For the first time in almost two years — 704 days — Australia’s borders will open to all fully-vaccinated travellers next week. But for many the ordeal is far from over. 

The chair of parliament's intelligence committee, James Paterson, says all MPs should heed the head of ASIO's warnings against weaponising national security and intelligence matters. 

Two very different media strategies emerge from Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese's weekend trips to the Northern Territory, with one delivering a bevy of photo opportunities and the other laying low. 

Experts have warned of a "hidden pandemic" in mental health, one that was brewing even before COVID-19 hit, and young people are experiencing it in record numbers.

The freestyle skier turns to YouTube tutorials after being unexpectedly named Australia's closing ceremony flag-bearer.

Sophie Vivian, Jessie Orrell and Libby Hall all left toxic environments at gymnastics. They took up rock climbing and thought they were walking away from the pain, but instead, they said they encountered something worse.

Defence says on Thursday, an RAAF P-8A Poseidon with up to 109 personnel on board detected a laser illuminating the aircraft while in flight.

When an incident with a brush cutter started a vegetation fire that threatened Karen Cupit's home in a Hobart suburb, she recalled a disaster from half a century ago.

Premier Steven Marshall criticises Labor leader Peter Malinauskas's health care plans, while Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce visits Adelaide for the SA Nationals campaign launch.

The family of a diving instructor who was fatally attacked by a shark in Sydney last week say he had a "rare gift" to connect with people and gain their respect.

Scientists in Perth have found very hot weather is already affecting the survival and reproduction rate of magpies, with temperatures expected to get hotter. 

With almost no rain for two months and not much expected any time soon, the ruins of Aceredo are dredging up a mix of emotions for locals in the middle of the usually wet winter season.

Yazidi teen Roza Barakat was just 11 years old when she was captured, sold and enslaved by IS militants who overran Iraq. Now free, she and thousands of other women like her are too afraid to return home.

The Armadale rail line into Perth's CBD, which transports thousands of commuters a day, will be out of action for about 18 months as the line is upgraded and extended.

Labor and the Coalition may be broadly in agreement about the risks and threats of China and the volatility of geopolitics. But they have very different approaches and they use very different language, writes Stan Grant.

Founded by three engineering mates in Brisbane, Tritium has quietly secured a large chunk of the global EV-charger market — even doing a deal with US President Joe Biden. Here's how they got there.

A handful of serving federal politicians are still eligible for a parliamentary super scheme that was scrapped nearly 20 years ago because it didn't meet community expectations.

Modelling agent Jean-Luc Brunel, who was close to Jeffrey Epstein, is found dead in his French prison cell while facing an investigation into the rape and sex trafficking of minors.

With Russia appearing to teeter closer to an attack on Ukraine, Poland is bracing itself for the possibility of an influx of hundreds of thousands of refugees flooding across its border.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy calls for Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to meet him to seek resolution to the crisis as Ukraine faces increasingly dire warnings that Russia plans to invade.

Western Australia records 222 local COVID-19 cases, as the current outbreak spreads to a remote Indigenous community.

Green becomes the first woman to win a 72-hole mixed-gender tournament on any of the world's leading golf tours with her four-shot victory in the TPS Murray River.

Two Benin bronzes return from England to their ancestral home, but authorities note some of the treasures remain as far away as New Zealand, the US and Japan.

Want to see the unemployment rate drop quickly? It's in your power and there's a formula you can follow that will ensure it happens, writes Gareth Hutchens.

At least 12 people are dead, many killed by falling trees, in Ireland, the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany after one of the most damaging storms in years tore through western Europe.