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Government data shows internet jobs ads fell by 3.6 per cent in April to be 24.1 per cent lower than a year earlier.

A coalition government would consider carving up the tax office, removing prosecution powers to make it less adversarial with taxpayers.

WA premier Colin Barnett has refused to rule out public sector job cuts as part of the state's post-election austerity program.

Patrick O'Sullivan was placed in a medically induced coma on Sunday after he received serious head injuries when he fell 10 metres from a carnival ride.

Australia's struggling farming industry would benefit from an increase in the national minimum wage, Fair Work Australia has been told.

A prosecutor says a Sydney dance teacher facing child grooming and sex charges could try to delete photographic evidence if given bail.

Queensland Premier Campbell Newman has expressed disappointment at federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott for not backing a Brisbane rail project.

A new campaign will urge people who have information about illegal guns or shootings to give anonymous tip offs via Crime Stoppers.

The federal opposition has told state leaders an Abbott government would back a modified version of the Gonski school reforms.

NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell says the partial defence of provocation will be changed in NSW so men can't use it to kill their wives in fits of jealousy.