The federal government is being forced to abandon the bulk of a controversial industrial relations bill, failing to negotiate it through the Senate.

Unemployed Australians will receive an extra $25 a week after changes to the JobSeeker base rate passed Parliament. Here's what you need to know about when it comes into effect and what else is changing.

It won't just be GP practices offering the COVID vaccine — more than 100 Commonwealth clinics will be administering the shot too, and you won't even need a Medicare card.

Prominent Australian businesswomen Lucy Turnbull and Thérèse Rein urge Prime Minister Scott Morrison to establish an independent authority to review sexual harassment complaints in Parliament House.

An app for partners to register their consent before having sex has been proposed as a way to address the growing sexual assault problem in NSW, but critics say it is "naive" and could easily be manipulated.

Jess Glasgow, who was booted off the dating show after making inappropriate remarks while dressed as a horse, says the show's producers told him to behave in a certain way and "mashed up" what he said.

The 2021 AFL season is here, and a healthy crowd is in place at the MCG to watch the all-conquering Tigers face the rising underdog Blues. Follow our live AFL ScoreCentre for all the scores, stats and results.

After a year where she says the arts were forgotten and musicians "really struggled", performer Tina Arena is ready to get back to what she does best.

They thought after the Northern Territory's youth justice royal commission they would get more help, but the NT's biggest remote community says crime is now so out of control it can no longer deliver essential services.

Heavy rain is causing flash flooding and reduced visibility in Sydney, while NSW north coast residents are on high alert after copping a battering in recent storms.

The Parramatta Eels take on the Melbourne Storm to kick off round two of the NRL season. Follow our ScoreCentre for all the live scores and stats.

The national unemployment rate falls to 5.8 per cent, with economists hailing evidence that the labour market is improving much faster than most people expected

Three-time kayaking world champion Nathan Baggaley and his younger brother Dru plead not guilty to attempting to import up to $200 million worth of cocaine into Australia.

As Queen of the Nürburgring, Sabine Schmitz completed an estimated 20,000 laps of motor sport's most storied circuit, but her performance in a Ford Transit will live long in most people's memories.

The highest-ranked Indigenous woman ever in an Australian government will contest the vast Northern Territory seat of Lingiari at the next federal election.

Opinion in the NRL community splits over a formal warning handed to Shark's prop Toby Rudolf following a comment he made degrading women during a live television interview.

A record number of COVID-19 cases from PNG are recorded in hotel quarantine in Queensland, but the state records another day of no community transmission.

He likes to present as a man with a plan, but Scott Morrison has no plan to deal with a crisis gripping the nation's attention and eroding support for the government, writes David Speers.

People feeling unwell after receiving a vaccine — more commonly known as an adverse event — is a normal part of any medical rollout, but that doesn't mean vaccines make people sick. Here's how Australia keeps tabs on vaccine safety. ...

Multiple pods of killer whales join forces to slaughter a juvenile blue whale at the Bremer Canyon, a marine hotspot about 50km off the coast of Western Australia.

Michael Gunner says he was not informed of the alleged rape of the three-year-old until "quite a few days after" the incident, and has called on police to be more transparent with serious sexual assault allegations.

A man accused of killing eight people, most of them women of Asian descent, at three US massage parlours in one night is charged with murder.

Many young Indigenous people face social challenges that would be "enough to break anyone". One small regional New South Wales community knows breaking the cycle of hardship, crime and punishment sometimes means giving them a "fourth and fif...