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A lawyer and domestic violence campaigner has been selected by the Greens as their candidate for the federal seat of Fremantle vacated by Labor's Melissa Parke.

Have you ever been asked if you want to use your private health insurance in a public hospital? Depending on who you talk to, you may get different advice about the benefits and risks of using it. That's because it is a hotly contested area with big money at stake. Last year, insurers paid public hospitals more than $1 billion for members care in public hospitals. That is money private hospitals missed out on and that insurers paid for their members instead of state and federal governments picking up the tab. Читать дальше...

Live scores from the first T20 between the Proteas and Australia.

FBI agents are planning to seek interviews with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's aides in coming weeks as an investigation into her use of private e-mail for official business enters a new phase, according to two people familiar with the inquiry.

A man who was charged with murder after he fatally shot a neighbour in Mandurah has been found guilty of the lesser charge of manslaughter.

Court dismisses Palmer Petroleum bid to avoid paying bill.

An 11-year-old boy, believed to be the youngest person charged with murder in Australia, remains in a juvenile detention facility while his bail application is prepared.

In early 2004 Brett Prebble, his wife, and newborn son flew into Hong Kong - arguably the most competitive racing centre in the world - with the jockey admitting more than a touch of fear, excitement, and a degree cautiousness at his new career move.

Inactivity by WA police in moving against shops selling synthetic marijuana has led to one family taking direct action.

Hugo T Armstrong knew he was gambling his public radio cool when he retired from PBS FM, moved to Geelong and booked a whole festival stage with tribute bands.

The Cypriot consortium who in late 2014 paid $34 million for a prime Hawthorn office with long-term redevelopment potential are believed to have entered negotiations to flip the site for more than $38 million.

The State Government has been accused of turning its back on local workers in the wake of the Elizabeth Quay water park closure.

Canberra's IKEA-mania might have a hand in retail splurge, economists speculate

Australia have salvaged a 17-run win in the dead-rubber third and final women's Twenty20 international in New Plymouth thanks to a classy all-round display from Ellyse Perry.

Another day. Another truck comes a cropper underneath the infamous Montague Street bridge.

The Brisbane Lions say they expect Daniel Rich and Josh Green to soon join Dayne Zorko in re-committing to the club, while talks are beginning with Lewis Taylor.

Controversial Islamic group Hizb ut-Tahrir has ordered to allow men and women to sit alongside one another at its events after a NSW tribunal found its practice of segregated seating constituted sexual discrimination.

Milad Bin Ahmad-Shah Al-Ahmadzai has been found guilty of shooting Michael Rooke with intent to murder in the car park of a gay nightclub in Rydalmere.

Leonard Ainsworth dominated directors' trades this week when he agreed to sell his 53 per cent stake in Ainsworth Game Technology.

A Christian hip-hop music producer who murdered his girlfriend's intellectually disabled seven-year-old son has been sentenced to a maximum of 42 years' jail.

The royal commission has heard how a dance teacher told a student she would never see her family again if she told of abuse.

Family of slain man say they know nothing of claims he was leading a secret double life as a senior Triad gang member.

A "David and Goliath battle" is underway along the Kimberley coast as testing for oil and gas creeps closer to the world's only big wild pearl oyster fishery.

Report blames driver for crash with a train at a far north Queensland rail crossing that sent 18 people to hospital.

It was "a fair call" to say his leadership had been "significantly incompetent", Mark Goodman told the ICAC.