Residents in Coffs Harbour, on the New South Wales mid north coast, are being evacuated as flood waters rise, cutting the main transport route between Sydney and Brisbane.
ABC - November 6, 2009, 10:45 pmA man has died after falling from a roof while trying to install a television antenna in Melbourne's north.
ABC - November 6, 2009, 10:07 pmThe wet season has kicked off in Broome with a record deluge of November rain.
ABC - November 6, 2009, 10:00 pm
The Tasmanian Government's election campaign has taken another blow, this time over the aborted reappointment of Richard McCreadie as the state's police commissioner.
ABC - November 6, 2009, 9:00 pmThe State and Federal Governments have awarded a West Australian not-for-profit organisation nearly $30 million to build a new centre for the homeless in East Perth.
ABC - November 6, 2009, 8:00 pm
The sudden closing of four more private education colleges has further weakened Australia's claim to be a provider of first class education for international students.
ABC - November 6, 2009, 7:03 pm
An overseas trained doctor is under investigation by Queensland authorities after concerns were raised about his registration and performance.
ABC - November 6, 2009, 6:27 pm
The Queensland Government has promised a full investigation into concerns about the registration and performance of an overseas-trained doctor who used to work in the Northern Territory.
ABC - November 6, 2009, 5:44 pm
A 47-year-old Perth man has been sentenced to life with a 20 year minimum for murdering the mother of his 13 children.
ABC - November 6, 2009, 5:22 pmThe ship carrying asylum seekers rescued from a sunken boat near the Cocos Islands has arrived at Christmas Island.
ABC - November 6, 2009, 5:19 pmThe Taxi Council of the Northern Territory says it already enforces many of the new national standards for taxi drivers.
ABC - November 6, 2009, 4:47 pmResidents of outstations near Alice Springs say their water has been restricted by the Power and Water Corporation because they owe it $21,000.
ABC - November 6, 2009, 4:36 pm
The Perth businessman behind the failed fuel technology company Firepower has complied with a Federal Court order compelling him to hand in any passports or travel documents he holds.
ABC - November 6, 2009, 4:35 pmThe ACT Environment Commissioner has binned a report that found kangaroo culls could increase the risk of bushfires in Canberra, after it was lambasted by other scientists.
ABC - November 6, 2009, 4:31 pm
A Perth man has been fined more than $100,000 for buying black market abalone and selling it for a profit.
ABC - November 6, 2009, 4:23 pm
Social policy researchers have found a strong link between removing Aboriginal children from their parents and continuing violence against Aboriginal mothers.
ABC - November 6, 2009, 4:14 pm
A body has been found in the remains of a home which burnt down overnight at Forest in north-west Tasmania.
ABC - November 6, 2009, 4:09 pmTwo Brisbane parents have been committed to stand trial for the murder of two of their children last year.
ABC - November 6, 2009, 4:00 pmThe Northern Land Council says it has signed-off on 40-year leases with three Top End Aboriginal communities.
ABC - November 6, 2009, 4:00 pm
An ACT Supreme Court jury has taken just 90 minutes to find a former police sergeant not guilty of inappropriately using capsicum spray on a Canberra woman.
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