SA Police has named an Adelaide father and daughter who died in a suspected murder-suicide in the Barossa Reservoir. Warning: This story contains details that readers may find distressing.

Australia will fast-track its COVID-19 vaccination for people older than 50 next month, as National Cabinet seeks to reset the nation's troubled rollout.

National Cabinet agrees to temporarily reduce the number of incoming flights from India after a spike in the number of returned travellers testing positive to COVID-19.

Annastacia Palaszczuk says she wants justice served over the "horrific" death of Kelly Wilkinson at her Gold Coast house this week, as a statement of facts tendered to court reveals graphic details about the morning of her death.

The federal government's decision to dump Victoria's Belt and Road (BRI) agreement strikes a nerve in China — or at least in Beijing — with a hashtag on social media network Weibo getting more than 260 million views.

Farmers are not confident of a quick resolution to the trade dispute with China after the Commonwealth Government tore up Victoria's Belt and Road deal with Beijing.

A magistrate tells a man who assumed the identity of teenage boys to lure older men into the open that the potential criminality of others is no excuse for breaking the law.

A class action against the Victorian government over last year's COVID-19 lockdown of public housing towers is in disarray, after the lawyer acting for residents was stripped of her practising licence by the state's legal watchdog.

Concerns are growing for the crew of an Indonesian submarine that has been missing in waters off Bali for over 24 hours, with fears it may have sunk well below its safe operating depth.

Queensland Labor MP Duncan Pegg will retire from politics in the coming weeks to focus on his health after revealing his battle with cancer in 2019, triggering a by-election in the southern Brisbane seat of Stretton.

India reports 314,835 new cases of the coronavirus over the previous 24 hours, the highest daily increase recorded anywhere.

Australia Post has backflipped on its decision to cease carrying perishable items in a move welcomed by producers reliant on the service.

In many of the NT's remote Aboriginal communities water supplies contain above recommended levels of minerals such as uranium, iron, manganese and nitrate. Now the government plans to spend millions improving it.

A proposed ban on public servants wearing sleeveless clothing — including during video calls when working from home — is knocked back by the Fair Work Commission.

Creditors vote to wind up Lex Greensill's insolvent trade financing empire, with uncertainty about how much money they can recover.

Maria Worner was the Barnardos 2019 Mother of Year but she says she is burned out and can never foster again in a system she says abuses carers and re-traumatises children.

The major parties' close ties with the pokies lobby are under scrutiny after the divisive issue dominated the 2018 election.

The WA Premier says Perth's Mercure Hotel will not take any new returned overseas travellers, after the virus was transmitted between people in quarantine who were staying in separate rooms.

The head of Australia's Immunisation Coalition is concerned some of society's most vulnerable people may not receive the services they deserve due to unfounded concerns about COVID–19 vaccines, after an Adelaide disability provider emailed...

Richmond Football Club (RFC) and a number of former and current doctors are being sued over claims they were negligent and breached their duty of care in the treatment of a back injury to former player Ty Zantuck.

From behind the counter, pharmacists are unwittingly on the frontline of Australia's mental health battle — and they're pushing for change.

The former police officer found guilty of murdering George Floyd will be kept in solitary for 23 hours per day until his sentencing in June. Meanwhile, prosecutors are building their case against the three other officers charged over Mr Fl...

Prize-winning author Richard Flanagan slams the Tasmanian salmon industry, describing it as disastrous for the environment, with overstated health benefits — and alleging the public had not been told the extent of the expansion plans for...

Indigenous leaders say Australia 'paid attention' after George Floyd's death and the conviction of Derek Chauvin. Now they say the true test is coming

NASA logs another extraterrestrial first on its latest mission to Mars: converting carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere into pure, breathable oxygen.