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.Police have released the name of the second teenager who died in hospital after being run over at a farm close to Molong in the central west of New South Wales. . He suffered critical injuries in the accident on Tuesday morning. In a statement to the ABC, Ms Wannan's family described her as a "beautiful girl" who was "so full of life with a bright future ahead". Eliza Wannan, also 19, died from her injuries yesterday.00am on Australia Day. The pair...

.A report evaluating reforms to Australia's family law system says the shared parental responsibility amendment was never intended to mean shared custody. A comprehensive evaluation of reforms made in 2006 found shared parental responsibility is being widely misinterpreted to mean a 50-50 custody split between parents. The 2006 reforms encouraged parents to settle custody disputes out of court and introduced a new presumption of shared parental responsibility. It also found the presence of a violent parent is not always being taken...

.An Australian Army corporal says a man saluted him and gave him a cheeky grin minutes before a fatal boat explosion close to Ashmore Reef, an inquest has heard. The Northern Territory Coroner is investigating whether the deaths of five men on the SIEV 36 last April were preventable. . Corporal Bradley Bendeich said he went to check on the boat's engine with Navy engineer Thomas Dawe, who told him it had been sabotaged. He said the man kept smirking and then he saw an arm...

.Victorian police are investigating reports of another sighting of missing millionaire Herman Rockefeller. The 52-year-old businessman has been missing for a week, but police have been told he was seen in Kyneton in central Victoria today. A resident of Kyneton called triple-0 about 11:45am (AEDT) to report seeing a man fitting Mr Rockefeller's description. "We put a patrol car out to see if we could find the person but they weren't able to find them yet. "They had seen a gentleman that they believed fitted the...

.At least a dozen of the country's most remote public schools are performing well below the national average, according to the Government's controversial My School website. . It also ranks schools with an Index of Community Socio-Educational Advantage (ICSEA) which rates its disadvantage. All of the schools have a mixture of between 10 per cent and 90 per cent Indigenous students and all schools are rated as disadvantaged. News Online examined 14 schools classed by the website as remote or very remote...