Two people have scaled a crane at a Melbourne construction site with police and firefighters working to find the pair and bring them to safety.

An unlicensed teenage girl has been nabbed driving a car and smoking a cigarette, with her mother beside her and a child in the back seat in Melbourne.

A man has been arrested after his wife was found dead in their garage in southwest Sydney.

Four Queensland teens have led NSW police on a pursuit in a stolen car in the state's north before being caught.

A man has been charged with allegedly holding up two licensed premises while armed with a firearm in Sydney.

A 73-year-old Queensland man has been charged with the attempted kidnapping of a girl in Adelaide.

A 53-year-old man has been charged after a NSW Police officer was stabbed in the back with a hunting knife at Sydney's Central railway station on Good Friday.

A stolen car has crashed into a house in Sydney's west, with police hunting the two men seen running from the vehicle.

Jack de Belin's lawyers have claimed the NRL failed to put the St George Illawarra star through an education program about violence against women and that controversy was sometimes good for sports.

Paul McGregor has been given the chance to finish the job he had begun five years ago at St George Illawarra after earning a two-year contract extension from the NRL club.