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• Woman five times the limit after destructive Adelaide crash

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• NSW's longest-serving child abuse detective calls for justice against Australia's worst daycare abuser

  After 45 years of service in the force, Detective Chief Inspector Peter Yeomans is retiring on Friday, however, he wants to make sure Ashley Paul Griffith is charged for the alleged abuse of 23 children at a Sydney childcare centre.

• Battered bottle shop worker: 'My alleged attackers were bailed before I got out of hospital'

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• Man charged over alleged threats sent to AFL star Izak Rankine

  Rankine went to police after receiving five allegedly threatening messages on social media.

• Family in 'profound shock' after experienced firefighter killed in the line of duty

  John Lohan died after he was crushed by a tree and suffered a heart attack while fighting a bushfire on the NSW Mid North Coast.

• Australia experiences massive 50-degree extremes in first week of summer

  Parts of Australia experienced sub-zero temperatures, whilst other soared to above 40 degrees.

• Minister racks up $1000 bill at the tennis. But it's not against the rules

  Anika Wells is under the microscope for her big spending.

• New images show an interstellar comet that will soon make its closest approach to Earth

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• Prehistoric hobbits vanished 50,000 years ago - now we know why

  The diminutive early human species was first discovered in an Indonesian cave in 2003.

• What are the public holidays during the Christmas and New Year period?

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• Victorian Premier delivers state apology to First Peoples

  "Decisions made in this Parliament over its long history have long denied the First Peoples of this land their rights and their self-determination."

• Bob Hawke's widow opens up on her brief plan to kill him

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• This baby just won a title usually reserved for microbiologists, neuroscientists

  Nature Magazine today announced its annual list of 10 people who shaped science and one honouree was not like the others.

• Pair of crooks carry out art heist in broad daylight

  The two suspects held up an elderly couple before fleeing with eight works of "incalculable" value.

• 'Cities change': Decades-old greyhound track to be torn down

  A racing track that has stood in Sydney for almost a century will be demolished to make way for housing.