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Queensland's coroner has been told there is not enough evidence to commit anyone still alive to trial over the brutal murder of two nurses in the 1970s.

Indigenous groups are worried a State Agreement for the development of Canning Basin shale gas will erode their rights as native title claimants.

Tony Abbott is standing by comments labelling an Egyptian asylum seeker as a "convicted murderer and jihadist".

WA's coroner will begin an inquest next week into the deaths of more than 100 asylum seekers after their boat sank near Christmas Island last year.

The union and Victoria's opposition leader says the ANZ bank owes it to its workers to reveal the future of 600 call-centre jobs in Melbourne.

A Victorian policeman was allegedly three times over the blood alcohol limit when he was involved in a collision while off duty.

Sydney's Opera House will have help celebrate its 40th birthday from Denmark's royal couple, who fell in love not far from its iconic silhouette.

The former partner of a Perth woman whose three-year-old son died in a washing machine has denied lying to police to protect her.

A man who tried to rape a woman at a Sydney bus stop has been refused bail, with the NSW government confirming he was on bail at the time of the offence.

Reporters for The Age newspaper charged with accessing restricted data want the matter dealt with through a diversion program, a court has heard.