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  • Home phone hacking scandal

    In the latest phone hacking scandal to hit Australia criminals have somehow found a way to have fake calls to a 1900 number appear on accounts.

    April 10, 6:18 pm
  • Councils wasting money

    Local councils are often the target of criticism, accused of being lazy and wasteful, while some question their relevance altogether.

    April 10, 6:18 pm
  • Unemployment havens

    Thousands of Australians are flocking to our holiday havens on the promise of cheaper rent, but finding that the job opportunities are just as low.

    April 9, 6:18 pm
  • Underage drinking on the rise

    The instances of binge drinking are on the rise, and the number of Australians drinking at high risk levels has already doubled this century.

    April 9, 6:18 pm
  • Aussie icon under threat

    It's estimated that there are fewer than 100,000 koalas left in Australia, and tens of thousands are injured every year.

    April 6, 6:32 pm
  • Living with autism

    A family has made a desperate plea for help, recording their day-to-day struggle to deal with a child suffering from autism.

    April 6, 6:18 pm
  • Shocking schoolgirl stunt

    Behavioural experts have been left stunned, and while parents and police want answers, three teenage girls have ruined their reputations forever.

    April 4, 6:18 pm
  • Fired for being short

    A young woman was sacked from her job as an assistant at a real estate agency for no other reason than looking too young, and being too short.

    April 3, 6:18 pm
  • Maddest neighbour

    Residents of an Adelaide neighbourhood say they have been made helpless and terrified by the violent actions of one man.

    April 2, 6:22 pm
  • Wild weather boom

    Weather is the one that affects every one of us every day, and in recent times we've dealt with some of the worst it has to offer.

    March 29, 6:30 pm
  • Cheap justice without lawyers

    Tribunals that don't require lawyers in are being set up to act as judge and jury on disputes that have a tendency to blow into full scale feuds.

    March 29, 6:18 pm
  • Self serve servo spree

    Service stations are becoming the target of choice for hold-up gangs and thieves who are making fa fortune in the new criminal hot-spots.

    March 29, 6:18 pm
  • Fight for afro's right

    It could be Australia's most expensive hair style, costing more than $100,000, and it belongs to a school boy who's been expelled for his afro.

    March 28, 6:22 pm
  • Small town's $1 experiment

    In a desperate bid to survive, a year ago a small town decided to offer homes for just $1 a week, hoping to bring new families to the community.

    March 27, 6:18 pm
  • Welfare hot spot revisited

    It's been a year since we visited a street where every resident was on welfare and had been for years, so how had 'Dole Street' fared since then?

    March 27, 6:18 pm
  • Students 'paid' to behave

    In a bid to curb bad behaviour in our schools, a radical new scheme is being imported from overseas - virtually paying children to behave.

    March 27, 6:18 pm
  • Taking care of orphans

    They say you find out who your real friends are when you're at your lowest, and three youngster have found out just how many true friends they have.

    March 23, 6:18 pm
  • Party house crime scene

    Last night the boy whose party got out of control was unrepentant, but today is a different story, as police turn the house into a crime scene.

    March 23, 6:18 pm
  • Party house trashed

    A suburban home today looks like a war-zone, after an eighteenth birthday party that spiraled out of control due to going viral on Facebook.

    March 22, 6:18 pm
  • Ferocious family feuds

    Family relationships are being destroyed because of greed, and because parents assume they can trust their adult children to do the right thing.

    March 22, 6:18 pm

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