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A man remains behind bars after he allegedly led police on a number of pursuits and confronted a pregnant woman with two machetes at a Sydney fast food outlet.

A Queensland man allegedly seen in a Snapchat video squeezing a possum's neck as it screams and throwing it onto a road has been charged with serious animal cruelty.

The victims of an alleged Queensland stalker who is sought by police after failing to appear in court are being provided with protection.

A man's body has been found in a creek in regional Victoria with homicide squad detectives investigating.

Police have arrested two men after another man was shot in the head in Melbourne.

A central Queensland man has been charged with murder after a man was found dead in suspicious circumstances.

A policeman who investigated the notorious murder of Sydney nurse and beauty queen Anita Cobby hopes killer Michael Murphy "rots in hell" after he died in jail.

While she and Scott Morrison preached a family bond, economic ties and unity in the Pacific, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has said deporting Kiwis from Australia is "corrosive" to the trans-Tasman relationship.

North Queensland coach Paul Green says he has no reason not to play Ethan Lowe in the Cowboys' NRL trial with the Gold Coast despite reports he's set to leave the club.

The prime minister insists a ban on Australian coal exports entering China is just an issue of local rules and not a wider problem between the two countries.