For some, it’s the stuff of nightmares. For entomologist Ken Walker, it’s a beautiful sight.

A Tamil asylum seeker family who has spent the last two years on Christmas Island will be allowed to reside in Perth for the time being, Victoria recorded two new cases of coronavirus, and Australia and the UK have agreed on a post-Brexit free trade ...

Dianne Jolley is on trial in the NSW District Court after pleading not guilty to 20 charges relating to the letters sent in 2019 and 2020.

Daniel Taylor, the son of Kings Cross identity John Ibrahim, is suing The Sunday Telegraph over a series of stories about his family labelled “Inside the House of Ibrahim: Unauthorised”.

Trees crashed through John Carlyle’s loungeroom roof and destroyed much of his Kalorama house, yet he has chosen to remain among the devastation.

Legislation will be introduced this week to allow John McKechnie to be reappointed as Corruption and Crime Commissioner without the agreement of a parliamentary joint standing committee.

Prominent Victoria Police officer Stuart Bateson is contesting charges that he leaked details about an IBAC investigation to a junior officer.

As its budget is handed down, Queensland follows the federal government and Victoria in revising projections for growth, unemployment and the overall post-pandemic bottom line.

The 22-year-old woman, found with injuries consistent with knife wounds, was staying with another woman who had called police about a “prowler”.

Heavy rainfall is expected to hit parts of Gippsland already experiencing flooding, although the Bureau of Meteorology is not expecting similar downpours to those that caused evacuations last week.

The 2018 Bourke Street terror attack inspired three other men to plot their own terror attack on Melbourne, a court has heard.

Government without heart will always founder, because they are actually irrational.

Legislation to be introduced to Parliament on Tuesday afternoon aims to stop anyone other than WA Health being able to access Safe WA data and requires the destruction of digital and hard copy registrations within 28 days.

Mathew Dunbar was known for being extraordinarily generous. It was a part of his personality Natasha Darcy would exploit by getting him to sign over his will, and then killing him.

Residents of a Southbank townhouse complex have been forced to isolate after a testing blitz detected two new COVID-19 infections, including a baby.

The former special forces soldier has denied hitting a woman with whom he was in a relationship, as he sues The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald for defamation.

As active case numbers drop in Victoria, people are hoping there will be eased restrictions and travel certainty ahead of the approaching school holidays.

Authorities fear more rain could flood a mine and limit the operation of the Yallourn power station.

Caught in a bureaucratic mess, Mark Kilian is stranded in quarantine despite Border Force saying his circumstances “outweigh the risk to the Australian community”.

Here are some tips to avoid an awkward dust-up the next time your friend or relative with “unorthodox views” drops by.

Retired police officer Hunter Nicol was in the Brisbane nightclub when it burned and has recounted his harrowing escape at an inquest into the firebombing.

To reduce the representation of regional voters in Parliament is an attack on all Western Australians’ sense of a fair go.

Andrew Forrest has criticised Santos’ development of the Barossa gas field off Australia’s northern coast, and Woodside’s $16 billion Scarborough and Pluto LNG expansion project.

Queensland Treasurer Cameron Dick has just delivered his second state budget. Here are the key takeaways.

Queensland Treasurer Cameron Dick handed down the 2021-22 budget in Brisbane on Tuesday.

Today on Please Explain, federal political reporter Katina Curtis joins Nathanael Cooper to share the latest in the protracted battle between the Murugappan family and the government.

About 100 workers from BAE Systems gathered outside the Australian Marine Complex at 5am on Tuesday to protest the use of contractors at the company and pay, with enterprise negotiations ongoing since July 2020.

Paul Summers was a decorated soldier who grew up in a family with strong military ties. He loved music and motorbikes and was taking some time off after finishing a stint with the army.

Darcy told countless lies and admitted helping her partner to suicide, but her Google search history revealed she had been researching ways to kill Mr Dunbar for months before his death.

Ju Zhang, also known as Kelly, was last seen at her home in Epping on the evening of February 1. Despite several significant searches, her body has never been found.

Australia is poised to lead the world with new reforms to our Online Safety Act that will grant eSafety a suite of new powers to better protect all Australians.

The City of Fremantle’s new facility was due to open this month but may not be finished until November pending the appointment of a new head contractor on the construction project.

WA property developer Hesperia has lodged a proposal for an urban infill project at the hospital site, which sits on about 10 hectares of prime land in the heart of the western suburbs.

The three Labor members of Brisbane City Council’s six-person ethics committee have resigned from what they say is a politicised body wielded against non-LNP councillors.

Transport department advised government to continue with purchase of train parts from Chinese supplier because it would cost too much to find different contractor,

The NSW government will dedicate more than $1 billion in funding to the development of the new western airport city.

Democracies may have found their voices at last, but they remain on the defensive. Xi Jinping is rampant and unrepentant.

America’s Got Talent star Jane “Nightbirde” Marczewski, offers music so original and authentic it makes your heart soar.

A trial between Victoria Police and the aged care, health, legal and banking sectors is aimed at tackling financial elder abuse.

Honouring divisive public commentators like Peta Credlin for their partisan political work is not what the Australia honours system should be about.

Tunnelling on early stages of the multibillion-dollar Western Harbour Tunnel has started, with excavators working to connect a vast spaghetti junction beneath Sydney’s inner west with the future harbour crossing.

Trivia buffs: test your knowledge with today’s interactive superquiz and target.

King Wally’s magic, private ads to boost migration and space base for Cape York.

In what might be a template for the AFL grand final if the Victorian government can’t guarantee the AFL a full house of spectators, Sydney got the match while Melbourne retained the fundraising spectacle.

While Pontius Pilot is cleared for take off.

It is unlikely to ever be known how the highly infectious Delta variant of coronavirus somehow leaked out of Victoria’s quarantine system and seeded a mysterious outbreak in Melbourne.

Shartiel Nibigira, a father-of-eight who fled war-torn Burundi in 2007, was found guilty on 21 charges in December 2019.

A new coronial inquest into the 1973 firebombing that claimed 15 lives at the Brisbane nightclub started on Monday.

Almost three weeks after the state’s rollout of the Pfizer vaccine was extended to under-50s, people were unable to make phone bookings for their first dose.

The players were in Sydney and the usual MCG crowd was nowhere to be seen, but Monday’s Big Freeze managed to raise more than $10m to fight motor neurone disease.