Lia Finocchiaro will be the Northern Territory's new Chief Minister after the CLP's election win, following a massive swing against Labor.

WA's Environment Minister has described his shock, after an 800-year-old tree in the south-west was cut down to a stump.

A WA surfer has suffered burns to 13 per cent of his body after a boat he was on caught fire in Indonesia.

A Perth tradie left fighting for life after a scooter crash in Bali has now been declared brain dead.

A footy fan who almost died from cardiac arrest has been reunited with the hero protective services officers who helped save his life.

Police are investigating after an unknown man approached two girls at Christie Downs in Adelaide.

A woman has been slashed on the hand with a knife, after confronting thieves at her home in Cranebook near Penrith, NSW.

Police are searching for a group of people after the death of a 28-year-old man at a park in Derrimut in Melbourne's west.

A dramatic takedown has played out in a suburban Brisbane street when police were forced to taser an armed man they said had attacked two officers.

Temperatures are expected to rise as a winter heatwave moves through parts of Queensland.

An historic outback Queensland pub has gone up in flames just a week before it was set to hold a popular annual music festival.

Members of the scandal-ridden CFMEU will take to the streets from Tuesday to protest against the federal government's forced takeover of the union's construction division.

A woman has been charged with a man's murder after his body was found inside a surfboard bag on the driveway of a rural home in northern NSW.