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#BREAKING: Headline inflation rose to 0.8 per cent in September, taking annual inflation for 4.3 per cent, up from 4 per cent in August.

#BREAKING: Australia's financial intelligence agency, AUSTRAC, had sought a much steeper fine that could have forced the casino company into financial collapse.

#BREAKING: Former Jetstar pilot Greg Lynn has been denied bail, as he waits to face a retrial over the alleged murder of Victorian retiree Carol Clay.

#BREAKING: A man has been found dead in floodwaters in southern Queensland.

#BREAKING: Brazil's president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has defeated right-wing senator Flávio Bolsonaro in a runoff to secure a fourth non-consecutive term.

#BREAKING: Serbia's elections came after almost two years of student-led demonstrations against perceived corruption and creeping authoritarianism.

#BREAKING Helen Haines now serious but stable in hospital following alleged attack

#BREAKING: Israel has ordered its soldiers to prepare for a full closure of the West Bank following a deadly shooting in the occupied territory.

#BREAKING: Former Bachelor Sam Wood has lost his first bid to block media from seeing court files relating to his domestic violence bail proceedings.

#BREAKING: The looming rape trial of former Liberal Party staffer Bruce Lehrmann has been postponed amid a bitter courtroom clash between lawyers.

#BREAKING: Capricornia MP Michelle Landry has announced she will retire from federal politics at the next election.

#BREAKING: Victoria's police commissioner said the 42-year-old's family had been "very, very helpful" to theongoing investigation into Monday's attack on Helen Haines.

#BREAKING: A 21-year-old man has been shot by police during an alleged domestic violence-related incident in Sydney's south-west.

#BREAKING: ABC reporter Will Murray and another man swam out to the car and pulled the driver out of the vehicle.

#BREAKING: A 56-year-old man is due to face court after he allegedly wielded a pair of nunchucks and made threats at Hannah Beazley's electoral office in Perth.

#BREAKING: Police have arrested a man after he reportedly made verbal threats while armed with "nunchucks" at state MP Hannah Beazley's electoral office in the inner-city Perth suburb of Victoria Park.

#BREAKING: Independent MP Helen Haines has lost both her legs due to Monday's car attack, her husband Phil has confirmed.

#BREAKING: The 43-year-old charged with three offences over the alleged attack on independent MP for Indi Helen Haines has appeared in Wangaratta Magistrates' Court.

#BREAKING: The Victoria Police and AFP commissioners say they haven't ruled out laying further charges against Brendan Nugent over his alleged attack on Indi MP Helen Haines.

#BREAKING: Victoria Police have laid three charges against 43-year-old Brendan Nugent after he allegedly struck independent MP Helen Haines with his car on Monday.