Prime Minister Scott Morrison denounces comments made by George Christensen on an American conspiracy theorist's online show, which Labor describe as "borderline treasonous".

A pre-inquest conference in Brisbane is told the evidence relating to the brutal murder of Hannah Clarke and her children "will paint a complex picture". A two-week inquest hearing has been set down for March.

The operators of the St Basil's nursing home in Melbourne ask the coroner to excuse them from giving evidence at an inquest into the deaths of 50 residents in a COVID-19 outbreak last year on the grounds they might incriminate themselves. ...

The Reserve Bank keeps interest rates at a record low and maintains its current stimulus, re-emphasising its patience to see inflation and wages growth increase more sustainably before considering a rate rise.

Australian Federal Police officers arrest serial conman Peter Foster in Victoria, six months after he failed to appear before a Sydney court on fraud charges.

A man suing a Federal Court judge who wrongly jailed him for contempt during divorce proceedings says his time in jail has left him traumatised and unable to work.  

Police drop a fraud charge against a Perth nurse who had been accused of pretending to administer a COVID-19 vaccine to a teenager and then falsely recording it had been given.

Victorian Ombudsman Deborah Glass finds the state's COVID border exemption scheme resulted in "unjust outcomes" for many people stranded outside the state.

Australians are expected to splash much of the cash they stashed during lockdowns on Christmas spending, after October and November sales already recorded big gains.

Cricket Australia announces it will put the fifth Test out for tender after cancelling the Perth clash over COVID restrictions.

Health authorities in NSW trace the source of a mystery Omicron cluster in Sydney to Nigeria, as six new cases of the virus variant are recorded.

Public servants in Canberra step up efforts to kill rabbits near Parliament House by employing professional shooters.

Images of one of Australia's greatest actors, David Gulpilil, have lit up the sails of the Sydney Opera House as the nation continues to pay tribute to the late Northern Territory movie star's life and films. 

Michael Steinhardt cut deals with "tomb raiders" to get his hands on looted artefacts from countries including Greece, Israel and Iraq, according to New York prosecutors.

Since 2016 a wave of abortion bans in the US have taken aim at the landmark 1973 Supreme Court decision that guaranteed abortion as a constitutional right. Now a new case in the US Supreme Court is the most significant threat to abortion rig...

A US mortgage company sacked hundreds of employees over video call just before Christmas, but experts say there are protections against that behaviour in Australia.

As the Northern Territory records no new COVID-19 cases overnight and Katherine is scheduled to come out of lockdown on Wednesday, the Chief Minister says "COVID-zero no longer exists as a strategy or as a reality" in the NT.

A new mother and her baby have been bundled into a medi-hotel, despite having a permit to quarantine at home after landing in Adelaide, as questions mount about the systems in place for travellers returning to SA.

Rohingya refugees are seeking more than $200 billion in a lawsuit against Facebook for allegedly failing to stem hate speech on its platform and exacerbating violence against the vulnerable Myanmar minority.

Liquidators have been called in to wind up an Australian cryptocurrency exchange, which could see investors losing everything due to a lack of regulation.  

After decades of pain and anguish for Kaurna people, the first repatriations of Aboriginal ancestral remains have been laid to rest on Country, with the SA Museum apologising for holding 4,600 Aboriginal remains over the past 165 years. ...

An endangered North Atlantic right whale caught in a rope since March gives birth to a calf of the US south-eastern coastline.

A small group of Wangan and Jagalingou people are concerned an ancient stone tool-making site at the Carmichael Mine in Queensland has been lost forever.

NSW Education Minister Sarah Mitchell escalates the bitter dispute between the state government and the NSW Teachers Federation Council, accusing the union of peddling "misinformation" about worker conditions for political purposes.

A woman, testifying under the pseudonym Kate, tells a New York court she massaged Jeffrey Epstein at Ghislaine Maxwell's request and had sexual encounters with him as a teenager.