents were forced to evacuate.

Qld road toll surges to worst in 13 years

January 01, 2023 12:00 PM AEDT| By AAPNEWS

Queensland has recorded its highest road death toll in 13 years as the number of people killed on Tasmanian roads surges and Victoria's count also rises.

Centre damaged in NYE youth detention riot

January 01, 2023 11:16 AM AEDT| By AAPNEWS

A disturbance at Perth's troubled Banksia Hill youth detention centre continued into the early hours of the new year.

Search continues for missing kayaker

January 01, 2023 10:40 AM AEDT| By AAPNEWS

Police are concerned for the safety of a Tasmanian man who failed to return from a late-night fishing trip in a remote area.

Son charged with elderly mother's murder

January 01, 2023 10:02 AM AEDT| By AAPNEWS

A 41-year-old man has been arrested more than seven hours' drive from where his mother's body was found in a western Sydney home.

'Marine growth' strands cruise off SA

January 01, 2023 09:42 AM AEDT| By AAPNEWS

Hundreds of people on a luxury cruise off South Australia have been at sea for six days, with the ship unable to dock due to a "marine growth" on its hull.