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A 72-year-old Adelaide man has died after a car hit him and a companion, before crashing through a brick wall and into a bank.

A Dubai court has cleared an Australian businessman of fraud but there are reports it has jailed another for 10 years.

Labor and the coalition are battling to convince state leaders of the merits of their school funding plans.

Melbourne Archbishop Denis Hart admits the Catholic Church has been slow to act on issues of abuse.

A man has gone on trial charged with stabbing a man with a hunting knife in front of shocked lunchtime shoppers on a Perth street.

The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry says the federal budget was a missed opportunity to lift the spirits of a flagging small business sector.

An exhibition by renowned landscape painter JMW Turner has hit record attendance figures for the Art Gallery of South Australia.

A Brisbane jury has been urged to convict a Gold Coast teenager over the manslaughter of a 21-year-old man following an argument over a pet dog.

Wayne Leslie McKenna is on trial in WA, accused of six counts of indecently dealing with two girls who were in his care at a school hostel.