Vulnerable Australians stuck overseas amid the coronavirus pandemic are missing out on repatriation flights, despite being told they are being prioritised to get home.

A 17-year-old male is remanded in custody after being accused of striking Katherine Leadbetter, who was pregnant, and her partner Matthew Field, with a car while they were walking their dogs yesterday afternoon in Alexan...

Former NAB employee Rosemary Rogers, who conspired to defraud the bank in a multi-million-dollar scam out of "greed, personal gain and self-gratification", is jailed for eight years.

Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg says he's concerned by the presence of the far-right Proud Boys symbol at marches in Melbourne, as the Government unveils plans for a new Holocaust museum in Canberra. ...

We asked you to put your burning questions to three medical experts — Norman Swan (Coronacast), Sophie Scott (national medical reporter) and Kylie Quinn (vaccine expert from RMIT University). These were some of the top...

The 23-time major singles winner backs the quarantine protocols put in place by tournament organisers, while Rafael Nadal says players shouldn't complain and need "to stay a little more positive". ...

A four-year-old boy has died after being struck by a garbage truck while riding his bike in Launceston, in Tasmania's north.

China enforces strict new measures, including anal swab testing, as COVID-19 cases surge ahead of Lunar New Year, usually the country's busiest time for travel.

Health authorities say a decision will be reached tomorrow on whether to resume a travel bubble with New Zealand that allows people to enter Australia without quarantining.

The NSW Premier says a number of restrictions will ease this Friday and there is a "high likelihood" more rules will be lifted in two weeks. Authorities admit the virus may have been eliminated in the state after several...

Consumer prices rose in Australia last year, bouncing back from record deflation in the June quarter despite the nation's first recession in nearly three decades. But the price rises are far from across the board. ...

Journalist Joe Aston engaged in a campaign of "offensive mockery" against businesswoman Elaine Stead while writing for the Nine Entertainment Co newspaper, a judge found, leaving Ms Stead feeling "humiliated". ...

ACT authorities are investigating a possible COVID-19 breach after receiving reports that a group of people from Sydney's Cumberland local government area visited Parliament House yesterday.

WA Police homicide squad detectives identify a man whose body was discovered in a wheelie bin dumped in a dam in Perth's east on Monday night as 51-year-old Dinh Lam Nguyen.

New projects are being announced all the time in the grid-scale battery arms race but concerns are being raised over a patchwork approach which has seen some states go at it alone in their pursuit of more aggressive emis...

All but five Senate Republicans vote in favour of a motion declaring Donald Trump's second impeachment trial unconstitutional, suggesting Democrats will not get the 17 Republican votes they need for a successful convicti...

Australia is now facing the "second wave" of travellers who want to return home, but there is a mountain of myths that need to be busted about the process, one expert warns.

Space tourism will resume in January 2022 with three men joining an eight-day mission to the ISS, using a SpaceX Dragon capsule for the first fully private flight to the station.

Activist Zara Kay is on bail in Tanzania and unable to leave the country, but says she hasn't been charged with a crime. Meanwhile, she has been receiving death threats and does not feel safe, and wants help to return ho...

John McMartin, whose sermons at the Inspire Church in Sydney's south west would attract crowds of about 5,000 people, pleads not guilty to indecently assaulting an 18-year-old parishioner in 2013. ...

Cricket Australia investigators confirm Indian cricketers were racially abused during the third Test at the SCG but say they still do not know who was responsible.

Swimmers at a popular waterfall at Maleny in Queensland recall the moment a family began a frantic search for a 40-year-old man who disappeared after jumping off rocks.

The charges relate to an alleged scheme which charged hundreds of thousands of mobile users for text messages without their knowledge or permission.

The International Olympic Committee says vaccinations will not be mandatory for athletes and officials in order for them to take part in the Games scheduled to begin in July.

The chief executive's pay is cut by 36 per cent over the bank's role in a scandal that saw Goldman Sachs agree to pay $3.74 billion in settlements.

NSW's association with Norfolk Island appears likely to end, after Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk confirmed her Government was in talks about taking over a service contract on the tiny external territory. ...

In what could be an Australian first, children sexually abused by paedophile Geoffrey Moyle in South-East Asia could be eligible to receive compensation if laws allow payments to be sent overseas, an Adelaide judge says....

US President Joe Biden orders the Department of Justice to end its reliance on private prisons in a return to Obama-era policy, as well as signing a bill to address housing inequality.

Scientists for the first time find embryonic remains of ferocious meat-eating dinosaurs similar to the Tyrannosaurus rex, which shows their babies were "born ready" to hunt.