The union said the “failed and flawed prosecution” of a police officer should bring the role of the police watchdog into question.

Police, ambulance officers and the fire brigade are currently attending two motor-vehicle incidents in front of Parliament House. One of the incidents was reported as occurring at the intersection of Kings Avenue and State Circle,

A three-vehicle crash at the intersection of Kings Avenue and State Circle caused significant delays early on Wednesday evening.

The first clear images of a man police wish to speak to over an assault on a Indigenous mother and her daughter with a makeshift flamethrower in Gosnells have been released.

Feral cats are usually associated with the decimation of Australia's native wildlife but the Maranoa Regional Council is beginning a trapping program aimed at the industrial and commercial sections of its towns.

POLICE officers stood in front of bottle shops across Darwin and patrols at known anti-social behaviour hot spots increased as the three-day crackdown on crime started on Wednesday.

Queensland has also declared all of New Zealand a hotspot with the two states concerned about a cluster in Auckland.

Leigh Sales speaks to Victoria's Deputy Chief Health Officer Professor Allen Cheng, who's also the co-chair of the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation, about the mishap where two recipients in Queensland were given an overdose of vaccine.

A woman with a traumatic upbringing was able to cut back on drinking with the help of her “supportive” live-in boyfriend.

A key witness in the murder appeal of Hobart grandmother Susan Neill-Fraser will give evidence via video link at the landmark hearing.Neill-Fraser, 67, is serving 23 years in jail for killing partner Bob Chappell on the couple's yacht moored off Hobart on Australia Day 2009.