As Western Australia's new upper house is sworn in today, five MPs will take their seats on the crossbench — and Labor will ...

Firefighters had to break in to a property in Chadstone, in Melbourne's east, to rescue a woman and two children from a house ...

A legal expert says hard questions must be asked after a conflict of interest in the award of a lucrative cotton farming ...

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The 138-year-old Bendigo Art Gallery is set to close later this year for a major makeover that is expected to take two years ...

Scotts Head Road has been inundated by floodwater causing isolation to properties in Scotts Head and Surrounds. If you have a Home or Business Emergency Plan, follow it. Otherwise, have a conversation ...

The local share market is poised to fall at the open after US stocks dropped and there was tepid demand for US government bonds, a reflection of investor nerves over Donald Trump's "big, beautiful ...

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Geelong AFL champion Joel Selwood has posted a short tribute to his brother Adam, who died last week aged 41. Adam Selwood died suddenly, just three months after his twin brother — former Brisbane ...

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