Relay for Life Joondalup Wanneroo raises more than $305000 for Cancer Council and other top stories.

• Relay for Life Joondalup Wanneroo raises more than $305000 for Cancer Council

  

  The WA Cancer Council’s 2016 Relay for Life Joondalup Wanneroo was held in perfect weather last weekend at Arena Joondalup. More than $305,000 was raised by teams of 10 to 15 members who took part in the 24-hour overnight event in a variety of fundraising activities both before and during the weekend. Funds raised will assist the Cancer Council with its research and support programmes. The 2016 Relay for Life Joondalup Wanneroo was the Cancer Council’s ninth and so far, more than $2.7 milli..

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• Audrey McGregor inquest: 'Substantial overdose' given by confused nurses, coroner says

  

  Audrey McGregor inquest: 'Substantial overdose' given by confused nurses, coroner says Updated October 26, 2016 17:07:48 A "substantial overdose" of medication by staff contributed to the death of an 88-year-old patient at North Shore Private Hospital in Sydney, an inquest has found."Quite simply, the nurses gave the wrong dose," the Deputy State Coroner Magistrate Harriet Grahame concluded. Audrey MacGregor was being treated for pneumonia in October 2013 when she was m..

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• Child's death amid gastro outbreak at Little Zak's daycare in Sydney prompts investigation

  

  Child's death amid gastro outbreak at Little Zak's daycare in Sydney prompts investigation Updated October 26, 2016 21:03:52 Sydney health authorities are investigating whether the death of a child who attended a Sydney daycare is related to a gastroenteritis outbreak.Six children, aged from 11 months to four years old, who attend Little Zak's childcare centre at Artarmon have developed high fevers and vomiting over the last week.Four were taken to hospital, but another..

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• Man who died after catheter-oxygen mix-up 'may have caused own death'

  

  Man who died after catheter-oxygen mix-up 'may have caused own death' Updated October 26, 2016 14:47:57 South Australia's Premier Jay Weatherill has raised the possibility that a man whose oxygen supply was somehow connected to his catheter could have caused his own death.A coronial inquest is being held into the death of former Socceroo Stephen Herczeg, 72, who died at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) on September 19.Earlier this week, the inquest heard Mr Herczeg di..

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• Rural cancer survival rates falling further behind the cities

  

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• Caffeinated alcohol is 'cocaine' to teens

  

  Caffeinated alcohol is 'cocaine' to teens

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• Experimental therapy helps autistic kids

  

  John von RadowitzPress AssociationAn experimental autism therapy that helps parents communicate with their children has had a record level of success in reducing core symptoms of the condition.A trial involving daily 20 to 30-minute sessions of planned communication and play activities showed benefits that lasted six years after the treatment ended.It is the first time long-term effects of such an early intervention have been demonstrated.The follow-up study was designed to look at long-term out..

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Adelaide woman Vicki Brown in custody for starving Chihuahua and other top stories.

• Adelaide woman Vicki Brown in custody for starving Chihuahua

  Adelaide woman Vicki Brown in custody for starving Chihuahua Posted October 17, 2016 13:26:11 A South Australian woman who starved her pet Chihuahua to death before throwing it in a bin has been remanded in custody while she awaits sentencing in an unusual move that has been applauded by the RSPCA.Vicki Brown, 59, was found guilty of ill treating an animal to cause death.The Christies Beach Magistrates Court has previously heard the dog's emaciated body was found in a..

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• An industry's answer to deadly opioid addiction: More pills

  

  Cancer patients taking high doses of opioid painkillers are often afflicted by a new discomfort: constipation. Researcher Jonathan Moss thought he could help, but no drug company was interested in his ideas for relieving suffering among the dying.So Moss and his colleagues pieced together small grants and, in 1997, received permission to test their treatment. But not on cancer patients. Federal regulators urged them to use a less frail - and by then, rapidly expanding - group: addicts caught in..

