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Growers and advocates are placing hope in medicinal cannabis to provide a much-needed change of fortune for struggling New Zealand communities.

Moving migrants to regions that want more people was considered under John Howard but the former prime minister says it was a hard problem to solve.

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Residents in far north Queensland are starting to leave as ex-tropical cyclone Owen threatens to re-form into a category three system.

Two people involved in a 16-hour overnight armed siege at a home in Launceston have been charged by police.

Unprecedented back-to-back bleaching events on the Great Barrier Reef has changed the physiology of tougher coral, making them more resilient to future stress, new research suggests.

Aussie scientists have made a poo breakthrough that should help people battling chronic gut disease.

A woman has been taken to hospital in remote Queensland after being impaled by a catfish.

A young pilot who died in a plane crash in rugged Tasmanian wilderness was a much-loved member of the island state's flying community.

A shattered Australia, reeling from a dramatic 31-run loss to India at Adelaide Oval that puts them at major risk of an unprecedented Test series defeat, are confident the day-five fight is a sign of greater things to come.