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SA Premier Jay Weatherill says a proposed ban on live odds advertising during sports broadcast does not require the approval of the federal government.

A man will face court on Wednesday charged with the attempted murder of another man in Sydney's west.

A man has been shot in the car park of a sports oval in Sydney's south as a local team was training just metres away.

NSW Fair Trading is warning against Robert Douglas Pentecost, who has conned a string Sydney residents.

Water police have used sonar equipment in the search for a missing fisherman at a Victorian lake.

A driver mounted a gutter and drove at a man, carrying him 50 metres before he was thrown on to a road in suburban Melbourne, police say.

An elderly Melbourne woman stabbed in the neck by a stranger in a brutal home invasion was saved after managing to activate a personal medical alarm device as she lay on her floor, where police found her barely conscious and with severe blood loss.

More than $500,000 has accidentally been overpaid to not-for-profit organisations in Queensland from gambling profits, a report says.

A new report has slammed Queensland's Drink Safe Precinct trials in Fortitude Valley, Townsville and Surfers Paradise as ineffective and poorly-planned.