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• Brisbane mum finds meth in plastic egg in six year old's bedroom

  

  Yahoo7 News on October 17, 2016, 10:20 am A Brisbane mother has taken to Facebook to tell of her shock at finding meth stashed inside a plastic egg in her six year old son's bedroom. Crystal Hill told Yahoo7 she wanted to warn parents after she discovered two bags of the drug, which is commonly called ice, hidden an orange plastic egg that resembled the kind commonly found in a chocolate product aimed at children.“I was cleaning out Jonahs (sic) room (aged 6) on friday and inside his old ..

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• Devil's milk could be the killer ingredient in war on superbugs

  

  Devil's milk has proved to be an unlikely weapon in the increasingly desperate global fight against superbugs. Australian researchers have discovered that peptides contained in the milk of Tasmanian devils can kill some of the most deadly bacterial and fungal infections, including golden staph. Having scanned the devil's genome and discovered the six naturally occurring antimicrobial peptides, researchers from Sydney University set about replicating them artificially. They then tested the pepti..

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• Geelong mother left traumatised after two-year-old pricked by dirty syringe in public toilet

  

  Alleira, 2, was pricked by a dirty syringe at Geelong's Eastern Beach. (9NEWS) A Geelong mother faces a nervous wait of six months to find out if her two-year-old daughter will be given the all clear, after the toddler was pricked by a dirty syringe.Ashlee Vipont took her daughter Alleira into a public toilet at Geelong’s Eastern Beach last Friday when the dirty syringe fell from the toilet paper dispenser.“The toilet paper was kind of stuck so she placed her hands up there, and as we’ve pulled..

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• No need for pap test until age 25: study

  

  Sarah WiedersehnAustralian Associated PressA dramatic decline in the incidence of cervical cancer in Australia has led to a change in the recommended age for a woman's first cervical pap smear to 25.Currently women aged 18 to 20 are routinely screened for cervical cancer but from next year women won't receive a prompt for their first test until around their 25th birthday.The change in age was recommended by the Medical Services Advisory Committee last year and researcher Megan Smith from Cancer ..

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• An overheating exhaust fan saw the the Mersey Community Hospital's emergency department close on Sunday afternoon

  

  Mersey Community Hospital's emergency department resume business post overheating exhaust fan incident An overheating exhaust fan forced the Mersey Community Hospital's emergency department to close on Sunday afternoon.Large fans were used on Sunday night to successfully remove the smell from the affected area by emergency services.Early Monday morning, the department was deemed clear of the odour the exhaust fan had produced.RECOVERED: Adjunct Associate Professor and Executive Di..

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• Gold Coast drugs: 'This will be the summer of multiple unknown overdoses'

  

  When things go bad, blame flakka. Sixteen people were hospitalised for taking drugs on the Gold Coast over the weekend - the worst mass overdose in decades. It's been widely reported the drug was flakka, but until the toxicology report comes back, no-one knows for sure.They had probably taken some kind of New Psychoactive Substance (NPS) - synthetic drugs designed to mimic cannabis, cocaine, ecstasy and LSD. Toxicologists have so far identified about 350 NPS, and are finding about two new ones ..

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• Queensland zombie walk dying, not dead

  

  Jamie McKinnellAustralian Associated PressOrganisers of one of the world's largest zombie walks have been thrown a bone after Brisbane City Council agreed to waive some of its fees for holding the gathering.Rising council fees were cited in an announcement on the Brisbane zombie walk's Facebook page that declared the 2016 walk - to be held this weekend in the CBD - would be the last."Unfortunately, bureaucratic red tape and constant behind the scenes disputes with the Brisbane City Council has t..

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• Astonishing video shows a baby's old heart still BEATING in a dish after it was removed during a transplant

  

  Henry Dolan, pictured with mother Mollie, underwent the heart transplant this weekend after being born with two heart defectsThis is the astonishing moment a baby's heart keeps beating in a hospital bowl after it was removed during a life-saving transplant. Henry Dolan underwent a heart transplant this weekend after being born with two serious heart conditions five months ago.His parents Mollie and Sam Dolan, from Minnesota, have shared the incredible live updates on their Hope for Henry Facebo..

