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Parliament to hear first climate statement

<p>Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen to deliver the first annual climate update to parliament, following laws entrenching Australia's net-zero targe...

Tas police suicide inquest probes meeting

<p>An inquest has been told a professional standards meeting with a Tasmanian police officer on the day he took his own life could have been handled d...

TV star faces NT court over chopper crash

<p>TV presenter Matt Wright has made his first appearance in a Darwin court over a slew of charges relating to a helicopter crash that killed co-star...

Young artist's work cut from gift of cloth

<p>Twenty nine-year-old artist Julia Gutman works with donated textiles to make monumental yet intimate scenes of the people in her life.</p>

Vic hotel guards 'confused' over rules

<p>Instructions on how and when to wear protective equipment varied between Victoria's quarantine hotels, a Melbourne court has been told. </p>

Sydney Modern's Tank a space to die for

<p>Any artist would die to show in the AGNSW's new Tank Gallery, according to the sculptor commissioned for its first installation, Adrian Villar Roja...

Landale reflects on Suns' reduced role

<p>Jock Landale has not been discouraged by his drop in game time after a fast NBA start in Phoenix, and his impressed coach Monty Williams has notice...

AFL superfan 'Joffa' admits assaulting boy

<p>Collingwood Football Club's former cheer squad leader has formally pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a teenage boy in 2005 during an arraignmen...

Rangers sued for cancelling Sydney games

<p>A multimillion-dollar lawsuit has been filed against Scottish Rangers Football Club for walking away from a Sydney soccer tournament earlier this y...

Teen's body found, flood cost hits $12b

<p>A 19-year-old man's body has been found in a NSW Riverina town, four days after he vanished while swimming in floodwaters.</p>

War hero Sheean in new navy exhibition

<p>An online exhibition on the history of the Royal Australian Navy has been launched on the 80th anniversary of the death of war hero Teddy Sheean VC...

Teen rock-thrower 'hit pregnant Perth mum'

<p>A pregnant woman is recovering from a heart attack after allegedly being hit in the head by a rock thrown by a teen during a dispute in Perth's sou...

Big five banks scope out climate losses

<p>Australia's big five banks should cope with lending losses caused by climate change but will be more vulnerable to economic downturns, a new analys...

Walker inquest hears of NT teen's trauma

<p>The NT coronial inquiry into the shooting death of Indigenous teenager Kumanjayi Walker has heard evidence he had complex developmental trauma.</p>

ACT, NT to be given euthanasia vote rights

<p>Parliament is set to repeal laws that prevent the ACT and Northern Territory from legislating on voluntary assisted dying.</p>

Brush with immortality for ex-PM Abbott

<p>A portrait of former Liberal prime minister Tony Abbott, by artist Johannes Leak, has been unveiled at Parliament House in Canberra.</p>

Vic stabber sought out victim for fight

<p>Melbourne man Marco Deng was spoiling for a fight when he sought out his murder victim Machar Kot, over an apparent jibe on social media.</p>

Vaccine-resistant pneumonia has increased

<p>The efficacy of the current pneumonia vaccine is in doubt after data revealed the majority of 700 children admitted to hospital with the infection...

Push to scrap Victorian COVID-19 fines

<p>Community legal centres want the re-elected Victorian government to scrap 30,000 fines handed out for breaking COVID-19 rules after they were withd...

Murdoch questions could delay Crikey suit

<p>Lachlan Murdoch's lawyer has sought further information about decisions leading to online news site Crikey republishing an article he claims defame...