A screen shot showing an umpire telling a security guard to get off the pitch as two players tussle at the North Melbourne vs GWS Giants AFL match at Bellrieve Oval in Hobart on Saturday June 15, 2019.

The NSW Treasurer delivers a surplus of around half that expected this time last year, but is forecasting blue skies ahead. He's optimistic despite doubts circulating about the domestic and global economies, Ian Verrender says.

If you look up to the eastern sky tonight, you're likely to spot one of the biggest planets at its brightest. Jupiter, the fifth planet from the sun and largest in our solar system, is visible to stargazers this month.

A life-saving surgery seen as a major breakthrough in stroke treatment is only available to Canberrans during business hours, but soon patients will not have to worry about whether the timing of their stroke will affect their care.

Star gazers are marvelling at Jupiter

A screen shot showing an umpire telling a security guard to get off the pitch as two players tussle at the North Melbourne vs GWS Giants AFL match at Bellrieve Oval in Hobart on Saturday June 15, 2019.

The Health Department confirms a massive spike in the number of influenza cases in Western Australia this year, with 3,000 extra notifications and 14 deaths in the past week alone.

Hawthorn captain Ben Stratton is suspended for two weeks by the AFL tribunal, one week each for repeatedly pinching Essendon's Orazio Fantasia and stomping on the foot of Shaun McKernan.

Craig has been threatened with a machete and separated from his daughters, but he says that is the reality of being homeless in Tasmania's capital.

A man who donated his sperm to a lesbian friend with the belief he could play a role in the child's life wins a High Court fight to be named the girl's legal father, blocking her mother from moving overseas.

An Adelaide Hills man charged with unlawful firearms possession as well as engaging in indecent filming is granted bail by a magistrate but prosecutors say they will seek a review of that decision.

A Supreme Court judge overturns a decision to grant home detention bail to a man charged over a massive weapons haul in the Adelaide Hills last month.

Eliza Bartlett is a diabetic but is does not define her. The 27-year-old walked 4,200 kilometres across Europe to displace the stigma.

Child safety experts say school-based sex education programs aren't keeping up with the times, or the technology when it comes to sexting, despite research showing one in three teens is engaging in the practice.

A two-year-old girl hit by a four-wheel drive south of Adelaide becomes the latest toddler killed as a result of vehicle accidents on South Australian properties in recent months.

The SA Government has revealed plans to mothball 60 public hospital beds and offer further redundancies in the health system, despite record levels of ambulance ramping outside emergency departments in recent months.

SA Police believe an Adelaide woman missing near Sedan in South Australia's eastern Mount Lofty Ranges has "suffered a misadventure" and might have been injured or bitten by a snake.

An Adelaide man, who founded a network which promotes online safety, issues an apology for possessing child exploitation material and exchanging nude pictures with teenagers.

Adelaide woman Deborah Pilgrim says the kindness of strangers who helped find her after three days lost in the bush is "overwhelming".

The family of 76-year-old Dennis Murphy have posted a confronting video of him crawling on his hands and knees to the toilet, after they say he was discharged without proper treatment from Adelaide's Flinders Medical Centre.

The family of an elderly man posts a video of him crawling on his hands and knees to the toilet and claims he was discharged from an Adelaide hospital without proper treatment.

During the three days Deborah Pilgrim was lost in scrubland she desperately searched empty properties, climbed a windmill and endured sickness from drinking dirty water before her incredible rescue.

A serial child sex offender is back behind bars just six weeks after being released, after he breached a supervision order by contacting a child over the internet.

Almost a decade ago, Charles Brice was thrown from a motorbike in a trail-riding accident, and spent more than a year in rehab. This week, he completed a 300-kilometre road trip from the crash site.

Police are investigating a fatal crash involving a ute which hit and killed one pedestrian and injured another at McLaren Vale south of Adelaide last night.

A pioneering project on the WA coast is searching for underwater evidence of ancient culture. Scientists hope the exploration will lead to evidence of human life from when the seabed was land.

Louise Murphy spends every day caring for her elderly mother, but says no-one is helping her care for herself. She says her carers' fatigue is compounded by the fact that respite care is expensive, and her fears about putting her mother into aged care.

Ticket scalpers who targeted British comedian Michael McIntyre's Adelaide show earlier this year have been fined, but there are calls for a stronger crackdown on the practice including prosecution.

An Adelaide paedophile will spend at least two years behind bars for masturbating in a store window and for using the social media site Pinterest to view images of young boys.

An influenza outbreak among newborn babies at Adelaide's Women's and Children's Hospital results in dozens being given antiviral medication and isolated in closed cots.

He has been earmarked as a Test batsman in the making, and now Victorian youngster Will Pucovski gets another chance to earn a debut after being named in the Australia A XI to play Pakistan in Perth.

In recent years, SA has developed a reputation for blackouts and energy instability, but uptake of a home battery scheme spruiked as a potential solution remains sluggish.

South Australia's Chief Justice accuses the Attorney-General of undermining the administration of justice by failing to appoint two replacement judges to the Supreme Court.

Two seven-week-old kittens are dumped in a garden bed at an Adelaide shopping centre, and the RSPCA is seeking help to identify the couple involved.

Convicted serial killer Ivan Milat gets into a van and returns to prison after receiving cancer treatment at hospital.

Hawthorn captain Ben Stratton will come under fire for repeatedly pinching his Essendon opponent, Orazio Fantasia, throughout their match.