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Sustainable Living Festival - The Future Could Be Awesome ... and other top stories.

• Sustainable Living Festival - The Future Could Be Awesome ...

  

  936 ABC Hobart is broadcasting live from the Sustainable Living Festival on Sunday, November 13 at Princes Wharf 1 and as part of this great event, we want to know all of the awesome things that are happening around Tasmania right now. Awesome people, doing awesome things to make their homes, communities and the world a better place… Now is your chance to celebrate the great things your neighbour, friend or colleague is doing by sharing that amazing project you are involved with or know of. S..

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• Hobart Myer wall collapse: Union wants harsh penalties for ...

  

  Hobart Myer wall collapse: Union wants harsh penalties for companies aware of cracks Updated October 25, 2016 09:10:45 A construction union wants companies that knew of damage to shops before the collapse of the Hobart rivulet wall to face tough penalties.In July a torrent of water broke through the wall in central Hobart, flooding the Myer construction site and damaging shops in the adjacent Cat and Fiddle Arcade.In his audit, director of building control Dale Webster ..

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• Is the race finally over?

  

  THE event that brought Australian and global track and field stars Cathy Freeman, Sally Pearson and Lord Sebastian Coe to Tasmanian soil may have run its final race.Athletics Australia yesterday announced its 2016-17 summer season and while its new Nitro Summer League Series has been slated for February 4 to 11 — despite no concrete details of its format — there will be no Australian Athletics Tour for 2017.This means the future of Hobart’s Briggs Athletics Classic — Australia’s oldest circuit m..

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• Crown sums up at NSW nurse murder trial

  A convicted rapist accused of murdering a Sydney nurse 33 years ago had a tendency to choke women to force them into having sex, a judge has been told.Robert James Adams threatened to throw one woman in a river, saying "I will f*** you either dead or alive", prosecutor Mark Hobart SC said on Tuesday.He was giving the crown's final address in the NSW Supreme Court trial of Adams, 64, who has pleaded not guilty to murdering Mary Louise Wallace. The 33-year-old, whose body has never been found, wa..

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• Fond farewell to 'little Aussie battler' after former Franklin MP Bruce ...

  

  A LARRIKIN Liberal who once entered the House of Representatives in a chicken suit has been celebrated by those who knew him as a hardworking MP with a great sense of fun.“Little Aussie battler” Bruce John Goodluck — a former MHR for Franklin and state independent MP — died yesterday in Hobart at the age of 83.Mr Goodluck served as member for Franklin from 1975 to 1993 under Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser and then during the term of the Hawke Government.GALLERY: GOODBYE BRUCE GOODLUCKLife-long fr..

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• 'I don't want to lose my son'

  

  The devastated family of Nazrawi “Naz” Samson Woldemichael has made a heartfelt plea for the Hobart man’s safe return. The 19-year-old hasn’t been seen since leaving his unit at Trinity House at North Hobart on October 9 about 8am.media_cameraNazrawi Samson Woldemichael has not bee seen since Sunday, October 9.Police believe he may think he is in trouble because of the attention his disappearance has caused but stress he has nothing to fear.His mother Hirut begged anyone with information to come..

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• Distraught family pleads for news of missing son Nazrawi “Naz ...

  

  The devastated family of Nazrawi “Naz” Samson Woldemichael has made a heartfelt plea for the Hobart man’s safe return. The 19-year-old hasn’t been seen since leaving his unit at Trinity House at North Hobart on October 9 about 8am.media_cameraNazrawi Samson Woldemichael has not bee seen since Sunday, October 9.Police believe he may think he is in trouble because of the attention his disappearance has caused but stress he has nothing to fear.His mother Hirut begged anyone with information to come..

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  FOOTBALL Federation Tasmania chief executive Mike Palmer has confirmed there could be a serious bid to secure an A-League team for Tasmania.MORE: A-LEAGUE WANTS TO EXPANDFollowing reports that a consortium — believed to include former Melbourne Victory board member and property developer Harry Stamoulis — was putting together a bid to Football Federation Australia to establish a Tasmanian club, Mr Palmer revealed he had discussed the possibility with locally born former Socceroo David Clarkson.“..

