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Tony Abbott's chief of staff Peta Credlin has been charged with low-range drink-driving.

Police say a car belonging to an elderly man who was stabbed to death in the Victorian coastal town of Rye is missing and a window at his house was broken.

Victorian police divers say hopes of finding a missing paraglider alive are fading.

A SA grief counsellor who helped Bali bombings survivors has been jailed for sexually abusing two boys almost three decades ago.

A five-year-old Queensland boy, injured in a carnival ride accident, may be brought out of an induced coma on Monday afternoon.

New statistics showing record number of imports of performance enhancing drugs justify February's release of the drugs in sport report, crime fighters say.

The assault of four girls at a Sydney primary school has prompted the NSW Education Department to post a security guard on-site.

Queensland has recorded the highest number of drug arrests in Australia in 2011/12 and police say it indicates they are cracking down on the drug trade.

A search is underway in Koscuiszko National Park in NSW after a Canadian man failed to return from a bushwalk.

A group of women's organisations and human rights lawyers has complained to the UN about proposed changes to the NSW victims compensation scheme.