The former Test captain says he does not understand the reasons Cricket Australia cited as to why Langer was not in its long-term plans. 

Residents in Denmark are on edge, with some fearing their homes have been lost to a major bushfire that continues to threaten the town on WA's south coast. 

Scott Morrison's biggest enemy isn't the cohort of colleagues who don't like him, it's that some of those who do like him have a gnawing sense the jig is up, writes Andrew Probyn.

Nathan Martin was in his 20s serving a seven-and-a-half-year sentence at Long Bay jail when he knew things needed to change — not just for him but for all the other soon-to-be released Indigenous prisoners who needed support to prevent re...

The federal Health Department confirms 15 residents at the Jeta Gardens aged care facility south of Brisbane have now died of COVID-19, but the centre will not be evacuated and defence personnel are not being called in to work at the facili...

Tess Coady has flown into the final of the snowboard slopestyle competition at the Beijing Olympics, banishing the heartbreak of four years ago to the history books, while Kiwi athlete Zoi Sadowski Synnott has edged closer to NZ's first Wi...

Justin Langer helped lead Australian cricket out of crisis and into a new generation — one that must now go on without him, writes Dean Bilton.

Matthew Hayden leaps to the defence of Justin Langer, saying his former opening partner was let down by the players and Cricket Australia during his tenure as head coach.

A farm the size of Moreton Island near Townsville has been bought by the state government, with a big chunk of US funding, after two years of negotiations with a grazier.

A US family is suing a fertility clinic, alleging their daughter was conceived using the wrong sperm — a 30-year-old mistake only revealed when she received a DNA ancestry kit for Christmas.

The Bob Brown Foundation says it is "taking urgent legal advice" following Tasmania's Resources Minister approving a contentious lease along an access road to the site of a proposed tailings dam.

Dutch-owned trawler FV Margiris, the world's second-biggest fishing vessel, shed more than 100,000 dead fish into the Atlantic Ocean off France, forming a floating carpet of carcasses that environmental campaigners have seen.

Melbourne boy Declan, who suffered a frightening allergic reaction as a four-year-old, is one of the success stories from a medical trial that has helped children with allergies to eat peanuts safely.

As South Australia records two further COVID-linked deaths — both women in their 80s — the SA opposition accuses the Premier of "blatantly politicising" the pandemic by coupling project announcements with daily case updates. ...

Chief Health Officer John Gerrard says Queensland has recorded its deadliest day of the pandemic, with 21 people dying of COVID-19 as 8,508 new cases are confirmed in the latest reporting period. 

As some families are reunited in Western Australia under relaxed compassionate leave grounds, others remain separated by the state's hard border.

Barnaby Joyce says he offered his resignation as deputy prime minister after an explosive text message he wrote last year — calling Prime Minister Scott Morrison a "hypocrite and a liar" — was exposed.

Digital intruders have broken into US and UK News Corp email accounts and compromised the data of an unspecified number of journalists, the company says.

Melbourne takes on Gold Coast at Casey Fields after the Brisbane Lions dominate in windy conditions to take care of Collingwood in Maroochydore. Follow our live AFL ScoreCentre for all the scores, stats and results.

The crisis in aged care may have changed in 2022, but the underlying flaws in the system are the same – and the pandemic has distracted the conversation from what needs to be done to fix them, writes Laura Tingle.

A former locally engaged staff member at Australia's embassy in Bangkok is charged by Thai police after spy cameras were discovered directed at women's showers and toilets inside the secure government building.

While flooding has wreaked havoc in parts of outback South Australia, damaging roads and rail tracks, it has also turned usually parched patches of earth into lush, green landscapes.

Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee had very different outcomes when their private sex tape was stolen and leaked. A new series sheds light on what happened.

More than two years after Indigenous teenager Kumanjayi Walker died in custody after a police shooting in Yuendumu, a murder trial will be closely watched by people everywhere from the nation's red centre all the way to its coastlines. ...

Delhi's High Court considers whether an exemption for marital rape in Indian law is unconstitutional. It has caused #MarriageStrike to trend on social media among some men, but women's rights advocates say change is critical.