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Minor scuffles have broken out at a rally in Melbourne's CBD where anti-racism supporters easily outnumbered the flag-waving far-right campaigners.

A high-powered rifle was used to shoot at a Hobart bar in what police believe was a targeted attack.

A Melbourne man wanted on 20 outstanding warrants has been arrested after a short pursuit.

A man and a boy have been charged with armed robbery following an incident southeast of Brisbane.

A rally will be held on the steps of the state library in Melbourne to protest the Turnbull government's decision to deport a Sri Lankan family.

The NSW government will implement hundreds of recommendations from the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse but has fallen short of forcing priests to break the privacy of confession.

The Australian Border Force says it has smashed a highly organised tobacco syndicate smuggling illicit cigarettes through Melbourne Airport.

A tinny has washed up on a Melbourne beach with fishing rods and bait after the owner tied it up but it appears to have been taken out for an unsolicited joy ride, police say.

A woman has been charged after she allegedly used her car to run down a woman and break her ankle during a dispute in Perth's north.

Residents of a country Queensland town fighting to keep a Sri Lankan family in Australia are worried the family could be deported as early as next week after losing an appeal.