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In giving comfort to anti-immigration rhetoric we are turning our backs on a wealthy legacy of eminent Australians who have brought a tireless entrepreneurial energy.

A dad-of-one spat at an officer and kicked a police van cell after being arrested for speeding in a town centre.

Drivers are to be banned from parking in the cobbled heart of a Kent town centre after years of complaints from businesses and shoppers.

Two strangers are said to have thrown laughing gas canisters at a mum-of-two’s car in a fourth attack in two months.

A school in one of Kent’s most deprived areas has been warned it could be moved to another trust - as it requires “significant improvement”.

A couple are hoping to transform one of a town’s oldest buildings into a new business venture.

A pensioner who was charged with the attempted murder of her husband no longer faces prosecution.

Forrestania Resources has defined a maiden 223,300-ounce gold resource at its Tampia project near Merredin in WA, bolstering its new Westonia hub-and-spoke processing strategy.

Mourners gathered at St Andrew’s Cathedral in Sydney’s CBD to farewell Mia Lay, 20, who died in a car crash.

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Christopher Alan Saunders, 76, appeared in WA District Court on Wednesday after he was found guilty by a jury on 13 charges including unlawful and indecent assault and penetration without consent in August.