On the surface, it appeared to be another business going to the wall after failing to pay its mounting bills. But the reality was very different.

The three men were en route to the Central West when one of their COVID tests came back positive. Days later, the mother of two of the men died of the virus.

Global white supremacist group The Base, as well as the Lebanese Shia political party Hezbollah, will be listed as terrorist organisations, making it illegal to be a member.

Jason Horne-Francis is selected by North Melbourne with the number one pick in the 2021 AFL draft, but the first round picks are still coming in. Follow all the discussion and every pick in our live blog.

Northern Territory authorities say the positive case of greatest concern at the moment is a woman who fled hard lockdown in the remote community of Binjari, hopped into a taxi with three others and entered Katherine. Now, Katherine resid...

Police arrest and interview 55-year-old pilot Greg Lynn and examine his 4WD for forensic evidence as they investigate the disappearance of Russell Hill and Carol Clay in Victoria's remote high country in March last year.

And the ARIA Award goes to ... this year's winners include The Kid LAROI, Genesis Owusu, Archie Roach and Budjerah but Amy Shark goes home empty-handed.

The ABC understands the Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Victorian Premier Dan Andrews were among those targeted by 37-year-old farmhand Wade Homewood.

Luke Ellis was the first health worker in the NT to contract COVID-19. As he continues to battle the disease, he's taken to social media to dispel misinformation and defended the government's handling of the outbreak in remote communities. ...

The biggest names in Australian music come together in Sydney for the industry's night of nights. Here's how they dressed up for the occasion.

Outspoken Coalition backbencher George Christensen has used a speech in federal parliament to liken state and territory COVID-19 restrictions to the despotic regimes of Nazi Germany and Cambodia, calling for civil disobedience as a response....

Taiwan will attend a democracy summit of more than 100 other nations hosted by the United States, angering China.

A young boy who was electrocuted after climbing a verahdah fence in the remote community of Gunbalanya may not have died if cables and connections had been checked and maintained, the NT coroner has found.

A group of thieves are pursued by police after smashing windows at a department store, in the latest in a trend of smash-and-grab crimes in California.

Police release CCTV and mobile phone footage, as they hunt five men over a "targeted" daylight kidnapping that took place in Sydney in September.

The magistrate said the boys, both 17, carried out the act "without any real rationale other than a brain explosion".

Police in Solomon Islands use tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse large crowds that turned out in the capital Honiara this afternoon, demanding the country's Prime Minister step down.

Police in PNG say outdated laws have left them unable to lay drug charges against the Australian manager of a Port Moresby hotel where an alleged clandestine meth lab and illegal firearms were discovered.

A boy, 7, who drowned in his neighbour's pool north of Adelaide has been remembered by his grieving family as a "lovely" child.

Mark McGowan says a move to overturn environmental approvals for Woodside's $16.5 billion Scarborough project could put other projects at risk.

NASA's one-way mission to crash a spacecraft into an asteroid blasts off from California. The mission is to demonstrate the world's first planetary defence system by deflecting an asteroid from a potential doomsday collision with Earth....

Civil libertarians don't support the 12 month jail sentence handed to a climate activist over anti-coal protests, but two politicians say it was the right move.

Defence Minister Peter Dutton is awarded $35,000 in a defamation action against refugee advocate Shane Bazzi over a tweet which accused him of being "a rape apologist".

South Australia has recorded its first official COVID-19 case since yesterday's opening of borders to Victoria, NSW and the ACT.

A woman — who lost both her parents during a COVID-19 outbreak at an aged care home in Melbourne's north that killed 50 people — gives evidence that her father wasn't provided food as the crisis engulfed the facility.