Tasmania Police are investigating the death of a 17-year-old boy following an incident involving a fallen tree in Dover

A 17-year-old boy has died after being hit by a falling branch. Emergency services were called after reports the teenager was injured while felling trees with his father in Dover on Tasmania's south-west coast just after 4pm on Sunday.

WA school implicated in country's only reported NAPLAN cheating incident

A school in Western Australia has been given “advice” after being notified of the country’s only case of cheating in this year’s NAPLAN tests. The results of 19 children in third grade had to be removed from the national dataset after a teacher was found to have provided “inappropriate assistance” to students during the test.

Herne Hill incident: Car crash ends in chaos as freight train crashes into vehicle, two people taken to hospital

Following an accident in the east of Perth on Thursday, a freight train crashed into a car on tracks before two men were taken to hospital. Police received reports of a collision between two cars in Herne Hill, near the level crossing on the corner of Oakover Road and Railway Parade, at around 4.45pm.