Children fell from as high as 10 metres after wind picked up a jumping castle and threw it into the air at an end-of-year activity day at a Tasmanian primary school.

It was the final day of school and grades 5 and 6 children were celebrating at a "Big Day In" activity day in Devonport, in Tasmania's north-west.

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The man was told to isolate, but attended last week's Argyle House event, which has been linked to hundreds of cases. Meanwhile, NSW Health has shut down a music festival planned for this weekend.

Australia batters have to dig deep on a sluggish first day of the day-night Ashes Test at Adelaide Oval. Follow all the action live.

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews is awaiting test results after attending an event with a COVID-19-positive case.

In striking down the request for a UK trademark, the British Intellectual Property Office found that while "manuka" was originally a Maori word, the term had entered common usage.

Super fund members are being urged to consider switching funds as the regulator warns the industry they need to lift their game on fees and investment performance, with new data showing more funds are failing to stack up.

Zak Hepburn has seen a lot of movies this year. Trust him when he says there are some that just aren't worth watching, but others you should definitely catch.

Parents are being urged to have early conversations with their children about pornography, but it could soon become tougher to access it in Australia. 

A teenage boy has died after being struck by a jet ski in South Australia's Riverland today.

Queensland authorities are "actively considering" the return of the mask mandate after 18 new community cases of the virus were recorded in Brisbane's south and north, the Darling Downs, the Gold and Sunshine coasts, West Moreton and Wide ...

Tributes are flowing following the death of revered NRL recruiter and former first grade coach Peter Mulholland at age 68.

Sydney gangster Pasquale Barbaro was killed in 2016. After three secret trials, the details of his underworld execution can finally be revealed.

Gloria Jean Watkins, known as bell hooks, is remembered for exploring how race, gender, economics and politics intertwined, which helped shape academic and popular debates over the past 40 years. 

The forecast deficit for this year has been revised down by $7.4 billion, the Treasurer announces, as a budget update reveals $16 billion in government commitments yet to be announced.

It's tough making predictions, especially about the future and even more so during a pandemic. But Josh Frydenberg and Treasury have had another crack in MYEFO, writes Ian Verrender.

Tens of thousands of people are crowding in emergency shelters in the southern and central Philippines after evacuating as a powerful typhoon hits the country.

The final day of witness evidence at an inquest into the death of a Broken Hill teenager hears testimony from his father, who says he was "his ray of sunshine, his everything".

South Australia records 24 new cases of COVID-19 and six new close contact exposure sites are identified as people lined up for hours to get tested.

A Taylor Swift-themed party on Friday night at a theatre in Sydney's CBD is now an exposure site with NSW Health urgently contacting 600 people who were at the event. Authorities say some of the 97 confirmed cases are likely to be of the Om...

Olando Aleki, 31, is sentenced to three years in jail after pleading guilty to child stealing and entering a dwelling with intent. He is being released from jail after time served, and could now face deportation.

Australia's unemployment rate drops sharply after lockdowns, with employers scrambling to hire hundreds of thousands of extra staff as many businesses reopened.

Harley Palise will spend at least four years in jail for raping a woman he and another man found slumped on a footpath in Carlton.

Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial has given the world a glimpse of her deeply weird and luxurious life with Jeffrey Epstein, but the mystery at the core of this saga may never be solved.