Pollock pulse check taunts Australia

Weipa in the Cape York Peninsula has its hottest November day on record, as Far North Queensland swelters through another week of extreme heatwave conditions.

Four women and two men were killed in the shooting in the Main Square of Krakow's Old Town, which Poland's defence minister has described as an "act of terror".

Inmate complaints rise 60 per cent, leaving experts "completely astonished" as pressure from a growing remand population mounts on the NSW corrections system.

The Victorian government's so-called "Big Build" is a multi-decade, $100 billion construction project comprising new roads, railway stations and tunnels.