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Clare Nowland fell and fractured her skull last week after she was tasered by the senior constable who had been called to her aged-care home in Cooma, because she was carrying a knife.

A manhunt is underway after Marvin Oraiha, who is believed to be a low-level bikie associate, was shot dead inside his car in south-west Sydney.

Richmond coach Damien Hardwick thanks his players as he announces he is stepping down after 14 seasons.

Sandy was among more than 100,000 Australian horses sent to World War I a century ago but, remarkably, was the only horse to return, with his story now immortalised through a bronze statue in his town of origin.

More than $200 million in funding will be provided by the Victorian government as it accelerates plans to phase out native timber logging.

Staff have been offered blood testing after tap water at an Aboriginal community clinic was found to have elevated levels of copper.

Scientists have spotted white-throated snapping turtles in Baffle Creek, 100 kilometres north of Bundaberg, for the first time.

Australians are begging the government to rescue their relatives from the Taliban as the processing of refugee applications grinds to a halt for thousands of at-risk Afghan asylum seekers.

The Transport Workers Union is calling on Qantas to repay $2.7 billion in government handouts it got during the COVID-19 pandemic as the airline forecasts what the union calls an "obscene" record annual profit. And the Australian share market runs out of steam as US debt ceiling talks drag on.

A new native "skeleton shrimp" species has been recognised by scientists after a fisherman caught thousands of the tiny invertebrates in the Gippsland Lakes.

Brad Murray works as a stockman on an outback cattle station, but when he gets bored he writes his own bush poetry "just for fun".