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• Cradle Mt walker flown to safety

  

  AN injured bushwalker from New South Wales is recovering in Burnie after being airlifted to safety from Tasmania’s Cradle Mountain National Park.The 31-year-old woman slipped and hurt her knee yesterday while on a day walk with her husband near Crater Lake.The couple was flown by the Westpac Rescue helicopter to the Cradle Mountain Visitors Centre, where they were met by a Tasmania Ambulance crew.The woman was taken to Burnie’s North West Regional Hospital for treatment.Meanwhile, Tasmania Polic..

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• Investors wow at our brand power

  

  TOURISM and fine fare have been pushing Tasmania in a good economic direction in recent times, and now we are seeing investors stepping in to build up momentum.People with deep pockets are interested in our reputation for clean, safe, high-quality food and drinks.Corporate jets are becoming a regular sight at Hobart airport, and their passengers are here for more than sightseeing.They have included investors from Singapore, who have committed to what will be our state’s biggest hotel, on Hobart’..

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How Women's Boat to Gaza Participants Witnessed the Darkness Israel Imposes on Palestinians and other top stories.

• How Women's Boat to Gaza Participants Witnessed the Darkness Israel Imposes on Palestinians

  

  Photo Credit: Gigi Ibrahim / Flickr Creative Commons Five hours after our Women's Boat to Gaza, the Zaytouna-Oliva, was stopped in international waters by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) on its 1,000 mile journey from Messina, Italy, the coast of Gaza came into view. The Gaza shoreline was starkly visible...for its darkness. The contrast of the bright lights of the Israeli coast from the border city of Ashkelon north to Tel Aviv where the brilliant lights continued out of sight up the ..

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• 5 things to know about the new UN secretary general

  

  U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres visits a Somali refugee camp in Kenya in July 2011. Guterres is poised to become the new U.N. secretary general. (Rebecca Blackwell/Associated Press) It’s official — effective Jan. 1, António Guterres will take on the “world’s most impossible job.” In a straw poll held Oct. 5, the United Nations Security Council voted 13 to 0 with two abstentions to give the former Portuguese prime minister and U.N. high commissioner for refugees the job o..

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• Death toll rises as Myanmar battles border attackers

  

  Yangon: Myanmar's security forces have killed at least 26 people in response to attacks on police that have sparked a dramatic escalation in violence in a Muslim-majority region along its border with Bangladesh, according to reports in state media.Armed men believed to be from the long-oppressed Rohingya Muslim minority launched a coordinated assault on three border police posts in the early hours of Sunday, killing nine police, injuring five and making off with dozens of weapons and more than ..

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• IS drone kills two Kurdish fighters

  

  A booby-trapped drone launched by Islamic State (IS) militants killed two Kurdish Peshmerga fighters and wounded two French soldiers earlier this month north of the IS-controlled city of Mosul, Kurdish and French officials have revealed.The drone blew up when Peshmerga fighters tried to lift it after it crashed to the ground, Jabbar al-Yawar, secretary general of the autonomous Kurdish region's defence ministry, told Reuters."It seems it was booby-trapped."The French newspaper Le Monde reported ..

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• 911 operator Crenshanda hangs up on thousands cause 'ain't nobody got time for this'

  

  Crenshanda Williams, 43, has been charged by police for allegedly hanging up on people ringing US’ emergency 911 help line, local media has reported. Ms Williams, who was charged with interference with an emergency phone call, had been employed as a telephone operator with the Houston Emergency Center in Texas, the US, since July 2014. According to court documents, supervisors found that Ms Williams had disconnected thousands of calls between October 2015 and March 2016 including calls reportin..

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• Bill Shorten ally Kimberley Kitching wins plum Senate spot

  

  Bill Shorten has sparked a new Labor factional brawl in his home state of Victoria after backing controversial lawyer and close friend Kimberley Kitching to replace Stephen Conroy in his party's plum top Senate spot.Ms Kitching secured the party's backing for the seat on Thursday night with the active support of Shorten's union base, and others, after a frenzy of factional bargaining and lobbying through the day. More News Videos Previous slide Next slide Senator's bomb..

