Foreign spies are using Tinder and other dating apps to recruit Australians with access to sensitive government secrets, ASIO warns.

Modelling prepared by infectious diseases expert, George Milne, shows health outcomes will worsen if the McGowan government waits too long to reopen the WA border.

Women's Safety Minister Anne Ruston says the government is investigating Grace Tame's claim that she received a "threatening" phone call asking her not to say anything controversial about Prime Minister Scott Morrison.

Grace Tame and Brittany Higgins arrived at the Press Club with one message for the Prime Minister and the nation's most powerful leaders: Act now or face the wrath of their generation, writes Patricia Karvelas.

Australian Test captain Pat Cummins says Justin Langer has left "significant legacies" from his time as Australia's coach, but backs Cricket Australia's decision to move on.

A police witness has told the murder trial of NT police officer Zachary Rolfe that he did not believe the teenager intended to use the axe during a confrontation three days before the fatal shooting.

A resumption of international travel will benefit struggling tourism operators — but it could also drive competing effects in the property market, causing rents to increase while having a moderating effect on house price growth.

Labor MP Kaushaliya Vaghela has sensationally crossed the floor in the Victorian parliament to support a referral to the Ombudsman and anti-corruption commission by disgraced MP Adem Somyurek.

More than 20,000 fines have been handed out in Queensland for illegal mobile phone use in cars and failure to wear seatbelts in November and December last year, with the Transport Minister vowing to roll out even more secret cameras.

The police observer during the pursuit that led to Jacqueline Vodden's death has told an inquest he was about to call it off when the young driver being chased crashed.

Grace Tame and Brittany Higgins both used their speeches at the National Press Club to keep the focus on the need for society and government to take real and meaningful action to keep women safe, and to support those who choose to come ...

Only five hospitals in Afghanistan still offer COVID-19 treatment, with 33 others forced to close.

India's southern Karnataka state has ordered schools and colleges to shut for three days, after protests erupted in response to some schools refusing entry to students wearing the hijab.

A battle looms over the government's proposed religious discrimination laws, as Labor vows to fight for protections for transgender students once the bill reaches the Senate.

Two landmark rulings by the High Court, surrounding the definition of employees and contractors, have set the scene for a possible shake-up of work arrangements in the gig economy.

A royal commission hears from survivors who were subjected to unspeakable crimes by Brother Bernard McGrath, who went on to abuse 30 Australian boys after being transferred from New Zealand.

In less than a fortnight, Australia will open its international border to travellers who are fully vaccinated, but a return to "normal" for travel and airline industries will still have a long way to go, as these graphs show. 

NSW Police seek an apprehended violence order against Melissa Caddick's husband, Anthony Koletti, to protect a woman investigating the Sydney fraudster's $23 million "Ponzi scheme".

Peloton is replacing its chief executive, cutting jobs and reining in ambitious expansion plans after badly misjudging the staying power of the exercise-at-home trend.

Belle Brockhoff misses a medal in the women's snowboard cross, while Scotty James and Valentino Guseli book spots in Friday's halfpipe final at the Beijing Winter Olympics.

A resident and a staff member at a nursing home in Perth's south test positive to the Omicron strain of COVID-19, with the facility closing its doors to visitors.

A coronial inquest reopened after four decades hears that DNA evidence conclusively confirms that bones found in 1977 belonged to a man who went missing from Whyalla the year before.

When a Perth resident moved a couch in January after a heatwave, they were confronted by a thick, dark liquid dripping down the wall.

Sarah has been been abused for the majority of her life and lives with complex trauma. She's among the 65 per cent of women and girls with disability who have experienced violence.

The NSW government is forced to factor more than $5 billion of rail payments in to future budgets after the state's auditor-general criticises its "unsophisticated" and "poor" accounting.