Former first lady Hazel Hawke has been described as gutsy, warm and free of airs and graces by people paying tribute to her after her death.
Police are probing how a salt shaker at a Chick Treat came to be full of caustic soda.
A Gold Coast man filmed using his skateboard in an attack has been put on probation.
A woman whose body was found 100m from her workplace was bashed and sexually assaulted.
A Melbourne man said he hung on for "dear life" as a semi-trailer shunted him up a freeway.