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Triple tragedy and a boy's long wait for rescue and other top stories.

• Triple tragedy and a boy's long wait for rescue

  

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• Woman 'shot' while driving in Bayswater, Perth

  

  Woman 'shot' while driving in Bayswater, Perth Updated October 18, 2016 20:46:04 A woman says she was shot while driving in the Perth suburb of Bayswater this afternoon.WA Police said the woman walked into the Bayswater police station this afternoon, and reported she had been struck by something in her upper body while driving with a man on Whatley Crescent.Ambulance officers transported a 24-year-old woman from Yangebup to Royal Perth Hospital about 2:50pm this afterno..

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• Crucial new DNA evidence in 1994 National Crime Authority bombing

  

  'Glass all over Waymouth St'0:34The first police call for help at the deadly NCA building bombing has been released. Courtesy: SA Police. New crime-scene images from the NCA bombing in Adelaide.POLICE have uncovered crucial new evidence from the 1994 bombing of the National Crime Authority office in Adelaide in which Geoffrey Bowen was killed.Major Crime Investigation Branch officer-in-charge Detective Superintendent Des Bray on Tuesday revealed several developments in the case that police hop..

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• Ben Cousins arrested: reports

  

  Dishevelled Ben Cousins faces court on drug charge Tim Clarke - The West Australian on October 18, 2016, 7:22 am A dishevelled looking Ben Cousins has appeared in court after being arrested yesterday allegedly in possession of meth and in breach of a restraining order taken out by the mother of his children. Cousins, 38, appeared from custody at Armadale Magistrates Court sporting a beard and wearing Adidas tracksuit pants and a crumpled green hoodie.The former ..

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• Footballer in coma on Gold Coast after suspected use of 'zombie' drug 'flakka'

  

  Victorian footballer Riki Stephens is believed to have ingested a mystery drug on the Gold Coast. Photo: Facebook A Victorian footballer is in a coma in a Gold Coast hospital, suspected of taking a mystery "zombie" drug that is believed to have hospitalised 16 people.Riki Stephens and his Heathcote Saints teammates were on an end-of-season holiday when he ingested a drug at a pub on the weekend, club president Andrew Conforti said. Riki Stephens is fighting for his life in a Gold C..

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• Moe stabber Carl Richardson's family in shock over Gippsland accounting firm attack

  

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• Tostee jury sent home amid deadlock

  

  JURORS in accused balcony ­killer Gable Tostee’s murder trial have been ordered to continue deliberating despite telling the judge yesterday they were unable to reach a verdict.Justice John Byrne said discharging a jury was a last resort and told them to keep trying.His direction came after they handed him a note saying they were struggling to reach a decision on Tostee’s innocence or guilt over the death of Warriena Wright, who plunged to her death from his Surfers Paradise high-rise balcony in..

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• ACT election: Former Liberals president calls for Vicki Dunne, others to be 'pensioned off'

  

  ACT election: Former Liberals president calls for Vicki Dunne, others to be 'pensioned off' Updated October 18, 2016 22:36:49 Former Canberra Liberals president Gary Kent has called on the party to axe Vicki Dunne and other Liberal MLAs, who he says are underperforming.The Canberra Liberals will again be in Opposition when the new assembly is formed, after falling short at Saturday's election.It is still unclear if the Liberal party will secure 11 or 12 seats when count..

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• Man in custody after wife dies in blaze

  

  A WOMAN died in a horrendous house fire and police are expected to charge her husband after fire ripped through the family’s Western Sydney home where the couple’s two children had been asleep.Abdul Barati, 43, and the couple’s two sons, aged 9 and 6, escaped serious injury when the Guildford home caught fire at 3.35am yesterday on Tuesday.Adel Barati, 30, was heard screaming for help as her husband tried to use water from a tap to put out the inferno before she died. He told neighbours who rush..

