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Coalition 'contempt' for defence: Marles

<p>Defence Minister Richard Marles has lashed the coalition over an auditor-general report about the management of Defence's project investment progra...

Fresh round of Vic truth-telling hearings

<p>The plight of Indigenous Victorians in child protection and correctional custody will be put under the microscope as a truth-telling inquiry resume...

Commando claims ABC article 'defamatory'

<p>Lawyers for ex-commando Heston Russell say an article published by the ABC painted him as a war criminal despite making no direct allegations again...

Anti-vax GP sues 'fictional' medical board

<p>Anti-vaccine GP registrar William Bay is suing medical regulators for suspending his registration, claiming they do not legally exist and infringed...

'Looks like I'm the culprit': Vic murderer

<p>A Victorian man who told police it looked like he was the culprit after his neighbour was fatally stabbed has been found guilty by a jury of his mu...

Scientists to restore tropical seagrass

<p>Researchers will investigate restoration techniques for key tropical seagrass species, from Queensland's Great Barrier Reef to the north of Western...

Producers are adapting to climate change

<p>Australian producers will need to become more resilient and continue to adapt to climate change, a parliamentary inquiry into food security has bee...

Energy consumers want price intervention

<p>Governments are under pressure to commit to immediate and longer-term help for households and small businesses before power bills become an even gr...

Long road ahead to end harassment at work

<p>Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins is urging employers and workers to continue the momentum to end workplace harassment for future genera...

Rainbow Sydney Harbour Bridge on NYE

<p>Sydney's New Year's Eve revellers will be treated to a demonstration of the city's rich Indigenous identity, before the harbour bridge becomes a gi...

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>