West Australian police are calling on the public to help identify a man they believe can help with an investigation into a sexual assault in a toilet block at a Perth university.

A man who posed as an Uber driver and allegedly sexually assaulted two women while driving them from nights out in Brisbane has appeared in court.

A meerkitten has bounced back and is doing well after its disappearance from Perth Zoo, but a veterinarian says the one-month-old isn't out of the woods yet.

A man and woman have been charged after an alleged hours-long stand-off with police following reports of gunfire in Sydney's southwest.

Remains believed to be those of missing South Australian woman Colleen Adams will undergo an autopsy, after they were recovered from the backyard of her former home.

The likelihood one rogue shark is responsible for two attacks in less than 24 hours in Queensland's Whitsunday Islands is almost nil, shark experts say.

South Sydney have dialled up the pressure on the Sydney Roosters as their arch-rivals attempt to brush aside a recent lacklustre record in NRL grand final qualifiers.

A new report shows aged care complaints have soared 43 per cent in just two years, as Prime Minister Scott Morrison rejects including disability providers in the upcoming royal commission.

Queensland's surf life savers will boost safety at high-risk and unpatrolled beaches this summer after an increase in drownings in the past 12 months.

Three years after knocking back the captaincy at the first time of asking, Luke Lewis will run out as sole leader of Cronulla for the maiden time in potentially his last NRL game on Friday night.