Freshly sworn-in New South Wales Premier Dominic Perrottet has indicated he will fight Western Australia over the GST carve up, after once calling Mark McGowan the "Gollum of Australian politics".

Australians trying to crack into the property market are facing the extra hurdle of competing against mystery foreign investors, according to corporate transparency experts and the federal opposition.

The country's health ministers call for immediate crisis funding for hospitals before COVID-19 restrictions are eased, fearing the system will buckle under increased pressure.

Four out of five Australians over 16 have received a COVID-19 jab, with parts of the country nearing national targets to exit lockdown.

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg will remain in isolation until he is contacted by authorities, but has tested negative for the virus. Follow live.

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The outage that took down Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp for about six hours, affecting billions of people around the world, may have been due to a tiny human error.

After the unexpected death of an Olympic swimmer who alleged he'd been sexually abused by his swimming coach, the ABC uncovered stories of two more men who say they were abused by the same coach, at the same pool.

California teenager Alexander Neville ordered what he thought was oxycodone pills through social media app Snapchat. What he did not know was they were laced with a deadly dose of fentanyl. Australian experts say users and authorities shoul...

A woman who drove her car into a Sydney school, killing two children, has avoided prison after a judge described the incident as a "freakish accident".

Australian properties — including Tasmanian dairy farms, Sydney CBD apartments and even a Hilton Hotel — have been secretly purchased by wealthy, sometimes controversial foreign figures, an ABC investigation has discovered.

The Pandora Papers expose more details about the secretive world of offshore finance, but how do people set up these shell companies and trusts and what exactly are they used for?

A police officer accused of murder shot a WA woman within seconds of arriving at the scene where other officers were present, the prosecution in the high profile case at WA's Supreme Court has argued.  WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait...

When Andrew Forrest announced Fortescue Metals Group wanted to achieve net zero operational emissions last year, critics wondered how this could be achieved. 

Dominic Perrottet will have to juggle the beginning of the end of lockdown, Delta's ongoing spread and at least three looming by-elections while in the immediate shadow of Gladys Berejiklian.

Dominic Perrottet says he will continue the "strong leadership" Gladys Berejiklian has shown throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and he intends to commit to October 11 as the day many lockdown restrictions are eased for those who are fully vac...

Premier Daniel Andrews says the state is committed to sticking to the roadmap out of lockdown, despite a record-high 1,763 new infections, as authorities warn COVID-19 has now spread right across Melbourne.

The Member for Mildura has slammed her federal counterpart Anne Webster over a petition she's launched opposing Victoria's latest vaccine policy.

The government says it expects to save $30 million a year when the target is reached, which will involve more large- and small-scale solar generators, increased battery use and new "hydrogen-compatible" gas generators.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says neither of the new cases are "of concern" to authorities worried about the potential spread of the virus in the wider community.

A 16-year-old boy pleads guilty in the Adelaide Youth Court to terror-related offences after he downloaded extremist material, including videos and images that "promoted and glorified" the perpetrator of the 2019 Christchurch Mosque shootin...

A large crime scene is established in Dayton after the body of a 36-year-old woman is found at a house, with police treating her death as suspicious.

Like Australia, Portugal put a military man at the head of its vaccination program but, to date, it has had greater success in inoculating its population against COVID-19.

The system places all welfare recipients in an area onto the card — including medicine students on regional placements.

From December 1, a mandatory COVID-19 vaccine policy will be enforced for all WA resource sector workers.