Fears China will exploit Australia's election to secure its controversial military deal with Solomon Islands are prompting a mid-campaign dash to Honiara by a federal Minister.

The Australian Electoral Commission investigates a website registered to One Nation candidate Rebecca Lloyd which purports to connect voters to local minor party candidates.

With Anthony Albanese's success as Opposition Leader comes the expectation that the election is his to lose — and the veteran politician is campaigning like he knows it, writes Brett Worthington.

Record low numbers of available rental properties across the country are pushing up the price of rents in a "crisis" that analysts predict will worsen. 

The Chinese embassy in Solomon Islands made a failed bid to import a sniper rifle, two machine guns and dozens of pistols and rifles into Honiara last year after violent riots roiled the city, leaked documents reveal.

A coronial inquest into Melissa Caddick's suspected death will begin in September — about 18 months after the 49-year-old fraudster's foot washed up on a NSW beach.

The court heard that Maliq Nicholas Floyd Namok-Malamoo, three, did not want to leave his mother's arms on the day two childcare workers came to pick him up.

Gillon McLachlan has announced he will stand down as the AFL's chief executive at the end of 2022. The field is wide open to replace him, but several candidates have taken an early lead.

An application by Scott White's lawyers to delay his sentencing hearings is dismissed by a judge, who says any delay would be "bordering on the unconscionable".

Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister says nine humanitarian corridors will open across the country to allow civilians to evacuate, including from Mariupol. Follow live.

ABC chief photographer Brendan Esposito says seeing refugees flee Ukraine felt like history repeating itself — and he was "compelled to record it".

Sri Lanka is facing a worsening economic crisis that has left its citizens struggling to get through everyday tasks such as driving to work or cooking their family meals. With the parliament in disarray, people are taking to the streets. ...

Australia's Defence Force Chief has paused internal disciplinary measures for senior army officers who failed to prevent alleged war crimes in Afghanistan, pending the completion of an external investigation that could take years.

Satellite images capturing a Russian convoy moving towards Donbas have renewed concerns about Russia beginning a new offensive in eastern Ukraine. Here's what we know.

Scott Morrison has made a seemingly bold pledge to create 1.3 million jobs over five years. Here's why it's got a lot to do with international borders, and why it might sound so familiar.

As South Australia records another 4,401 COVID cases and six deaths, Premier Peter Malinauskas announces the state will push ahead with significant repeals of COVID restrictions, including the scrapping of mask mandates in all but high-risk ...

Music icon Nick Cave – a long-time friend and collaborator of Chris Bailey's – writes a moving tribute to the frontman of Australian punk rock band The Saints.

A peak community housing body says the Prime Minister's remarks about how a national housing scheme provides loans to build affordable homes are "factually incorrect".

Pfizer offers $100 million to buy a ResApp, a company that has invented a smartphone app it says can diagnose COVID-19 by listening to someone cough.

Choice has lodged a formal complaint with the consumer watchdog about Qantas's flight credit policy. The airline admits it currently holds $1.4 billion in travel vouchers.

A widely circulated video posted on social media reveals San Francisco police pulling over a self-driving vehicle, only to find it empty. The hatchback belonged to autonomous car company, Cruise. 

Four of the world's largest sea turtles that are rarely found close to Australia's shore have washed up on the NSW Central Coast over the past couple of weeks in what experts have described as concerning and unusual.

An Adelaide family is forced to bring home their mother's remains in a box after an inquest into her mysterious 2017 death was adjourned due to a "poor" police investigation in Malaysia.

In the marginal Tasmanian seat of Bass, sitting Liberal member Bridget Archer is going up against the former member, Labor's Ross Hart.

Europe's health agency says most of those affected are under the age of 10, with some cases reporting several clinical symptoms including bloody stools.