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Asylum seeker to be freed after ASIO overturns adverse security assessment

A Sri Lankan asylum seeker has become the second person to have an adverse threat assessment overturned by ASIO.
ABC - May 23, 12:30 am
Boy injured in carnival ride accident at school fete wakes from coma

A five-year-old boy who was thrown off a carnival ride in south-east Queensland at the weekend has woken from his coma.
ABC - May 22, 11:40 pm
Mark Butler wants report into claims relatives denied access to nursing homes

Federal Minister for Ageing Mark Butler has called for a report into allegations that relatives were barred from visiting aged-care facilities after complaining about care standards.
ABC - May 22, 11:39 pm
Dance industry needs greater scrutiny: former teacher

A former colleague of a Sydney dance teacher charged with possessing child pornography and grooming teenage girls says there needs to be greater scrutiny of the dance industry.
ABC - May 22, 11:39 pm
83yo dead after crashing into Sydney house; 80yo passenger in serious condition

An 83-year-old man has died after his car crashed through the front of a house in Sydney's west.
ABC - May 22, 11:14 pm
Razzle dazzle and rain at Gatsby premiere

The stars of The Great Gatsby including Tobey Maguire, Carey Mulligan and director Baz Luhrmann, walked a wet red carpet at the Australian premiere.
May 22, 11:10 pm
Former Victorian police officer speaks out on bullying, says management ignored his pleas

A former Victorian police officer says superiors at the Ballarat Police Station failed to act when he was seriously bullied by a colleague.
ABC - May 22, 11:08 pm
Humour, emotion run high at PM forum

Hundreds of people packed a school hall in western Sydney to ask PM Julia Gillard tough questions, with some humour in the mix.
May 22, 10:55 pm
Ex-Qld premier Bligh to front health probe

Former Queensland premier Anna Bligh is expected to appear at the inquiry into one of Australia's biggest IT bungles.
May 22, 10:36 pm
Stabbed Bomber lucky not to be worse off

Essendon's Nathan Lovett-Murray lost a lot of blood but could have been much worse off after being stabbed, says the AFL club's doctor.
May 22, 10:22 pm
Naitanui AFL trade not an option: Eagles

West Coast say there's no chance GWS coach Kevin Sheedy or any other AFL club can snare Eagles star Nic Naitanui while he's contracted to the end of 2014.
May 22, 10:20 pm
Home truths spark Lions AFL turnaround

Brisbane co-captain Jed Adcock says players have shared some 'home truths' that might just turn their AFL season around - and secure their coach's job.
May 22, 10:19 pm
Injured Qld boy wakes from coma

Patrick O'Sullivan was placed in a medically induced coma on Sunday after he received serious head injuries when he fell 10 metres from a carnival ride.
May 22, 10:19 pm
Qld premier at odds with Abbott on rail

Queensland Premier Campbell Newman has expressed disappointment at federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott for not backing a Brisbane rail project.
May 22, 9:42 pm
Sydney dance teacher now on sex charges

A prosecutor says a Sydney dance teacher facing child grooming and sex charges could try to delete photographic evidence if given bail.
May 22, 9:42 pm