National News

As New Zealand authorities try to find the source of a "sordid and sick" strawberry needle contamination, the country's growers are talking down the discovery as an issue for the Australian industry.

A man has died after his sailing boat capsized in hazardous seas off Sydney.

Child sex offenders are going unmonitored in the community and about 200 have gone missing from the system entirely due to a severe lack of resources, the NSW police union says.

A Labor plan to force companies to publicly disclose how much they pay women compared to men will be closely examined by the coalition.

An Australian filmmaker says he still loves Cambodia - the nation that accused him of spying and locked him up in a notorious prison.

A woman's body has been found beside a Northern Territory highway with police labelling her death suspicious.

A teenage girl who allegedly punched a female police officer from behind has been arrested after a street brawl in Sydney.

A pedestrian is fighting for life after a four-wheel-drive hit him in a Perth suburb.

A 40-year-old man has been charged with trafficking cocaine at a music festival in Melbourne, among others who caught Victoria Police attention over the weekend.

A man and woman have been questioned over the disappearance of a meerkitten from Perth Zoo after the newborn was recovered from a home in the suburb of Beverley.