Bushfire Smoke Alert - Cressy and surrounds - Avoid smokeThis is a Smoke Alert message for Longford, Cressy, Epping Forrest and surrounds – Avoid smoke.There is a bushfire at Cotton Street, ...

Hundreds of people have gathered to remember former NT administrator, musician and Indigenous land rights advocate Ted Egan, ...

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The number of drownings in Australia has surged in recent times, but with nearly a third of victims being foreign-born, the ...

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Mobil Oil Australia has been ordered to pay a $16 million fine for selling fuel with misleading advertising claims at several north and central Queensland petrol stations. The company has apologised ...

A "creative industries hub" and around 1,000 new homes will be built on the former Edith Cowan University (ECU) campus in ...

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The Tasmania Fire Service has issued an emergency bushfire warning for an area south of Launceston. On Tuesday afternoon, the TFS said an "uncontrolled bushfire at Cotton Street, Longford, is ...

Lawyers for one of two men on trial for the 1999 murder of Canberra grandmother Irma Palasics tell the ACT Supreme Court he was just the lookout, and had nothing to do with her death.

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