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Knife held to pregnant Vic woman's throat and other top stories.

• Knife held to pregnant Vic woman's throat

  

  A pregnant woman has had a knife held to her neck during a burglary in Melbourne. Police say five men, one armed with a knife and firearm, stormed the Berwick home just before midnight on Thursday. They demanded property before assaulting two men and threatening the pregnant woman with the knife. They then fled in a station wagon stolen from a home in Chelsea earlier in the afternoon. They are still at large.

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• Kevin James Corbett sentenced to life in prison for 'brutal' fatal attack on former partner

  

  Kevin James Corbett sentenced to life in prison for 'brutal' fatal attack on former partner Updated October 07, 2016 19:35:15 A man described as "jealous, possessive and controlling" has been sentenced to life in jail with a 21-year non-parole period for savagely beating to death his ex-partner in her home in the Wheatbelt town of Narrogin.Kevin James Corbett, 51, was found guilty of murdering 36-year-old mother-of-three Charmaine Winmar whose body was found in her home..

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• Woman killed and child left with spinal injuries after horror jet ski and boat collision on NSW mid-north coast

  A woman has died and a child is seriously injured after a collision between a boat and a jet ski on New South Wales' mid-north coast.The woman, the driver of the jetski, was killed when she collided with the boat on the Nerong Inlet at Nerong, south of Forster, about 5.30pm.An eight-year-old boy, who was also on the jetski, received spinal injuries. He was airlifted to John Hunter Hospital for treatment, where he is in a stable condition.The 46-year-old skipper of the boat was also airlifted to..

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• Melbourne Uni probes inside job exam scam

  

  The intruder moved with intent, much like a professional thief who ignores the wallet on the dresser and heads straight to the safe.But theft wasn't the purpose of the mission at Melbourne University's sprawling Parkville campus. Armed with a security swipe card, the intruder slipped into a supposedly secure room in which exams were stored and identified an accounting exam of a Chinese student studying for a bachelor of commerce. The paper had already been marked. The university insists th..

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• The Rebecca Wilson I knew: a beautiful friend and a fearless journalist

  

  The only way to make it better is to write about her, so that's what I'll do.On Wednesday afternoon, I sat at the bedside of my beautiful friend and colleague Rebecca Wilson. For once, I was doing all the talking. For once, we weren't arguing about something to do with sport. More News Videos Previous slide Next slide Journalist Rebecca Wilson dies from breast cancer How will we get to work in 2026? Kingswood Country star Ross Higgins dies ..

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• Kayakers cling to tree branches while trapped in storm water in Warrandyte

  

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• Car crashes into Cape York funeral, killing one, seriously injuring 12

  

  Car crashes into Cape York funeral, killing one, seriously injuring 12 Updated October 07, 2016 18:54:49 A woman has been killed and 12 people have been seriously injured after a car ploughed into a house where mourners were gathering for a funeral in far north Queensland. Key points: Man, 55, accused of driving a car into a funeral in Cape York after a disputeWoman, 48, dead, 12 seriously injured, dozens with minor injuriesRegional disaster management plan activated,..

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• Perth man hit by car, killed on cycling tour in United States

  

  Perth man hit by car, killed on cycling tour in United States Posted October 07, 2016 20:14:36 A 60-year-old Perth man has been hit by a car and killed while on a cycling tour in the United States.Michael Balfe, from Claremont, was about 12 kilometres east of the city of Eureka in Kansas on Monday night, when he was struck from behind by a driver in a Chevy Impala before falling into a ditch on the 54 highway.Charges have not been laid against the 32-year-old driver w..

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It's an old story: AFL football finds a woman to blame and other top stories.

• It's an old story: AFL football finds a woman to blame

  

  This is a story of deceit. It is the story of a naive footballer doing a profoundly stupid thing, trusting the advice of people who should have known better and running from responsibility.At the moment that is the story – sex, drugs, lies and football. It is now for authorities to decide if that story is fact or fiction. What this story is not about is the blame and fault of others, or more accurately the deceit of a girlfriend. More Sport Videos Previous slide Next slide ..

