Immigration Minister Alex Hawke says he believes allowing a family of Tamil asylum seekers to resettle in Australia permanently would lead to more people trying to illegally get to the mainland by boat.

Around 200 residents of a Southbank apartment complex are ordered to quarantine for 14 days, after health authorities discovered transmission may have been occurring in shared spaces for up to a fortnight.

Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith calls allegations of violence against his former girlfriend "disgusting" and "reprehensible" after his defamation trial hears about his help planning the termination of her pregnancy.

A woman who called Tasmania Police over a "prowler" in her house was still on the phone to triple-0 when officers arrived to find a woman dead, with a man now under arrest.

Sally Curtis's family say they're still waiting for a proper investigation into what went wrong, despite complaining to the regulator.

A teenage boy, who wanted to confront a man he believed sexually assaulted a close friend, will spend at least the next nine years in jail for murder.

Strip out the politics, and the climate change story is very different to the one we've been told.

Australians subjected to vile online abuse and harassment will have greater protections from trolls, if new powers pass the federal Parliament.

Three men who brutally bashed a 24-year-old man to death in front of a primary school in Melbourne's north-west last year have each been sentenced to more than 10 years in prison.

A 26-year-old Canberra man avoids time behind bars for punching a man in a pub, sparked by an argument over some pool tables.

Despite the super inequality faced by women, research shows that most of us will be able to look forward to a comfortable retirement. So why are we all so worried about not having enough?

The Reserve Bank is holding the line on low interest rates for years to come, but some economists warn the risks of an inflation "rebirth" are rising, an issue the US central bank will be discussing this week.

Natasha Darcy is found guilty of murdering her partner Mathew Dunbar at Walcha in 2017. The NSW Supreme Court heard Darcy planned the murder for months and was motivated by inheriting Mr Dunbar's multi-million-dollar property.

The Novavax COVID-19 vaccine has been found to have more than 90 per cent efficacy in clinical trails, but how does it work? And does it have any side effects?

The Commonwealth must provide certainty about the future of a Tamil family recently granted a community detention order to stay in Perth while their daughter receives hospital treatment, Mark McGowan says.

Organisers of the iconic two-day desert race through central Australia launch an investigation after a race truck veered off course into a group of spectators, killing a man in his 60s.

Housing affordability experts say "painful" reforms and long-term planning are needed to make home ownership more accessible. In the meantime, some young Australians are turning to unconventional options like tiny houses.

A married couple who participated in the riot at the US Capitol building on January 6 plead guilty to a misdemeanour, potentially setting a benchmark for hundreds of other cases.

An inquest into the death of eight-year-old Adelene Leong at the Royal Adelaide Show seven years ago hears there was no formal obligation for event organisers to be told of previous reported problems with the ride involved in the fatal inc...

Swimming Australia admits it could have done more to make its members aware of how to access an independent complaints process, after the sport was rocked by allegations from swimmer Maddie Groves on the eve of Olympic trials.

SA Liberal senator Simon Birmingham expresses support for a decision to audit hundreds of recent party membership applications, in a move another Liberal MP called an attack on religious freedom.

Construction on Sydney's newest city centre will begin before the end of the year, with the NSW government releasing first images of how it will look.

The works will help counter China's increasing reach into the region and will be completed with the help of the US navy, the head of Papua New Guinea's Defence Force says.

Urgent legislation is introduced into the WA Parliament after police access QR code check-in information from the SafeWA app as part of a murder investigation.

US runner Shelby Houlihan says she has received a four-year ban after testing positive for an anabolic steroid that she claims might have made its way into her body when she ate a pork burrito the night before a drug test.