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Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says government must do all it can to help the manufacturing industry.

Former federal speaker Peter Slipper has pleaded not guilty to charges relating to misuse of cab vouchers.

Parents with school-age children should know what's at stake when they head to the polls, Treasurer Wayne Swan says.

Barry O'Farrell says feral pest hunting in national parks cannot be linked to hunting incidents involving belligerent behaviour.

A mother has told her son's killers that they have ruined her family, during a sentencing hearing for the four men.

A far north Queensland fisherman who loaded a two-metre crocodile into his boot has spent the night with the reptile in his bedroom.

Paramedic Paul Rossington has been remembered by ambulance service colleagues as a brave and honourable man who died trying to save his girlfriend's life.

Schapelle Corby's brother has had his defamation claim against Allen and Unwin and a Fairfax journalist dismissed by a judge.

A young man accused of torturing a woman in Cairns will appear in court on Thursday.

Queensland's Police Minister Jack Dempsey says 19,000 firearms have been surrendered to the government during a three-month amnesty.