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South Australian police say a woman has died after a dog attack at Whyalla in South Australia's upper Spencer Gulf region this afternoon.   

The High Court of Australia agrees to hear a special case brought by two teenagers challenging the federal government's upcoming social media ban for Australians under 16.

A girl who was allegedly criminally neglected at the hands of her mother before she died told a friend she was "treated like a slave" and was "scared to go back home", a court has heard.

Connor John Christopher Lyons will be eligible for parole in six months after pleading guilty to 31 child sex offences.

A Tiwi Islands man who murdered 23-year-old Bangladeshi student Md Isfaqur Rahman during a Darwin home invasion in 2023 has been sentenced to life behind bars. 

Leaders of international Jewish communities have walked through the debris of an Melbourne synagogue a year after it was firebombed as two accused men faced court.

A serious crash on one of Perth's major freeway's brings train services to a halt and is causing traffic chaos in the city's south.

A rare set of conjoined twins are being urgently airlifted from Papua New Guinea to Australia, with doctors recommending they be separated as soon as possible.

As the Victorian government moves to bring back the driver's licence donor registration scheme, DonateLife wants it to be nationwide, saying there is clear evidence it leads to an increase in organ donors.

Porongurup businesses are frustrated by what they describe as a lack of communications and urgency surrounding a 6-day mobile outage.

Bruce Lehrmann has changed his plea to guilty and been sentenced for one count of using a vehicle without the consent of the owner.

A sports aficionado whose baritone voice earned him the nickname "Big Daddy", Higgins read the news on Channel Nine, the ABC and a slew of radio stations over the course of his 57 years in the media.

Richard Marles says the government has received the Pentagon's much-anticipated review into the $368 billion AUKUS submarine pact, declaring Washington is "fully supportive" of the deal.

The annual showcase of the year's top political cartoons has opened at Old Parliament House in Canberra, depicting the biggest national and global events with satire and wit.

Tasmanian parliamentarians have censured a minister for breaking his word to a local football club after it attended an election campaign media event with the opposition.

Nationally, there is a teacher shortage and one of the measures used to fill the gap is using undergraduates, but that too can have long-lasting impacts.

China is ending a decades-long tax exemption on contraceptives to push up its birth rate. Experts say the change could leave women and young people more vulnerable.

A rescue helicopter has winched five people and a blue heeler puppy to safety after their boat filled with water off the north Queensland coast. 

Parents at a South Australian school say they have been left in the dark about photos taken by a principal during a school camp.

Managers can send strong signals that harassment or assault at the work party will be treated as seriously as in the workplace.

A Canberra man is sentenced to 10 years in jail for manslaughter, after the ACT Court of Appeal overturned his murder conviction for the death of his partner.

A mammoth year in politics ended with a focus on what is worrying most Australians ahead of Christmas: the cost of living. 

The judge presiding over the trial of Rajwinder Singh, accused of the 2018 murder of Toyah Cordingley, is summing up the case before the jury goes out to deliberate.

Great Southern man Mark Adams went on a short fishing trip on Tuesday afternoon and never returned. His family is devastated by the likely loss of their loved one.

The Coalition seizes on meeting notes from June to claim the government is working to return Australian children and partners of Islamic State fighters.