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• Tomic and Kyrgios solidify bratty status at US Open

  

  Bernard Tomic has done nothing for his bratty ATP reputation – calling a spectator at the US Open a “peasant” and telling him to “suck [his] balls”. The sledge, arguably Tomic's filthiest yet, came after the person heckled the Aussie during his ...

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• Cronulla Sharks prop Andrew Fifita issued warning for consorting with criminals

  

  Cronulla forward Andrew Fifita has been issued a consorting notice by police in a huge blow to the Sharks' hopes of snaring the minor and major premierships.Police handed Fifita the notice on Wednesday, just days before the Sharks take on Melbourne at AAMI Park on Saturday night in a clash that will decide the minor premiership. "Police from the gang squad Strike Force Raptor have issued a consorting warning to a 27-year-old NRL player under section 93x of the Crimes Act 1900," the police said ..

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• Melbourne Storm prop Jesse Bromwich says Cameron Smith doesn't need bodyguard for Sharks clash

  

  In the eyes of Melbourne Storm prop Jesse Bromwich, his captain Cameron Smith isn't Whitney Houston and he isn't Kevin Costner or anyone's bodyguard.The Storm's clash with Cronulla Sharks at AAMI Park on Saturday night has plenty riding on it with the winner claiming top spot on the ladder and a Sharks loss opening the chance they could fall from second spot into third, thus losing a home qualifying final in week one. Storm Jesse Bromwich (right), says skipper Cameron Smith can look after ..

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• Postecoglou warns Australia against home failure

  

  The reigning Asian champions won seven out of eight group matches, with the only loss away to Jordan, to seal top spot from their group. "We have to win your home games as it will be tough to pick up points on the road," said Postecoglou. "With a scrappy victory, you get three points but it doesn't show the road ahead is going to be where you want it to be. "I still want us to perform strongly. I want to win but also play well so we ha..

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• Broncos sitting pretty for finals: Bennett

  

  Brisbane coach Wayne Bennett's years of experience tell him form and fitness are all that matter going into a NRL finals campaign. Fortunately for the seven-time premiership coach, he feels both those elements are present in his Broncos outfit heading into this year's playoffs. The Broncos are still a chance for a top-four finish after their convincing victory last weekend over ladder leaders Melbourne. A win over the Sydney Roosters on Thursday night and then a North Queensland loss to Gold Co..

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• Stewards demand Tosen Stardom gallop

  

  Tosen Stardom (Image: Bradley Photos) Darren Weir has praised the common sense approach of Racing Victoria chief steward Terry Bailey for allowing Tosen Stardom to run in Saturday’s Group 2 Dato' Tan Chin Nam Stakes (1600m), should he satisfy stewards in a Thursday morning gallop. Victoria's leading trainer was initially told that the Japanese galloper would not be eligible to race at Moonee Valley as he had not yet passed required checks following a bleeding attack whilst in quarantin..

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• Tedesco could make shock finals return

  

  WESTS Tigers players will have extra incentive against Canberra on Sunday with star fullback James Tedesco in line for a shock return next weekend should they sneak into the NRL finals. In a huge boost for the Tigers ahead of their must-win clash against the Raiders at a packed Leichhardt Oval, The Daily Telegraph can reveal Tedesco could miraculously take the field just four weeks after breaking his jaw.The sight of Tedesco, wearing a green non-contact bib, in full flight at a training session ..

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• Sri Lanka v Australia coverage: Fourth one-day international at Dambulla

  

  ASKED to bowl first in the fourth one-dayer against Sri Lanka, Australia made a dream start in Dambulla.Chasing a series-sealing victory, Australia reduced Sri Lanka to 2-18 in the first six overs, with Mitchell Starc removing Avishka Fernando (0) in the first over, and John Hastings knocking over Kusal Mendis (1).Fernando, who is only 18, was on debut, replacing the retired Tillakaratne Dilshan.That wasn’t the only change made to the sides, with Usman Khawaja replacing the injured Shaun Marsh, ..

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