The Prime Minister releases a social media ad, acknowledging "things are tough", and providing the clearest sign yet the election will be called tomorrow, while the Opposition Leader declares himself the underdog entering the race.

Two women are accused of poisoning their own children at the same hospital. They say it tore their lives apart.

A senior constable and the driver of a ute die at the scene of a crash on a country road near Mildura, with another senior police officer hospitalised in a critical condition.

Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc has taken his second pole position in three races, with a blistering lap in Melbourne, setting him up for tomorrow's F1 Australian Grand Prix.

US President Joe Biden is reportedly dispatching one of his top officials to Solomon Islands as concerns grow over a soon-to-be-signed security pact with China.

Staff and commuters have been praised for their quick response in averting a tragedy after a man fell onto rail tracks at a Sydney's Redfern station last week. Warning: Some people may find the video of this incident confronting.

Work begins to recover bodies from mass graves in Bucha as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy denounces a missile strike on an eastern train station as another Russian war crime.

Genomic sequencing picks up Deltacron in Australia for the first time this week, with the variant described as a hybrid between Delta and Omicron. Here's what we know so far.

As Vladimir Putin holds out the threat of using nuclear weapons in Ukraine, tensions between Russia and the West are bringing Cold War-era anxieties back to the surface.

The trillion-dollar question of the election is whether voters want more of "what we know": whether it will indeed be a referendum on Scott Morrison's government, writes Laura Tingle.

Adelaide are premiers of AFLW again, beating Melbourne by 13 points in a tight and tense grand final. Follow all the action as it happened.

Sydney Airport is experiencing delays again, with passengers complaining of long queues for security and check-ins, and there are warnings the situation will continue throughout the holiday period.

Chinese families say elderly relatives are not being properly cared for as healthcare workers are taken for quarantine in adherence to strict COVID-19 protocols.

Here is a quick wrap of each Australian jurisdiction's latest COVID-19 statistics today.

This week, demolition crews are moving in to dismantle one of Tokyo's most distinctive architectural feats of the last century. But residents and admirers of the Nakagin Capsule Tower say its legacy will outlast its mark on the skyline. ...

A major shake up of the governance of South Australia's outback has been scrapped as the newly elected state government takes a more conservation-based approach. 

A French woman and a British man, who disappeared while diving off the coast of Malaysia, have been found safe after two and a half days drifting at sea, but the man's 14-year-old son is still missing. 

Mimi Reinhardt, who was German industrialist Oskar Schindler's secretary, saved hundreds of Jewish workers from deportation to Nazi death camps.

Collingwood are out to continue their impressive start to the season at home to West Coast. Follow our live AFL ScoreCentre for all the scores, stats and results.

South Sydney takes on St George Illawarra at Homebush. Earlier, Melbourne thumped the Raiders in Wagga Wagga. Follow our ScoreCentre for all the live scores and stats.

Police are releasing CCTV footage of three men following a suspicious apartment fire in Melbourne's south-east.

When former opposition leader Gary Higgins agreed to help the Northern Territory anti-corruption watchdog in 2020, he did not know he was being recorded. Now, the matter is being investigated.

The Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide tells the mother of a veteran who took his own life she cannot give public evidence until after the federal election because she intends to run as a candidate, despite already hearing tes...

Roger Ng is convicted by a US jury of corruption charges related to his role in helping embezzle hundreds of millions of dollars from Malaysia's 1MDB development fund.

The Dubbo Project has been in the works for more than 20 years, with the aim of mining rare earth minerals such as zirconium and titanium. Now the company behind it just needs the funding to build it.